Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240703

This moteingly will come to order. Good morning and welcome at this time machine october 23, 2023 meeting of rules of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Im supervisor dorsey chair and im joined by vice chair walton and Committee Number safai. Together we like to express gratitude to our clerk victor young and thanks to sfgovtv for broadcast todays meeting and today our producer mr. Jason goldhammer. Mr. Clerk . I like to reminds you to silence phone and electronics. Documents provided me will be include part of the file as should be submitted to myself. Items are expect today appear on the supervisor agenda on october 31, 2023 unless otherwise stated. That completes my announcements. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1 Charter Amendment. To amend the charter of the city of an fran establish Staffing Levels sworn officers of the Police Department requiring a period of 5 years the mayor and the board of supervisors appropriate funds to meet Staffing Levels establishing a Police Full Staffing fun for a period of 5 years the purpose of facilitating minimum staffing and allowing a temporary froze on appropriations to the funds in the budget and economic emergency and election on march 5 of 2024. Thank you. Item one the Police Full Staffing Charter Amendment. We began working on last march. Some of you may recall i anouned this publicly last april after San Franciscos flag ship whole food in civic center in my district shuttered following a year in operation. Their reason for the closure was safety occurrence for employees and customers. It is high profile issues with retail theft. Drug behavioral issue and drug over doses unwelcome attention in National News reports. Sad low we know that the whole food system not alone among business in San Francisco. That site safety concerns for reasons that hay have closed. We know, tooshg safety has been a concern and few are conventions and diminishing tourisms hamstrings pest covid adequate recovery and employment outlook. Many businesses in the all of them struggle. After a year and a half on the board i can say what 90 of complaints i hear from boil down to a difficult proof we dont have enough Police Officers to address the occurrence we voice objections about. I have never believed more strong low than today this San Francisco can no long are afford not to have a fully staffed Police Department. And this gives voters the opportunity to accomplish this. San francisco has experienced police short falls never in our modern history our police under staffing crisis as serious as today. Well sdmus this hearing we have an updated recommended staffing level this is low are due to a drop in calls per service left year. The new staffing level is 2, sfoor full Duty Officers that will bring the cost of the measure down and i will prosecute pose amendments to reflect this update i will discuss short low. Important low that number is the product of a thoughtful process established over a few years under the leadership of formy supervisor and president norman yee. That was an excellent process this developed a work load independently recommended methodology that was guided by outside experts. It reflects a needed improvement over the prior staffing minimum in our charter there since 1994 up to 2020. 25 years froze the staffing level at 1971 full duty Police Officers. Unfortunately, San Francisco today is nowhere near our recommended staffing level. For that matter were not notoriety old minimum staffing before repealed in prop e or number of fuel duty sworn receives is just 1475 wore 600 fuel Duty Officers short. And near low 30 of the Police Department is in the there. More then and there 350 concern populars are eli didnt believe for retirement now. If we dont act bold low with i mandate from voters i believe we face a police fers this could be half strength. Had charter maam endeavoured prevent this. Here is how it works. For the reestablish a minimum staffing level of 2, 074 full duty in 5 years. Unlike the 94 Charter Amendment a static number tell enable adjustments to minimum staffing level in years to come. Second, give us full staff nothing a way that is doable over time. With graduateded targets over 5 years the amendments i will read in the record today lower those targets by 1 huh human officers making this approach more faredable and workable. Starting in july of 2024, if enacted the staffingly level would go from 1700 full duty Police Officers in yeesh one to 1800 in year 2. Then 1900 in year 3 and 2,000 in year 4 and final low a fully staffed sfpd 2, 074 in year 5. Would you like to pause. Let the people settle. [no audio] excuse me i would like to ask the room if you can be silent we near session if someone can translate that would be appreciated. Thank you, everybody. Are we opening over flow. Tell take a few minutes. There will be over flow seating im going to ask this everybody remember this is an open session if you could just be quiet down a bit and i dont know if we have a translator to translate we are in open session and over flow seating. Okay. You can use the microphone. Microphone okay. Thank you very much like to refinds sign holders you cannot have signs botch your head must be chest level or below we dont want to block the view of others and we will set up over flow and tick to you this recommend had it is set up. Thank you very much. Great. We are setting it up. Resume describing the Charter Amendment i appreciate everyone being quiet as we get ready for have over flow seating available. And i was describing that the way the charter will work minimal Staffing Levels grut in the year one from 1700 full Duty Officers to 1800 Police Officers in year 2. Many002,000 and year 52, 074 fully staffed Police Department. Tell include a mrekable set, side mandate commit the city it pay for every officer hired without funding needless low if we cant hire enough Police Officers to be new recruits. And to help with this the third per of the measure will credit a Police Full Staffing fund for 5 years. That will get us the resources to compete with other cities and recruit out of the crisis set at 75 thousand dollars per officer short of the minimum staffing a max of 400 positions this 75,000 nub reflects an prop taken by city cross the bay. Which is successful low solving the staffing problem with structured recruiting bonus 75 thousand dollars. This fund will prioritize diversity recruiting. Sfpd reform work is based upon. The fourth and final leadership of the amendment the budget emergency safe guard allow a temp refer froze in staffing and funding if our city projected deficit determined to exceed 250 Million Dollars. A fully staffed police force in San Francisco will improve Public Safety. Will enable San Francisco to effectively deter crime and prosecute void Better Police service it residents. Tellrous the need for cost low over time requires taxpayers to penned more money for less policing simple low to meet the basics of deploy am. Over time savings alone could pay for significant portion of the measure. As determined by the city controller analysis. I want to reiterate my gratitude to the city control exert his team. I am appreciative of the creativity brought to developing a flexible prop enables us to commit to fund