Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use And Transportation Committee 20240711

Thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Good afternoon, thank you for your time and attention and leadership. I hope you and your families are safe and healthy. The testimony from Business Owners made my heart race. I am judy, on the board of directors. My comments are a bit of blast from the past. I grew up from San Franciscos japan town back in the designated western addition. Mom and pop world war ii. My parents saved and borrowed money. They decided to retire and pass the business to my parents. My parents started. Redevelopment demolished. The Small Businesses provided for all of our needs from doctors to dentists, shoe repairs, barbers, bookshops and so much more. Mom and dads restaurant had celebrities. I slept to the jazz greats. Willie mays hung out. It was a Small Business on special flavor, friendliness and character. Back in the days Small Businesses and the people who loved community had a community that wases diverse. Their hard work continued to value small Business Owners because corporations and big money did not have the heart of the community. We support and rescue Small Businesses, communities that may being San Francisco unique and amazing place to live and visit. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing. Next caller, please. I dont have anything to say on the legislation, i would like to comment on the amendment. I understand that the amendments are not substantial. It would have been better practice to have the amendment known to the general public before opening Public Comment so that the publico have been aware of the content of the amendment and commented on them should they so choose. That would allow for better transparency. Thank you. If the speaker wishes to identify whoever the speaker is, i am happy to speak to them. They are non substantive. I am happy to reiterate that section 37c points to we are making it more clear, although it is abundantly clear in said section this law applies to subtenants. In addition to that on page 6 i would insert the language that gives the proviso that payments made prior to the forbearance period cover commercial tenants in the first three tiers shall be applied to rents that come due during the forbearance period and unpaid rents that came due during the moratorium period, which is also clarification. They are truly nonsub tantive, was not worth talking about. The substantive amendments i will address later today. Thank you for that point. If the speaker wishes to identify herself, i am happy to hear it. I believe there is one more speaker left in the list. Next speaker, please. Yes, good afternoon. I am a Small Business owner in chinatown speaking on behalf of the president of the Chinese Chamber of commerce. Thank you for your leadership. Chinatown is a cultural icon. An important history of San Francisco. It faced many difficult challenges and continues to be the oldest and most vibrant chinatown in the United States because of Small Businesses and the people who live there. The livelihood of chinatown. They are also the residents of chinatown to make a living. The financial pressure caused by covid19 gives them an opportunity to make a living. Rent relief is crucial to chinatown Small Business. Continue chinatown. The Chinese Chamber committee is to put th. [indiscernable] thank you for your time. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, any other speakers in the queue . We have reached the end of the queue. I hear there are no further callers. Public comment is closed. I would like to thank everybody who called in to comment on this legislation, particularly those who called in t to support this legislation, those had had comments about potential amendments to the legislation, particularly that comment with regard to historic landmarks as well as those who called in to oppose this legislation. I want to thank everybody who has emailed the board. The overwhelming. I dont think i have seen any emails against it. We have huge petitions for it. I want to thank api legal outreach, mr. Taylor, ms. Matsuda for advocacy on behalf of the numerous tenants who are really struggling to make it through this pandemic. I particularly want to thank the cosponsors. I mentioned my colleagues on this panel. That is chair preston and vice chair safai and supervisors wall ton and mar. We dont have a new board president yet. As i mentioned to the second before last Public Commenter, i alluded to a number of amendments that i wanted to make which i just described on pages 3 and 4 and 37c. 2 which is actually definition section of the ordinance. I think it has been included and this may beings it more clear that sub tent would ensure sub lessees are separately eligible for protections under the legislation and relatively the to repayment of deferred rent. I described that on page 6. On page 7 striking the language that gives which would be a a rules and regulations for Financial Hardship of landlords for said waiver. On page 8 non substantive language to provide nothing shall provide legal or equitable defenses arising out of unpaid rent. I believe that language and thank you vice chair preston for asking that last week. I would like to move those amendments before duplicating the style and colleagues you are in receipt of that language and then i would like to make one substantive amendment to the duplicated file and send the first file to the full board with recommendations. Why dont we start. If there are any comments from colleagues, the floor is yours. I see supervisor preston nodding his head. He might want to say something, mr. Vicechairman. No. I am sorry. We dont have a new board president yet. Vice chair safai. I appreciate all of the amendments you made today. This is important and timely. The only thing i heard over the time, and we talked about this when we did our Eviction Moratorium for tenants. We certainly would never want to take away or disincentivize people from paying rent. This doesnt absolve people from the rent burden or the psychological and humane perspective of not wanting to be in debt. The incentive is that people want to pay rent and do right. These are people mainly mom and pop businesses as you so eloquently outlined. Most of these are few member run operations. I just think it is an important piece of legislation. Also hopeful. I mean we passed legislation to create a fun for tenants mainly living in an partment buildings. There will be stimulus money and this will help with new president in the white house to recover and move the businesses back on track. I appreciate the timeliness of this. Thanks. I apologize. It is that supervisor preston is the chief cosponsor of this legislation. Member preston. Yes, thank you for the inadvertent promotion. Temporary as it was there. You know, i want to thank you, chair. I wont repeat myself. For your leadership we have your staff that has worked on this. This is not simple to figure out how to within the law protect Small Businesses at a time when we had the data that you have set forth just around this unprecedented loss of revenue and business closures. I think this ordinance as amended does that. I appreciate all of your work and leadership on that. I also want to thank and you mentioned some of these folks. So the public understands the role that you have mentioned taylor, diane and jackson, the role they have played in not only fighting to preserve business business in japantown and across the city but leading the fight in San Francisco for all Small Businesses. Being in Constant Contact with my office, chair peskins office and other of my colleagues offices but also advocating for the original commercial moratorium for extension at state level that chair peskin led efforts on and we were proud to support. The drivers, same list of folks who we have been thanking were at the forefront of fighting for the extension at the state level so we have the authorization to do this ordinance and for the advocacy for the ordinance and making sure that we got it right. Obviously, japantown is in my district, absolutely essential and i will do everything in my power with the advocates to make sure we are not losing businesses that are the heart and soul of japan town and district five but this ordinance is a key part of saving these businesses. For the commercial landlord i spoke to last week. Everyone is going to take a hit. Everyone has taken a hit in this pandemic. Small businesses are losing venue. Commercial landlords have to accept less than 100 of rent. The key is to figure out ways if they take a hit all folks emerge okay in the long run and businesses dont have to close and folks can continue to thrive in the city. I am proud to be a cosponsor and appreciate your work, chair peskin on putting together such a strong ordinance. Thank you. I think you just summed it up perfectly in addition to acknowledging everybody who has been important. My staff, in hepner, taylor, met soda, low. This is one of the million pieces were it not for the governors extension to marc march 31st we would be in a different position. We are all in it together. We are all going to have to share the pain. By the way, this wases all originally model from the legislation you did on the residential side and made us all realize the commercial side and what that means for employment in San Francisco. With that i would like to make a motion to move the an for the py distributed amendments. Mr. Clerk on that motion a roll call, please. Motion to amend is offered by chair peskin. Vice chair safai. Aye. Preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. There are three ayes. Then i would like to make a motion with my authority to duplicate the amended file. Duplication is made from the version just amended. Thank you. Then i would like to make a motion to send the first file with recommendation to the full board of supervisors as a Committee Report for tomorrow, november 10th. A roll call, please. On the motion the original ordinance be recommended as a Committee Report. Vice chair satisfy. Aye. Preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Then i would like to speak to the one substantive amendment which has also been circulated to you, mr. Vice chair safai page 6 to clarify the right to tenants to terminate lease as follows in subsection c which would save tier 1 commercial tent unable to pay rent due to covid 19 and landlord fails to reach the payment for repayment. The tenant shall have 30days written notice to the landlord not witnotwithstanding lease te. To any rent. In addition if the tenant terminated the tenant shall not be liable for penalties out of the termination notwithstanding any lease to the contrary. I would like to make that amendment. On the motion to amend the duplicated file from the previously amended version. Vice chair safai. Aye. Member preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Finally, i would like to make a motion to continue the duplicated file to our next meeting one week from today. On the motion to continue the duplicated amendment file t to e november 16th regular land use and Transportation Committee meeting. Vice chair safai. Aye. Member preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you. Then, mr. Clerk, is president yee in attendance yet . I am. All right. Then, mr. Clerk, please call items 2 and 3 together. Agenda 2 resolution to codify and implement proactive approach for reducing posted citied limits under existing authority and implement coordinated traffic signal timing to reduce vehicle speeds. Three is resolution calling for citywide commitment to vision zero and urging mayor department of Public Health and vision zero Partner Agencies to advance the Action Strategy to end traffic fatalities by 2024 through a bold and strategic approach to improve street conditions and ad vance longer term policies for safer streets. Members who wish to comment on these two resolutions is should call the number now. 4156550001. [please stand by] president yee thank you, chair peskin. He has been a partner with me from the time we passed the resolution when he first came in and as a supervisor, and in making sure that the at the transportation you know, i just want to say the state of our streets has been in crisis for some time now. While we have been pushing for vision zero since 2015, we are now slowly making progress. This year, we have seen close to 20 fatalities already, which is roughly the average of the past five years. The original goal was to end traffic deaths by 2024, and we have to think differently about how we are going to get to zero by then. On sunday, San Francisco will be joining the world Remembrance Day for traffic victims. It marks 25 years for the global anniversary, and locally, this will mark the sixth year that weve actually recognized it. Behind stats our lives are forever changed. They are somebodys child, wife, mother, father, grandparent. Someone is feeling pain and loss. I almost lost my life walking the streets of San Francisco, so this is an issue very personal to me. This year, walk sf for families and safe streets will sponsor an exhibit to commemorate all those lives we have lost. A few weeks ago, i heard a board of supervisors meeting discuss vision zero and saying that they needed to have a paradigm shift, and i could not agree more. Today, i want to give to the m. T. A. An effort to present on their shifts in Action Strategies on vision zero. The first resolution calls on us to do everything, Everything Possible to reduce speeding within the city. I know we have an unfinished fight at the state legislature to completely overhaul how to determine speed limits, but in the meantime, we need to be using everything to do what is possible around Senior Centers, around even Child Care Centers or engineering the slow cars to slow cars down near dangerous crosswalks. The second is calling on San Francisco to recommit to vision zero by evolving our approach and proposing some further ideas to get things done. The supervisors are often the first to hear about the state of the streets, even when the authority does not fall on us. Over