Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240711

Before i go onto the next part of my report. For the commissioner if you have a question put your name in the chat. I dont see any. I dont see names. Chief. Thank you Vice President taylor. As to other major events there were two shooting incidents that caused injuries to victims over the past week. One was 500 block of alamany in the ingall side district. Our victim was inside a residence. Heard gunshots and realized she had been shot. That one we are still looking for leads and again anybody that has any information please call the tip line at 415 5754444. The second one, 1115 at 4 17 a. M. We dont have the exact location where this shooting happened. Our victim was selftransported to the hospital. It was a gunshot wound by the time the officers arrived the victim was undergoing surgery and was unable to provide any information leading to the shooting. We do have some spot shotter activation around the town of the shooting so we are investigating whether that activation or those shots fired are connected to this incident. That information is yet to be determined and that investigation is ongoing as well. Last thing of significance with major crimes, we had a bank robbery series on 11 7. The subject walked into a bank on grant treat demanding money. The teller gave the money to the suspect and the person fled. On 11 9, november 9th, a subject matching the same description as the november 7th incident walked into a bank on kerney demanding money. The teller complied and the suspect fled from the location. On the 12th of november, officers responded to a call of a person in possible crisis. The subject was threatening to stab himself. Officers were able to defuse the situation and take the person into custody. And that was later identified as the individual responsible for the two bank robberies. So that investigation is also ongoing and if anybody has any information please call us at the tip line 5754444. Lastly with special events where a couple of stunt driving incidents planned over the weekend. Actually planned for this weekend. That has been advertised on social media and we have redoubled our efforts on watching these events that are very dangerous. Board supervisors, supervisor saffai has introduced legislation on this. We have also stepped up our efforts with regionally with other Bay Area Police departments as we know, historically that these events can go from one city to the other within a matter of minutes. So the coordination has been really good and thats helped us actually cut off a couple of these events that were headed into our city because we due to communication and with other agencies we knew they were coming and ready and prepared in the area that we believe they were coming to and weve been able to actually put a lot of that activity down and prevent it from occurring so thats really pleasing to report and well continue to work on our internal processes to make sure we do what we can to stop this very dangerous activity. On that note, this past saturday on the 15th of november, there were several events that began at midnight throughout the bay area. Our night captains, weekend captains and command staff as i said because of the sharing of information between the local and regional Police Departments and the california highway patrol, our efforts were coordinated at midnight for the better part of two hours, numerous stunt event shows and stunt driving shows with more than 20 vehicles manifested throughout San Francisco. We were able to prevent some of those from materializing and others that started totalize we were able to respond quickly to curtail that activity. So, we will continue to work on that. Its something that we have brought forth to this commission in the past couple of months and definitely something for our residents of our city who are very concerned about this activity. We would like them to know that progress is being made. Okay. Next part of the presentation is the followup on the foot beat questions that were asked last week, but i will pause there in case there are any questions from the commission. I dont see anything in the chat. So go ahead. Thank you. Also a request from the Commission Just to followup on Vice President taylor i know you were involved in this conversation about improving our procedures to add some type of mechanism in terms of our promotional exams to have a mechanism to test for bias. So weve worked with the department of the City Department of Human Resources, dhr on this issue. And we have actually through dhr improved, we have everybody proved our Testing Process and improved our Testing Process and added a component. We put out the announcement this week for the q50 sergeant promotional exam and the application period is from november 20th through december. Those qualified to take the test must apply during this period, either they applied for the prior test which was actually halted the process was halted while we worked on improving this process per the Commission Director and for the mayor directive. As a part of this initiative, heres what dhr and the Police Department have come up with. Any applicant with a sustained allegation of misconduct for race based conduct for example, use of racial slurs, racial biased, racial behavior or treatment, or other forms of selective enforcement based on race, may be prohibited from moving forward in selection process. So they will be disqualified if they have a sustained complaint in those categories. An example of disqualifying conduct includes, but not limited to violations of department general order 5. 17, 11. 07 that involves sustained allegations of race based activity. Also, any sustained allegation of misconduct means all for fiduciary matters have been exhausted and at that person the person will be disqualified. And so i think thats actually a status update on your question Vice President taylor that is now in place, that advertisement has been posted and as i just stated, the filing period starts next week. Through december and then the test will be early in the beginning of next year. Thank you. Im going to ask you to comment on that in more of a complete way to the commissioners. I wanted to hear about you know, bias testing at the hiring stage and some of what you just talked about. I would like more kind of complete presentation on that in the coming weeks. Thank you. Thank you youre welcome. And now on the followup on the questions for the commissioner on the foot beat. Sergeant youngblood we have a power point. And we can go to the next page. As followup from the november 4th Commission Meeting when a member of the public called in and commission asked for a update on the status throughout the city with the emphasis on the bayview. This presentation is only a few slides, but there is quite a bit to talk about here. And you see on the slide here, starting with the overall staffing of patrol officers, which we refer to q2s on the slide. What is depicted here is the overall picture of the department deployment from 2012, through 2020. And the reason i want to start here for this presentation is its relevant to this topic as to what drives our decisions on staffing foot beats, how many we can staff and when we have to make a decision to reappropriate or reallocate resources to other parts of the department. A lot of it is driven on this overall staffing level of q2 staffing throughout the operation arm of the department. So what you see here, the top line graph is our staffing from 2012 to 2020 for basically operations. And the starting in 2012 where the 974 it actually peeked in 2017 and then on a steady decline since 2017. There have been a total were down about 7. 7 from the high point in 2017. How that is important, in 2017 we actually did a lot of work to up the staffing, increasing the staffing in our foot beat city wide including the bayview. Looking specifically at the bayview station, for the period that were talking about here the overall staffing at the bayview station is down 11 positions since the height in 2017. Thats a 9. 4 decrease in staffing. Specific to foot beats as you recall i spoke a little bit about in august of 2017, we made a decision to reallocate resources and increase the level of foot beat city wide across all of our districts. At that point we had 78 officers, 78 officers assigned to foot beat and september of 2017, we almost doubled that number and how we did that is we disbanded a unit called the Patrol Bureau task force and many of the officers from the Patrol Bureau task force were reassigned to district stations and thats how we were able to bolster or good beat. We went up to a total of 140 officers at that time. And we were really at our height in 2017. And foot beat deployment. You know the main purpose was to change the trajectory of crime trends. One of the things we discussed in making that decision although Patrol Bureau task force were effective in doing what they were asked to do that was they were making a lot of arrests on suspects particularly car burglary suspects and robbery suspects and the like, in terms of crime prevention, we didnt feel that those arrests were getting the type of traction we hoped for and we felt that foot beat deployment is visible presence we could get more bang for our buck to reduce crime. That was our strategy at that time. We also engaged had an engagement for the California Policy Lab to do research and study whether or not that strategy was effective and well talk about that in a second. But the bottom line is we almost doubled our foot beat deployment in 2017 and we did see significant decreases in both cash break ins, and as you will see from the talking points from the lab report, also in theft in general and there assaults. So from 2018 and 2019, we maintained between 141 and 155foot beat officers in the district station. We can go to the next slide. This depicts our foot beat staffing year by year for district station and if you go to bayview which is they call them towards that is highlighted i think its a fourth station, you can see deployment over the last four years. Thats their foot beat deployment. In 2019, they had ten officers on foot beat. 2019 also went down to nine. 2020 reduced to six for this year. Now we have had deployment other than the six at times where weve had details. But the six is a positive number. Those are the officers that are currently staffed the staff bayview foot beat. Mainly on the third street corridor. And the business district. So, a couple things to point on bayview. Bayview also has two officers that are assigned to the griffith housing development. That Community Engagement officers, they answer calls to service and specific housing development. And we have a lot of this we can talk about in terms of those particular offices. So the magic question is what adjustments . It depends on how many officers we have available to work and fill operations. We still have another arm of the department that we have to set up that is the administrative arm including the officers that we have reassigned to do the tri and perform work. And its a constant challenge to try to keep officers deployed effectively, but as we see in the past few years our overall deployment has dropped and as part of that weve had to make some adjustments with our foot beat deployment. Ideally as we hopefully maintain our staffing, that number will stablize and were looking for ways to actually increase in the bayview and other station where is we know it would be useful and helpful. Thats going to take creating efficiencies in other parts of the department where we can. Where we can cut out activities that we feel arent as how they hire is our foot beat officers so thats a confident assessment and we do that, thats really how they arrive in terms of how we deploy. Next slide. I can let you finish, but i know the commissioners have some questions before we move away from that slide. Would you rather finish or take questions about this slide . The last is just the California Policy Lab and there is just a few points then were done with this part of the presentation. I cant remember what commissioner asked about this report which was drafted by the California Policy Lab in 2018. What we asked for here is for the California Policy Lab to do and assessment of whether or not this redeployment of our officers 70 plus officers was effective in terms of crime reduction. And the bottom line to the assessment based on the statistically relevant data and statistically significant data, they felt that the deployment did lead to reductions in crime in the areas ever assault and death. So, theres a little bit of research to go beyond the strategy. We wanted to understand whether or not that was worth the choice that we made to disband the unit to improve our foot beat situation and the report basically validated that with the data that was available at that time. So that pretty much concludes the report and i definitely will be happy to answer any questions from the commission. If you can go back to the last slide commissioner cohen has a question. Thank you good evening everyone. Can you guys hear me okay . Yup. Good. Chief thank you for your report. Just as a reminder what brought this conversation full circle was there was a caller that called in and specifically asked about the patrol beat as it relates to bayview. Your report actually is very thorough and i want to talk a little about the chart. The chart compares two months basically march and september. I wanted to know if the figures from either month indicate a similar decline in foot patrol. That is a similar decline in other districts or just isolated to district ten . And you mentioned that foot patrol was very challenging. Im curious to know what reason that is the case . Yes. That is, it does, it does look at other districts as well. So, there were overall decreases in the majority of our districts with one exception. The tenderloin district in 2018 and 2019 had an increase of rather significant in foot beat in the downtown area. And that was there was a lot of effort put into un plaza area, the tenderloin district. Because of just real needs in that district. So they did have an increase in 2019. And 2018 as well. But for the most part there were declines in foot beat districts overall over this period depicted. [indiscernible] i would imagine that the individual station captains make those judgment calls. This is not something youre doing from your office is that correct in. The larger deployment like what we did with the Patrol Bureau task force and we decided to deactivate that unit, thats the decision at my level. Okay. Captains do have the ability to reallocate resources depending on what their needs are. What we have asked them in terms of foot beat. I mean there are some areas where we just have to have foot beats. And the captains in the bayview, captain dangerfield currently the captain there has been good about making sure that they have foot beat deployment along third street. It has increased, but there will always be foot beat along third street. The ideal situation is to put them back up where they were at their height when they were at ten. They do still have foot beat. The question was do captains have some discretion they do, but they are given guidance to certain areas we have to have foot beats working. So in other months similar to the bayview in other months, do they also show decline because this just kind of shows march, september. I dont know why those months were selected. What about the other months of the year . The other months, i mean, the numbers are pretty stable throughout the year. There are declines depending on yeah things happen, what we do is basically when we do our deployment we have points where we measure deployment for the budget and what not where we measure deployment and september is the month where we have our changes in our shifts. Our signups. September and march. So those are the months where thats when officers change their shift. And we have how many will be working in those assignments. And they usually stay in those assignments for six months unless there is some type of extenuating circumstances. Okay i want to pivot a little bit and move to the other portion of your presentation. Curious to know if there is a policy or strategic reason that the number of form personnel have declined by 9. 9 this is related to the report. A decline of 9. 9 in the bayview or is it decline simply a reflection of budget constraints. Its a reflection of over overall staffing. Our staffing overall has declined weve lost more officers to separation when it be retirement, resignations, accommodations a few of them. And weve had challenges with getting the numbers back because of attrition. That was a topic we brought before the board when you were president commissioner cohen. And we are still having some challenges there. So some of that is were seeing overall decline in staffing. With state of policing in america right now not only our department, many departments are having recruitment challenges and people retire or separate from service and we can get through the doors in the academy. Which pan out to us having to make adjustments throughout the department. Okay. And then i guess my last question is a little more of a philosophical one. And so maybe you can explain to me how the increase in foot patrol compliments the goal of increasing Community Policing. Thats a really good question. And so, as far as really with the officers one of their roles and one of the visible presence helps, but when you are working a foot beat. You are engaging. Youre out on foot, talking, checking with residents. Business owners. People coming in and out of whatever it is they are doing. You have this Community Engagement piece that happens just with a good feet beat officer. There have been many many studies to show with Community Policing and getting people to number one engage with Police Officers, you build relationships the better opportunities and the better chances that you have to do just that. People cooperate more to feel more comfortable going to the police and talking to the police and when you look around the city foot beat officers typically the ones that have been on those foot beats for a while. They know their communities they know the Business Owners theyre doing the jobs the way they have been asked to do which most of them do and that makes a world of difference. Sunny dale housing development, those officers know the Community Members so you get situations where you know somebody maybe has you know mental illness, you know going in you kind of know what tools to take and how to deal with that person and if not, it gives people somewhat of a better chance for a successful outcome. Okay. I appreciate the explanation and just to the members of the public that are listening and tweeting, this conversation, a lot of my conversation, a lot of my questions are focused on the bayview because of the question that was called in last week which focused on the Third Quarter. You touched on tenderloin also a critical junk tush, but tenderloin tends to have steady flow of foot patrol there and mission, ingleside, they have a different geographic makeup and community dynamic. Madam chair im done thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioner elias. Thank you. Thank you chief for the report. My question was in seeing the chart you had where it had the six foot patrol for the bayview was a little shocking to me given the sort of summaries every week that we receive regarding the crimes that occurred throughout the city and a lot of the shootings and crimes like that that are happening currently in the bayview and the bayview having one of the sort of low foot patrol. Its my understanding that the bayview station has a lot of specialized units. There at the bayview and im wondering given the positive findings from the policy lab, and the study they did with respect to the positive beneficial outcomes of the foot patrol, if thats going to be a factor in bayview at the bayview station and the possibility of increasing foot patrol there. Yes. So, let me address the