positions if we hire them without looking up dollars if we cant that is i good approach i hope will be replicated in future set asides and grateful to cosponsors supervisors Joel Engardio and mandelman and city ahern daved chu and thank you to chief scott. Whos leadership on Police Reforms is under appreciated the expertise you and your team brought to this gives me confidence this prop we are proposing will work and make no make, Police Full Staffing will fulfill the promise of Police Reform thankful to mayor breed and her teams the support was helpful. We worked together for many weeks and we agreed on the plan i think will work and break the bank. Im grateful to the pro coalition of community sperpt here and the last mont we presented it dozens of communal associations across the city and westbound support from the groups focused on improving the city more then and there a thousand residence denial and organizations signed petition in support. And more are coming in each day. District 6 in downtown are behind this proposal as well from the business and Tourism Community to resident his welcome the support of organizations the hotel council, sf travel. And the golden gate restaurant association. Hoas and Management Association all of the cbds in my districts and residence denials and others im grateful to those i met with not supportive or reserving support for being willing to take part in the conversation which is important to our city. Im committed to say in that conversation and find agreement where we can on this Charter Amendment and other things that will come before us and months years to come and i want to express gratitude to my colleagues submit have spoken with and some i cant because of the brown act i will have a conversation today. And i will be working heard to earn your support for a michelle believe will deliver on the promise of a fully staffed Police Department that san ve san franciscans derby. Now if there are no questions or comments i will welcome chief of police scott to rules committee to present on this item. Chief scott, welcome. The floor is yours. Good morning. Thank you are chair dorsey and good morning walton and safai and to the public. To hear this matter. Of im bill scott the chief of police of San Francisco Police Department i have been invited to present on the current staffing and impacts and the staffing crisis we have here in the city. I will copresent with command are nicole jones and peter walsh and also director patrick lowon and director diana. Next slide. Of the so. Before i start i wanted to lay a fundation and context about the National Conversation about staffing and policing. In 2023 this. Is a National Conversation and all over the country row we see Police Departments in major cities that are facing Staffing Shortage and crisis. And basically that that does for all of us all different departments across the country is it makes for a competitive environment to recruit Police Officers. With this, competitiveness and the impacts of this we have to be one step ahead of everybody else to get the best candidate and get them not only recruited but recruited through back ground and higher beforure competitors. And the impact of this department having the best opportunity to do this will really cause us to be better competitive in terms of the market it is competitive. Next slide. I will talk about the last 5 years when we are seen in terms of impact with our sponse times on a, b and c calls the staffing decreased you see in 2018 our apriority calls a 7 minute on average Response Time now in 2023, that Response Time gone up to 9 minutes. For the average party calls. B, priority calls what was just urn 20 minutes now up to over 3 minutes. C priority calls these other priority calls well is still a need for Police Service but not an immediate emergency. Not a crime in progress or just occurred. These are responding to take a burglar report had the person is gone or suspect is gone. This Response Time gone from under 65 minutes to 80 minutes it is 78 minutes. This is i direct impact of staffing and the electric thereof. The staffing crisis we face in the San Francisco Police Department. And the only way we will turn that is next our Staffing Levels to match the calls for service and the other needs this department faces. As you see 20 ton to now year to date statistics the actual cause of service dropped i bit. 3 where are 5 total calls in 2021 and down to 215,000. In this year to date. Now people may ask how can calls of service. Sorry. I like to remind the audience to silence all cell phones. Thank you. Sorry. How can calls it service determine in our pregnancy times ~esque lit and go up. Policing changed the last 5 years and chair dorsey in your opening this department has embraced a Reform Initiative first with theus department of just now the California Department of justice and changed the way we police for the bert. With this come more demands. Body cameras and administrative demands. Our factics the time and distance taking times on calls these extend the times wont spend on the call special we because of that we had good out come. With the changes in policing. Takes more people to dot same w we did 510 years ago. With that the impact on not investigate visible officers make its harder to dot things we worked put in place. We will do it but we have to change the narrative in terms of staffing even with calls going down we see the bottom chart our crisis intervention type of calls these are people who are in some type of crisis med we respond to. And our department has really put effort and train nothing to responding to those call in a way that really yielded better out come when you look at the numbers we are at 25,000 of those types of calls and will exceed 30,000 calls the time this year it done even though we put a lot of the city we put infrastructure in place like the Fire Department Crisis Response team. We had Public Health practical. The calls are i part of where we are going with policing in the city and even though our models will hopefully lessen the need for Police Officers with some calls we are to respond with criminal activity and violence even though the priority is there we have to be there with them or without them depending how height level violence. The point being, the calls will in the go, way and gwen points to staffing. We need the staff to handle the calls. I will lay context i talked about statistics today, the reality of the Public Safety picture in San Francisco is also very much dependant upon how people feel about safety in the staechlil show you video that paint a picture you will see the conversation about how people feel about safety. And the reason this is so important is because we are measured by Crime Statistics homicides, car break in. Burglars. Thefts. All very important and it does paint a picture in terms of what has been report period what we measure up. Year to year and monthly and daily. However statistic give little solice how people feel they feel the way they feel based on their lived experiences or experience of others who share those experience. Not only with people but these experiences oftentimes end up on social media and they paint an image of our city this we have t turn around. Policing is a part of turning around. Organized retail theft we made good arrests