the years, it has been such a slow process to see improvements in our neighborhoods. I used to have to fight to get anything done for a stop sign, strengthening, anything. I was always met with excuses and resistance in departments. This has started to change, but it really shows that we are not working collectively in a solutionsoriented approach. I hope with effort we can change and transform how we do thi things. Id like to thank supervisors mar, haney, and mandelman and now peskin for their sponsorship. And i want to thank sfmta vision zero 2 for helping us in this next days of the work. Next, id like to thank walk safe sf, family safe streets for their endless hours of advocacy. I think one Public Commenter, a board member i think one Public Commenter, a board member of walk sf, dr. Olivia gamboa, said it best. Up to now, the city has been treating walking as an asset gone, whereas people being able to walk safely through their city is vital to the essential, economic, and vital health of san franciscans. Everyone walks. This is not about special interest, this is about building a city around human beings. We all need safer streets, and it is a moral confimperative fs to get this done right. Now id like sfmta to make their presentation. Sfmta also has other team members on the line if there are other questions. Ryan, are you there . Chair peskin and mr. President , a couple of things. One is before we turn it over to miss reeves, i know that all of the members of the board are going to follow in your footsteps and continue to champion these policy matters, and i look forward to being at the top of that list. It is time for us literally to take our foot off of the gas in our cars but not off of the food, and got to keep our pedal to the metal on this issue. So were going to redouble our efforts and sincere reappreciate your leadership. Before we turn it over to mr. Reeves, i think one of the keys here is automated Speed Enforcement, and i hope that the sfpoa will aid us in our efforts to get that passed in the coming legislative session. I am hopeful that Assembly Member david chiu, whos championed this two weeks, will be bringing that back, whether its a wider bill or a only bay area bill, i think this is a huge part of the solution, and i want to thank you for your leadership. Mr. Reeves . President yee miss reeves . Chair peskin im sorry. Miss reeves . Yeah. Let me just pull up my slide here. Okay. Just confirming you can see my slides here. Chair peskin yes. So as you know, vision zero was adopted in San Francisco in 2014 as a ski wide commitment to eliminate all traffic fatalities and reduce severe injuries. The concept of vision zero is built on a safe systems approach, and it moves away from the idea that traffic deaths are inevitable and instead looks to design a system that prevents crashes and mistakes will happen, but no one should die from them. All work in San Francisco [inaudible] our work in San Francisco advanced the same system Social Security approach, and we work with our colleagues at the Fire Department, Police Department, and other areas across these three areas listed here. So were looking to design a system that will build safer streets to anticipate error. Our safe people work is looking to advance education around safe behaviors, and our safe vehicle work is looking to advance the idea that safe Vehicle Technology can be an important tool in our safe system. And across this work, we also have our data systems team, led by Public Health, and our legislative and policy team led by our m. T. A. Government affairs team. So through act act of this year, we have had 23 traffic fatalities, including nine people woalking, two people riding, and two people riding in vehicles. This is equivalent to the 2019 fatality, so we have a lot of work to do. Our net visualizes where the majority of our fatalities and injuries occur, and we know in San Francisco that 75 of all fatal injuries occur on our city streets, and half of our network is in communities of concern, which represents communities that have a higher population of lowincome people, people of color, and vulnerable communities. Recent fatality data does continue to align with our High Injury Network. As mentioned, half of the fatalities have been on the High Injury Network, and 60 have occurred in the communities of concern. We also know that seniors are disproportionately burdened. 30 of our fatalities have been ages 60 or older, and 40 of all our pedestrian deaths are seniors. So with all of this data, we know who is impacted and where, and we can focus all of our resources accordingly. So slowing speed is the single most effective thing we can do to save lives, and that our Transportation System should be designed for speeding that really protect the people, so slowing speeds is woven into all of our work, and we have dozens of ways to slow speeds, including our education and outreach work. We have ways to target our resources to be the most impactful, and ill highlight a few of those just briefly. So we know that through lane reductions, traffic calming, and predict tiive intersection to name a few, we can reduce speeds for all users. At our protected intersections, dru including here at 9th and division, it resulted in 30 of all people turning slower than the speed limit. Weve shown turning speeds reduced by 50 and also helped yield to a pedestrian by 25 , and using residential improved sight line [inaudible] in t including leading pedestrians intervals, which give the head start to pedestrians at a crosswalk and have been shown to reduce pedestrianvehicle collisions by as much as 60 , as well as located bike lanes where we saw [inaudible] on valencia street. Lastly, our boarding islands have been effective at reducing speeds including avoiding close calls as masonic and valencia. So next, ill move through our [inaudible] so our work has long been focused on the High Injury Network but has focused on Capital Improvement projects at locations such as vanness, geary, second, and sixth, and we know that these major Capital Projects are effective, but they are resource intensive, and they can take years to design and build and implement. We realized that we could pivot to deliver more quickly benefits, resources, in our different projects. Fifth street cost just under 2 million, but Second Street was a 20 million major Capital Project. So our approach really evolves then to build an additional quick built project, shown here in blue, again, knowing that we can cover more ground for effective projects at less cost. Our Quick Build Program represented over 50 miles low cost quick and effective improvements at about a tenth of the cost of our major Capital Projects. We have about 25 million in investment for this approach over the next five years. Weve made significant progress to advance safety on our High Injury Network, and together with our Capital Project, weve completed more than 50 miles of corridor projects on the network with another 30 miles in planning or design. So again, with this focus on the High Injury Network, we know we can make the biggest impact with these resources. However, we know that we need more to connect the quarter level project on the High Injury Network, and we expect we can complete the entire improvements to the network for about 85 million, while it would take about 2 million for improvements that have been used in approximate our previous approach. That said, we know that not every street can be redesigned, so there are a suite of programatic intersection based tools that we apply city tools. Theyre proven tools to save lives that focus on the areas that we want to focus on in vision zero. Daylighting is a standard tool in our Capital Project in quick build, but we also have a program to implement this work citywide. About 500 intersections have been completed in the past year, and we have funding anticipated to complete another 500 in the next 18 months. Were going to be completing this work on a corridor basis, focused on a significant basis similar to the approach that we used in the tenderloin as well as currently the work underway in d4, and this is going to be funded with prop k to continue this citywide work. We also continue to advance updates to our continental crosswalks. Theyre updated on about 85 of our High Injury Network, and weve committed to completing the remaining intersection upgrades by 2024. The continental crosswalks that you see on the right really increase the visibility compared to the crosswalks that you see on the left. We also have a program to update our signals with lower walking speed, known as walk speed 3. 0, and leading pedestrians intervals, which give the pedestrians more time to cross. Both are about 70 completes on the high injury kplecompletn the High Injury Network, and weve committed to completing the work on the High Injury Network. Looking ahead, we will be continuing our program why the theic programatic work. Were planning to advance this work in the tenderloin . Were working with our partners there to conduct additional outreach. Similarly, were looking to advance a no turn on a red policy, where we know the highest concentration of our high injury streets are located, and this is work that were looking to advancing in the spring . Were also going to be doing seen senior zones on certain streets, and then as mentioned earlier, well be doing our high injury daylighting work through prop k. Just a few highlights on you are on safe people work. Where engineering is where we fouk used most of our resources, we really depend on our education to outreach to more residents and amplify our messages, especially when it comes to slowing speeds. We also have developed campaigns around top crash factors such as our safe speeds campaign and our it stops here campaigns, which address failure to speed. These campaigns are typically run each year. Prior to covid, we had a dedicated street team with inlanguage ambassadors that would attend meetings in the community and address concerns over vision zero. Looking ahead to safe people work, we have active Transportation Program funded campaign focused on left turns which launched two weeks ago, and a larger citywide Outreach Program planned for early next week. We also have an office of Traffic Safety funded campaign for the Motorcycle Safety work, which we know that our motorcycle riders are one of our vulnerable road users for severe and fatal traffic crashes . And so thats providing handson safety skills training for motorcycle riders. All that being said, we do know that we need more to get to zero u and our transformative policies are where we see a lot of potential for the momentum that we need, so we continue to focus our resources on building safer streets. We have a lot of support for automated speeden derment and ticketing, and were continuing to enforce these legislative changes. Were changing speed limits. Were continuing to support the states zero fatality speed task force. Weve been working with other task force cities, including oakland, sacramento, san jose, los angeles, and others, to continue elevating this work and work for legislative opportunities around speed changes. We are exhausting our local authorities such with the 20 Miles Per Hour speed limits and slower speed limits near senior zones. With automated Speed Enforcement, we are still in exploratory conversations. Weve been participating in the state excuse me, the usdots work to update their guidelines on speed safety cameras, and were expecting those guidelines early next year. And lastly, our colleagues at the t. A. Are continue to work on congestion pricing. Several scenarios are being analyzed, and a plan is expected in the spring. So we also of course recognize that we need to achieve our needs to achieve other city commitments to reach vision zero. Mode shifts, climate change, transit first policies. So for example, we continue to see challenges around safety for homeless population. I know that People Living on the streets are inherently more vulnerable to traffic deaths. So we released our most recent Action Strategy last march, and we plan to revisit the strategy in the spring with an updated plan released in the summer of next year. That concludes my presentation. Chair peskin thank you, miss reeves. I really appreciate that. President yee . President yee, youre on mute. President yee are thank you, miss reeves, for the presentation can presentation. Id like to ask some specific questions around the senior speed zones. I know that theres been one put up around the geary boulevard, theres a Senior Center around there, and the traffic is slowed down around there. So the question is how many have we done . I mean, how many areas or or where you have actually slowed down the traffic at all for seniors . Sure. I just want to pause to see if our city traffic engineer is on the line, Ricardo Celaya . All right. Well, i can give an answer oh, did ricardo just join us. Clerk ricardo has been here, and the speakerphone is unmuted. Being on. Ricardo, do you mind answering the question around the slow senior zones . Yes. The slow senior zones are something we can do under california vehicle code, and its [inaudible] or to the facility, so its relatively restrictive type of regulation that we can lower speed limits on. President yee so my question is real specific. How many places have we identified, and how do you what what defines a Senior Center . Ricardo, we cant hear you, if youre trying to answer. Can you hear me now . President yee yeah. The the definition of a Senior Center is not typically defined in the california vehicle code. It is something that we look at facilities that serve a large amount of seniors, so its not a definition, like, an area, but a specific facility type, so weve identified about eight or ten locations that were going to be doing that as part of our first round of changes. Chair peskin and so do we have our own definition of what that consists of . We looked at possible definitions of what a Senior Center may be. Unlike a school, theres a wide range of possible facilities that could qualify, but we were trying to keep it within the spirit of the regulation, which