specialized units commissioner. What bayview have they have a plain clothessed unit. They have investigation team. Sit. And thats and they have their housing officers. Thats pretty much it in terms of specialized units so there is not a huge amount of specialized units at the bayview. What we do tend to do is supplement the bayview with our fellow officers. If we have a crime spike. Other district station officers at times we have done that as well. We have supplemented them with overtime as as much as we can do that and afford to do that. And couple things with the deployment of shooting, around shootings. Third street we dont have a whole lot of shootings on third street. [ standby ] and we just try to have visibility to cool things off. We will put a lot of officers in patrol in the neighborhood where those shootings are happening. You have to sometimes put officers out there to cool things off to people know that youre there, and that they just cant come in in a community and do what they want. Its labor intensive. Thats why it takes so many of them to cover the same amount of ground as patrol cover in a car. Like i said, ideally, we want to have more, and we want to have more than ten in the bayview. But eventually, well have more than ten, and thats the goal. Commissioner elia. The other i had two more questions. One is what the Department Plans on doing with the passing of proposition e, and i think thats something you should probably address and let the public now on how its going to affect the department, and then, the other question i had was what the Department Plans to do to increase foot patrols to increase the goals of the community achieve the goals of the Community Policing, particularly the calls that just passed and the call for Community Engagement by the Police Department with the community. Yeah, definitely. I can definitely schedule, in my chiefs report, some discussion on prop e, and just briefly, ill say until we get to that point, really, what prop e is about, is using metrics and data to determine the need dos the staffing ns of the Police Department. And that data may determine that we need more officers, that data may determine that we needle need less officers. But the whole idea is we need some sensible data behind it. Ill talk more about that when i present my chiefs report. But i know that the department did work with supervisor yee and his staff in helping with some of the language, and so, you know, i think where we ended up with what was passed was with the department input, and we will not argue with that. That was part of what was behind the data metrics report, and president yee was behind that staffing report being commissioned. And i think his office appropriated the money to have that done because we needed a staffing report done that had a solid set of metrics that would determine what our staffing needs would be. Commissioner elias and then, the second part of the question . What was the second part of the question . Commissioner elias the goal isnt to just put more Police Officers in the Community Just to be there, but to actually have them engaged because thats how its really going to work, right . Right. Sorry, i forgot that part of the question. What we are trying to do and working really hard to do, we have to be more efficient with the resources that we have. Sometimes its tough decisions like deactivating a Police Task Force in favor of different type of endeavors, but there also has to be a balance of enforcement where its appropriate to do that, and really, its about efficiency. You know, part of what weve looked at is our staffing across the department to see where we can find efficiencies and put officers back in patrol so we can staff our foot beats. In the last couple of years, weve been unfortunate in our city, where we had Violent Crime has decreased overall, and Violent Crime is, in my opinion, a lot more labor intensive for police because you need police out there to have patrol. At its height, we had 40plus officers, all of which were taken from patrol. Now i think were down to about 20, 21, and those officers are going back to patrol. So when we make movements like that, [inaudible]. So how we plan to do this as we report im sorry. Sergeant youngblood, theres a Collaborative Reform Initiative up there. I may have gone out of order here im sorry. Vice president taylor i think you did. We have 1321 next on the agenda. Yeah, so ill come back to the c. R. I. Report and so i dont mess up Sergeant Youngbloods rhythm, ill go to my Monthly Commission update, so commander osullivan will get that report. Good evening, commissioners. I start with senate bill 1421, which was enacted january 1, 2019. So California Senate bill 1421 requires the disclosure of records and information concerning the following types of incidents. There are four. The first is officer involved shootings, records relating to the recover, investigation, or findings regarding an officers discharge of a firearm at a person. Great Bodily Injury. Reports relating to the report investigations or findings of an officers use of force that result in death or Great Bodily Injury of a person, third, Sexual Assault, records related to a sustained finding that an officer engaged in Sexual Assault of a member of the public and dishonesty. Records relating that the officer was dishonest directly relating to the reporting, investigation of a crime or directly relating to the reporting or investigation of an officer including, but not limited to, destruction, falsefying, or concealing of evidence. Since january 21, 2019, the department has received 204 Public Records request related to senate bill 1421, and for the period october 1 through october 30 of this year, the department received six additional Public Records requests. The Department Also produced 54 new releases, and as a reminder, a release is defined as a production of records and or a determination letter which indicates to the requester that the department has or has not identified records responsive to one or more disclosure records for a public officer. Three Public Record requests were closed this month, two officer involved shooting files were released, and the yeartodate, department has released now over 32,000 pages of documents related to officer involved shootings. One additional Bodily Injury case was released and two additional shooting cases were released this month, and that concludes my report. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item for us, chief. The commission will know, you know, what weve done since the last report. I think the first couple of times we did this, we didnt have the timing down, but from this point forward, were going to try to do it on the second, if the calendar allows, the second Commission Meeting on the month, and that way, we can kind of compare apples to apples from month to month so you can see the progress moving forward. So for this month, as you see on the first slide, first, im going to hit the highlights on here. Since the last report, since last months report, there have been a total of 12 recommendations that have brought or found to be by the reviewers, california d. O. J. , in substantial compliance. And as you look at the bottom of the clhart, you see six in october and six in november, and there have been, i think, four more since then, but november 11 was the cutoff for this report. Also, the prescreening, if you look at the use of force over on the right, whats prescreened, we have [inaudible] try to get us answer either compliance or not, within 45 days, and in the past, what has happened is we would submit the recommendation, they would review, there were times that theyd send it back for further information, saying that wed like to do x, y, sez, in ordero find this record in substantial compliance. What we found is a much more effective use of our resource, our time, and for efficiency purposes, meetings where we prescreen these recommendation packages before we submit them. And what the prescreening has done is we have those conversations prior to submission as to their assessment of whether other things are needed before this meet the mark of substantial compliance. And since weve instituted that mark earlier this mark, we have had none, i think, that have been returned for further information because weve been able to work out those issues before and submit it. So that 45day period is usually a final decision which have all been in substantial compliance. Its just its added a nice dynamic to streamline our process, so i just want to rei reiterate that, and when we talk about 41 recommendations that come out of prescreening, our expectation is once they get through the california d. O. J. For that 45day period, we wont have any problems with them, and thats been our experience so far. So 41 so far, our increased streaming, and the california d. O. J. Is in the process of actually reviewing 33 recommendations. So as you can see, that is going to pick up the pace of the substantial compliance number significantly in the coming months. And were on pace, you know, with the plan or the work that weve laid out, to keep up this pace until the end of this work, so thats very encouraging, and im very happy to report that. So next slide. So as you can see here, theres a what this slide depicts or whats at Hillard Heinz and whats at the its a collaborative process, so were all in conversation all the time about what the needs are, what their assessment is, but Hillard Heinz has 20 that theyre evaluating. Once they evaluate, they move it onto California Department of justice for what you see here is the external allegations. 33 are at the California Department of justice. The expectation is within a short amount of time, 40 days or so, that those 53 will be in substantial compliance because of what i just described with the prescreening process. So that that is very good news. And in terms of picking up the pace, as of this morning, we have 94 in substantial compliance, and with this 53 that are in process, that will put us above the 50 mark, and we have a lot more in the pipeline that are moving, and moving very quickly. And i and i know weve talked about this, and ill just say this, and well get to the next slide, and i think its the last slide or we have a few more slides. Part of what has happened is a lot of the foundational work has been done, so a lot of our our challenges, weve figured out ways with our collaborative partners and our stakeholders to put in better processes, and that has taken some time, i must admit, but i think its put us in the position where we are now where were starting to see the fruits of all of that work and it is very, very encouraging is the position that were in right now, so i hope the commission, as we report in the coming months, will be pleased with the progress that youre seeing with the progress that youre seeing and that youre going to see, and the public. So this slide talks about sustainability. One of the things that we are trying to accomplish with this Reform Initiative is not only the reform now but sustainability. As you all know, police work is a constant evolution, and we always have to look at ourselves in the mirror and determine what do we need to do to get better, and thats what sustainability is all about. Almost every one of our recommendation compliance measures has a sustainability loop built in, whether its what are you going to do to make sure its still working or what are you gooding to do to look at yourself in the mirror to either still be doing this or improve the process. So thats a part of the work, and that part of the work really speaks to sustainability. You know, weve worked with the california d. O. J. , weve worked with Hillard Heinz, and as you can see on this slide, part of what we believe will give us the best chance of sustainability are, you know, policy updates, which the commission is very involved in, and keeping the department very accountable on the d. G. O. S and the d. G. O. That the commission has put forward. Were not where we want to be in terms of staffing, but were set up to do more audits and more complete niqadities than we have in the past. Weve sent our auditors to auditing school, so they know what theyre doing, and those audits help us determine whether were hitting the mark or whether we need to improve. Data analysis, thats a work thats constantly being evaluated, and our data will give us the confidence to where we need to go, what we need to improve on, what we need to work on. And as we continue to work on our data processes, thats going to be a part of sustaining our work. And then, as i mentioned, at the start of this slide, the Continuous Improvement work is really important to sustain the work. So we have our units in place, including the staff inspections unit, our auditing function, our data analysis, with commissioner elias looking at our use of force data. Thats what we have to do to is y you sustain this work long around Hillard Heinz and california d. O. J. Are done with this engagement. Next slide. So the next few slides are just a highlight of each category, and im going to keep this brief. The first is use of force, and you can see where we are on use of force, if you all can see that. We have two recommendations that have determined to be in substantial compliance since the last meeting, and we have an additional seven recommendations that are in external review. Use of force is a category where we have made the most progress in the first 17, 18 months of c. R. I. Work, and we do believe that were going to be able to finish this work. So a couple of highlights to speak of are some of our work with our academic partners, Palo Alto University, to enhance the work of our c. I. T. Program. A lot has been said about c. I. T. , and we believe that c. I. T. Is one of our keys to reducing use of force and having Better Outcomes and the like, but we dont have really any research to support that. What we want is anecdotal and hard data, and someone to look at it and tell us what we can do better. So Palo Alto University is that academic partner, and that is a work in progress. Next slide. Bias is the next slide. Since the last reporting, we have 12 recommendations that have gone to external review, which means we expect them to be in substantial compliance. Also, we have ten additional recommendations that have been prescreened, which we expect, in the very near future, expect to be in substantial compliance. Couple highlights with bias. You know, with our implicit bias training or our bias training in general, theres a lot of work around training in this area, cimplicit bias training. Most of our staff has taken implicit bias training, and thats something that cant be a onetime endeavor. We have to think of ways to keep this in the forefront, so were constantly reevaluating on whether this training is working and changing the training. Its something that were committed to and its ongoing. We do have some training that we hope to bring online in the next few months. Some of it is technology and web based bias training, and well report on that when we get closer to actually making that a reality. We have to go back and revisit the pillars of 21 century policing, interacting with gender varying, and nonbinary individuals. Our officers are constantly training on that, and that will make us better, our biasbased policing instruction, thats an ongoing thoughtful training that will continue also. Principle policing, thats an eighthour block of training that we intend to continue. Implicit bias, thats an eighthour training, and thats also going to continue in the future. And then, our c. I. T. Deescalation training, i talked about that a moment ago. That also has a component of bias training in it or antibias training in it, and that will continue. We also have a block of training called heart and mind of the guardian. Its called its the brand name is blue courage. This training has been very, very popular with our members, and it really really, the idea of it is to win the hearts and minds of the officers. You know, the whole guardian ment mentality that we can speak about, this training is designed to win the hearts and minds of officers as it relates to that topic. Theres a 1. 2hour block of training on heart and mind of the guardian. Theres a bias component in that, and that will continue, as well. As i said, its a very popular block of training with our officers. They really enjoy going to that training, and the feedback surveys that we have had have been very positive about that training. Next slide. Community policing. Since our last update, there have been 12 recommendations that are in external review, and we expect those to be in substantial compliance based on our prescreening process, and then, we have eight additional recommendations that have been prescreened, and again, when they get to external review, we do expect those to be in substantial compliance. So those there are a lot of recommendations that were hands on in the passage of d. G. O. 1. 08, and that sets the framework of Community Policing, our organizational framework, and i thank the commission for getting that through so quickly. That was a big deal, and so theres, you know, Strategic Planning tied to that and the like, and thats a big part of the Community Policing work. That foundational work now has been done, so we expect to move forward regarding many of these recommendations and substantial compliance in the next few months. And next slide. Accountability. Were going to have a presentation from commander flaherty on some of the work that flowed out of commander flaherty and her team, pmcr. But accountability, since the last meeting, 14 recommendations are in the external review process. Again, we expect those to be brought into substantial compliance based on our prescreening results, and 14 additional recommendations have been prescreened. Some of the accomplishments since the last reporting, unit order has gone out to our Investigative Services detail to ensure that they have specialized training in the accountability era. That was one of the recommendations, and it hinges or ties into other recommendations, so that unit order has been drafted and actually put into place. And again, theres a lot of progress with what we have in external valid and prescreening in that particular topic. Theres 58 recommendations in accountability, and 28 of them now have been prescreened or are in that process of external review, so that 28 recommendations, that we expect to be brought into substantial compliance in the next couple of months. Next slide. And last category is recruitment, hiring, and retention. Since our last report, eight recommendations are in external review, and five additional recommendations have been prescreened. Some of our accomplishments since our last report one of the recommendations, 88. 