until we have a way the public feels safe we have much work to do. And time and again one thing that turns this around is having enough Police Officers on the streets in the patrol cars. In the foot beat on the motorcycle units. On the bicycles. Those other type of things that will turn the narrative around. And when you seat videos and the couple minutes of vos it paints the picture of the other challenges we are dole with we will start with the first video. You can see the city is impacted by crime and regardless of had the statistics say and there are statistics this are positive in our crime picture. Burglars are down and car breakins down. Shootings are down. But that you see here is how people feel a million vows on the occur break in video has to be turn exclude we are really Good Strategies to deal we dont have enough receives to do the strategies and scale. And the impact of puting Police Department in a more Competitive Position in my mind is very important to turning narrative around. We change this it will take the Police Department along with the public and along with our officials to do this. With that im going to turn the presentation over to command are jones and deputy chief for the next part of the presentation. Thank you. Good morning. Ooem command are nicole jones here to talk about sfpd staffing analysis efforts and you we determined had the right number was for staffing. I spent the left 6 wherever working on staffing related issues on behalf of the Department Im familiar with the recent history here. I was involved in the work in 2017 with controller on staffing work load analysis for sector patrol. In 2018 i was tasked with establishing sfpd first staffing deplayment unit focused full time and staffing related. Im familiar with sfpd data set buzz of had. I was involved in the Consulting Group work a bench mark staffing report. Over saw out put of in house staffing report mandated by prop e in 2021. As well as the released 2023 updated proposition e staffing report. The chief spoke to Public Safety drives staffing needs. Maintaining our basic levels of service. It important to understand to understand why we need when we need and why we are working to try to get Staffing Levels up. Im going to walk you through the time lines how sfpd staffing needs evolved over time. First staffing analysis of sfpd done by the plea Research Forum in 2008 after what, there were in the other Major Staffing related projects until 2017, 10 years later in 2017 the board issued resolution 6317 called for the San Francisco Police Departmented to form a task force on strategic Police Staffing. This resolution was meant to examine the sfpd baseline number of 1, 971. That supervisor dorsey mentioned. And that number was the number of full duty sworn officers and institutionalized in the chart in 1994. In early 2019, sfpd hired matrix Consulting Group a staffing expert to develop methodologies and conduct a staffing analysis of the department. Simultaneous low Staffing Task force sfpd members Police Staffing experts, city partner and did the analysts. Community members and Police Commissioners was formed. The Staffing Task force provided input and vetted it suggested by matrix and final report. The materic report was reles in the upon 2020 and recommended i base line sworn staffing level of 2, 176. Additional low in late 2020 San Francisco voters approved prop e amending the charter to remove the 1, 971 baseline staffing level. Prospect e required sfpd to submit a report every 2 years to the Police Commission for consideration. When approving the departmenty budget of the purpose of the report was it recommend base line Staffing Levels for sfpd using rigorous industry methodologies developed and utilized by materic. In 2021 the Police Commission staffing analysis and resolution 2160. Reenforcing thez by the matrix report and the first staffing report required by prop e. That report recommended base line staffing number for sfpd sworn personnel 2, 162. In 2023 sfpd finalizing the second prospect e staffing report. And this report recommends the sworn staffing baseline of 2, 074. There are several methodologies in the matrix reports well as prop e reports. The hall mark methodology for sworn staff suggest work load base this is important to understand work load drives staffing needed. Based on actual calls for service data including the number of calls. Time needed for each and the aim of staff needed to handle each call the methodology is the industry best practice. In i work load methodology targets for time spent performing certain work. Calls for service and the amount of required administrative timics 6 targeted 3545 and 2535 . This allows for 30 of unallocated prosecute active time inform line with the priorities, sfpd targeted that 30 of officers day used to engage with the community or take on tasks patrols, traffic stops and other types of work. Without this officers run from call to call unable to handle w not dictated by calls for service tht concern situation now. Because Staffing Resources are scarce few are officers are handling more call and dont have that balance of time for anything else. This depickup truckses the market deline the blue at top the recommend base line of worn officers by the respective staffing reports. Matrix recommend of 2, 176 sworn officers the 2021 prop e report had i base line of 2, 182 and again the 2023 prop e staffing report a baseline of 2, 074. The reduction in staffing base line reneglects the lesser calls of service in the fast few years. Less work load equals a need for few are officers the dip in the staffing need the baseline of 2, 74 leaves pd under staffed. We are 500 short of the updated baseline. Previously we were over 600 short. Data shows the need from desperate to still desperate. This deficit in the orange line depicts full duty Staffing Levels. Full Duty Officers those deplayable in the on leave. Not on modified duty. The number of full Duty Officers decreased from 2019. That difference in the left 5 years close to 400 officers in 2019 there was a size believe gap with staffing and the matrix base line and since the gap only widened and widened at a pace. This gap widened quickly for many reasons experienced never season exodus of nun retirement receives to other Law Enforcement agencies and other professions beginning in 2020 and peek in 2022. This slow in the 2023 and have stopped it but will not stop or slow is retirements. You see from the table, we have 391 retirement eligible officers due to age they are 50 or older of those, 153 are age 50 and older and 25 years of service or beyond. And initial 136 members 50 and old and have 20 years of service. We are seeing many officers leave before than i do their full 30 years of service. In total, 289 sworn members the age and years for a service retirement. Many were hired. If i cannot balance attrition and in the able to balance this attrition at all in the last 5 years we are losing members at a faster arrest than hire and this will continue and that gap will continue to widen the next few years unless we are able to do something drastic. What does the mean for the city . I think this say its all. This is a deficit with the recommended sworn staffing baseline and the current Staffing Levels at the stations. We are short. Very, very short. Mission station is