is typically a facility that is aimed at serving seniors and not a location that would attract a lot of seniors. So for example, not necessarily restaurants or hospitals or libraries, but more specifically facilities that were geared more towards seniors. [please stand by] president yee have you reached out and talked to them about helping you identify these facilities where they serve seniors. Im not aware of the outreach we did. We used a list that was comprehensive as a starting point which had many facilities in it. We have worked off city list and i dont exactly how that who put input into those lists. Can you get my office the list that you think you are being pretty signed by eight places by the end of the year. It seems like you should be able to do it faster than that and also beyond the eight, what other centers have you identified. If you need help yes, we can get that list to you. If you need help to identify more than i think i know where my Senior Centers are in the district and im sure almost every supervisor knows where the senior programs are in the district so, its something that easy to do and do you know why its taking so long when we talked about i dont think its a cost issue. The main limit issue is the street has to have a speed limit over 25 Miles Per Hour. If the street already has a 25 Miles Per Hour limit, which is most of the city, this particular regulation doesnt apply and so its to lower speed limits that are over 25 to 25 similar to done around schools. President yee its 15 Miles Per Hour. What are you talking about . That is a different law that were using. Were using a law that we can post 25 Miles Per Hour people lid its an just on that point, my understanding is this is in in response to the fatality we had at goff and geary he joined me one of our walks through and our office was really trying to to figure out how we push the envelope in light the state restrictions and before that discussion in resent months this provision was used at all so when you ask how many places has it been posted, to my understanding, the answer is zero and theres eight in the pipeline but it begs to question given that we have limits understate law, it seems imperative we look for all these things where we have local control and we are looking proactively and thats your solution is urging here and that we look proactively and we should have a list of, as you say, all the Seniors Centers and also to what extent can we push the definition of Seniors Centers and say appreciate the question you are asking but its something that we should have figured out how to move forward more proactively and this is the moment and i hope your resolution and its the vehicle for, pared the word, for moving us forward more proactively and im not sure how the eight were select and i know goff and geary because of the death and the others because of injuries but hopefully we can be more proactive than reactive. Supervisor preston and president yee, i think supervisor preston is absolutely right, which is to the extent that we have the ability to do things not preempted by the state we should be doing them. To mr. Parks and and to the director of transportation mr mr. Tumland, you have a huge Agency Working against my will to reroute the 19 poll being and use that staff resource to do these kinds of things that will save peoples lives and if theyre raised that this board of supervisors can help we want to help. Im speaking on all 11 members of the board of supervisors. Weve got to bump that up in the priority and this is lowhanging fruit. Its not expensive fruit. This is pretty cheap stuff to save lives. So, i mean, im happy to have a conversation with docs and publichealth and the City Attorneys Office and most importantly the sfmta and your sign shop and sign installers but this seems easy. You want to talk Senior Centers or things that approximate eight Seniors Centers can produce for you any number of them by the close of business. I think this is why im doing this resolution to push these things. I need to maybe you could explain why does it happen 25 and why not 15 . Are you still there . Is that a question . Yeah. Is there a reason why we cant drop it to 15 rather than what you are talking about which is the 25 . Yeah, the provision were using is one that is the provision to drop it to 125. I dont know exactly what the rules are on dropping the speed limits further but we have to follow the state law on those type of changes. Can i can i have someone from mta look at the state law and see if we cant use the 15mile im talking about school zones, where its dropped to 15 Miles Per Hour during school operations. Lets look into whether or not we can aggressively use that. Yes. Wove done it before. I mentioned a possibility is looking at Childcare Centers which is are we looking at those facilities also to drop it and maybe using the supervision as we use for schools. The state regulations limit us in terms of a defense we could not apply the School Zone Signage to its not something i could do necessarily. Chair peskin. I know you are going to move forward with automated Speed Enforcement resolutions i wont be around. So, the force we ask the state to include, you know, Early Education facilities into their education codes since the state does fund Early Education through the department of education and if you look at San Francisco, public schools, is the prek12 unified School System so it seems that the state might actually to redefine what it means by education. Mr. President , you are not gone yet. You have two months left and plenty of board meetings left. We have runway and pass a resolution urging our state delegation to per spew just that kind of Public Policy at the state level and i would be happy to join you in that and for some reason we run out of runway, im happy to do that come january 9th. But i think we have plenty of time do do it. We can have it on the reference calender of the full board. Got you. Thank you. Ill just maybe closing. He appreciate you urging us to advance your authority and were having the list of locations we are going to be doing in front of seniors ends. The issue you speak to about expanding the type of locations that qualify is something we proposed in the state legislation that go beyond a narrow definition of senior ends and think about vulnerable populations like the locations near homeless shelters and that sort of things. I think thats some Additional Information we can provide as well. Thank you. I think to the sfmta what would be helpful is given what we believe are the state law constraints, what the universe of the possible is, right, so, weve come up with eight. I would like to know is that eight out of 20, is that eight out of 30. Assuming you have to have a posted speed limit above 25 to come down to 25 for a sen why facility. I would love to see that relative to school zones, how many have we brought down to 125 and how many are we left to do. Id love to see that. That would be a really helpful and informative data set and allow us to say hey, sfmta you nailed eight out of eight or oh, this body whether its division one or division two as well as the public. With that, if mr. President if its ok, id like to open that items 2 and 3 up for Public Comment. Ok. And i still a few more questions. I can come back. I want to ask about signal timing ough automatization and theres possibilities and i was close to creating a resolution to mandate it and the staff will look into it and what im talking about are oneway streets in which we, as a city, can actually set the timing on those and so right now many of those oneway streets are set with the timing of either 25 or 30 Miles Per Hour, i believe, and theres one or two where the snaps are set to and its mta aggressively look at retiming and all are main oneway corridors to have signals and ill name a few, franklin, pine, bush, oak, fell, geary, goff, are many of the see slow down and. Id like to get a report back and maybe it doesnt see that and and within our jurisdiction to do this and theres no state law that prohibits us from actually timing our single lights in a way that we can slow down traffic. Is this possible. Its something we started implementing when we resigned the downtown area which includes south of market and the western edition and north of market including the tenderloin. We retimed a lot of our Traffic Signals for 20 Miles Per Hour including oneway streets and so, that is something that were now monitoring with implemented last year and early this year. Its something that can be done by the city and were hopeful that this kind of approach will improve safety while at the same time providing some Quarterly Movement of traffic and we have plans to gradually expand this to other streets as you mentioned, but we are in the process of trying to get those resources with grants and getting staff aligned to expand that and but for the three feet for second to add leading intervals or head starts and to improve the timing of yellow and all red faces. Multiple signal timing changes that we can do and where were working on that. To answer an easterly year question on school speed limits, im pretty confident that we have lowered around schools speed limits as much as we can and we took a pretty comprehensive approach and lowered them where we could so its primarily now those 50 Miles Per Hour speed limits are where theyre feasible. If there are locations we havent done, we work with the public and fill those gaps. We did not leave any schools on the table and so thats reassuring supervisor peskin on that issue. Thank you. President yee and let me ask, one question around the resolution and on so, its really i wanted to call this off and were asking the mayor to identify elite staff to help with theres a lot of committed Staff Members from different departments and who do we always need to hit and say can coordinate and sometimes we have to go to the publichealth and Police Department and theyre working all together. So what has the culmination been across department and vision zero and this is always that issue. I dont know, you want to. Its the covid activation that many of our staff are on so for instance, publichealth has been a key part of our work but theyre really committed right now to curb it so theyve been activated in that way so its one current challenge that beer dealing with with our staffing resources. We do have systems in place to regularly coordinate and work across teams and i dont really feel there are silos were up against in that sense. Ill maybe pause and see if jamie parks has anything to add . Jamie parks livable streets director with mta and i think its a good summary, ryan, and i think that we do have systems in places ryan mentioned, for coordination across different city departments, resources are always a challenge and making sure that the resources are there to follow through is a challenge for individual agencies but we have had good inter departmental relationships throughout the program and its one of fundamental principles ever our Vision Zero Program is that its not just for one department to implement. Yeah, well, its something to think about. Certainly to really have that staff committed to just this one issue because many people from different departments and sometimes as mrs. Reese just said, Staff Members from old departments are being pulled away from other things right now as part of my motivation is to say can we have dedicated staff just for this and we will look into it. The other thing that i one last thing, sorry, chair peskin, is i want to ask about your approach to how you assess which places to work on in terms of improvement and i know in the past, what was done is mostly look and as did at the beginning of the presentation, pointing out here is the high injury corridors and these are the places we con is not straigh coi dont know if you are looking at whether you want to consider taking into another type of approach which is strict, make a street unsafe, one who makes a street unsafe is those close calls and instances that neighbors react to on a daily basis and as something that maybe i constantly bring up over my eight years and say, you have to Pay Attention to this and this particular intersection because ive seen stuff and i know how the behavior of a driver and i know the behavior of people crossing and the first thing that they would say is oh, but you havent anybody killed yet. So, thats not a i always someone is going to get killed here eventually. And secure why wait for someone to die . And one city that sort of is doing this now is seattle and i dont know if you as Staff Members are beginning to talk about it or not. Sure. Thank you, we dont know that the High Injury Network is predictive so its based on so many years of data that is really would encompass a lot of where people are sharing that they have these close call concerns and so with our limited resource were focusing first on those areas and that being said, you know, there are other programs that we have so for instance our Proactive Traffic Calming Program is based on residential requests and so if there are areas that are not on our High Injury Network we have other ways that people can request this additional work and we also have our 311s were responsive to when people have close that theyre concerned about. Ill see if jamie parks is our Capital Program manager for liberal streets so ill see if he has anything he wants to add as well. I can add a little bit of context to that. So for the High Injury Network as ryan mentioned thats where 75 of fatal injuries occur that leaves 25 of injuries on other streets and so, we definitely need to have a balance and we cant invest 100 of our resources in the High Injury Network and leave out the 87 of city streets so while we are focused on the High Injury Network for some of our Bigger Capital investments we have programs that focus on all of our streets and so, at the highlight a couple of those are traffic Calming Programs including a Proactive Traffic Calming Program that is in neighborhoods with high concentrations of seniors that the program where we spend about a half Million