1, spoke to an ongoing review and analysis of the release rates of recruits during the academy. [please stand by] from 2016 to now, shows some of the highlights of where we been and where we are and going. The bottom line on this is, it took us almost 20 months of engagement from the california d. O. J. To get the 40 recommendations. With everything that we have in the external process now and review process, prescreening, were at 143. That happened really in the last ten months. We picked up in terms of getting these recommendations to a level where they are being found in compliance. In the 200 starting range or so by april of this year and hopefully well be above that. We fully intend to complete every one of these recommendations before our work is done. That is my report for this month. Thank you very much for the report. I got so many questions. Where do i begin . I want to look toward the future. Weve got a new administration, weve got bidenharris coming in. Weve all worked with harris when she was the District Attorney and state attorney general and now shes the Vice President. Theres a significant portion of their platform has to do with Police Reform, criminal justice reform. Im wondering what the timeline will be for 2021 to implement the remainder of the 272 d. O. J. Recommendations . Our m. O. U. Ends in spring 2021. Whatever we submit and get review by the california d. O. J. Come this spring, that will be in their report. Well be 230 and hopefully higher than that. Those will be incorporated into the report if we achieve what we believe we can achieve. The remainder, we have a plan of finishing all of the recommendations. The question is, how well report out, whos looking at that including the commission. We always looked the our progress and reform. We expect youll see 20 or 25 a month that will be brought into substantial compliance up until spring of 2021. Well get the report published, wherever that sets. That report will be published. Our plan is to have a plan whatever thats clear to the public and commission. Sounds like, your approach isnt like, okay, quarter one 2021, we want to 15 recommendations. Then by the end of quarter two of 2021, we want to have 30 complete. Its not [indiscernible] our internal strategy and our goal are to have 25 complete. When i say complete, in terms what we are submitting is that theyve gone through the prescreening process. Weve been told by our collaborative partners and advisors everything looks good to go. Once we get prescreening and we kind of get affirmation that everything that we believe we at a point we done everything we need to do, we want to have at least 25 of those a month. We did that last month. If we exceeded, were going to be better off. We dont want to go below that. 200due to the pandemic, lot f our revenue at the city and county has been severely impacted. Im wondering if you will require any more resources in 2021 to fully execute the completion of this list of d. O. J. Recommendations . One area thank you for asking that one area that i want to highlight that we have concern that we may not have resources, this is no fault of anybody in city government, the budget is what it is. Its technology. Weve never really been able to fund our Technology Needs as we need to. That now is even more dire because of covid and what that done to the city financial situation. Were going to work around it as much as we can and be as efficient as we can. Well ask within reason some of what well need. Technology is the one area where that will be on the forefront. Some of the other areas, we figure out, workarounds. My final question requires you to look in your crystal ball and future. Do you think that the 272 recommendations will be completed and approved by d. O. J. In 2021 . By end of the year, if were going going at the pace well get to, well be about 230. There are some that we identified, some of the recommendations where there are some technology and funding needs. Were trying to figure out ways to work through that. There are some that weve identified that we may not be able to get to. We had discussions with the california d. O. J. And part of what they bring to the table is Technical Assistance and advice. We trying to work through that. There are systems that we would love to have. We trying to work through that. We trying to be creative and innovative and work through that. Thank you, i appreciate that. To followup, im on the group dealing trying to reform Early Intervention system and technology is a real problem there and what the group is able to do. Im is that one of the initiatives that you have in mind might not be able to implement everything in time . That is one of them that has been a challenge. Were looking at every possible angle to do within resources that we have. Thats significant. I know thats been discussed in front of the commission in terms of upgrade and our technology in that area. There are upgrades out there. We just got to be able to get to them and have the funding to get to them. I see another question from the commissioners. The next thing we have on the agenda is the critical mindset. We like to give a praise and shot out to commander flaherty and her team. This training has been long time coming. We believe has helped us achieve some Better Outcomes. Theres always improvements that were looking to make with how we do business. Commander flaherty and her team really did good job taking the training and creating training that our officers have embraced. Were seeing it play out in the field in positive ways with positive outcomes. Thank you chief for that introduction. Good evening, we are honored to present critical mindset and coordinator response. You will be reminded of three overarching themes that are outcomes due to leadership and coordination, through self and time reflection. One of the first things students will hear is this training is not a class on our tak tactics. It it is a class on culture. Before we jump into the nuts and bolts of the course and what we have seen, we would like to share with you how we got here. In 2018, i was Commanding Officer in the Training Division. Our officers experienced events that cause us to take pause and say we can do better. With the we were able to see officers making choices that did not prioritize our safety. We saw how officers can impact the outcome of the scene. We found in San Francisco was mental crises. Our officers thrived with intervention. When it cames to crimes in process, those principles where we slow down, hit the breaks and reset or not being exercised. It was created by the team and for the team. Utilizing working group format, we brought together subject Matter Experts that were knowledgeable and highly respected. We brought together the range, professional development staff, s. W. A. T. , internal affairs as well as sergeants and lieutenants from the field. Assessment and reassessment, planning and coordination, leadership, communication and finally the ever important debrief. Critical mindset and coordinator response trains to the concept of discretionary time versus nondisincreasnondiscretionary. When subjects action takes time from us, we are now in nondiscretionary time. It is imperative that we do not become responsible for that shift to discretionary time to nondiscretionary. This training identifies there are many roles in need to be filled for a safe resolution to a high risk incentive. The first is lethal cover. We will never tell our officers how much cover is needed on a scene. That is their responsibility in both their assessment and reassessment of the scene with the understanding that officer safety is our top priority. We have the leadership role. Leadership is not basted based on rank and seniority. The role of leadership should be filled by the person best suited to do so. We have communication both internally at the scene and externally, what information are we telling our resources that are coming to assist. Once we completed the training model, we ask ourselves how we measure success. We can look at tour course evaluation and feedback, our true measure of success is when we see our officers putting this training into application everyday. We have been able to evolve the course and continue to set our path towards the future. These critical mindset and coordinated response did not come easily. We had to earn it. In the end, this is how we changed the culture San Francisco Police Department. Please cue the video. [video] im having trouble hearing that. I dont know about other commissioners. Please increase the volume. I think youre sharing the screen. You have to go into your setting to share audio. [no audio] how long is the video . Its ending right now. I cant hear or see anything. Im sure chief of staff doing a fantastic job. I saw her. I couldnt really hear her. Is the video available for public to view online, sergeant . The video is not. We can put it there. Lets do that. Thank you for the participation. Will we have the same issue with the officer testimony as well . We might. Let me just play the video and see if that will work outside of the powerpoint. Same issue. I would recommend if the commissioners dont object that we keep moving forward with the presentation. At this time, if you please welcome to the conversation critical mindset coordinator. Good evening. Im the lead instructor for critical mindset coordinated response. This was a working group that came together and past two years, has seen fruition of the hard work. Weve definitely earned the growth that we have seen and continue to do so. I wanted to go over the cmcr Guiding Principles for sfpd. Officer decisionmaking when feasible, what actions officers at the scene can take. We all know that the Police Officers respond to complex high risk situations. We want to emphasize planning and coordination. Once we break down the incident, we can break down the variables which priority tasks will take place. The need for leadership must go hand in hand. Weve identified that just like any organization, teamwork is important and communicating that with the goals are and priority need to be at the top of the list. We definitely try to empower officers to do so with the goal of having a peaceful resolution. Like we had mentioned, if adopting of the process and debrief. Positively reinforcing at a positive aspect of any event, whether they ended force or not, whether the suspect is taken into custody or escapes, we like to reinforce the positive things and have an honest conversation how to improve. Course of design were coming to the close of 20192020 cycle in which every sergeant and officer has taken. Theres also a force on force version that Sarah Hawkins have taken herself. Which is twoday course which were conducting applications what we want to see in the field. Reinforcing principles using scenarios which the officer decisionmaking validates what were doing. We see huge change in the field and department and embracing ideas. Thank you. Is there anyone else . Does this conclude the presentation . You will try to play that or go to me . Will i try one more time. Well see if this works. [indiscernible] were having the same issue. I cant hear anything. Can you make this video available on the website as well . Yes. Good evening, my name is lieutenant mike nevin im the officer in charge of the forced officer unit. Call for service and activity gone up in 2019 compare to years past and total use force count has gone down significantly but pointing of firearms has gone down dramatically. Use of force transfers to our principles plot and use of force training. There are numerous factors that contribute to these trends, preliminary analysis suggest that the training revisions are having the desired effect over use of force and client officer involved shootings. The Training Division including my team and members from the Crises Intervention Team meet with Sarah Hawkins of the department of Police Accountability on a monthly basis. As stated earlier, Sarah Hawkins attended our training and so numerous members and other some other training weve had. They are asking to be part of it. Which we are happy to accept. I believe that we have different roles. Through share the feedback, were able to accomplish a bit. The conflict of the officer of subject is now solid i this s different what we saw in years past as final frame analysis. We have another month of that. Our training took effect the same year that that state law did. Were very proud that cmcr is providing force of instruction. As you can see, the sfpd entered this with the department of justice. Ill talk about two quickly. 4. 7, which states the sfpd isntizes the issue and create announcements for roll call on trends. My unit does do that. Weve put together different roll call training such as communication priorities, traffic stop video active attack videotape an video and other. Recommendation 11. 2 states that the sfpd should update existing program to address policy gaps and lessons learned. Commander flaherty everybody spoken, this recommendation speaks to it if the first place. Just in conclusion, commander flaherty mentioned this as well, learning without application is meaningless. Weve been successful. Our officers and front line supervisors deserve all the credit for the success of this training, 25year veterans and officers with 25 months have enthusiastically participated in this force. We believe that this course not only serves our membership, we believe it satisfies the demands of the community that we serve. Thats all i have. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for the presentation. I heard lot of positive things about the critical mindset training thats been given. I had a question and then a suggestion. My question is, what type of bias training or what part of bias is addressed in this training, specifically unconscious or implicit type of bias. Then my suggestion is if that there isnt, i know that you mentioned that collaborating with b. P. A. Has been beneficial with you and this program. I think thats really important piece and especially when you flash numbers on the screen of the pointing firearms and use of force. I think thats going to be very important once the revisions are passed which include having these incidents reviewed by your department for the thing that you just discussed. Thank you for the presentation and the work that youre doing. Thank you commissioner. I appreciate your suggestion. We do we have discussed things. In terms of bias, our staff thats part of this, represents every gender, creed and color out there. Were representative of the department and the people that we serve. One good suggestion that came up was to use l. E. P. To have officers work through those. We felt that was a fantastic suggestion that weve been able to incorporate that in our scenarios. Were meeting on a monthly basis. Great thing about d. P. A. Brinings, they keep us apprised of what complaints things surfacing from the community that i might not know. I dont have direct contact with the community. Sarah is able to come and tell us, these are the types of complaints that were seeing. Is there anything we can incorporate within your training that might be able to address and help the officers. Weve been able to do that. I hope i answered your question. Im really glad that you did address to the fact that what d. P. A. Bring to the table thats a very valid point. You sometimes dont get until later on. Its good to be apprised of the Current Trends and issues. Thank you and i continue to i hop you continue to work with d. P. A. Especially surrounding the bias issues that seem to be popping up. Next line item. 2b, d. P. A. Directors report. Welcome director henderson. Good evening. Thank you. Let me give you my staff. We are at 702 cases that have been open so far this year. Were up from last year, we were at 659. We closed 782 cases this year. Last year at this time, we closed 553. We currently have 358 open cases pending. At this time last year we had 409. Weve sustained 38 cases so far this year and last year, we sustained 72 at this time last year. We have 40 cases that are still under investigation past the nine month mark. This time last year, we had throwe34cases still under invesn past the nine month mark. That includes cases where time has tolled. For cases mediated we have 32 cases that have been mediated. The new section is that cases that are pending that have been assigned for hearings, there are 32 open cases that are pending with the chief and at the department and there are 16 cases now that are pending with the commission. We have a session thats on later tonight just for assignment in the closed session. For the 1421, since our last update, w we received five new requests. In terms of our production, we produced new cases and closed for Great Bodily Injury category. Thats a totally 789 new cases that have been released. The new total is 23. 210 pages have been released across the category. All of this information and more details of those releases are found in our public portal. That is on the website. Weve done a number of outreach in training. Lot of that shifted to virtual experiences and virtual participation. We attended many of continue to participate in the mega black meeting with some of the city and public agencies that are coordinating meetings throughout november and i will continue and my staff will continue to participate and engage in those meetings. We participated in a stakeholder engage forum with ucsf on november 12th. We hosted our mediation 101, which is training for mediators november 17th. We hosted Oversight Panel november 17th. For the staff at d. P. A. , participated this sfpd cmcr training in december. We will be presenting on cmcr on what we did already. In terms of our monthly statistical report, everything has been filed earlier. We submitted the report and the complaints continue to be to rain down which are down from 14 from the same time last year. However, were still up 7 here to date overall. In october 2020, we received 683 complaints at the same time last year in 2019 during month of october, we received 637 complaints. That concludes my update and my report. Thank you. Next line item. 2c, commission report. Report will be limited to brief description of activities and announcements. Commission president s report, commissions report and commission announcements and schedule of items identified for consideration at future Commission Meeting. I see nothing in the chat. Thank you. I dont know what this is now. I think we talked about it before. I did want the Bar Association to have an opportunity to present to us regarding the Police Union Contract and the issues they wrote us a lovely letter about. I like to schedule that as soon as possible. I know that process is still going on. The Bar Association has been meeting with the department. Well reach out. Im not sure where they are in the process. I agree they should present. Ill see they rather do so now or later on in the process. Were happy to follow up on that. Thank you. I am going to ask that we calendar bgo5. 