down 72 sworn. Bayview 62. And engle side 45. And tenderloin that is received a huge influx of staffing resource system down 24 worn. Despite the supplementation in the 1 station is where they need to be staffing wise. There are 779 full Duty Officers at the stations now. And the 2023 prop e report calls for 1, 196. Full Duty Officers. So over all, we are down 417 officers and patrol. This does in the include our supervisor deficits. This means we are able to handle calls for service the basic core function of police work and not a lot else. And the calls for service are taking longer to get to. Sponse delayed times significantly. Everything beyond calls for service supplemented by over time. And form well is not sustainable. We have bent officers significant we and cant afford for them it break tht land according to staffing and the rest is over to chief walsh. Good morning. One of my duties is to over see recruiting and retention in the academy. Which is obviously the influx of where we hope to get whether they be lateral or new recruits. So had we think about recruits and laterals this is in the just anybody who applies we find people hol professional low fit our organization. But become fabric in the community and the city. If it was about hiring numbers. We would in the have i Background Investigation we noted have a team that guess over people this has to be a fit both ways not member to come in and take a place with sfpd. It becomes a long press in cases goes to competition. If you know you will get i j. W. At a faster rate. Because we put all of the these important criteria on who you are. We sometimes lose that race. Next slide. This is the historical from 2017 of recruiting. Within sfpd. And had you will notice in this is the number of applications. The application anies the very first step is tht person the right fit. Not with the metrics by state post but who can physically and be woven in our department and community. You in look those are individual hos taken the written didnt oral and the phis physical and move to background this year is year to date of 2490 and have 552 individuals got through the first hurdle. When we need to do is make the application pool bigger in order to get better candidates. This means stretching things. Had you look at the next slide this year we have 71 people who we hired. What happens is you in you are in the a dad mow and get through the academy and get through fto. This is an investment that the city is putting into the individuals. So if you look, entered fto from the 71 is 27. There are people in the academy that count for in number we have losses and attrition through that. Time period. So our plan is to hire 100 recruits for fitsical 24 and within 20 fiscal 25. Again, hiring also though we need to hire more people to keep them. So when you look back at a command are jones slides on retirements. We would be treading water we need to get ahead of those numbers. Wham is also important to the Police Department and the city is who are we hiring and how we best guest a representative mosaic of our city . You look at the recruitingerning the academy by race on the slide what you will see is an effort it get them most Diverse Group to come together to work as a team and serve the city. One thing i like to point out not necessarily evidence in this is we are really trying to make a push in getting women to join sfpd. And there are programs within that are national low recognized one is 30 by 30 which will include trying to get our force to be 30 female and spreading out to units they motive not have been in prior. Tactical units the motorcycle units and things like this. But the upon demands of roaching those benefit the department and the city again means hiring and continualy being out in recruiting process to keep the numbers up. Those cannot be one and donees cannot be move instead hopes tell happen in the future. It has to be a continuing press to retain and recruit people to be part of our team. So, next slide. Moving into when we will do. Well, the obviously some of things that people are doing through the country revolve around money. There are a bunch of different areas we like to explore and believe this we can make work to again not just recruit and retain the individual in our department. Of this year sb960 modified the government code the areas in the Police Department to, lunoncitizens but who are here with a legal work permit visa and. These individuals would be able to be recruited. Good news have 40 people who were disqualified before this. Because they were not citizens of the united states. Dhr who has been a partner and helped us gone back in the type of files to see if the people are still interested. This is an area we never explored the law is so new. There we have 40 people who said im interested in being a San Francisco Police Officer will work with the office of economics who has also showed interests in going to areas where people who are here may be interested this we never looked at. So, that is one of the things we are beginning to look at. Next slide. So, this is our incentive. Right now in San Francisco or incentives guided by the San Francisco Police Officer association mou this 5 thousand dollars number is for laterals we offer zero to anybody coming to sfpd no signing bonus, nothing. If you look through, all of the different ones alameda is very high at 75,000 and compare us to other cities somebody like seattle who is comparable and to Police Departments size and comparable in cost of live to enter their at 7500 and i let roll at 30,000. The question is, how you implement this. Those are things that we will need to discuss and plan out. There is no argument that every department most department when is need to staff upper trying to recruit with signing bonuses whether laterals or recruits. The plus to the lateral is you have a prieven entity somebody gone through an academy and worked in a Police Department. And is willing to then come over to the San Francisco Police Department. How do we do that when we are fighting over the same resource. One way, here say bonus for working with us. This is a slide we put in to show how much it costs for an Academy Class of 25. 3. 75 million to bring in the staff not the Academy Staff they learn from expert in our department. Search and seizure or driving the range you are spending sick00,000. The training of temp refer staff for the academy. Saul row and benefit. Une form and equipment and services this is for 25 recruits. When the numbers are pull when we lost 3 of 4 classes there was a stavings the same time a deficit. If 75 were missed less then and there the 21 year had the money was pulled then and there in retirements i believe 82. Those are base lines when i came in we this 50 per class. We are struggling to get to the 25 now i class of 20 holding firm and class of twe should be gruting in february. We are plan to have another class in january. Some of the these are baseline numbers to illustrate. This first one Referral Incentive Program there used to be something similar, there is not. This is one of the biggest recruiters for any Police Department is its members the people who tell you how great it it is to be a Police Officer and it be a San Francisco Police Officer. And to come and work with us we have amazing people who do this and they