Dollars a year on traffic homing in those neighborhoods and and then theyre basic schools for the city network if its daylighting or signal timing for taking care of beds they have enough time to cross the street and Traffic Signals coming across the sidewalk those are all tools were applying and we focus on the High Injury Network and wore doing those as sort of our basic practice when we touch an injury were bringing them up to our current standards. I appreciate the response. I remember years ago when i would bring up monterey boulevard or ocean avenue, it was early on and no its not high injury and people die on monterey and on ocean avenue and exactly what i said was going to happen and why wait . Im done. Thank you, president yee. Why wait . I totally agree with you. With that, lets open up Public Comment for items 2 and 3. Mr. Clerk,. Clerk thank you mr. Chairman. We will check and see if we have any callers in the queue. Please let us know if we have any callers are ready. For those who are conducted via phone press star by 3 to be added to the queue if you wish to speak for these items, 2 and 3. For those already on hold in the queue please continue to wait until your prompted to begin you will hear a prompted informed line has been unmuted. For those who are watching our meeting right now on cable channel 26 or through sfgovtv if you wish to speak call in by following the instructions which are displaying on your screen and that would be by calling 415 6550001. When prompted then enter into the meeting i. D. Of 146 567 6907 and pressing the pound symbol twice while connected to the meeting so you can listen to that and following that express star to enter the queue to speak for these items agenda 2 and 3. Could you connect us to our first caller, please . Hello, my name is Richard Rothman and i live in the Outer Richmond and i live right near the Senior Center on foul ton and they did put the 25 lower speed limit from 30 to 25 and i can guarantee you nobody she is down to 25 Miles Per Hour on fulton street. You have to come up with another tool. Fulton street is the International Speed way and you have to find a way and the other streets should be 20 Miles Per Hour. Just do t let the City Attorneys do the state or let the state do the city. Were under a state of emergency and just do it. The City Attorney sue the state so we can lower the speed limit to 20 Miles Per Hour in the city and when Richmond District residents and safety improvements they dont do it, they dont listen to or it takes them 10 years to do it and we should get the same service as everybody else and maybe you sneed to look at big picture. Maybe sustainable streets need to be overhauled. You should have someone like Ben Rosenfield or harvey rose look at how mta operates and maybe they need to be reorganized. I think they need to be reorganized to serve the residents better and they have dedicated people that they have to use their assets more efficiently and it needs to be reobserved and maybe the board can pass a resolution asking them to or asking someone to do an ought i had. It shouldnt take 10 years. Thank you. Next caller, please. Good afternoon, chair peskin and commissioners my name is jody and im the executive director of walk San Francisco and we will give strong support of these two important resolutions to make vision zero. I need to extend a special thank you for all the work you have done in the tenure on the board and the elimination of traffic related injuries and fatalities and he is our true vision hero. Thank you so much for president yee. And these resolutions are being brought forward because on sunday on the steps of city hall families will be holding a memorial for the 186 Traffic Related Fatalities since we adopted vision zero in 2014. Were already halfway through our 10year goal and we have not reduced the number of fatalities and injuries and we know it causes these tragedies and its not a mystery or Rocket Science and we need to be doing all we can to save lives. Included in these resolutions 100 makes sense they use the tools and also commit to working with state legislatives for local control for future legislation over speed management. And theres more i am practical and i want to highlight two. We hit a dashboard to show progress of vision zero understanding the universe of what needs to be done, whats been complete and what needs to be completed in the fex few years and the 160 Miles Per Hour of the High Injury Network. And we also support the request for over stay and greater Agency Cooperation on vision zero progress and programs. When it comes to saves lives theres no time to wait. Walk San Francisco asks that these resolutions move to the full board with a positive recommendation and all supervisors on this committee. Thank you so much for signing on as sponsors of this resolution. Thank you. That completes the queue. Thank you. So, president yee let me conquer with the last speaker and if you have no further comments, i would like to send items 2 and 3 to the full board i will make a items to send them to the full board with a positive recommendation and i know you have amendments and then well call the roll. President yee ok, thank you, very much, i hope you have patients. These amendments and you do have the amended copy of the resolution to read it into record. Yes, sir. President yee this is for items 3. In terms of recommitment to vision zero. On page 1, items line 5 and in the title and updated and to and updated Action Strategies and online 17 add in 2015 after visions Action Strategy to clarify the initial date of the adoption. Online 19 and 20, add whereas clauses to clarify the sfmta has moved beyond the three es approach and for the safe systems approach. And line 22 through 25, omit reference through the three es and replacing it with the safe systems approach. On page 2, line 7 and 8, add a whereas clause acknowledging the proven effectiveness of slowing speeds and line 17 and 18 omit the three es replacing the word incorporating with elevating realtime evaluations and line 20, replace the term codified with adopt and implement and since we are not asking for a transportation quote change but for the mta to adopt a renew Action Strategy. Line 2224. Correct the term high injury corridors with High Injury Network and include daylighting as another two to help with the immediate improvements. And page 3 line 2 to four, add clarification languages and calling for sfmta to develop additional engagement tools to elevate and solicit input from residents to identify dangerous cross walks and intersections or corridors. Line 7 through 9, add clarification and but that we are encouraging them to line to fall when the mayor to identify a dedicated staff lead person to work with the Vision Zero Team to fast track projects on page four, line 15 add a clause that sends a copy of this resolution to the office of mayor, the city administrator, the director of sfmta, board of directors, the director of the department of public woks and the San Francisco health commission. Those are the amendments for item 3 and before i close my remarks, i want to thank the staff. The throw that made statements today. Jamie parks, ricardo olea and ryan reese for their dedication of vision zero. I know they work real hard and sometimes i get pushy around these issues and i know theyre behind the efforts to try to make us get to our goal of zero fatalities. Thank you, president yee and we are in receipt of all of those amendments and i believe that supervisor safai are in the queue. Thank you mr. Chair. I just want to be add as a cosponsor. Thank you and i appreciate president yee this is a life or death issue and i appreciate you putting so much of your time, energy and effort and your own personal experience no this in using the best practices out in the field. Thank you. President yee thank you. Commissioner preston. Thank you and i also would like to be added as a cosponsor to both these items and thank you president yee for your on going advocacy. I did have additional question and comment. You everyoned earlier about the dough sire to have a bit of an inventory just around where could we be and what Senior Center schools or others are there that we could be extending the lower speed limits to. I heard the comment that with respect to schools they were already been done but im also interested as part of that in having a better understanding of the definition and the extent to which we could take a more expensive approach that we could include Childcare Centers when we talk about senior how limited are we by those definitions and it would, because it would be very helpful to know where can we push the envelope and are there rulings that restrain us where jurisdiction has gone too far and something is a Senior Center or a school or something and someone has decided no it isnt. Or are we all just assuming things mean what they mean. We have broad consensus that would make it to violate the law but push the limits of what we can legally do this is such a cheap and effective way to prevent serious injury and death and i think we should be, while were fighting for state law changes pushing those definitions as broadly as we can and you know, and thank you for the clarification and i want to recognize mtas work in the geary and those in the pipeline here and at least with respect to geary moving very quickly and when we did request doing Everything Possible there at a lower speed and to adopting that and moving forward on that. I appreciate that. The last thing is more of a question. Just the one item we havent really addressed that was in the presentation, is around the rightturn on red. And i just wanted to understand perhaps is just whats the status of thats something, my understanding is theres not a state law or anything that inter fierce with that but im curious and i want to make sure my assumption of that is right but also understand is that a policy determination and is there some other barriers to moving forward as some other cities have done to ban right turn on red. Ms. Reeves. Yes, im just making sure im muting myself. I can give an answer to that and if ricardo has anything to add. Theres no state law prohibiting us on our work on the no turn on red policy. Its something weve had from walk sf and other community members. We are pursuing a no turn on red policy in the tenderloin and that is something that were so the policy decision is advancing and i dont know ricardo if you have anything thaw want toad. Right now the turn is legal so each location has to be legislated. Nothing prevents a city from legislating locations but, weve just wanted to make sure that when we post a sign it will be enforced and complied with and meets the current guidance for doing that and our Research Indicates when people turn the majority of the crashes are caused by people turning on a green light and the turn on red itself is not a major cause of injury crashes. Weve been trying to focus on issues related to turning when the volkswagen have a green light being a bigger problem in terms of safety issues both right and left turns. Like mentioned, wore going to focus on the tenderloin as our first area for basically having the area, the no turn on red but until that area wide approach has been to do case by case based on field conditions and that is how california cities have approached this. Thank you. Supervisor safai, do you want to be a cosponsor on both items 2 and 3 . Yes, sir. Ok. With that clarification, on the amendments made by or offered by president yee, for item number 3, i would like to move those and on that motion mr. Carole a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to amend the resolution as agenda item number 3 offered by chair peski [roll call vote] you keep saying that, man. Was that an aye. Yes, sir. [roll call vote] there are throw ayes. Id like to make a motion to send items 2 and 3 as amended with recommendations as Committee Reports on that motion a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion [roll call vote] mr. Chair, there are three ayes again. That concludes the business before this committee, we are adjourned. Thank you. I think it aes public and private property. Im against graffiti. Who can get it out the most who can be noticed the most. I ive seen seniors doing graffiti. The city is art, other people who have their names tag [inaudible] our unit there are 2 sections we are doing one is abating and others are notice of violation to private property. All the utility boxes in public rightofway we abate. We abate calls that come within 48 hours. We are a small group in g f graffiti. We dont have enough help. I have a group in town down and china town and the north tunnel. [inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. Im willing to take it on. I think you are telling me you are ready for this . I think so. Okay. There you go. All right. All right. Ready to do it. Lets go. Want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we dont do private property since its on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. We had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. We do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the Attorneys Office and they take appropriate action. Damage their property there. Its important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. Using your safety glasses the gloves. You got it. You know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. You know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. The time where its visible. A lot of people put it on the ground. I like when tourists come and say, you do this for your city and you get paid for that . We use the [inaudible] for the holes and the retaining walls. [inaudible]. White on the fire hydrants. Fire box red for the fire boxes. Our brown for the pg and e poles. We are not painters we do our best. Im assuming it has to do with gang activity. If its territorial i mind. In case its gang related and they are marking our territory i would like to paint it over. Anything with numbers like x iv or x 13 west side mob and the bay view those are gang related. With gang related or profanity