3. The working group will be meeting on the 14th. We should be able to have information or wrap up the loose ends on the 14th and have this calendar on december 16th. Other request, im going to ask that the we agendize or perhaps, director henderson can provide an update as to the dante king investigation or the investigation into the allegations of bias. Its my understanding that d. P. A. Was going to be taking the lead on that and providing some guidance or some understanding as to the allegations made and brought to light. I like a report from dr. Henderson as to what is happening with respect to that and or agendize it so the full commission and the public can finally get some answers and discuss this matter as ive been requesting to be agendize for quite some time. Those are the two items i have. Thank you. Thank you. I want to echo about the Bar Association regarding the meet and confer issue that we continue to run up against. I wanted to say speak urgency to that. If we can have input into that, that will be great. We should put it on the following week. I was following up on what commissioner said. Thats been like quite a while regarding donte king. He was willing to speak at some point. We need to hear from director henderson about the status of that. That will be valuable for the commission to hear from. Thank you. Director henderson, you may not be in position to speak about this now. That is something we want to put on a future Commission Meeting. I initiated it at the very beginning. I sat down with donte. Are you ready to do it . We were waiting on your investigation to be i can give an update. The investigation is not complete of what were able to do with what has been done totally. I can give an update and tell everyone what the direction is. I can give an update on donte. He can also speak for himself. Im lething guys know, that weve been taking action and stuff has been done. Maybe it will be good to [indiscernible] who is donte king . Donte king wrote a letter in time during covid. It was april 2020 or 2019 . He wrote a letter in april 2019. He was d. H. R. Employee. Part of what he was charged with doing was implementing implicit bias testing for officers. We wrote a very kind of damaging letter as someone whos implemented the training about i think the words were rampant antiblack bias in the Police Department. D. P. A. And director henderson has been investigating these complaints. What were asking for status update and figure out where they are in the investigation. He was actually the d. H. R. Training their providing bias training for actual officers in the department. He wrote a letter to the chief regarding his concerns over the bias and antiblack sentiments that were running in the department and then the newspaper got a hold of that letter that was sent to the chief raising those concerns. Then we had asked to have that mr. King come and talk to us about that and to get more information as to the rapidity of validity of these claims and his concerns to see whats going on with the concerns and what can be done to address these concerns. Thats right the letter was to the chief. Despite our numerous request, at the time, i believe president hersh sent a letter directing henderson to conduct an investigation. I also ask that the matter be agendize so that the public can discuss it. I believe commissioner hamasaki reach out to mr. King and ask him to come to the commission and talk to us directly. Thats never been agendized on our agenda. We tried to put it on the agenda couple of times. I will ask director henderson about the status of the investigation. The investigation is still ongoing. Thats what weve been waiting for. I never spoken to mr. King, we can have mr. King come before the commission. I like to know the status whatever findings d. P. A. Conclusions come top regardless of the result of the investigation by d. P. A. , whats important that he come before the commission and this matter be before the commission so that the public and the commission can address it. I dont think it should be dependent upon what d. P. A. Finds out. Several commissioners have questions and its a very concerning topic and its an issue that has plagued the department for quite some time. I think thats why theres been several requests by commissioners to have this on calendar, despite d. P. A. s conclusion, which my understanding, they have been diligently working on it. They have their information ready for us. I think its important that we agendize it and we discuss it. We all agree on that. If d. P. A. Is ready, we can put it on the agenda. If someone wants to reach out, it makes since to have mr. King up here before the commission. We can do that as well. It seems little bit choppy. This item is scheduled for next meeting . I would like to hear from director henderson. Is d. P. A. Ready to present on this . Im not ready to present because we havent concluded anything. I can give you an update and tell you what we have been doing. I can tell you what ive heard from donte from meeting with him. It sounds like the folks want to hear directly from him and ask him their own questions and stuff. I dont want to interpret what he was saying for him. I can present an update as to what weve been doing and where weve taken it and summarize where we took the conversations with him about the allegations given to what he said. Status update will be great. You have any sense when the investigation will be concluded . One moment. If you dont, thats fine. Offhand, i dont. We can do status update and take it from there. My request is not to wait until the investigation is over. We should be able to agendize this. Thats what i just said. I think that mr. King speaking to us is separate issue from the d. P. A. Investigation and doesnt seem like theres any conflict based on what director henderson just stated with mr. King appearing and speaking generally about his experiences. Is mr. King still employed by the city and county of San Francisco . No. Did he quit or released . Im not sure if thats true. He might be employed in a different department. Guys were way off agenda now, i wanted to hear from director henderson as to whether or not this is ready to be agendize ag. Lets do that and move on to the agenda that we currently have. I want to circle back to commissioner cohens question, whether or not this will be agendize for the next meeting. Is that a yes or no . We can have director henderson speak about it at the next meeting if he is ready. What donte king is available for, i cannot speak to yet. I would prefer to give the status update maybe towards end of december. Next week is going to be too soon. Its scramble now. Things are little hectic. Were way off agenda. It will be put on an agenda in december and thats it. Next line item. Next is Public Comment on line item two. Members of the public like to make Public Comment on line item 2, please dial 4156550001. Press pound and pound again and star 3 to raise your hand. Members of the public logged in webex, press star 3 now. If you like to make comment on line item 2. So far we have two comments. Im sorry. Thank you commissioners. Thank you henderson. Thithank you so much chief scotr if the presentation this evening. Thank you for following through and bringing that information. Looking back at the numbers that you presented about six officers providing foot parole in bay view valley. As a community member, i dont see them. I heard you saying very clearly about the need to provide balance and to need to pull those officers when other things are happening. While i really understand that from a business perspective, obviously like anything else, the Police Department is a business and you need to manage resources, i get that. As a community member, i dont see those six officers, ever. Im walking in the neighborhood on a regular basis. I need you to hear that from me. I do not see them. I wanted to elevate commissioner elias suggestion a combination between the foot patrol and car patrol. Because again, i heard you. Saying you do need to pull officers as other things are going on or that theres some limitations that foot patrol officers have in responding to things in other parts of the community. I heard that. What we might do is provide a combination of foot patrol and car patrol where even the officers who are in cars, get out of those cars and engage with the community. What happens typically officers that are in cars, they stay in those cars. Only the officers who are bike or feet your time is up. Good evening caller, you have two minutes. Iim a resident of district7 here in San Francisco. Im calling to request that commissioners to meet with our group to talk about in the d. O. J. Report. We sent numerous request to meet with you folks and only heard back with one commissioner, that is concerning when you hold such a high regard. Furthermore, i want to state that were outraged that the d. P. A. Found no consequences to the as far a officers who execud in 2015. Im concerned where the accountability where the police in these cases. Thank you for your time. Good evening caller, you have two minutes. Im a father of two and small Business Owners in the Richmond District in San Francisco. Im also a key member of the wealth disparity in the black community. I like information from the Police Commission and the commissioner hamasaki stated well get information when we can meet with you specifically on the items that the previous caller just discussed about the response of the recommendations in the d. O. J. Report. We like that to be scheduled as soon as possible. I will end my Public Comment there. Thank you, for both callers, the chief gave an update about when he thought the 272 recommendations will be complete. I know that commissioner hamasaki is scheduling a time to meet with you. Im wondering outside of that, in terms of the commission, what else outside of the schedule for the recommendations, im a little bit confused to what the outstanding questions were. There were couple of things. We understand that those we do understand that they feel they are in good shape for those to be completed. But theres no substancuation for that yet. Without that official substantiation, the agency will look at those and make sure they are accomplished. We have concerns that the m. O. U. Signed with the city will conclude in february. If all the findings are not addressed, how we will ensure that gets done if the m. O. U. Is not extended. This is commissioner hamasaki. I apologize that you were not responded to sooner. I wrapped up trial or trial settle and emailed Sergeant Youngblood to set up a pleat meting. Meeting. I like to hear from you and see if i can help. Thank you very much, commissioner. We appreciate that. Thank you. Any other callers . Yes. Good evening caller, you have two minutes. This is Danielle Harris from the public defenders office. You wont be surprised to hear that im calling to talk about 1421421 compliance. This is major statewide Police Reform to address the Massive Public interest in Police Transparency and accountability. We heard a report tonight which is not helpful. It only give us raw numbers, it doesnt tell us what piece of the pie is complied with. My office presented in december, there was only 5 compliance with the Law Enforcement of that law through disclosures last year. We are now at about twice that little under 11 . Thats despite increases. Caller, are you there . Caller, ill and back to you. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller yes, can you hear me. [echoing] good morning, my name is Felicia Jones and im the chair of the black community. I welcome to the commission, however, as previously we have stated, its a lot of echo on here. I dont know whats going on. You need to mute your other devices. You need to mute other devices. Caller can you hear me . [echoing] okay, i dont know what is going on. I dont have any other devices. [echoing sounds] caller okay, so try again. So the thing of it is that all of you serve as servants of the people. And, again, i am just really frustrated how the lack of followup that all of you have on the commission and also d. P. A. When we write to you, you seem that what were saying is not important. We had meetings with petra over the years and, you know, this is really frustrating. As the only black social Justice Movement in the city and county of San Francisco, that we have to write to you two or three times and theres no response. And for me, theres no excuses. This is part of what you do. This is your obligation to the city and county of San Francisco. When you take the oath of this seat. So, again, i heard that we are going to be making plans to meet, but i just wanted to be in Public Comment that how the lack of followthrough that you guys have on the commission and d. P. A. And its not acceptable. And so, again, i just want to look forward to meeting with yo clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller hi there. Hopefully technical issues will have abated by now. My name is ben saunders and im a resident of San Francisco and also a member of the black community. I support the members of the staff, but i have a question around reporting and kind of how sfp is using data. And maybe commissioner henderson can share with the community in some statement, but d. P. A. Had released an audit i think on the fifth of october, with recommendations for sfpd and finding issues with how they were maybe not as effectively using the useofforce data as they could and just issues of reporting and where that is fitting with responses to that our how they hope to capitalize on these findings, even if theyre not part of the 272 recommendations with d. O. J. And the second question was that i know that sfpd has circulated a memo about the 96a report on the use of force and being delayed by a couple of weeks. I wanted to check if that for the purpose of per capita data. And we wanted to mention the justice data is a bare minimum requirement for effective reporting. And so i wanted to check if that is something that we could expect to see in the Third Quarter report that is taking extra time to prepare to take in some stakeholder questions. Thanks. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller, are you there . That was the caller that i told her that i would come back to. So that is the end of Public Comments. Okay. So for that caller, if you would like to try again well get to the general public shortly here. So i dont i want you to keep trying if your needs are not addressed by other callers and youd like to call in. Next line item is line item 3 and were continuing that to the next meeting. And so please call the next line item. Clerk line item 4, discussion and possible action to adapt the general order 5. 04, arrest by private persons, discretion and possible action. Okay, who is presenting on this item . Good evening, commissioners. It is deputy chief here, can you hear me and see me . Yes. Okay. Thank you very much. As Sergeant Youngblood stated, this is a presentation on an update to the departments general order 5. 04, arrest by private persons. I know that youve had a long agenda so ill be brief on the presentation tonight and then to be able to take any questions that you might have. The first thing that id like to do is to recognize lieutenant amy hurwitz, shes on the line tonight. She is the subject Matter Expert who assisted in rewriting of this general order. So i want to recognize her and if theres any specific questions that she might be able to address, we can address that as well. But i wanted to recognize her. This general order, like all of the general orders, are up for revision. And as most of you know, many of our orders go back as early as 1994. This specific order in relation to arrests by private persons was last written in 2007. So we rewrote it this year, so the chief of the Field Operations bureau, i am tasked with about 15 to 17 general orders that were rewriting and this is the first one that i have come to present to you. There are just a few changes to this order from what was written in 2007 to now. And ill cover both of those. Theres not a Powerpoint Presentation on it but i will speak to both of them. You should have copies of the order, both as its currently sitting and with red lines. Ill identify the two changes. The first thing that i want to do before i go into that is that i want to thank the department of Police Accountability. Like many general orders that we are reformatting or reviewing and rewriting, that the department of Police Accountability is oftentimes giving us recommendations on changes to the Department Orders and theres two ways that we generally deal with it. First is that we either agree and we put those recommendations into the policy. And we dont need to have a discussion, but if there are times in more of the more complex policies, that we meet on what we call a meeting. And we ask for the differences based on the suggestions. I have worked with Sarah Hawkins and sharon woo on many of those and continue to. This particular policy did not have a sparks meeting that was agendized as there were only really two recommendations that Police Accountability asked us to make, other than structure and format changes. And we agreed to both changes. So ill just highlight them briefly. In our old policy under the procedure section in line item 8, our policy in the past said that in all instances involving requests for private persons arrest and an incident report shall be prepared. D. P. A. Recommended that we change the language and we add that the subsequent refusal or the lack of cooperation by the private person does not relieve a member from completing and incertificating a report under d. G. O. 5. 04 and we agreed to it. And the purpose is that there were times where the officers would get complaints made against them and would come into d. P. A. During an interview and would not specifically identify that the person either refused or that the person changed their mind. And so they didnt write a report. And d. P. A. Has suggested to us that in those instances that even though the person changes their mind or refuses to cooperate in the investigation, that they still felt that it was appropriate for an officer to write a report. We agreed and we have made that change in this general order. The second one that we have changed was not in the prior general order but the recommendation from the department of Police Accountability and had to do with circumstances and when an officer did not issue a certificate of release. Their recommended language said that except in certain circumstances a member shall issue a certificate of release when a person is not free to leave, even if no arrest occurs. In cases when a member is unable to issue a certificate of release, the member shall document the reason and an incident report. What d. P. A. Said in this is that there were officers who had complaints from the past that required them to go on to another emergency call, or the person had walked away, or there was some other circumstances that didnt afford the officer an opportunity to physically to give the person a slip. And so the officer by the old general order was not required to author an instant report. What we agree with d. P. A. On this is that even in those cases where a circumstance exists and the officer is unable to issue a 49b, theyre still required to author it, and we agreed with that. The only other changes that we had through this were some clerical ones where we removed what we thought was some language that didnt need to be in here when it had to do with different there was language that was expansive and d. P. A. Didnt have any problems with removing that. It had to do with First Amendment rights and had to do with Fourth Amendment procedures and so forth. The only thing that i bring before you today that may change in this order before you approve it is that i did receive an email today that there was an issue that came up from the Commission Regarding some specific language that the commission may want to have in it. And i will defer to the chief if he has any comments on it. I have looked at it and what we would be looking to do and i dont have a problem with making the will change an change and bk is that under section 3 of what is in the current policy, we would add the language before procedure 3 that says bearing in mind the potential for bias by proxy and then determine that probable cause exists. In that case we had the language and reminding officers that theres bias by proxy and we wanted the officers to be aware of that in schnappse instances s and that they should be kog miswrant of that cognizant of that so its in the front of their mind when it comes to arrest of private persons. So i leave that to the chief to speak on it. From my understanding from the email that i got from the chief officer that hes amendable to it. And you can make that change and resubmit it. Those are the only changes to the pgo5. 04, arrest by private persons and im happy to answer any questions or concerns that the commission may have. That suggestion came from me. I mean, so when i see a p. G. O. Title arrest by private persons, alarm bells go off because of the potential for people calling police on racial minorities and, you know, in this instance trying to arrest racial minorities innocence influenced. I wanted to make sure that it was cross referenced and also that the members know that part of their obligation is to keep that proxy in mind and to be aware of pgo5. 017 with arrests by private persons. I have some questions from commissioners, but it looks like the chief wants to comment on bias by proxy. So chief, go ahead. Thank you, vicepresident taylor. Yes, i do agree with your the chief maceacherns take on this. And the only other add to that, added to number 3 is to add d. B. O. 5. 