are dog that well. This Incentive Program shows this if you were to offer officers hor not in the recruiting business. That than i get member through the program potentially there is a 3 thousand dollars bonus for them. For this recruiting job. Again, moving down to the hiring bonuses we offer zero for anybody new with no Law Enforcement. Down depending had the numbers are you see what class of 100 would be 34 classes. Get us per. The hiring bonus. The numbers are so big for that because somebody med a significant investment in that fortunate work what department they are in. And we are now asking to you come over and go through an Academy Class and i department you are not familiar with. We will take all this knowledge and take everything. We need to get over that hump of people being nervous about going to a new place. Private industry does this all the time. They have head hunters. Nothing like this in patrol. We discussed this. Not a company this looks outside of the Police Department on how to get the best officers to come. One of the,s this we looked at is moving our hawaii to long beach, et cetera. One thing we looked at with education we partnered with usf in the press of getting a modern policing degree if we get you to come here and partner with you for those of you we are capturing with somebody professional low do it it puts us out there again in a refined way. Recruitment hiring and retention. Future enhancements one major complaints we seen is people dont know where they are in the process. Guard yen alliance is a system this we have been looking at and i believe we are ready to move forward with. The actual individuals will not need to consistent low try it call their background investigator to see where they in press fitsing to the individual and where they are. This is one of the reasons we lose a lot of people. Now we have one sergeant. Spreading over 20 people and the complexity of Background Investigations and not working full time, you are in the there to answer where you are phone or not there to answer e mails Something Like this not only helps the background investigator know where they are background talent is. But also the same time saying im here. When somebody come knocking they know how close they are our backgrounds can be long. And so what happens is we lose this battle to small are agencies looking for several people and taking those recruits from our pool. That we have in we cant answer the standard question in i fast way. Adding professional staff again. This keeps us moving forward with the sense of here is are 2 professional staff nonworn who will help develop and retain we have one person retired Police Officer. They call him the last roll whisper. He is one person able to reach out to other people and other departments to go ahead and get us those quality candidates the let ral level to move. They are self complin tory we dont have i professional team this is doing that dedicated to this. We are all over the board. Every station has a twitter de feoed and every station might have instagram but when we meads nationwide able to help us garth information and put out why sfpd needs you. This concludes my portion. Thank you to the committee we are here for questions if you have any. If i could star i wanted ask about the work load based process. I think you and i had i conversation about this. I understand this we have to have a data something this we are measuring i will say that one observation i med in the neighborhood i live in is this there are thing this is people dont call police about today. That 34 years ago they might have. Learningly africanamerican public drug use i worry there is things may not get better if calls are dun i know this puts us in i situation we dont know what we dont know. I invite to you share your thoughts. And tr is an important question. There are things this dont register on the calls to Service Scale this we do daily competence this is one. The open air drug market tenderloin soma. Is very resource intensive. And it is hard to get a handle on a metrics to deploy it is very flew theed. Reports of visible signs of drug deal and use had block might clear up when the officers are there the problem displaces to somebody elses block. When it takes constant di deployment to deal with the issue on top of anything we do enforcement wise rests or operations to rest drug dealers. It ticks a presence just to really try to clean up a block when you have that issue. This is so pervasive and so it is heard for you to look at calls to service or even arrest statistics to determine when the deployment is is getting a feel and determining what will be the best tactic of the day to dole with the issue daily and he from a language term basis. That will not show up calls to service we get some calls receive some calls for that. But a lot of that is you go to a Community Meeting and the public you know vents frustration on this is happen nothing my neighborhood what are you dog about it that goes become to the captain and pulls officers off the second car to create over time to deal with the issue. Another issue is organized retail theft. We have switched to a tactic successful so far we are actually collaborate ritting with retailers and we have officers making rests in the stores. Thats not something we did in the past temperature is necessary right now it takes a great deal of staffing we will get a feel for it. It is resource intensive. Are really the reason we are here Law Enforcement professionals to add that to the e situation. Cops on the street i went become and check third degree and it was more it was within 25 ,000. Cops and everybody is coming this is a generation coming up on retirement age we are in a competitive environment. The numbers obviously say that we are not compoting as well as we might be doing. Sprit from the machine competence i dont know if there is a way to answer this my concern is is there a narrative this San Francisco is under valuing the contributions of the Law Enforcement personnel. This is putting us in i disadvantage. I know you speak to chiefs of police around the country and if there is i narrative this San Francisco needs to address. Is this something you think the amendment could help do . I do believe this would be a positive impact of the amendment. There is a narrative there. Whether it is out there. And we have to turn this around. If you are making a decision whether or not you will yoin this Police Department or some other department large or small. Those things matter. You know you want to go somewhere where you foal like you are supports and where you feel like your w has have you and if those things dont exist or dont feel you will be supporteder work is valued. Than i are in the going to chos that department over a department where those things notoriety positive. Yes. That is a reality we are dealing with and hopeful low will i think it is turning around. I think there are a lot more vocal voices of support. Then my last question is just about on the recruitment and hiring retention and enhance ams the things are program San Francisco can do. To get people through more applicants through the process. Worthwhile everone thing this was person in distinguishing this Charter Amendment not to be over low prescriptive to whether it is bones or programs or strategies. Scholarships