we will abait it as soon as possible. I consider it an art. There are circles of people that form around it whether or not they should ruin public property. This is art work im for it. Unless its on someones property and they dont want it there. Judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesnt belong on our property. Graffiti is when you dont have permission to write anything on their property. Eighth street is part of your regular rout . Yes. Everyday. Eighth street. Divisidero street. Irving street. Every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. Thank you. Okay. Put the drop cloth. Come on around. There you go. Force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. We are abaters not painters. Get that out of the way and keep moving. How many of these do you do a day . How many poles we do a day . Yeah. Depends on the location. May be 20. Do you like working with the team . Yes because im a people person. I like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. Goodbye. Welcome to the nov, 2020 meeting of the Police Commission. I think its probably fair to say that we all have our minds a little bit elsewhere tonight given everything thats going on in the world, and this being probably the consequential election of our lifetime. Were glad to be here with you all and we will all take the pledge of allegiance tonight with maybe a little more awareness of whats going on in the world. I will ask everyone to place their hands over their heart so we can say the pledge. [pledge of allegiance]. Thank you, and as always, if i could ask for the commissioners to mute their microphones. If you would like to be heard, just put your name in the chat box. Members of the public who are dialing in, i would ask you to please mute any background noise so that we can hear you and there is no feedback. The dial in number is [indiscernible] 0001, access code 146424 [indiscernible]. You will have two minutes for Public Comment. Please call the roll. [roll call]. You have quorum. [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. Thank you. Im getting a lot of feedback, so im going to ask everyone again to please mute your microphones. Please call the first line item. Line item one [indiscernible] meeting of september 16 [indiscernible] of 2020. Do i have a mover . [indiscernible]. Second. Public comment [indiscernible] regarding the adoption of minutes. Please call 41565 0001, access code 1464241219, press pound, pound again and then hit star three to raise your hand. For members of the public that are already logged in, please press star 3 now if youd like to make Public Comment on line item one. There is no Public Comment. Is anyone else [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. A lot of background noise, yes. [indiscernible] and i dont know if youre able to mute people on your end, sergeant, but that might be helpful. Is that better . It sounds better to me, yes. Okay. All right. On the motion for the adoption of minutes, commissioner how do you vote. Yes. Commissioner elias. Yes. Elias yes. Commissioner . Yes. [indiscernible] how do you vote. [indiscernible] and i have not reviewed the minutes thoroughly. [indiscernible]. Yes. Commissioner, unfortunately under the charter were not allowed to recuse yourself. [indiscernible]. Commissioner cohen is aye on the adoption of the minutes. And commissioner taylor you have five yes. Okay, please call the next line item. Line item two, reports for the commission. Chiefs report. Provide an overview of events occurring in San Francisco. Major significant incidents, provide a summary of planned activities in advance. This will provide a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Discussion on activities determining whether the calendar for future needs. Presentation of the fdrb findings and recommendations and investigative summaries Third Quarter 2020 and presentation of family [indiscernible] through june 30, 2020. Okay. [indiscernible]. Good evening. Hi, president taylor, commissioners. Welcome back, commissioner cohen, and congratulations. And good evening, chief of staff hawkins. Ill start the presentation with the crime trends for the week. Ill start with the not so good. We continue to see rise in burglaries year to date. We are 44 above where we were this time last year. I would like to say of note there was a significant arrest made in connection to several garage theft burglaries, which is one of our areas that we were really trying to focus on in the city. An arrest was made on october 30, and during that arrest and subsequent search warrant 18 bicycles and one scooter that had been reported stolen was recovered from this particular individuals residence. That brings a total of 15 suspects arrested over the past two months in connection with garage thefts. Our investigation [indiscernible] continues to work leads in those cases, and again, we are really trying to focus on the significant or individual that we identified because of their criminal history to be chronic offenders, and hopefully that will bring it down and make a dent in not having as many victims. I want to just remind our residents in the city please secure your garages, lock your bikes when you can, scooters, regardless of whether or not they are stored in the garage. We know how difficult it can be, and sometimes what we find is some residences are easier than others to victimize, so please secure your garages, lock your bikes, even if its in the garage. Please register your bike, and can you do that through sf safe, and if you go on their website, www. Sfsafe. Org you can register your bike online, and that really does make a difference when we recover stolen bicycles or if we come across a chop shop investigation when bicycles are registered we are able to return them to the owners. Unfortunately for the 18 that were recovered, we were fortunately for the 18 that were recovered we were able to return many to the owners. In terms of other property crime, we are continuing to add this portion to our year for burglary which was down 43 year to date in reduction of car burglaries when compared to 2018 were down 45 and when compared to 2017 when we were at our height we are down 53 . So again, same strategy, focusing on those that we believe because of their criminal history to be prolific, many of the individuals that we come in contact with are working in an organized fashion, and we are also trying to identify crews that are victimizing people in our city and addressing those crews. In terms of violate crime, we are down year to date 22 . However, as i have reported in Previous Commission meetings, we are up in homicides, and that is concerning. We have right now to date have 42 homicides which exceeds last years total. We ended the year in 2019 at 41 and we are already up to 42 with seven weeks left in the year. At this time last year we had 33 homicides. The good news is that we did not have any homicides or we have not yet had any homicides this month yet. There were five homicides in october, and of the yeartodate homicides, 22 of the 42 very cleared, which is 55 of this years homicides. Our overall clearance rate for the year is 71 , and that includes previous years homicides that have been cleared this year. Looking at this district, eagleside has the largest increase. They have gone from 2 in 2019 to 8 to yeartodate this year. Tenderloin has a 38 increase going from 8 last year to 11, and the majority of those homicides are firearmrelated homicides. In terms of gun violence, we are up 22 for the year. There have been 130 shooting incidents resulting in 135 victims of gun violence. 26 of those have been fatal, and 109 of the 135 have been nonfatal. We had five shooting incidents last week that caused injuries to five victims. In terms of the district stations, the districts with the largest increase in gun violence are tenderloin, which is a 110 , 10 last year, up to 21 this year. Eagleside is 100 increase, 8 last year and 15 year to date. Mission had 67 increase in gun violence, 9 compared to 15 this year and bayview has a 29 , 35 last year versus 45 this year. Central area and central district, Northern District and Southern District all have double digit decreases in gun violence. Central has a 53 decrease. Three this year compared to eight last year, and northern has a 40 decrease, six this year versus ten last year and southern has a 13 decrease, eight this year versus nine last year. In terms of significant events for the past week, a few things on homicide. We did make an arrest of three suspects from a 2019 homicide that occurred on december 20, 2019. In that case we had two victims in their vehicle near the Southwest Corner of leaven worth and ellis when the suspects vehicle pulled up next to them and opened fire striking the passenger who succumbed to her injuries. On october 27 our investigators served a search warrant at various locations in San Francisco and as a result three suspects were arrested. One of the suspects is booked for the murder, a gun was recovered in that with those search warrants, and that is good news in the arrest in that case. Other significant incidents this week are we made an arrest on a series that occurred in the Pacific Heights community over the past several months. On october 29 our Northern District plains clothed teams spotted the subject matching the person suspected in these crimes. A subject who approached females and then sexually battered them, touching or squeezing their buttocks and then fleeing from the scene. The officers identified a suspect who matched the description and actually made an arrest in this case after conducting a surveillance. We also used a decoy operation in order to bring this case to resolution. The officer and the decoy operation was placed out on the street in the area where the suspect had been seen or victimizing his victims. The suspect followed the decoy officer for several blocks, and when they reached the area of 3200 block of clay the suspect came up from behind and sexually battered the decoy officer. The suspect tried to flee and officers were able to apprehend him without incident and took him into custody. So that crime has been solved and hopefully we wont see other people victimized by this individual. Another arrest of note on yesterday, investigators from the San Francisco Police Department in conjunction with the oakland p. D. , the department of Homeland Security, a county and the sheriff and the unified Police Department of another area actually made an arrest on a two suspects, actually, who sexually exploited a number of students. These were internetbased crimes, and this [indiscernible] from the San Francisco Police Department with our internet crimes against children unit, also known as icac. In this investigation we determined that one of the subjects that created dozens of social media accounts across various platforms using false names and profiles. In some cases the subject pretended to be a minor engaged in chats with unsuspecting victims. Once contact was made, the victims were solicited for sexually explicit images and videos, and if the victim refused, the subject allegedly used means to extort victims, threats of physical harm, to either the victims or their families, and also to circulate photos obtained by other means at their school. By using software, the subject was able to determine the approximate location of the victims. The investigation revealed that eight minors ranging in ainge from 11 to 14 years old living in the area and utah were victims of this particular suspect. When search warrants were executed, devices and other materials were found that linked the subjects and his accomplice to these crimes. Due to the nature of the crimes and the area in which the crimes were committed, which was across state lines, the u. S. Attorneys office of the Northern District of california is lead on prosecuting this case. Again, the agencies who assisted were the San Francisco Police Department, the department of Homeland Security security, oakland Police Department and the unified Police Department of the greater salt lake area and utah. The next thing is just want to give an update on any incidents related to elections. I know there was a lot of anxiety, not only in our city, in our region, but across the country on potential unrest because of the election results. The good news is that we have not had anything in our city to date. There have been cities across the country that have had incidents, isolated incidents in several of the cities of unrest. Some violence and vandalism and the like, but we have not had any of that or experienced any of that in San Francisco. We did have one incident yesterday at a polling location that required sfpd response. In that case the subject showed up at two separate polling stations acting erratically. We were called. We actually responded at the second location, and that subject was located and actually arrested. He hasnt [indiscernible] locations and that caused some concern with many individuals. So we actually contacted him and arrested him. As far as demonstrations, there were there was one small demonstration today in front of a mission station. No incidents, no violence, not a large turnout, but it was uneventful and no problems there. At this time there are a few planned events for this weekend that we will be deployed for. We dont really know when the election will be officially called or a winner will be officially declared, so we will be deployed and staffed up until that happens, and then depending on what happens, when theres a winner declared, we will step up accordingly. So far so good. We are prepared for whatever comes our way as best we can be, and we are communicating with our local departments in the area, as well as our federal partners to make sure that that information is being communicated about whats happening elsewhere outside of San Francisco. So that is it for this portion of the report. If theres any questions from the commission . I see questions in the chat. Thank you. [indiscernible]. Next we have the activity. We have commander osullivan with the fdrv findings and recommendations, or deputy chief i cant see whos actually on. [please stand by]. Next slide please. Since the last presentation to the Police Commission, the in custody review board reviewed the following in custody death investigations. 