17 as a reference at the end of the document. Vicepresident taylor the commissioners may have questions. Commissioners . I think that you have both covered it. What i looked at it, when i looked at it today, bias by proxy screamed that it was missing. So thank you for putting that in there. And the second thing is exactly what the chief just said. I dont think that its enough to say remember bias by proxy and we should refer them to the d. G. O. So they can make themselves aware so they really know d. G. O. And its a really new concept. In terms of policy for us. So thats it. Im glad that you put it in there and i would say that we should beef it up a little bit more and refer them to the actual d. G. O. Vicepresident taylor i agree. Commissioner elias. Thank you. And thank you for the presentation. I wanted to give a shoutout to sandra, who is not here anymore, but i believe that she was really instrumental in creating and cultivating and working alongside the department with this d. G. O. , especially i think that i know that shes very passionate about providing cards and information to individuals that has been adopted in the d. G. O. So i want to commend the department and you for your hard work as well as giving sandra a shoutout. Because i know that she worked really hard and diligently in this d. G. O. , as she did with many others. So, thank you. Vicepresident taylor thank you. So, yes, commissioner, well make those change changes that e talked about and referring to d. G. O. 5. 07 and submit it back for approval. I dont know if you want a full presentation once that language is done. You can direct me on that, and im happy to come back or we can just submit it. I would just echo what the commissioner said about sandra. The meetings that i have with sarah and sharon, especially on the ones that are more sometimes you have differences we have been able to work through. And i specifically make sure that im a voice in that because we an times then meet with the other chiefs to discuss these changes. I want to be able to present d. P. A. s concerns and why we have changed language and its been a really good process for us as we move forward. Because of these suggestions that weve had for so long, but we havent changed so many of the policies that were now able to implement them. And sandra was certainly a big part of that as well with moving forward. So i echo that. Well make the changes and send it back to you. Vicepresident taylor i tang we can approve the change, the d. G. O. With edits that we make here in the commission. You know, just to not delay the process. We have so many d. G. O. S in wanthehopper that id like to kn a good schedule and moving forward. The first change is referencing d. G. O. 5. 107, bias by policing as one of the references. And then adding that language vicepresident taylor yes. The potential for bias by proxy. And then continuing on under number 3. Vicepresident taylor number one and number three, i would add that responding members need to bear in mind that theres potential bias by proxy. Im sorry, one more time, commissioner . I have under the procedures for three, it starts right now with determine probable cause and we would add the language for that, bearing in mind the potential for bias by proxy determined the cause if the individual committed the crime in question . Vicepresident taylor correct. I would also do it for number one as well. Bearing in mind the potential for bias by proxy okay. Thats fine if you want it added to both. Vicepresident taylor awesome. Okay. As long as youve got that, then were good to go and well send it to the professional standards and have it drafted and completed. Vicepresident taylor what im saying is if the commissioners are ready, we can vote on this tonight. We can adopt the d. G. O. And use amendments with these changes. I dont mean to delay it. I think we should keep it moving forward. Lets get it done and out of the way because theres a lot more coming down the pipe. Vicepresident taylor exactly. And stacy has it up on the screen. So if the commissioners are ready i think that we can go. All right, so i make a motion to adopt the changes as we just discussed and made and to accept the d. G. O. I second it. Okay. Vicepresident taylor i think that we need Public Comment. Clerk yeah. Members of the public who would like to make a Public Comment on line item 4, please dial 4156550001 and enter code 1469128348 and press pound and pound again and then star, 3, to rise your hand. For the members already on, please dial star, 3, now to make Public Comment on line item 4. Theres no Public Comment, commissioner. Vicepresident taylor great, call roll for the vote. Clerk all right on the motion to adopt d. G. O. 5. 104 with amendments [roll call vote] you have five yes. Vicepresident taylor great, the motion passes. Next line item, please. Clerk line item 5, public general comment. At this time the public can address the commission for up to two minutes for items not on the agenda but within the commission. Under Police Commission rules of order, Neither Police nor the d. P. A. Personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions by the probable but may provide a brief response. Its a opportunity to speak by calling 14156550001 and enter code 1469128348 and press pound and pound again. And speak clearly and slowly and turn down devices in the background. You may submit in either of the ways, email the Police Commission at sfpd. Commission sfgovtv. Org or to the Public Safety building at 1245 third street, San Francisco, california, 94158. Members that would like to make Public Comment, press star, 3, now. All right, we have Public Comment coming. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller this is David Ericsson again. Based on the analysis that the organization that im volunteering for have done, and the black individuals in San Francisco are 10 times as likely to be arrested or subjected to use of force by the San Francisco Police Department even now than white individuals. And even five times more likely than hispanic individuals. These are based on San Francisco Police Department own numbers and a legacy of the census data. This is unacceptable in my opinion and it is clear that there is bias in the Police Community towards overpolicing and arresting and use of force against our black community. I would like a commitment from the d. P. A. And the Police Commission to take a look at how theyre doing their reporting and start to support a per capita reporting requirement for these types of data, use of force, arrests, and pullovers, etc. And the center for policing equity has stated that this is a minimum reporting requirement as have other organizations and i would like to see that adopted by the Police Commission and the d. P. A. Thank you. Vicepresident taylor thank you. Clerk good evening, miss brown, you have two minutes. Caller yes, good evening. Hi, im calling about my son, arbari who was murdered august 4, 2006. I ask everyone to get the information that i that i had miss youngblood put on the new information and if everybody has gotten it and im still asking for the commissioners here to write a letter to the feds for them to recant their story about my son being in a gang. And ifen read that, i am really requesting that this information very supportive before and if you Read Everything you can see whats going on. And, you know, still to give a shoutout about my son too. But i really would like that letter i remember the former president i forget his name he passed away, but he had wrote a few things for me too. So im just asking if you can write for them to recant their story because theres no evidence about anything with my son. I have been fighting for this last 14 years. And to the complaint of the procedural misconduct that theyre doing based on my son. So, again, i am respectfully asking that and to also to give a shoutout concerning my son being murdered. As a mother i am still suffering about my sons murder. And the family and everyone. And i just thank you guys for being with me all these years. But, please, thank you. Vicepresident taylor thank you, miss brown. If you have any information on the murder of miss browns son, please call the anonymous tipline 4155754444. Clerk good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller hi, the old guy again who was dragged out of safeway by the Police Department. The good news is that im not going to call you anymore about this. Perhaps its sad news ill be turning away from the commission and more to the community. Because of the lack of responsiveness here. Just a quick review of the issues and the use of force problem with no security issue present, indicated bad judgment with the officers. Indicated the officers inability to deescalate what was actually a calm situation. If they cant deescalate a calm situation, what are they going to do when a volatile situation . The yelling and disruption and the violence that were present at the store was introduced by the officers. It sounds like somebody is not muted. The use of force in this situation was omitted in police report. D. P. A. , what about that . And the d. P. A. Ruling, all of this being acceptable behavior, its going to just lead to more bad behavior. Theres no indication of any corrective action. And my group, when we call police to report a problem, they come and say we didnt see it. In this case they didnt see a problem either but that didnt stop them from jumping on me and dragging me out of the safeway. Bye. Vicepresident taylor thank you, caller. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes . Caller hello, can you hear me this time . Clerk yes. Caller great. I was the person who wasnt able to speak before. So i was listening to chief scotts report and then the report on the critical mindset training and im just thinking that, you know, they seem very pleased let me introduce myself. I am susan buchan, a resident of district 5 and a member of breaking disparities in black communities. So listening to these people seem very pleased with the training theyve been doing and the progress that they say that theyre making for the Collaborative Reform Initiative. But its less than its just over a month out from the death of Caesar Vargas and hes a perfect example of a situation that this critical mindset could have been used. please stand by good evening, caller, you have two minutes. San francisco administrative code section 67. 10 action. Do i have a motion . So moved. Is there a second . Second. On the motion to go into closed section how do you vote [roll call vote] you have five yeses. All right, we will go into closed session. [please stand by] line 9. Do we have a motion. Motion. Second. All right. On the motion not to disclose, how do you vote . Do we have to take Public Comment . Yes. Members of the public who would like to make a comment online 9 nine, please call. Press star 3 now to make Public Comment. We have no Public Comment. Okay. All right, commissioner dejesus. Yes. Commissioner elias. Yes. Vice president taylor. Yes. You have four yeses. Next item. Adjournment, action item. Motion. Audible second. Second. All right, on the motion to adjourn, commissioner dejesus how do you vote. Yes. Commissioner elias. Yes. Vice president taylor. Yes. You have four yeses. Good night everyone. Happy thanksgiving guys. We wont see you until december. Happy thanksgiving. All right, bye. [ ] i am the supervisor of district one. I am sandra lee fewer. [ ] i moved to the Richmond District in 1950 mine. I was two years old. I moved from chinatown and we were one of the first asian families to move out here. [ ] when my mother decided to buy that house, nobody knew where it was. It seems so far away. For a long time, we were the only chinese family there but we started to see the areas of growth to serve a larger chinese population. The stress was storage of the birthplace of that. My father would have to go to chinatown for dim sum and i remember one day he came home and said, there is one here now. It just started to grow very organically. It is the same thing with the russian population, which is another very large ethnic group in the Richmond District. As russia started to move in, we saw more russian stores. So parts of the richmond is very concentrated with the Russian Community and immigrant Russian Community, and also a chinese immigrant community. [ ] i think as living here in the richmond, we really appreciate the fact that we are surrounded three natural barriers. They are beautiful barriers. The presidio which gives us so many trails to walk through, ocean beach, for families to just go to the beach and be in the Pacific Ocean. We also also have a National Park service. We boarded the Golden Gate National Recreation Area so there is a lot of activity to do in the summer time you see people with bonfires. But really families enjoying the beach and the Pacific Ocean during the rest of the time of year. [ ] and Golden Gate Park where we have so many of our treasures here. We have the tea garden, the museum and the academy of sciences. Not to mention the wonderful playgrounds that we have here in richmond. This is why i say the richmond is a great place for families. The theatre is a treasure in our neighborhood. It has been around for a very long time. Is one of our two neighborhood theatres that we have here. I moved here when i was 1959 when i was two years old. We would always go here. I love these neighborhood theatres. It is one of the places that has not only a landmark in the Richmond District, but also in San Francisco. Small theatres showing one or two films. A unique they are unique also to the neighborhood and San Francisco. Where we are today is the heart of the Richmond District. With what is unique is that it is also Small Businesses. There is a different retail here it is mom and pop opening up businesses. And providing for the neighborhood. This is what we love about the streets. The cora door starts on clement street and goes all the way down to the end of clement where you will see Small Businesses even towards 32nd. At the core of it is right here between here and 20 tenth avenue. When we see this variety of stores offered here, it is very unique then of the any other part of San Francisco. There is traditional irish music which you dont get hardly anywhere in San Francisco. Some places have this long legacy of serving ice cream and being a hangout for families to have a sunday afternoon ice cream. And then also, we see grocery stores. And also these restaurants that are just new here, but also thriving. [ ] we are seeing restaurants being switched over by hand, new owners, but what we are seeing is a vibrancy of clement street still being recaptured within new businesses that are coming in. That is a really great thing to see. I dont know when i started to shop here, but it was probably a very, very long time ago. I like to cook a lot but i like to cook chinese food. The market is the place i like to come to once a year. Once i like about the market as it is very affordable. It has Fresh Produce and fresh meat. Also, seafood. But they also offer a large selection of condiments and sauces and noodles. A variety of rice that they have is tremendous. I dont thank you can find a variety like that anywhere else. Hi. I am kevin wong. I am the manager. In 1989 we move from chinatown to Richmond District. We have opened for a bit, over 29 years. We carry products from thailand, japan, indonesia, vietnam, singapore and india. We try to keep Everything Fresh daily. So a customer can get the best out a bit. Normally during crab season in november, this is the first place i hit. Because they have really just really fresh crab. This is something my family really likes for me to make. Also, from my traditional chinese food, i love to make a kale soup. They cut it to the size they really want. I am probably here once a week. Im very familiar with the aisles and they know everyone who is a cashier cashier here i know when people come into a market such as this, it looks like an asian supermarkets, which it is and sometimes it can be intimidating. We dont speak the language and many of the labels are in chinese, you may not know what to buy or if it is the proper ingredients for the recipe are trying to make. I do see a lot of people here with a recipe card or sometimes with a magazine and they are looking for specific items. The staff here is very helpful. I speak very little chinese here myself. Thinks that im not sure about, i asked the clerk his and i say is this what i need . Is this what i should be making . And they actually really helped me. They will bring me to the aisle and say this is battery. They are very knowledgeable. Very friendly. I think they are here to serve not only the Asian Community but to serve all communities in the Richmond District and in San Francisco. [ ] what is wonderful about living here is that even though our july is a very foggy and overcast, best neighborhood, the sleepy part outside on the west side is so rich with history, but also with all the amenities that are offered. [ ] announcer youre watching coping with covid19. Todays special guest is dr. Steven getnick. Hi, im chris man us and youre watching coping with covid19. Today my guest is the director of the Behavior Therapy Center of San Francisco and Professor Emeritus in counseling psychology at the university of San Francisco. Doctor, welcome to the show. Thank you. Lets talk about managing anxieties during this pandemic. What types of issues are people facing at the moment . There are a number of issues and i really want to point out that this is affecting everyone and has come on very quickly. So it is normal. If you are not experiencing some anxiety, something is a touch off because this affects us all. I think some of the main ones are our health and worried about getting the virus and our developing serious complications. I think for a lot of people who are single, living alone, in isolation, has been very difficult. I think being in close quarters with people who we normally have some space from now are together 24 7. Thats produced a lot of stress and anxiety. That loss of connection with others. We already addressed. And having kids home. For a lot of people. Yes, absolutely. What are the other problems that they might have . I think without that dynamic, the good things are not a problem. It is the difficulties we have. And when were together 24 7, again its like hooking everything up to an amplifier. So, what kind of problems could be created from working home from home, perhaps for the first time in your career . A lot of people are not used to working at home and a working at home just isnt the same. For one thing, there is a lack of social interaction. Some people find that that affects them greatly. Some people are actually finding theyre getting more work done at home without distractions from work. The lack of structure is probably the most common. We see it here with work at the office. People are kind of watching. We know that our schedule is, suddenly youre at home and you are on your own. Absolutely. If those are some of the issues people are facing, what are some of the techniques people can use to overcome their anxiety . Caller i think there are many. One of the first is how managing and keeping track of your thinking, we think and talk to ourselves a lot. Thats normal. We have a dialogue with ourselves often and we need to monitor that a bit. People tend to ruminate versus problemsolve. That is they tend to worry about all the things that might go wrong. And what i suggest is, look, there are things that can go wrong, but ruminating about the worstcase scenario is not going to be very productive. Sit down, figure out what the things are that you have to deal with and try to problemsolve. I think any of the selfcontrol techniques for anxiety can be helpful. And there are dozens of them. The common ones are meditation, relaxation techniques, yoga, for example and another is diaphragmattic breathing. If you google that, you can learn diaphragmattic breathing in about 10 minutes online. Its incredibly simple and it is a really nice way to reduce anxiety in the moment. Selfcontrol procedures, exercise. Whether if youre fortunate enough to have equipment at home, thats great. If youre not, get outside and go for a walk, keep your safe distance, of course. But you need to be active. Thats helpful. I think people marry be dealing with information overload at the moment. How do you suggest people manage that . I was just going to say that. I think it is really important to kind of limit the information you get. Not in terms of accuracy. I think in terms of accuracy, you want to identify a few sites where people are coming with evidencebased information and scientific information so you can form yourself well. Once youve informed yourself, you need to not be watching