anything you do. May put local people young people growingum take mount competence uber exert bike shirr and minot have the driving skills are there program this is you can be creative to make sure we are getting more people through the academy to be Police Officers . Yes, absolutely. That will be another impact. I mean we have stared do mark for identification those things and driving we were losing a lot of recruits to driveway and started to turn around well is more to be done to be in a more competitive environment. We want to be best we can in a position when we recrude and they join us that we give them every to the to be successful. You know driving and course this is may be offering predriving preacademy offerings of supporting people who need this support. Would be helpful. We want to get return on the investment. Deputy chief said a lot of this structure how that will be planned out. But would help those issues. And we have to have the fluidity to make, justments five years ago signing bonuses were not when they are today. And this evolved. Even you know an advertising budget. We are seeing local departments when i turn on the tv seeing the low competitors on tv. Advertising come to our departments. They matter if we cant turn the page we lose our advantage. Thank you. And vice chair walton. Thank you, chair dorse and he chief scott, thank you for the presentation. I have i few questions. Around resources how much money we penned on academies you in . I should say find out what page this is. Im sorry. Slide 19 the different categories cost categories of and Academy Class of 25. What is a full class . Historically a full class hen 50. In most rent times we have been within the last couple of months. Our Academy Classes averaged 20 and 25. Need a real around we are talking about policy and millions. We would do this and tick the officer that gone throughout process and hen approved. We the prosecute jection as the years go on to increase this number. And the class hopefully will increase in size. If it will get to 50 thats our goal. How many people moved forward in the next phase and going backgroundses. It becomes a truncated gets smaller as that number. Start in the december of 27. And just as a side point not on the side some,s we run into. When you go through that background you have to take a polygraph a sike and medical. Well, those are resources, too im not talking about the money the people this we hireed do them through contracts. So we start bottle necking because we have been in the low and slow hiring press we have not had the numbers we are now seeing as we pick up we will have to expand those resources, too. So it is not to dance it is how much we get through this stream of applicant and can we make that wider and hits many different hurdles. I like to add that the reason we do it this way if we dont hire them right away somebody else will we need everybody we have in a class as quickly as possible if we dont they are hired by san hose competence alameda and every jurisdiction in the bay that is hiring. And we found that we have to keep that available and will move put as men as we can in the class that are ready nadeputy chief walsh poke to but we lose the edge we cannot afford to. I understand. You know that you cant guarantee a number per class which is why to me qualifications or number of staffing is ash contrary the number folks coming in the department. No way to do this you said that numerous times in the conversation and during of the presentation to have a minimum number of receive in i Charter Amendment is not achievable. The minimum is the work load. Thats yet minimum says that we need 20 for. And there is in way to guarantee this orb enforce this because your numbers will help who wants to be a Police Officer numbers will help if than i qualify and make it through. We can put we need 10,000 or 20,000 but reality is you cant guarantee you will get this number. I think this is when we have to work toward back in 2008 went through a recession and when we went through this than i stopped hiring we never referred. When we were just getting 2018 getting close to 1, 971 that was the number the this time. We were just starting to crest upon the pandemic and the murder of george flid and other thing this is had a tremendous impact on Law Enforcement staffing. You know so i think that it is a make to not kin low staff like and target staffing because we are not able to recover from the times had we go when we are not hiring anybody and we saw this coming become in 2018 we knew that we were going to have this learning group of people going to be retirement eligible and needed stop the bleeding and there were thing this is happened that no one saw coming and med everything just this much worse. Now i think when we are asking for is to be at a certain level this level is when the Department Needs the goal we hope to achieve and want the, surance we will be able to hire as many as possibles we can bring in. I want to be trans parent with the public. This you know the Police Department has hiring the department of public healing, mta as plans on hiring but well is in way to guarantee that i want it make sure we are honest with the public having this conversation. I do like is it true we provide bonuses . For officers you in . No. The only bonus we provide is the 5,000 for lateral Police Officers thats not a bonus a bonus for laterals for people already has been in patrol. The new recruits well is nothing and a mention about diversifying the force and being able to hire more women i sought slide on ethnic break down but did not see anything when the current status of women in the department is. We are at 1516 and during hiring did a look become and the hiring crisis we were in the getting people we were maintaining number. We are looking and terrible low have you to double this recruitment out reach we are 1516 . And want to say appreciate the report and if we will base policy on data you know we have to be consistent we cant say we are basing policy on data and say when im benching in the street or was this like we cant have it both ways based on data or we are to make decision on anecdotal conversations but not both ways as we try to look at our deficit the next couple years we try to staff up all departments i want to make sure that talking about data or talking about anecdotal. Nots the motorcycle officers. Had i left we were at 25. So husee did thea this we are not Tarrant County nothing traffic fatalities in the fact we are pulling the receives from motorcycle duties. To feel go to the street to enforce lus i had to pull them with the muni k9 to move them to do clearing of tunnels such as westportal. Twin peeks gate operators could not get gates up. We are using the resources for things that dont represent a call for service. We are using the resources for not when they are intention is. So i have been up here with supervisor mandelman trying to explain why we not get up to thousands of ticket in our thing there is data a negative i cant prove if i have more Police Officers in that you are asking that it will in the work out. Officers are taken away from our communities where we say, more the violence exists and gone to areas to protect property, as we talk about increasing the officers. The sunnydale community and officer this is penned time in community that know everyone and walk the beat and thats a problem. So. We talk about incoming. Another of the increases ever come to the bayview or engle side they go to other areas of San Francisco. Which, you know we can say an equal for the southeast sector of San Francisco that is unfortunately. I would just offer this to your point. 