15. 001, 16. 002, and 17001. Next slide please. In custody deaths, 15001. On april 3, 2015, bayview station officers responded to a call at 145 recording a trespasser. They contacted a male subject and placed him under arrest for an outstanding warrant. The subject was transported to bayview station and processed for booking. The subject was later transferred to the county hill number one to be subject stated, yeah, i do want to kill myself. The untake nurse was cleared by the Psychiatric Emergency Services at San Francisco again hospital. The subject became agitate and starting yelling. San francisco sheriffs deputies held down the subject and continued to resist. The subject was take on the the ground by the deputies and restrained by continued his resistance. The officers on scene requested medics to respond to sally port. The medics and officers on the scene held the resisting subject by holding him down. There was no reportedable use of force by the San Francisco Police Officer. When the medics arrived, they injected the subject with perced, a sedative. And one sfpd officer rode with the medics. While envut route, the subject stopped breathing and had no pulse. The medics began c. P. R. And there was a pulse. The subject was admitted to the intensive care unit. On april 6, the subject was pronounced deceased. At the conclusion of the investigation and the recommendation of the internal Affairs Investigation, we found that the officers acted in policy with regards to use 5. 01, the use of force, 6. 14 the psychological evaluation of adults, and 8. 12 incustody death policy. Next slide please. Incustody death 16. 002. On june 18, 2016, about 9 24 in the evening, tenderloin station officers were dispatched to 41 jones regarding a male subject with a nice attempting to force his way into the building. Upon arrival, officers conducted an investigation and subsequently arrested the subject and take on the tenderloin station for processing. That station was subject indicated to require Blood Pressure medication and therefore was not placed in a holding cell. About 1 26 in the morning on june 19, the subject was transported to the county jail number one. At the county jail the intake nurse refused to admit the subject due to the high Blood Pressure. He was transferred to San Francisco general to be medically cleared prior to booking. The subject was treated, provided a prescription for Blood Pressure medication and medically discharged. The officers later advised they did not know the medical staffed a ministered any medication to the hospital while he was at San Francisco general. While escorting the subject back to the patrol wagon, the officer was shaking and ambulatory but had some difficulty walking. The subject was transported back to county jail one about 4 5 an in the morning, upon his return to county jail one, the subject had difficulty walking and was sweating profusely and appeared confused and disoriented. The intake nurse medically refused the subject again and the worsened condition and the ambulance was requested. While waiting the ambulance, he was placed in a temporary holding cell. The subject stopped breathing and c. P. R. Was initiated. The ambulance transported the subject to San Francisco general where he was pronounced deceased at 6 19 in the morning. Based on the internal Affairs Investigation and the recommendations from the internal Affairs Investigation, it found that the officers acted in policy with regard to general order 5. 01, 6. 14, psychological evaluation of adults, 81. 12 incustody deaths. There were some policy violations that were found, but based on the investigation, those were found not to have contributed to the incustody death. Next slide please. Incustody death 17. 001. On march 11, 2017, mission station officers responded to just 2200 Market Street and restaurant. The call was regarding a male patron who was being aggressive and breaking windows and harming himself. The subject was being restrained by other patrons. The officers took over who was actively resisting and pleading from a cut to the wrist. He was still actively resisting in custody and he was kicking at the officers. The subject was placed in a position of recovery and moved to a seated position and he continued to resist the officers. The San Francisco Fire Department medics arrived on scene and administered a sedative to the subject and the medics were able to treat the lacerations. The subject was placed on a medical backboard and handcuffed and hobbles were removed. Soft restraints were applied to the subject and tired to the backboard to restrict the movement. The officer noticed the subject was tonight in responsive and recognized he had no pulse and was not breathing. The officers on scene immediately began to perform c. P. R. On the subject while he was take on the the ambulance until relieved by the medics. The subject was transported to San Francisco general and at the time the officers were advised the subject was in critical but stable condition. On march 24, 2017, the San Francisco general notified the San Francisco medical examiner that the subject deceased as of that day f the during the investigation by internal affairs found that the officers were in policy reviewed the use of force and 8. 12 the in. Custody deaths and 10. 11 with the body one camera that ewas worn. Active and criminal investigations that 180 o 5 and 20001 were recently heard at firearms discharge and these are the five remaining incustody deaths that have criminal or administrative investigations ongoing. And that is the end of the presentation. I have one question and i also see a question from my fellow commissioners. All these were found to be in policy, but was the cause of death determined for any of these . I do have for 17001, tiff medical examiners investigation determined that the subject died of complications of i cant say this word. Anoxic and it says encephalopathy due to methamphetamine exposure while under Law Enforcement constraint and obesity. The matter of death was ultimately deemed an accident. That was 17001. I dont have the other ones but i can get that information for you, commissioner. Commissioner elias . Thank you. I wanted to thank you for presenting on this. The question i had is with respect to the incustody death of 16002, you mentioned in the letter that the chief wrote dated september 1 which indicates with respect to the incident there was inpolicy but also an out of policy element to that incident which isnt reflected in the power point. I am still unclear to why because i was present during this fdrd and this one didnt sit well with me. But i am wondering why on the power point slide it is within policy and the chiefs letter says it is within policy and out of policy is first question. My oversight on that that the in policy is with respect to the officers actions that were investigated and reviewed as where the actions of the officers, did though contribute to the death of the subject. The out of policy findings were transportation search on two members. And during the investigation they found that those two policy violations did not contribute to the death of the subject. It was a search. It was a search policy. Okay. I will clarify future presentations include include the visual of the recommendations in policy and which ones are out of policy. I will put those in future presentations. Thank you. That would be helpful and if the mes findings like commissioner taylor indicated is also important because in this one particularly because there was an is search issue with respect to the contraband which i think also played a role in it, i think its all tied together. Right. I think that information is important, so thank you for that. And my second question is to the chief. With respect to your letter, i read your letter and in your letter it indicates that dcle suggests in the future the photographs of officers and subjects in the incidents be eliminated from the presentation in order to main tan confidentiality. However, these fdrb hearings are confidential, so what confidentiality is there to be concerned with . It is a closed session event, a closed session not hearing, but event, if you will, where all these individuals are present in the room. I am not sure what confidentiality issues he is speaking of. Can i chief, can i clarify that one . Go ahead. Please. Commissioner elias, it was not more of confidentiality, it was more of bias in that the fdrb should not see or should not be presented with a personal picture of a criminal history, so we wanted to remove that information from the Decision Making process of whether an officers actions were in or out of policy. It is a matter as a booking photo and removing that information that we felt that our dcle felt was not relevant to the death, a persons criminal history or the booking photo. The way the letter is written is it indicates you wanted the criminal history omitted to eliminate bias toward the subject, but i didnt realize that also the pictures because during the hearings if you are referring to when they flash the picture on the screen. Correct. Of the subject. And the officer. Right. And so are you saying both officer and subject now there will be no photos . No photos will be portrayed when the officer will be portrayed in that the fdrb wants to see what the officer was wearing at the time of the incident. But for the subject, the picture and the criminal history is to be removed on all future presentations to remove any form of bias. Okay. And going back deputy chief, i heard the recommendation that the actual investigator presented because i have been to a few of these and it is very difficult it is like a game of telephone where there are a lot of specific factual issues that people have questions and unfortunately, they arent answered because the individual who conducted the investigation is not present. And they are unable to abc the specific questions. As you know, these reviews are very fact specific. And the policy and out of policy determination is really independent on specific facts. I think that is a well made suggestion and i would really encourage them or the department to adopt it. Absolutely, commissioner. As we go through these hearings and these reviews, were always looking at ways to improve the processes and make sure that all the information is presented and the people who or the investigators who have conducted the investigation are there so they can speak firsthand to a great level of specificity that somebody else cannot. Thank you. I appreciate the presentation. Commission, dejesus . So thank you. The coroner was one of the questions i was going to ask as well. I also want to clarify when you say 001 and 002, are we talking about from 2001 and 2002 . Are these that old . This is 15 is the year, commissioner. Thank you. That is it. And so let me ask you a question. In two of these it says that the medics came and gave some type of antianxiety type of drug and the people ended up dying. And that was interesting when you said that the coroner had methamphetamine in his system. I am just wondering if the drugs that they are giving them are contributing to the demise. That is, i guess, dr. Martin was with us in the room, and i dont remember specifically what he said, but there are studies out there and i guess it is the Research Study to further determine if it played a part in a persons death. I cant make that determination. Commissioner okay. And the coroners report, everyone just talked about why that is important and we can at least get some semblance or some idea of that. I also thaerd changes you discussed and that makes sense. Those are all the questions i have. Thanks. I have one followup question. I apologize. And that you were talking about not using photos which i think i agree not using booking photos, but the fdrb and theres a video that need to be shown and so we are only talking about booking photos for the subject, is that right . It is the photo but more importantly the criminal history. The criminal history should not be part or and it is not a factor of consideration. Got it. Okay. Commissioner . Thank you for the presentation. It is not a question but a follow up on commissioner dejesus that each of the subjects had been given perced and to find out how much from the Fire Department how much is given to each subject. Is it subjective . By height, by size, by weight . Its real interesting and thank you, commissioner dejesus, because that was at the forefront of my mind that we have folks in custody that are passing away and while the coroner may not say it is because of i dont see any other questions. So so dont let me stop you from that concludes that presentation. The next item is also the presentation of the commissioners and this is the july 1312020 quarter record with family code 6228 and the incident report release. If you have the document and 89 were related and with the the highest number and 86 within six to 10 days. And the vast majority were 65 for domestic violence. To page two, we will notice that we did have some delays in three of the cases. And one of the cases was due to our inability to get the proper identification from the requester so that took a little time. That still occurred within six to 10 days. The other two requests were reports or requests made on the wrong box checked and one was a Law Enforcement request and not the 6228 and another request did not include the case number to find the requests and the case number and read the report and later find out that it was a 6228 request the what we have done as the improvement to scan for the 6228 request when they come in, but now we will review all requests that they check the wrong box and missing information, we can that is from the with the turn around time is less than two days and the vast majority are made in english with two made in spanish. Thank you. I dont see any questions from my fellow commissioner. With that, tauch for your presentation. Next line item. 2b, dpa directors report. It will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcement. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future Commission Meeting. Presentation of the monthny statistical report september 2020. The regular staff and so far this year we are at 682 cases up this year. And this is up from the same time last year where we were at 631 cases. In terms of case thaven closed we have closed a number of cases. This year at 769 so far. This time last year we were at 541 so part of that number is reflective of the volume of cases from that is year and the increase in case this is year. We have currently 350 cases that are pending and open. This time last year we had 409 cases that were open. And in terms of cases sustained, we are at 37 cases this time last year we were 71. We have 33 cases whose investigations have gone beyond nine months. This time last year we had 311 cases that had gone beyond nine months. In terms of cases mediated, we have mediated 32 cases so far this year. This time last year we mediated 27 cases. This is a new section that has been added. We have currently in cases that are pending with the chief, 31 cases pending right now. And we also have 13 cases that are pending with a Police Commissioners themselves. We also have a case tonight that is in closed session. And my lawyers and team and star are here for that as well. And in terms of the outreach since the last Commission Meeting on the 27th, we hosted a virtual Mediation Division 101 for Community Meeting for community members. We also attended both the terrabell and the mission Community Meeting where we were asked to speak about dpa for the audiences that came to the meetings. And on the 29th we had our virtual mediation conference that was an allday conference for the folks that do mediation with our office and training. On the 30th of october, we had a Stakeholder Engagement meeting. That was with the youth commission. They asked us to come and make a presentation to them. And also on the 30th we dpa with the San Francisco youth defenders participated in a panel talking about knowing your rights and understanding the role of dpa with youth and children. Thats where we are so far. I think that the next line item is for the statistical report so im going to talk briefly about that as well. This is a separate line and a separate line item, but i wanted to articulate the information is for the september statistical report. In september, d. P. A. Received 511 cases this received 51 cases this year compared with 64 case in the same period last year. The september case total was 4 higher and from january to september t decrease is reflective of that month from january to september and received a total of 627 new cases compared with the 568 cases filled during the same period in 2019. And the september year to date case total represents an increase. That concludes my report. Also, we have a number of my staff here available to call in for the agency or need help, we have folks on the call that are available and the individual case for closed session this evening. Thank you, director. I appreciate the new background that you have for us tonight. And i dont have any this is the first time i have done this at home and it didnt work here. I had to call Sergeant Youngblood and it was all terrible. But it worked. Here i am. Next line item. Sergeant youngblood. Line item 2c, commission reports. Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether the calendar any of the issues raised for future Commission Meeting. Commission president s report, commissioners reports and commission announcements and scheduling o f items identified for consideration at a future Commission Meeting, action. Okay. Please call the next line items. Next line item is Public Comment on line item two. To make comment, call 41565 a0001 with access code 1464241219 and hit pound and pound again. For those logged in press star 3 and raise your hand to make Public Comment on line item 2. So far we have one caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Commissioners, my fame is francisco decosta. And i was paying attention to the report by the chief. And the longer presentation that looks like something as if you are in a perry mason type of court case. I think that shouldnt be done as a presentation because the viewers at home cant even read what is being presented. So its just boring. So to the commissioners and to the chief, nobody is going to Pay Attention to you all because in order to Pay Attention to you all, you have to know something about the deliberation. You have to know something about the needs assessment. None of which was given in this one hour that we spent just listening to you all babbling around. And downtown and see all sorts of crimes. You come home and gunshots. And we know that our youth now have more guns than they ever had before. What do we hear in this presentation . Nothing about the safety of the people who pay their taxes. So why do we have commissioners . What type of policy making, deliberations are you involved with that improve our quality of life in San Francisco . People are leaving San Francisco in droves. Not because of the jobs. Not only because of the pandemic, but because of the safety. Thank you. I would just remind the public that for every Commission Meeting there is an agenda posted and along with an agenda on the Commission Website, there are the supporting materials for every presentation that you see, every document and every presentation that is discussed will generally have supporting materials that are available to the public if the public is interested in seeing them. I want to make sure that everyone knows that. Thank you. Any other callers . Yes. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening, commissioners. Chief scott and executive director henderson. U am public defender and would like to register my agreement to rule 19002 out of policy. We should speak plainly. The shooting was illegal not just out of policy. For the public, the shooting involves and offduty officer who pulled the gun out and shot at a civilian because he was afraid of the person who had driven past him was trying to shoot him. I like the public am eager to find out what will happen here. This incident occurred more than a year ago. Why had it taken to long to reach the conclusion . It is obvious that the officer was excessive. It is important to note that the officer did not save the man with a gun but held something shiny. How many black and brown men died when officers saw something shiny and feared for their live when the men werent armed . The larger point is why is the officer not identifyed . Under California Law the record relating to the incident involving the discharge of a firearm at a person as the fdrb report clearly is no longer public it is public and no longer confidential. There is no reason to deidentify the officer. And even if some statutory exception is applicable, the department should should articulate that as a matter of policy. It is important to inform the public to what is happening. Thank you. Thank you. Any other callers . We have one more caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Can you hear me . Yes. This is paulette brown, and i am calling as usual concerning my son who was murdered august 14, 2006 and just hearing the chief saying that there have been 42 more homicides and half of them havent been solved. They caught them, but have they been convicted . I am still thinking about my son with the unsolved had had. As a mother, again, its been 14 years. And even though i am not in front of your faces right now, i am looking at you on my zoom thing and it is just im just wondering what else can we do to solve these unsolved homicides . For mothers like myself, so that we can have some kind of closure. I dont have any. I want to keep bringing my sons memory to the Police Commission so that no one will ever forget that i am still fighting so hard for my son to get justice so that my family can kind of settle somewhere. But i am just hoping that and i did speak with sergeant, agent, special agent kobe millstrong, and i will bring that up in the other Public Comment because i only have two minutes. But just if you could give another shout out about my son, i appreciate it. Thank you. The material and the flyers have been provided to the commission and are posted in the Commission Website in the 30d 30day correspondence. It is 4155754444. Those who saw the Police Commission know that she is is before us week to week. Please call that line. Thank you. There is no more Public Comment. Okay. Next line item. Line item 3, discussion and possible action to adopt a resolution urging the board of supervisors to authorize the chief of police to do retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of 185,242 from the California Commission on peace officer standards and training, post, for the project period beginning on october 15, 2020 and ending june 30, 2021. Discussion and possible action. Presenting is going to be director patrick. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioner scott, director henderson. I am the chief Financial Officer for the San Francisco Police Department. There are two resolutions that we are requesting commissioners approve for tonight. The first one is from the California Commission on Police Officer standards and training. The grant will be used to help develop and certify a limited English Proficiency course. Under a discipline environment. There are approximately 22 of San Francisco residents who have limited English Proficiency. Statewide this percentage is approximately 19 . With the grant funds, this course is certified and the Training Course will be made available to other Law Enforcement agencies throughout the state. And with that, if there are any questions from the commission, i will do my best to answer. Are there questions from the fellow commissioners . Do you want to go on the next one . And we can take a vote on this one. Whatever is easiest. I know that you are sharing a chair. So to present them both and then we will vote on them individually so you dont have to keep switching. Sure. The next resolution is from the California Department of parks and recreation from the division of boating and waterways. The grant will help pay for a thermal imageing camera and will replace an inoperable thermal imageing camera on our marine vessel. The existing camera has raeched the end of the useful life and is currently inoperable. And so this grant will help pay for its replacement. The equipment would be used to help locate search and rescue victims that may be located in water and californias operational safety where there might be poor visibility. And with that, if there is any questions on this resolution, i will do my best to answer them. I dont see any questions on this resolution either. So maybe that makes sense for Sergeant Youngblood to come back and we will take a vote and Public Comment on each item. I would like to read the line item into the record. Of course. That is last one that was just presented was line item 4, which was discussion and possible action to adopt a resolution urging the board of supervisors to authorize the chief of police to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of 101,859 from the state of California Department of park and recreation, division of boating and waterways, for the sfpd marine unit for the project period beginning october 1, 2020 and ending september 1, 2021. Discussion and possible action. So for line item 3, i need a motion. Sergeant youngblood, line item 3 . Motion is to accept the resolution. Do i have a second . Second. All right. On the motion to accept the grant, commissioner dejesus. Will we take Public Comment . You are correct. For members of the public that would would like to make Public Comment on line item 3, 4155550001, access code 1464241429. And hit pound and pound again. For those connected, press star 3 right now to comment on line item three. And there is no Public Comment. Okay. All right. The motion to accept the grant for 185,242 on post training. Commissioner dejesus. Yes. [roll call vote] that passes with five yess. Lets move to the next line item. Line item four, we will need a motion and second. Motion. So moved. Second. Okay. Public comment . Members of the public that would like to comment on line item 4, dial 4156550001. Access code 1464241219, pound, and pound again. For members that are logged on, press star 3 to raise your hand if you would like to make Public Comment. Do you have a question, commission sner we can take it after we vote, though. Okay. I see no Public Comment, commissioners. All right. Call the vote. [roll call vote] on the motion to accept the grant for 101,859. You have five yess. Motion passes. Next line item, please. All right. Commissioner. It is all good. I meant to do it when the c. F. O. Was there and might be for chief. Just because of my curiosity, who writes these grants for us . Is it i cant remember her name. Is it kathrin . Who writes the grants and proposals. That is cfo youngs shot and we have a grant person that handles grants. Sometimes it depends on the grant. For instance, the grant that was written primarily by director and you all remember that grant we talked about with director sutton with the crime strategies update. That was written by director sutton with the unit and so really depends on the grant. And if there is a particular subject matter and expertise that is needed to form that portion to get the grant at whatever level it needs to be for competitive consideration. Gotcha. Thanks. And commissioner, i think on one of these at least the l. E. P. Grant Training Division i believe played a big role in the writing of that actual grant. It just depends on the grant and what is needed. Okay. Thanks. All right. Next line item. Line item 5, discussion and possible action to adopt revised Department Order. Action. Who is our presenter for this line item . Its me, Vice President taylor. Good evening. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioner, chief scott, director henderson, members of the community. I am captain james david and i will be presenting on Department Order 6. 