all day long. Ive talked to people who are mesmerized from the tv and a it keeps that anxiety going so you need to limit your viewing for sure. This can be stress for people who have economic concerns and worried about their family and friends and loved ones who are essential workers. What would you suggest they do to help manage anxiety and stress . There is a number of things. One of major ones for depression is behavioral activation. Simply, it really means that people will tend to not be depressed as a number of reinforcing activities to engage in. Whether it is hobbies, you read, you listen to music, you crochet, you whatever. These kinds of things are very important so you want to make sure that youre engaging in activities that literally make you feel better as opposed to sitting around ruminating, worrying about the worstcase scenarios that might happen. What about trying to do some selfdevelopment . Yeah. Its a very interesting time. Ive talked to a couple of my own clients who are finding, in a very positive way, that this isolation, while at first can generate a lot of anxiety, particularly if youre just not good at living alone. For a number of people, its giving them a chance to sit back and really think about what is important in their lives, what are the priorities. I think that maybe if there is any Silver Lining in this epidemic, its really forcing all of us to kind of rethink whats really important. Indeed. You know, though, at the same time, there are people who are feeling very lonely at home. How would you encourage them to overcome that . You get online. Facetime, skype, zoom, like what were doing right now. You can stay connected. Its very possible. Most connections are important. We are social critters and we need that connection. I think for people who dont have those options, pull up photos, take a look at pictures of family. You need to stay connected. And its very important. And finally, do you have any suggestions that are specifically for families . Yeah. Well, again, i think one of the interesting things thats come about from all of this, is i talked to families on video is theyre obviously spending more time together. While its a bit awkward, particularly for parents who are in the house working a lot. Its a chance to really deepen relationships and spend more good, quality time together. I think parents really need to step back and kind of plan their day a little bit. Not micro manage it, but have some ideas. Can the family play games together . A lot of people i talked to, theyre even together as a family for the first time. So i think there are a number of things that people can do. I think it is qulaouzful for the families to take five, 10 minutes and say how did the day go . I talked to someone in the phone book before we started who said they noticed what time of day all their anxiety kind of comes together and they start sniping at each other. Now theyre taking a few minutes at tend of the day to say, ok, how are we doing . I think they need modeling good behavior, something you can do within the family, too, to try to thats right. I think thats relevant. Very relevant to how children are going to do. Most of the research from crises, particularly things we cant control showed that children do as well as their parents do. So i think it is important for parents to think about how theyre react aing and they stay calm because whatever they do is modeling, coping for their children. So, that can be very useful. It can also be problematic. When we talked earlier, you mentioned that acknowledging that your kids are afraid is important. Yes. I think that ties to your last question. I think modeling you know, its not incompatible with saying, yeah, you know, mom or dad is a little nervous, too. It means a lot of stuff is going on, but were going to be ok. Were going to stay together. We have our time together. Were going to be safe. Well fill in the blank. So you can do both. You can reassure but in a realistic way that once the kids know its normal to be anxious in these times. Thank you for coming ton show, doctor. I really appreciate the time youve given us. Youre welcome. Thank you for having me. And that is it for this episode. Well be back with more covid19 related information shortly. 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Beer a royalty for the age berry up to now not people know that especially the toughest they think this is i really appreciate they love this art. From the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you dont have to go far. Small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. You dont have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. San francisco has to all hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about checking with your neighbors. Start off by giving your neighbor a call to see how they are or if they need help. If they dont answer, dont get anxious. Try again later. Check to see if their car is parked nearby. Are they lights being turned on and off during normal hours . If you still cant contact them, contact your other neighbors and see if theyve had contact with them recently. You can also leave a note in their mailbox, and when you do get in touch with them, ask if theyd like to share their Emergency Contact information. If youre getting groceries for a neighbor, get a mask and sanitizing wipe. Put the groceries by the front door and then move back and call them from the sidewalk. If you need to ring the doorbell, dont use your hand. Use the wipe or paper towel that you brought. When you call, stay on the sidewalk at least 6 feet away from them. As youre talking to them, ask about any other help they might need. Some might need further assistance with groceries or just need to chat. Maybe they might need you to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. And as always, as soon as you get home, wash your hands. Heres a quick recap. Well, thats it for this episode. I hope you found it useful. Go to sfgov for lesb ri by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. I came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [ ] hello, friends. Im the deputy superintendent of instruction at San Francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. What you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our San Francisco teachers for our students. Our premise came about for San Francisco families that didnt have access to technology, and thats primarily children preschool to second grade. When we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and its like how were they still processing the information . How were they supposed to keep learning . I thought about reaching the student who didnt have internet, who didnt have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t. V. And at least get some connection with my kids that way. Thank you, friends. See you next time. Hi, friend. Todays tuesday, april 28, 2020. Its me, teacher sharon, and im back again. I got an email saying that i had an opportunity to be on a show. Im, like, what . I actually got an email from the Early Education department, saying they were saying of doing a t. V. Show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. I was scared, nervous. I dont like public speaking and all the above. But it worked out. Talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, its so very weird. Im used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where theyre all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them . Lets listen. Hi guys. I kind of have stage flight when im on t. V. Because im normally quiet . Shes never quiet. No, im not quiet. My sister was, like, i saw you on t. V. My teacher was, i saw you on youtube. It was exciting, how the community started watching. It was a lot of fun. It also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. I want to end today with a thank you. Thank you for spending time with us. It was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. Im so happy to see you today. Today is the last day of the school year, yea it really helped me in my teaching. Im excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. We received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. When we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, im proud to be a filipino. Being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. And as a mom, i can tell you thats so important. The social Confidence Development of our early learners. [ ] weve never been in so much focus worldwide and will not be this this is a the moment in time when a story going and make a wish is a program that fulfills wishes for children we operate in every cities there are 62 chapters. Our chapter was formed in 8984 we fulfilled 24 wishes. Our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. We send verizons it out to the wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen. Dismissals is a 5yearold boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old hes 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose monopoly on the chemotherapy. This particular wish the parents wanted to wait until he had energy. I began assigning this wish with the family in march and started to understand the two miles how are we going to achieve that i made a bold statement into turning this into goth am city. It codify catapulted. So, now its a much for ininaccurate indicate from the divorce. People starting twoet and reposting and it went viral. It was incredible about make a wish he wanted to be thinking about being batman. Theres been a lot of super issues that have happened cross the country but i think that can only happen in San Francisco the mayors on board and the city hall its an incredible outpouring and i love how San Francisco is in the spotlight here and people around the world sending their love to San Francisco. You kids we thank you for your encourage and we wish we can erase the pain we hope this is the day of magic and that youll remember this forever. Bat kid forever in San Francisco San Francisco is unique in this way and its part of our compassion and we have a civic duty to be involved and people are stepping forward if in huge way. Its about San Francisco and its inspired by miles and about every child who has a severe the market is one of our vehicles for reaching out to public and showing them how to prepare delicious, simple food. People are amazed that the library does things like that. Biblio bistro is a Food Education program. It brings such joy to people. It teaches them life skills that they can apply anywhere, and it encourages them to take care of themselves. My name is leaf hillman, and im a librarian, and biblio bistro is my creation. Im a former chef, and i have been incubating this idea for many years. We are challenged to come up with an idea that will move the library into the future. This inspired me to think, what can we do around cooking . What can i do around cooking . We were able to get a cart. The charlie cart is designed to bring cooking to students in Elementary Students that has enough gear on it to teach 30 students cooking. So when i saw that, i thought bingo, thats what were missing. You can do cooking classes in the library, but without a kitchen, its difficult. To have everything contained on wheels, thats it. I do cooking demonstrations out at the market every third wednesday. I feature a seafood, vegetable, and i show people how to cook the vegetable. A lot of our residents live in s. R. O. S, single resident occupancies, and they dont have access to full kitchens. You know, a lot of them just have a hot plate, a microwave, and the thing that biblio bistro does really well is cook food accessible in season and make it available that day. We handout brochures with the featured recipe on the back. This recipe features mushrooms, and this brochure will bring our public back to the library. Libraries are about a good time. I hired a former chef. Shes the tickle queen at the ramen shop in rockwood. We get all ages. We get adults and grandparents and babies, and, you know, schoolage kids, and its just been super terrific. I was a bit reluctant because i train teachers and adults. I dont train children. I dont work with children, and i find it very interesting and a bit scary, but working here really taught me a lot, you know, how easily you can influence by just showing them what we have, and its not threatening, and its tasty and fun. I make it really fun with kids because i dont look like a teacher. In the mix, which is our team center, we have programs for our kids who are age 13 to 18, and those are very hands on. The kids often design the menu. All of our programs are very interactive. Today, we made pasta and garlic bread and some sauce. Usually, i dont like bell pepper in my sauce, but i used bell pepper in my sauce, and it complemented the sauce really well. I also grated the garlic on my bread. I never thought about that technique before, but i did it, and it was so delicious. We try to teach them techniques where they can go home and tell their families, i made this thing today, and it was so delicious. Theyre kind of addicted to these foods, these processed foods, like many people are. I feel like we have to do what we can to educate people about that. The reality is we have to live in a world that has a lot of choices that arent necessarily good for you all the time. This is interesting, but its a reaction to how children are brought up. It is fastfood, and the apple is a fastfood, and so that sort of changes the way they think about convenience, how eating apple is convenient. One of the things that i love about my program out at the market is the surprise and delight on peoples faces when they finally taste the vegetable. Its been transformative for some people. They had never eaten those vegetables before, but now, they eat them on a regular basis. All they require is a hot plate and a saute pan, and they realize that theyre able to cook really healthy, and its also tasty. They also understand the importance of the connection that were making. These are our small Business Owners that are growing our food and bringing it fresh to the market for them to consume, and then, im helping them consume it by teaching them how to cook. It connects people to the food that theyre buying. The magic of the classes in the Childrens Center and the team center is that the participants are cooking the food themselves, and once they do that, they understand their connection to the food, to the tools, and it empowers them. Were brokering new experiences for them, so that is very much whats happening in the biblio bistro program. We are introducing kids many times to new vocabulary. Names of seasonings, names of vegetables, names of what you call procedures. I had my little cooking experience. All i cooked back then was Grilled Cheese and scrambled eggs. Now, i can actually cook curry and a few different thing zblz a. And the parents are amazed that what were showing them to cook is simple and inexpensive. I didnt know this was so easy to make. Ive only bought it in the market. Those comments have been amazing, and yeah, its been really wonderful. We try to approach everything here with a well, just try it. Just try it once, and then, before you know it, its gone. A lot of people arent sure how to cook cauliflower or kale or fennel or whatever it is, and leah is really helpful at doing that. I think having someone actually teaching you here is a great experience. And its the art of making a meal for your family members and hope that they like it. I think they should come and have some good food, good produce that is healthy and actually very delicious. Cooking is one of my biggest passions, to be able to share, like, my passion with others, and skills, to h shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within neighborhood. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. Where will you shop and dine in the 49 . San francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. Each corridor has its own personality. Our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. You are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping Small Businesses grow. It is more environmentally friendly. Shopping local is very important. I have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. By shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. It is really good for everybody. Shopping locally is crucial. Without that support, Small Business cant survive, and if we lose Small Business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. It is important to dine and shop locally. It allows us to maintain traditions. It makes the neighborhood. I think San Francisco should shop local as much as they can. The retail marketplace is changes. We are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. The fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. There are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. At the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. Shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the Business Owners to thrive in the community. We see more Small Businesses going away. We need to shop locally to keep the Small Business alive in San Francisco. Shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. You can see the banners in the streets around town. It is great. Anything that can showcase and legitimize Small Businesses is a wonderful thing. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Last week when we announced some rollbacks around the restaurants and a number of other businesses, we did make it clear that we are sadly seeing an increase in the number of covid cases and in fact, last week our reproductive rate was at 1. 2 and today it is at 1. 3. Just this past friday we have seen an increase in over 20 o cases. Our case as of today are 13,756 with 38 people who are hospitalized, 156 people who have lost their lives since the beginning of this pandemic in San Francisco in particular and the Positivity Rate is at 1. 