2 things. A lot of huelectric at staffing well is a factor 30 of time. A lot of the things that we are talking about are supposed to that 30 helps us place the issues the issues we like now, worry protests are happening when we are one we have to send officers there to deplay to your comments about southeast San Francisco. You know tell not show up in the stats but it is i per of the extent. A month ago we i would say avoided a potential blood bath across the bay. And for us to this point, even though had San Francisco ties we are able to not have this help in our sea. There was work being done that will not show up for calls for service that helped us keep things in from happening here in our city. We do move the resources, supervisor when we are offering here is makes it hard to do that. With a shrinking police force. Because every station is short and your time ends up where it should be independent to calls for service and 30 guess we have to use over time and other things to modify and make adjustments i pill today say it is bake in the the deploy am projections but when you dont have enough officers that proactive 30 time disappear. The street prevenning team and the folks working with Law Enforcement to address temperature you kent do this by yourself. And that is something we also need to have a conversation about, about addressing the issues about everything this go in to Public Safety. The police force is not the end all of how we will keep communities safe and we have to be have a conversation about that. And the left thing i say is as we look at the numbers of individuals want to come in academies not for San Francisco there are a lot of people who are there is for some reason. A lot of people dont want to be Police Officers anymore. I would say, it would be great if reps were developed and a positive manner within our schools. Within our communities. With patrol. With young people of color so we could so people will trust officers and want to one day become a Police Officer. That work has to happen have you to be in10ingal about this i know there are things helping we can keep saying we fwta throw money at this and that. Help with positive interactions and connections with young people if we want a future folks want to be Police Officers when i was growing up. People talked about being populars all the time that is in the the case. To say have a member of starch and say put out arbitrary resources is in the going to fill the classes. I will say this. This is a positive to your point. Yesterday i was at an event and talked to a machine from your district, he payment in the the gun down. Because of the relationships from that interaction. And so i think this ill strits where you are pin we will do those things but you make i great point, it about reps, to. We have to have the people to do this. The Community Engage am unit took the bull by the horn and followed up with him and he is now starting the press and hope to have him in the next academy i think this ill strits your point. We want more to be populars or any job. That is the answer. We can create so many other thing its is irrelevant that simple. Thank you. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. Vice chair walton and supervisor safai. Chief i hope you will stay for after Public Comment i will save my questions until after the public are spoken so i can a lot are waiting here. I have i number of things i would like to ask you all and go over with you. I will stick arnold. Thank you. Why okay. Thank you. Before we go to Public Comment i want to out line the amendments the process input and feedback, much is reflected in the amendments this i will out line. And this will will move for adoption after comment. First. Chair have you sent us those amendments . I think i did. I netted earlier in line with the second prospect e staffing analysis published this month on page 4 we adjusted the number from 21 kwo to 2, 0 for. We adjusted each target down by 100 officers at 1700 and ending with 2, where are 74 in 08 and 9. Do you have the line . What line . Turn off your cell phones if you would like to trans lit that it would be appreciated. Turn off all cell phones or ringers. Thank you. On page 4 line beginning online 7 the Police Staffing numbers. About the it. Second on page 5 we adjusted the press for stake the staffing number after the initial 5 year period in the event the submission recommends reduction in the number of receives the chief board of supervisors review the action and majority vote over ride the reduction. Third page 8 adjusted subsection b the purpose of the fund. The fund will be for Additional Resources to the department this will be used to support full staffing. And fourth we added clarifying amendments to the section on the left ping to enable 50 donations the source of ref now in the Staffing Fund i will ask for color code versions. I thank you for your consideration and i will make i motion to adopt these after Public Comment. And nows for Public Comment this is in the the only item on the agenda there are other topics we have men here to participate to facilitate this meeting i want to ask if we can limit to i minute. And so mr. Clerk open item one to Public Comment. Member lineup to peek at this time by the windows each peeshg allowed a minute to speak. An oft choim had you are 30 seconds and when your time expired. You may proceed. Good morning im mary harris. President of all my neighbors in okay. I support supervisor dorsey full staffing amendment for poed spoed and hope you put it on the march 2024 ballot. We cannot regain San Franciscos reputation as a place to live, w, visit or shop. Supervisor dorseys 5 year plan can restore the Police Department and add in recruitment with, signing bonus alameda offers. I was at a meeting they asked how many responsiblesed car break ins and it was more then and there half the room and than i did not ask if than i knew machine this had i brick in would have been the room. At the same meeting than i talked about staffing i know tear very well at 71 the learningest your. I hope thank you will all vote and recommend it go to the board of supervisors to get this on the march ballot and not guest signatures and wait to november. Thank you very much. We are paying for it this is i bill set, side this will tie up and open set, side from the general fund. This is a very dangerous press as it also removes other funds for different projects. Um we anticipate this year of 500 Million Dollars deficit. Where will we get the funds for this . Set, side . And to contradict the police they were always asking about how many recruits than i had. I think it is very important you should know the left 3 classes. They gruted 17, 2 after graduation 2 quit the next class 17. Graduated and the last class. Speaker time elapsed. Thank you. Good morning im henry i cochair the chief Small Business forum. With the staffing level now we are finding that we dont get the police out there quick enough