19 victim of Violent Crime notification. I will give you a brief overview of the general order, some of the changes we made, acknowledge the members of the working group and take any questions. The general order with the it nos at district stations. Updates and changes and updated name and address changes for the Victim Services division of the district Attorneys Office. Noting that the San Francisco we passed a copy of the Violent Crime notification to the department general order so that officers will associate the form with the general order. At this time i would like to thank the department of Police Accountability to recognize the working group for the valuable time assisting the San Francisco Police Department. And the working group consists of dr. Geena rodriguez, chief of Victims Services and maria renoso. And Victim Services and the lead advocate for the homicide team. And the supervisor for the victims Services Division and street Violence Response Team for the San Francisco Police Department. And tenderloin housing clinic, and then director stephanie felder, San Francisco department of health and crisis services. Just like to say one of the main goals of the working group was to make sure that victims of Violent Crime were aware of and getting referrals to the services and resources they need. This is a positive step toward that goal. I will ask for a motion. Is there a motion . I was trying to type in my name, but that is okay. I will make the motion. I really am happy for the work that you are doing that is so important and that the victims and get them all the help we need and do the Victim Services and help with the Police Reports and do whatever you need to do and thank you for you and the task force for doing this and i move that we adopt this. Thank you. Can we get Public Comment . For members of the public that would like to make Public Comment i think director henderson, is he tries to speak . Is he . I dont see anything. Im sorry to interrupt you, Sergeant Youngblood. You have to put your name in the chat. I dont see everyone on the screen at the same time. We dont have it all together with this app on the phone that i am doing. I am fine. It was a mistake. All right. Public comment. Call 4156550001. And access code 146424. For members already on line, press star 3. It looks like there is one caller. Hi, caller. You have two minutes. Two minutes. I think you need to be more welcoming of public feedback. I am a disabled senior and pounced on by several officers while quietly standing in the checkout line at safeway during senior hour. My crime . I was wearing a small backpack. I had shopped at this safeway for 30 years. The police dragged me out of the store by my feet on my back. The officers could not even deescalate a calm situation. The Police Report said that i had been escorted out of the store. No mention of the police use of force. And some might say that is a coverup of the fact that Excessive Force is in use. The report also didnt mention the actions of the most aggressive officer, simply saying that he was present. This was pointed out to the d. E. A. Cha concluded that this was proper conduct. And apparently there were no corrective actions whatsoever and that is the primary concern of mine. If there should be any discussion on this matter, i would ask that it remain anonymous. This all came about because the store manager had it in her brain that the mayor prohibited backpacks in stores. That led to Excessive Force by police. I probably have been considered a friend of the police up until this incident. Thanks. Thank you, caller. Thank you. Any more Public Comment . There is no more Public Comment. Next line item. Is general Public Comment. At this time the public is welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes that are not on the agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. Did we vote on we did not vote on the dgo. And the caller got off topic. Am i missing that . And we need to vote. There is a motion and a second. And that could have been Public Comment for the dgo and ended up it was not. So lets call the roll for the vote for 6. 19. On the motion to adopt 6. 19. Commissioner dejesus . Yes. Good catch on that one. Elias . Yes. Yes. There is a lot of feedback. Yes, i am. I cant even hear you. I am voting yes. Vice president taylor, how do you vote . Vice president taylor is a yes. We have 6 yes 5 yess. I want to thank the department and all the members for the hard work on the d. G. O. It is very important as commissioner dejesus mentioned. Now the next line item. General Public Comment. At this time the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda but are within the subject jurisdiction of the commission pef Neither Police nor d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 41565 a0001 and access doed 1464241219. Press pound and pound again. Press star 3 if you wish to make a comment. This will advise the moderator that you wish to speak and add you to the queue. You may submit Public Comment by emailing the secretary of Police Commission. Or written comments may be sent Via Postal Service to the Public Safety building at 1245 third street San Francisco, california, 94158. Members that are logged on, press star 3 now to raise your hand. And we have three Public Comments. Okay. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Hello. I am a volunteer with wealth and disparity in the black community. I am regarding our founder Felicia Jones who sent a letter i think via emailed to you and was resent this past week requesting the commissioners to meet in person to discuss sfpd reform and to work on the issue for many years and to work in collaboration but is concerning that you have not heard back from you. And very much like to see that change immediately. Thank you. Thank you. Next caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners, d. P. A. Henderson, chief scott. My name is Lashon Walker and i am a steward and resident of the bayview. I couldnt get myself unmuted fast enough during chief scotts report, so it is not directly related to the report but i do have a question. I would like to know if during future reports you could share some information about foot patrols, particularly for the bayview. There used to be some foot patrol in the bayview and some of those officers were promoted out and they dont then get replaced. I would like to know if theyre going to be replaced and also if there is any data on any visual deterrent that a foot patrol might provide with actual Crime Statistics year to date related to corridors particularly where you dont now have foot patrol. Looking at crime data when you have foot patrols and looking at crime data when you dont have them. When you have them and dont have them. I would like to see those numbers because were missing that now in the bayview. I would like to have to find out if that can be presented at a future agenda item so that i can attend and hear the response to the information request that i am making. Thank you. Thank you very much. Chief, is that something that you could be prepared to present on at the next meeting or should be scheduled for a later date . Those are excellent questions. We can do that for the next meeting. I have the answer to that now, but it is not on the agenda, so we can do it the next meeting. If i may, a question and followup. Just a point of order. [please stand by] that study is out there. Its actually online for anybody who wants to look at it, and i can talk about that in more detail next week. Commissioner elias yeah, that would be helpful, chief, because we all get notifications when theres shootings and homicides, and in certain neighborhoods, we are concerned about that. So i know its resonated with me. So if you could present more on that in the next week, that would be good because wed like to hear more, so thanks, chief. And i see a very cute baby, but thats also not on the agenda, so well move onto the next line item if there are no other callers. Clerk we have one more caller. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk okay. You have two minutes. Yes, this is mrs. Paulette browns. I spoke with an officer, and i asked them about recanting about what they said about my son being in a gang. They said theres nothing that they can do because theyre reappealing. I asked him, does he have any kids, and he said well, he has a 13yearold boy. And i said, well, hes almost the same age. He said well, we werent trying to defame your son, we were saying he was affiliated. I said, whats the difference . I would go and take those mothers to church, and so then i would be affiliated. So were n he said well, were not trying to defend your son because he didnt kill anybody. I spoke with him for a half an hour. He said there was nothing he can do, and i was, like, then why am i speaking to you . But for that half an hour but the point is what im asking the commission is to, you know, if im asking if you can respectfully write a letter to the you know, the Police Commission write a letter to the department of justice and the Federal District court to, you know, correct the record about my son and he even said it. He said it to me, that your son were not defaming your sons character, but you did. I have all the records, i have all the files. And also, its in the complaint. I want to send you from the office of council of chief responsibility, 1800 pennsylvania avenue in washington, d. C. Ive already asked youngblood, you know, to give me an email, and i think he sent me one, so im trying to see if i can get this to you guys so i can get help. Clerk thank you, miss brown. Okay. Vice president taylor any other callers thank you, miss brown. Any other callers . Clerk one more caller. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Hi. I spoke under item 5. You know, that should be under item 6 in the agenda. I am not looking for an apology because i was dragged out of safeway wearing a backpack, but i would like some sort of explanation or are you just telling the officers, go ahead and do the same thing again . Thank you. Clerk we have no more Public Comment. Vice president taylor next line item. Clerk line item 7, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 we low, closed session, including Public Comment on item 8, vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. Members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on item 7 call 4156550001, enter the access code, press pound, and pound again. Members of the public who have dialed in, press , 3 now to make Public Comment on item 7. And we have no Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Next line item. Clerk line item 8, vote on whether to take item 9 in closed session, San Francisco administrative code 67. 10, action. Vice president taylor okay. Do i have a motion . Commissioner brookter yeah, so moved. Vice president taylor is there a second . Commissioner elias second. Clerk all right. On the motion to go into closed session, commissione session, [roll call] we do have a quorum, right . Thats correct. We can go into closed session shes back. Clerk all right. And commissioner cohen was aye. You have five yeses, commissioner. Vice president taylor great. Can we okay, call the next line item. Line item 10, disclose any or all discussion on item 9 held in closed session, San Francisco administrative closed session 67. 12a, action. Motion to not disclose. Second. Okay. The motion not to disclose. Commissioner dejesus, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner elias, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner cohen, how do you vote . Yes. How do you vote . Yes. President taylor yes, you have five yeses. All right. Public comment on for members of the public that would like to make Public Comment on line item 10, please call in. For those who are already logged on, please press star 3 now. No Public Comment . No Public Comment. Okay. All right. So do you want to go to line item 11 . [indiscernible]. Line item 11, adjournment, action item. Can i have a motion . Motion. Second. All right, on the motion to adjourn, commissioner dejesus, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner elias, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner rukter, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner brukter, yes. Commissioner cohen . Aye. Taylor how do you vote . Yes. Vicepresident taylor is yes. You have five yeses. All right. Have a good night, everybody. Thank you. We are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. Say hi. Hi. Whats your favorite . The carrots. The pizza . Im not going to eat the pizza. You like the pizza . They will eat anything. Yeah, well, okay. Sfusds meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. The program came about when the shelter in place order came about for San Francisco. We have a lot of students that depend on School Lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. We have families that cant take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. For the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. Right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. We heard about the school districts, that they didnt know if they were going to be able to provide it, so weve been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. Theyve been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure theyre staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so thats a great thing when youre working with many kid does. The feedback has been really good. Everybody seems really appreciative. They do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. Growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up. I have kids at home. I have six kids. Im a mother first, so im just so glad to be here. Its so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families dont have access to this food, and were just really glad to be good morning, everyone. And welcome to this beautiful monday. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 9th, 2020 of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the ctt