87. Dr. Grant colfax is joining me to talk more specifically about the numbers and what they mean and where we are, the same way he did so last week. What were seeing here and what weve seen all over the country is what looks like to be a significant uptick, one that we have to pay i a tension to. And more importantly, one that has put San Francisco which has been really a leader on fighting against this pandemic, it has put all of the incredible gains that we have made at jeopardy. Effective tomorrow, we have been informed by the state of california, and we will be going from the yellow tier which we were so proud to be at to the red tier. And what that means is, sadly, a number of things will need to come off the table. One of the things that i have made clear from the very beginning is we are going to proceed with caution so that we can do everything we can to avoid a complete shutdown. And as of tomorrow, we will need to unfortunately roll back nonessential office space, making sure that people who are nonessential, that have opened their Office Spaces will need to close them at this time. And unfortunately, the gyms will need to go from 25 down to 10 . These particular things were mostly chosen because under state law in red we have to follow those guidelines, but also we understand that there are certain things that put us more at risk of increasing the virus than other activities. And again, dr. Grant colfax is joining me today and will explain some of the specifics around what this means for our city, especially in light of what we see happening. And we want to continue to make sure that we dont go backwards. And how do we do that . We dont go backwards by not getting comfortable, not getting complacent. The weather has been pretty nice even though its been cold. But the sun has been shining. People have been enjoying San Francisco. I had an opportunity to walk around the city this weekend, and i saw so many people out and about enjoying the parks, doing walking, jogging, hanging out at the restaurants and other things. A lot of people were outdoors. And what we have to continue to do is not get comfortable because the fact is the virus is still out there. And we are still going to have to adjust to this so that we dont continue to see a significant spike in San Francisco. Whats happening next week, of course, is one of our favorite holidays, and thats thanksgiving. And so we know that so many people want to travel and then theres other family members that want to come visit. The department of Public Health has put out a travel advisory asking residents to avoid nonessential travel, but more importantly, we need to think about the folks that come to visit us as well, especially in places where we are seeing higher case numbers. This year were asking people to sacrifice because of thanksgiving when we get together and we see large family gathering, especially indoors, when those happen, we could be dealing with the impacts of those decisions by christmas with a significant increase in hospitalizations. So what were asking people to do is sacrifice. Sacrifice and put off the things that we all know and love especially during the Holiday Season. For the sole purpose of trying to get to a better place and for the sole purpose of making sure that people dont continue to catch this virus and so that folks arent continuing to be hospitalized and that we dont see increased number of deaths as a result of wanting to come together for the holidays. This is where we are now. This is me sounding the alarm. This is me asking san franciscans to do exactly what i have been asking this entire time, to make adjustments, to make sacrifices, and to do everything you can to remember that this virus exists and make sure that our behavior and what we do helps to avoid circulating the virus in the first place. We remember not too long ago the when we finally made the announcement that we would be opening gyms and hair salons and nail salons. Just think about how good it felt to feel normal. To go and get your hair done or your nails done or to go and workout at the gym and enjoy your time there, but just think about how much more important it was to the people who were finally able to open their business, who were finally able to get a paycheck, who finally had some level of certainty in their lives that they would be able to take care of themselves. Now, think about whats happening now. Im sure that so many of those people are scared. Last week we told the restaurants that they would no longer be able to operate indoors. What that meant was not only layoffs, but it also meant that there was a lot of lost revenue because of the food that they no longer were able to use. When you think about some of the things and the sacrifices that people are making, thats what makes me continue as much as i want to be around people and i want to be around friends and family, its why i choose to make sure that i am doing my part by keeping my distance and by avoiding large crowds and by not getting complacent. Its not just because im the mayor of the city and i am asking you to do, but its because i want to get our kids back in school. It pains me every time we have to make an announcement to close a business because i know what that means financially for that business. And it has been very, very difficult for so many people. We know that since the pandemic began, almost 300,000 san franciscans have filed for unemployment. And we know that people continue to suffer financially. And we also know that people are still in the hospital and people are nervous and concerned about their own personal health. We know that we disproportionately have seen a lot of infections in our latino community, and we made significant investments and we are seeing a real difference. Im really proud of that work, but theres more that needs to be done because when we look at the data, which has been the driving force behind every decision that we have made, we make good decisions. We make adjustments as it relates to the data. One of those such adjustments is moving soma location, a testing location, to the alamany Farmers Market because we know in this community which touches the o. M. I. , touches the bayview hunters point, and it touches that whole region, we know there is a need for more access, more consistent testing. This location was doing over 500 tests a day, and in San Francisco, were going close to 5,000 tests a day. When i think about how far weve come, being able to provide people their test results anywhere between 24 and 48 hours, it is significant. When i look at the maps of what shows us specifically where the areas which carry the higher infection rates and where the areas are that have testing both public and private, we have to make an adjustment. We had no choice. So tomorrow that location will be at the Farmers Market. And i am really grateful to the department of Public Health and the work that was done in order to make the adjustment and to move the site to this specific location as well as the work that has been done to get us to this point where we are adjusting to the needs of the people of San Francisco. This will continue to be a challenge, and its hard to get up here and tell people that youre going to have to close your business. Youre going to have to make some adjustments. Cant see your grandmother who is in a nursing facility. You cant hang out with your friends. Children cant spend time with one another like they used to. It pains me. And so because of that, we need everyones cooperation so that peoples lives arent impacted as a result of our decisions. Weve come a long way, San Francisco. We have been a leader on combatting this virus. We should be so proud that weve done an incredible job. And now im asking for more. And i know its hard. I know its hard every single day that you have to make that decision. I know its hard, but im asking for more. As we come upon the Holiday Season with different kind of flu and hopefully you got your flu shot, we know that this is going to be a next tough couple of months. So lets continue to do our part. Lets continue to be creative and keep our distance. Lets minimize the number of households and the people that we interact with. Lets cutback on those holiday dinners with large families gathering on the inside. Lets do what we can so that we can see the change. And as we see the change, that will put us in a better situation to begin to reopen our city and to put our economy back on track and to put our kids back in school and to look behind us and say because of everything we did, we are in a better place and we are so grateful for the sacrifices that we all made to get there. Thank you, all, so much for your cooperation, and at this time, i want to introduce dr. Grant colfax to talk specifically about the data, where we are, what we need to continue to do, and information from the department of Public Health. Dr. Grant colfax. Good afternoon and thank you mayor breed. We are now experiencing on the national, state, and regional level. So let me be clear that San Francisco is in the midst of the major surge of covid19 cases. It is sobering that we have reached this point again. As you know, this is the third surge we have experienced and unfortunately, the virus is moving aggressively in our community. Unlike the previous two surges, this surge is impacting every state in the nation. In the last two weeks, deaths have increased and the c. D. C. Cited a new record and as you can see on this slide, San Francisco is trending behind the National Average of cases per 100,000. And that is no reason for us to believe that we couldnt catch up to the average and catch up quickly. And in california, we are seeing the fastest growth in daily cases since the pandemic began. The rate of increase that we are seeing in california is faster and steeper than the summer surge. And here in San Francisco we are seeing an explosion of new cases throughout is city becoming more widespread. We are now averaging 10 dayses per 100,000 people in the red zone and you can see represented in the blue bars the sharp increases in cases we have had since october. And the black line represents the sevenday rolling average of new cases in our city. From october 10 to november 10, daily new covid cases jumped from an average of 29 cases a day with the additional perspective, let me share additional numbers. It took us 29 days to go from 11,000 to 12,000 total cases in San Francisco. It took us 18 days to go from 12,000 to 13,000. And now we anticipate that it will take us just 12 days to go from 13,000 to 14,000 cases. Lets go to the next slide. This slide shows the increase in cases in San Francisco per 100,000. You see the rapid rise. This rate of rise is higher than ever before. Right now the other Health Indicators remain stable. The hospitalizations remain stable at the green level. However, and unfortunately, we do expect to see an increase in hospitalizations. We currently have sufficient hospital beds in i. C. U. And intensive care unit capacity, but if the surge continues, we could exceed that capacity as, unfortunately, we are seeing in certain regions and states across the country. And we continue to test more than 5800 people a day with the testing rate and Contact Tracing over 85 of cases. So let me take a moment to talk about the state tier changes. Today the state announced they have seen an increase in cases and in most cases that increase has been dramatic. The state has placed them in the most restrictive purple tier. And we have moved from the least restrictive tier, yellow, to where virus transmission is minimal to this red tier where virus transmission is substantial. That means instead of moving back to just one tier to orange as was previously anticipated under is state system, we have unfortunately moved back two tiers. This is indicative of how fast and due to the red tier designation, we will have to have people return to return to remote work and reduce gyms and indoor climbing walls to 10 capacity. I do not want to continue to move backwards. Additional restrictions could be necessary if each of us does not take immediate action today to do our part to limit the spread of the virus. So lets take a moment and think about that. Lets think about how that relates to the upcoming holidays that i wish we could celebrate in the normal times. Next week is thanksgiving. So as hard as it is to say this, please do not travel. Please do not travel. Stay at home with the immediate household. As hard as it might be, we must exercise caution and do our part. And please do not use testing to determine whether you can travel or not. We have seen the repeated failure, the repeated failure of this type of testing strategy across the country including in washington, d. C. A negative test cannot be an excuse to put yourself or others at risk. Remember, please remember, that people who test negative can still harbor the virus if they are early in their infection. That is why when people are exposed to the virus, they must quarantine for 14 days regardless of their test results. San francisco, once again, we simply must double down or triple down and do everything we can to stop the spread of the virus. We cannot be reckless or complacent and take everything precaution to protect ourselves, our family and the community. The choices we, the choices you, the choices i make in the next two weeks will determine the remainder of the Holiday Season. We have the ability to bead back the third surge in other parts of the country. And we can choose by the actions we take this week and the upcoming week. The safest way to celebrate is to to not expose and i strongly recommend against it and strongly recommend against it keep it to no more than six people and keep the masks on, period. The best way is to give your friends and family the gift of good health. As we have learned, the past months is we have learned that together we can beat it back. So we have done it twice and we can do it again. I know that everyone is tired and fatigued. And i know i can sound like a broken record. But covid 19 is not resting. And neither can we. Remember, we know how to sol slow the spread of the virus. Limit gatherings and wear your mask and lets be cautious, diligent and safe. Lets make sure that we and our loved ones are here for that vaccine so that we can really celebrate big next year. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, dr. Colfax. And welcome, madam mayor, as we begin the q and a portion. The first question somes from should Public Schools continue to aim for a january 20 target date . Absolutely. It is essential to get our schools open as safely as possible and before the science makes it clear that the spread of covid amongst elementary and middle School Students and is not the same as amongst adults and kids who are in high school. So we know what the data is. We know that educators and others are involved and we know that its so critical that between now and january we do the work to prepare to safely open as quickly and possible. So we are hopeful to get to a better place. They have provided a significant amount of resources to continue the process so that we are prepared to open as quickly and safely as possible. We now have a few healthrelated questions for director colfax. In terms of testing, is there an increase in demand or are they providing better access . As the major mentioned, we are to go to where the virus is now averaging 5800 tests a day, higher than any other jurisdictions we are aware of. And from the beginning we focus on insuring that people have access to the testing to the essential workers who have symptoms and who have a high rf risk exposure and who do not have insurance. The city is also currently conducting 55 of the 5800 tests. With the probably testing and kaiser, for instance, has greatly eliminated many barriers in testing. Any explanation on this . This reflects the overall surge from across the city and is important to emphasize that the virus remains concentrated in the communities most impacted by the the the virus and it is important no matter where you are that everyone does their part to reduce the risk of the viral transmission. This is not a time to let up and not a time to socialize in close quarters with other people. Keep activities outdoors and wear the masks. Thank you, doctor. The last set of questions. Is there any plan to reduce ak pan si at retail store or personal services such as salons . To reduce occupancy. And if San Francisco were to drop to purple, what would that mean for businesss . We are focussing on trying to keep from moving further backward which is why it is so important as the Holiday Season that we see the surge that everyone do their part. If we do into purple, we will need to take the steps that the state requires and purple require. Right now we do not have any media plans to place further restrictions. As you know, Indoor Dining closed on saturday. This is with madam mayor for your time. There are no further questions and this concludes todays press conference. Thank you. Coping with covid19 with chris manning. Hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching coping with covid19. My guest today is tanya peterson. Shes the director of the San Francisco zoo on sloat boulevard, and shes here today to talk about how the zoos managing during the pandemic and how theyre reopening. Tanya, thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Im really pleased to hear that the zoo has reopened again. Thats great news. Can you tell us what changes youve made to make visitors to the zoo feel comfortable and safe when theyre there. I understand now you have to make reservations, and theres only a limited Number Available each day. We were making changes before shelter in place. Fortunately, because we work with animals, and we have a vet hospital onsite, we have the safe coverings before the shelter in place. While we were closed, we made some internal and external changes. The first one, i guess, would be online reservations. You now need to make reservations to visit the zoo, just like your favorite dinner restaurant. That is an effort to slow down congestion. Try to keep everything smooth, and we can control the number of families coming in over the course of time. Thats great. What about the indoor exhibits and the playground. Are those off limits now . Well, theyre not off limits, but the playground, we had we had started Child Care Program for essential workers even when we were closed, and the playground is used exclusively by our Child Care Programs. So if you can think of the zoo, 100 acres, about a good third of it right now is reserved for child care, so what we do is we have the weve got the children in their safe pods. Theyre with each other for three weeks. Theyre in a controlled environment, and in the morning, one pod has the playground, we disinfect, and in the afternoon, another pod comes. All indoor spaces were closed before the shelter in place. The one thing im asked most frequently about is the train. We have a 100yearold train, and as soon as we can disinfect that, well get that open, because thats the number one question i guess, when is the train reopening. Is there a map how youre supposed to walk around the zoo . Yes. In certain areas, we created a oneway path. We try to make it fun. Theyre generally in the shape of bear paws and colored you know, follow the blue bear paws, follow the red bear paws but weve tried to make it fun. When children have not been out for three months, they were climbing anything and everything. We didnt anticipate that, so we put coverings open water fountains, statue signs. Kids had been cooped up, so they went crazy the first few days. More control in place. That sounds great. How did the zoos residents respond to a lack of visitors. Did you observe any behavioral differences . Absolutely. We have some shy residents, gorillas and orangs. We have a male orangutan, he would blow me kisses. The rhinos, they would come out when i would feed them. How does it feel to have the zoo open again to the general public, even if its a limited fashion . It feels fantastic. Im a mother, and i know its been hard on kids. To be able to open safely outdoors were one of the few zoos on an ocean, so youve got the coastal air coming through. We see families or selfascribed pods coming through. Its been great for our staff and for our visitors. Its been heart warming, all the true experiences the first few days. Clearly. You have a lot of mouths to feed. How did you cope with the pandemic so far . Were you able to get some financial assistance, and how can viewers contribute if theyd like to . Well, thank you. We received some help, but we burned through that quickly, and we received some financial donations. We burned through a lot of our funding, and we were really feeling it. All of the people who supported us and hung in there, i thank you. You can join as a member. Its a tax deduction. David attenborough said it best. If the zoo becomes extinction, we all do. In the wild, poachers are getting the best of the wild anima animals, but i think with the help of the zoo and the community, we can save the animals. Where can i go if i want to donate . You can go to sfzoo. Org. You can join, become a member or make a donation. It takes about 30,000 a day to feed all of our 2,000 animals, so you can pick how you want to help. Well, i appreciate you coming onto the show today, miss peterson. Thank you. The animals and i thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Youve been watching coping with covid19. For sfgovtv, im chris manners. Thanks for watching. We are, we are at the balboa movie theater, but youre not going to be watching a movie today. Maybe tonight, but not during the daytime outside. Thank you all for being here. Im San Francisco mayor london breed, and im joined by a number of folks who ill introduce later to speak. But i wanted to take this opportunity to just start with, really, how far weve come. Its been a very, very challenging seven months in San Francisco. When this pandemic first hit, we had to make some really hard decisions. And with those hard decisions, we knew it was not only going to hit our economy as a whole, but it was going to have a tremendous impact on our Small Businesses, especially businesses in the community. We saw, within the first time that we closed in the month of april, we saw unemployment go to over 60,000 people, and as of today, we have over 200,000 people who have filed for unemployment. Weve seen businesses close, and some that we have gone to our entire lives, weve seen them close permanently. Weve had to balance a 1. 5 billion budget deficit in San Francisco. Its been hard. Our unemployment before the pandemic was less than 2 , and at its height, went to 12 , and today, its 8 . So yes, from an economic standpoint, we have had some really challenges in our city, and the good news is that because we are a resilient city, there have been a lot of adjustments. Weve adapted, weve improvised, and when movie theaters called, what was it call . Oh, popcorn thursday. The hon. London breed i remember the first movie you played was clueless, and i was all excited about that. It was look, we cant have it inside, but lets particultake the streets. Lets come together as a community to enjoy something that all of us have missed, and thats going to the movies. And in addition with that jazz permit that we provide, it allows them to provide jazz music. Adapting is what we do best. Do we want to do it . No. We want to maintain our businesses and serve the community, but in the course of this pandemic, ive got to tell you, im so proud to be a san franciscan. Im so proud of what everyone has done to just say, you know what . Well figure it out. Well do the best we can. Well make changes, like these parklets and some of the great ideas that came out of carmen chu and the Economic Recovery Task force to say, lets make some adjustments. Lets try and continue to support our businesses in a way that we didnt before. And even though it has been challenging, i dont know how you feel about these incredible pa parklets that are all over San Francisco, but i feel like the city is alive again. And part of what we have to do in addition to some of the hard decisions weve had to make, we have to make decisions to get our economy going again, and that means making the right kinds of investments. Today, i want to announce that we are making an additional 7. 4 Million Investment into the Jobsnow Program. And some of you might be wondering, what is jobsnow . In 2009, when we had the previous economic recession in this country under president barack obama, we had programs like cal fresh and job assistance. I was the executive director of the African American art and culture complex, and there were people that qualified for the Jobsnow Program, they started to work for me at the African American art and culture complex, and our organization got money to pay their salary. Now one time, they were late with the checks, trent. You remember that time, when i called you, wondering when is it coming . When is it coming . Ive got to meet payroll. Well, that program happened. Over 26,000 people were served, and many of them still working today. And so carmen chu, what was head of who was head of this Economic Recovery Task force, provided a lot of recommendations. And one of those recommendations was to get people back to work, we should look at investing more in the Jobsnow Program. To support Small Businesses, we should make it easier for them to get help from this Jobsnow Program, and thats exactly what were doing here today, because what we want to make sure is when people reopen, that they are able to hire people, but theyre not generating the revenue that they want to generate. So this is another way that we can support our Small Business community. I remember, i went to a coffee shop in my neighborhood. And ive been going there many, many years, but this was the first time ive met the owner of the coffee shop. He told me that he couldnt afford to bring his employees back right away. So thats why programs like jobsnow and making programs like that available, its all about helping people. We want to get our economic going, we want to get people back to work, we want to support our Small Businesses. We want to make sure that we come back out of this pandemic more successful and stronger more than ever before, because this is San Francisco. This is what we do, and this is one further step towards meeting that goal. I want to thank the San Francisco chamber of commerce for their work and their support. I want to thank ucsf for being an incredible partner with the jobs now program, and i really want to express my appreciation to this community, to folks in the richmond, because i know that its been hard, even before the pandemic, that this community sometimes feels neglected and forgotten. And as a native san franciscan, i want to make sure that so many outskirts of our city, that they receive the resources and help that they need to thrive. That is my goal, that is my hope, and that is my desire, and thats why it was important for me to come to this community. Weve got a lot of work to do, folks, and that is why we need to do as a city is make sure that we are not creating policies in a bubble. We want to make sure that we understand what the needs are of the folks that have the businesses out here, and that we are able to respond to these needs in a way that makes it easier for you to do business in San Francisco but also makes you a success in San Francisco. That is my goal. That is why im excited about this incredible program. Ive worked with this program directly, as i said, before, and because of my experience in the jobs now program and getting my check late, i made it clear to trent that we have to do better with not this reimbursement model. Weve got to get folks their payroll. So at this time, i want to introduce trent rorrer whos going to talk a little bit about the program, how Small Businesses can connect to the program, and how quickly theyre going to get reimbursed from the program. Trent . Thank you, mayor breed. As mayor breed said, im trent rhorer, executive director of the citys Human Services agency. The jobsnow was borne out of president Barack Obamas jobs program. We immediately in the city seized on the opportunity right after 2009, when it passed, which, in its first year under the stimulus act, placed over 5,000 people in subsidized jobs. This went to unemployed san franciscans, san franciscans on benefits, and impacted hundreds of thousands of san franciscans, businesses big and small, and it was able to make a big impact on the recession. So this time, mayor breed didnt wait to pass a stimulus packages to assist residents and the unemployed, and its a good thing she didnt because wed still be waiting. In it, she included 7 million to the Human Services agency to expand jobsnow to serve an additional 3,700 people as well as businesses looking to reopen, to expand, or to simply start a new business. This mayors investment, as she said, is in line with the City Investments programs. So what is jobsnow . Its the Subsidized Employment Program that we at the Human Services agency operate that matches lowincome unemployed or underplayed people with Job Opportunities in the public sector, the private sector, and also the nonprofit. What is subsidized employment . It is a job strategy that uses public dollars, in this case, over 7 million, to reimburse employers for the wages that they pay to workers that are hired through jobs now. The idea behind the program is very simple and straightforward. As businesses are thinking about opening for the first time or reopening or expanding, theres obviously a lot of uncertainty, given the pandemic, and given the local connect rig economy right now. Things like what will be the Customer Base when it reopens . How immediate and how robust will the supply chain be . All of these thinks are what employers are thinking about when theyre thinking about rehiring. So its all about us saying say, lets lessen your risk and allowing you to pay for a large risk in your business, which is wages. The other benefit of jobsnow which isnt talked about a lot, but other people who participate in the program will talk about it, is it takes care of businesses hiring needs. The Human Services agency does the Job Announcements, the outreach, resume screening based on the skills of the people that were working with. Rearrange all the incident we arrange all the interviews. It allows the employer to get all that work done by us rather than the employers who are thinking about other Critical Issues related to reopening and expansion and other things. Time and time again, in 2009, we heard from employers who said this program is great. But even the best thing, above the wage replacement, is we are meeting their Human Resources needs. They wouldnt have to place a Job Announcement on craigslist, schedule interviews, and have one person show up. We do everything. So we are offering several tiers of wage reimbursement to meet the specific needs of businesses. Im not going to go into the different tiers and the levels, but i want to talk more broadly about what our strategy is. Were offering the deepest subsidies to businesses that are trying to reopen and rehire staff that they had to layoff or businesses opening for the first time. For these situations, were reimbursing 100 of the wages for the first three months and 50 of the wages for the next three months. [applause] ill take that. Were also not excluding existing businesses, of course, well reimburse businesses 1500 a month for the First Six Months depending on the wages that theyre offering and their ability to offer full time or parttime work. Initially, the program is designed to meet San Franciscos residents needs who are enrolled in benefit services. But this is going to allow us to open up this to any job seeker in San Francisco. If theyre unemployed, if theyre underemployed and generally, someone whos unemployed is lowincome. If theyre unemployed or underemployed, theyre eligible for jobsnow. So well be partnering with the office of workforce development, and doing a biggobig Outreach Campaign so that any san franciscan knows they can come to jobsnow, and well get them a job. Right now, more than 270,000 san franciscans have filed for unemployment. At this time in 2009, about 44,000 san franciscans applied for unemployment. A year ago, the Unemployment Rate at this time was 1. 8 . Were now well over 8 . In addition, the public assistance caseloads have sky rocketed. Were seeing thousands and tens of thousands of people applying for food stamps, and calfresh services to provide for their families. Even as importantly, if not more importantly, the Small Business owner to my right, its a benefit for Small Businesses and Large Businesses struggling in San Francisco to stay open or who are trying to reopen. All the citys 311 line. Theyll connect you or sfhsa. Org sla sfhsa. Org jobsnow. I want to thank our partners like the mayor, but also our other partners. Office for workforce development, Joaquin Torres and joshua arce, and then, the cochairs of the citys Economic Recovery Task force, rodney fong, the president of the chamber of commerce, as well as assessor carmen chu, for their vision and their leadership in crafting an economic Recovery Plan thats sure to make a difference for our citizens and our residents. So im really happy to introduce one of the cochairs, assessor carmen chu. [applause] thank you very much, trent. Couldnt be more pleased to be here today, and i want to just start off by sharing my deep appreciation for the mayors leadership in all of this. I know that many of you are aware that its through her leadership and her vision that brought together businesses small and large, community leaders, and nonprofits to put forth ideas to assist in recovery. Im joined by awe teen torres from eowd as oewd as well as Joaquin Torres from oewd as well as my cochair, rodney San Francisco, from the chamber of commerce. Through the partnership of our professionals at the department of Public Health, weve put forward a plan that has been thoughtful and measured, something that has put San Francisco apart from the rest of this nation. Were one of the only counties in the state of california to have just recently hit the yellow tier, the least restrictive tier when it comes to the state tiering system. But not only that, we did it in a way that was responsible, in a way that didnt ping pong businesses back and forth to open and close, to open and close. These are really hard decisions, tough things to do, but i think that San Francisco did it right. This doesnt mean that we dont have a lot to do, that we can let down our guards, but it shows that we can reopen and do it safely. But just because we say that were opening businesses, that restaurants can open, that movie theaters can reopen, it doesnt mean that businesses can come back. Through our conversations with folks in the neighbor, weve heard about how even with reopening, people are really worried about bringing back their memployees. Do employees feel safe coming back to work . These are questions that many of our businesses do face. Thats why a program like jobsnow and its 7. 4 million is so incredibly important. Its a way for Small Businesses to be able to make those choices to bring people back in a responsible way that help them get through this time. If youre a Small Business, and youre wondering whether youre going to see customers coming in through your doors, youre going to have the ability to hire someone and get those wages reimbursed for the first three months and 50 for the three months afterwards. Thats a big deal. I certainly would do that if i was a Small Business, and i think this Jobsnow Program creates the stage to get the help that all our businesses need to get in the right space. So again, i couldnt be more pleased as a member of the Economic Recovery Task force, representing my cochairs and all the members of the community to see this investment come back and be made in San Francisco. Thank you, mayor breed, for your wonderful investment and for your wonderful leadership. [applaus [applause] and with that, i am really pleased to announce our next speaker, someone who i have come to know, and the owner of this wonderful establishment that we all know and love in the Richmond District. Adam is going to be coming up to say a few words on behalf of not only the Richmond District but the balboa theater. Hello. Im Adam Bergeron of the balboa theat theater. We thought we had used this stimulus money and the p. P. P. And the loan money, but this has just gone on for so long, that even though strategically using it, we just ran out of our p. P. P. Money last thursday, so now were in a position where the rubber is hitting the road. Its time to make some pretty big decisions, and it was right at that moment that i was turned on by my friend to the possibility of jobsnow, and it really does seem like this could be a lifeline to get us from now to the end of the pandemic to keep some of the valuable staff that we have on board, right, and be able to bridge that gap until were in a spot where we feel a little more kment about business, the ability to do business. You know, the theater business is a little unique in that i think were all a little weary of being in a room with people for hours, and its something we need to consider if were allowed to reopen, whats going to be the financial viability of the business, and is it going to be safe . Thanks, everybody, mayor breed, and thanks, everybody. [applause] the hon. London bree i want to join ucsf in thanking mayor breed for bringing us together, and putting San Francisco back to work by expanding the Jobsnow Program. Ucsf is the second largest employer in San Francisco, and for us, ensuring that our workforce reflects the communities that were in is part of a longstanding commitment and critical to our priorities. The health and Science Field is a huge job generator in San Francisco. At a time when other parts of our economy are struggling to survive and recover from covid19, ucsf is committed to doing our part in creating a skilled workforce, not just for our employees, but for the communities we serve. I served on mayor breed kazz task force, and i, too, want to thank the leadership for rodney fong and carmen chu, and thank you for the work that the Economic Recovery Task force has done in the last few months. Briefly, i just want to talk a little bit about our excel program. Since 2010, ucsf has worked with the city to create jobs through our excellent Community Engagement learning or excel. It uses live virtual classroom training and onthejob experience to prepare san franciscans for administrative jobs in health care. Students participate ten weeks of training. Next, theyre placed in paid, four month clerical and administrative internships with ucsfs campus and our medical center. We provide ongoing internship support throughout the duration of the program as well as job placement assistance when our interns graduate. To be eligible, you must be a San Francisco resident 18 years or older, with a High School Diploma or g. E. D. , proficient in english, able to pass a basic Office Skills assessment, and able to pass a criminal background check, Occupational Health check, and Background Health screen. Ucsf interns earn 14. 25 an hour during their trernship. We have recently increased our cycles per year. Since weve started excel, weve graduated 230 interns, and just to let you know a little bit of who our graduates are, half our African American. Almost 25 are latinx, and 92 are female. Ucsf is offering well paying jobs for women of color in San Francisco. Our next cycle will start training on monday, november 9. I want to acknowledge josh arce and Joaquin Torres for the projects that were doing in the construction field. Were working hard to increase our hires at impact in San Francisco. Thank you for your leadership, mayor breed, and thanks again for the work of the Economic Recovery Task force. [applause] the hon. London breed all right. Thank you so much. As was said, ucsf has been an incredible partner, not just in the jobs program, but they have been incredible in helping to lead our response to covid, so we truly appreciate ucsf and the work that they continue to do. I want to take this opportunity to also acknowledge Joaquin Torres, who is right over here. He is the director of the office of economic and workforce development, and if any of you are small Business Owners, please call him directly for any any questions, any assistance. If you want to know what the city is doing or you want to ask some questions, joaquin is absolutely incredible. Now if you are looking for a job, josh arce will give you his cell phone number because these are the two tag team folks who are really about making sure that we get to people and provide opportunities in this city. It is so important that we get people back to work, and we do so safely. I want to also just take this opportunity to acknowledge that there have been so many people helping in our economic recovery and our response. You know, i was telling adam how now, i feel bad, when i was here watching wonder woman, i got kicked out of the theater with my friends because we were talking. I had to explain, black people, were talking in the movie theater. Were telling people what to do and whatnot not to do. But any way, i have so many incredible memories of this incredible neighborhood. Im so lucky to be here with one of the local Business Owners who owns is it blue pottery . Blue stone pottery. They dont just sell pottery, but they sell a lot of other items that are cute gift issues, and i want to introduce one of the owners, margel howard, who is here today [applause] thank you. Thank you, mayor breed, for being here. Weve got a lot of star power on balboa street today, which is really tlihrilling and amazg for us Business Owners. Several years ago, i cofounded the balboa village merchants association, and our members, like Adam Bergeron whos done Amazing Things with the theater and has adapted so well at the movie theater, hes got these amazing bags. At least one of our family members is wearing a balboa theater tshirt, and theres a cafe right down the street, according to my daughter, they have the best b. L. T. On the strip. You might want to try that out. These have been trying times as Business Owners. The