because when there is a crime going on. In action. When happens is had the suspect decides the cops are in the here and the cops get here too late and they are on their way to another place where they take advantage. I irrelevant support the charter. I support the charter maam. This proposal put staffing number become in the charter per dedicate fund its recruit am over a five year plan if we dont priorize it you in we cant fix it. Government makes decisions when the economy slows we have known the staffing Crisis Brewing and 10 noack. We cant trust city hall to fix this give voters chance to prioritize Public Safety. I will skip here. The leadville tear of the dog p we seen a decrease in the neighbormenting it bring dogs to the p sinceor officers stop coming in. People dont feel safe and the park gets treasured. I have been, tacked and my other volunteers not okay. Get more police now. Thank you. In the worse managed city in the u. S. So looks to mow when youo when is helping in the city it is going through a recession we followed the receives and business during the leaving the city but look arnold and said where the money guess i pid myself over with the properties i have over 40 thousand dollars in property text in the city. And yes. We have city on the streets i have an per minute in soma i can not rent i was we people on the streets and drug user and called the pleas and they ken do everything than i are short handleded we need to support the amendment and bring more police to the city. Thank you. Priorize hiring more receives to do thing this San Francisco needs car theft and measure and grbs and officers on the boat to build the reps discussed we need more officers before we need anything else. Thank you. Good morning. Supervisors allen district 8 supervisor dorsey thank you for the initiative you are ticking. Im here to support supervisor dorseys measure i heard a question this morning some there a narrative specific it San Francisco that says we are under valuing our Police Officers. And i think this the answer is obvious that why we are here today. We are total low urn urn valuing populars noise if more effort med by populars to strengthen relationships with the public. It would be noise this supervisors stop describing the community out reach efforts. This is in the helpful. Thank you again, supervisor dorsey for this exert electric forward to preponderating this in march. Steven johnson from district 11 the police other people you call had well is blood on the ground. Had no one else you call the cops they are the heroes of society. Who cleared the sea of monsters than i are heroes had be no need to mote i have people. Money is good. I support supervisor dorsey here what wrong here is what kids are taught in School Number one. Police are a weapon of hoyt supremacy. Of you know the grandma and have cell phones we got it get them the School District i teach u. S. History and fifth grid all they knew about george wish wash he owned slaves du know he set his slifs fro. Did not know this. Okay thank you, chair dorsey im Trevor Hernandez and here to voice passport for an amendment on behalf of the members and leader help of local 1021. Public cyst remains concern for the thus annuals of member within local 10 it one our belief unfunded set, side serves the challengeings faced by an in terms of service insecurity. It is impossible to increase costs up it 300 million the mayord kr indicating for cut its other service this is are cristical for Public Safety. We firm low believe had with you a now source of ref mull to fund this will hinlder or economic progress companing the amendment to encomp us workers serve the 9 leondis patch center the vigils grappling with the. Thank you your time is expired. Im karina board member of stop crime sf advocates for Public Safety with five then and there members we support staffingly sfpd by supervisor dorses offers short. Long range solutions to fill gaps in personnel making recruit am possible and probable. San francisco has prioritized Public Safety we know how vielth it is to the success of businesses tourism. Public transportation and important low to quality of life for residents. Please, listen to your constituents who ever requested more funding for the pleas and more staffing for pd. Thank you. And we love and gratitude i yoeld my time. I love this good morning. Members of rules im charlotte wister and im a lifelong every day San Francisco here to support the charter metropolitan for full staffing of the spoed speed vote to send this to the board with your recommendation. Full staffing of our pleas force is imperative to counter the down worried spiral of our city disregard for law and drug doling have diminished the safety of the city. Thats the truth. The current status quo i system mattick assault and well being and moral of us all. We dont where you havement change we demand it. This amendment is essential start, thank you. World class city deserves i World Class Police force. San francisco is suffering today. Including drug dealing vehicular break in and business theft. A per of the solution to the issues is i fully staffed police force. In i town hall captain martin southern station mentioned his district is krelled by sick officers during a day shift. Anyone who lives here in the neighborhood, know this is this level of policing is below when is needed deal with the issues we are faced with today. I live on Mission Street notoriety Federal Building famous due to the drug doling i urge you to, prove this amendment provide officers with the passport and get the city become on the right track. Thank you. We will allow the fwrup to leave the room to hear you better. You can come up. Give us a moment to khrer the room and will not be disruptions. Okay. Thank you. Good morning. Still. Im carly method use thank you for hearing uss a residence denial of the richmond since then 97 and from condition did i have been distraught i obtained citizenship it use my voice to be per of the change i like to see in 2024. Clearly there is no respect for the law or city lacks law and order and know front is become the going am of america full of destruction, drugs and death by people all over the world if we need help and call 911 sfpd minot be visible in time if at all. The devastation our officers locked resources, tools and staff to serve and protect us. They have been hundred cuffed taxicab taxpayers like myself grown tired of this. Change is needed. Thank you. Black lives merit im jordan she, her issue than i them. First men impacted by over policing criminal zigz from the ballot if it passes who will not speak because you shut off remote comment. Back in 2020 we had a reckoning around policing after the murder of george floyd and public funding go to Mental Health, housing and j. W. S, et cetera you in we are giving the police a p r rehab, is this that you want buzz i think criminologist think more police does in the lead to more safety you are a disgrace. Good morning. Im sand are and i represent rowdy gonzalez of the San Francisco building trids and cochair of Public Employee committee. Compared to budgeted staffingly we cant fill this measure blow a hole of 300 million in the next 5 years and require 16. 8 million in 2024. 2025. The city called early cuts to basic service. With you a now source of ref now this will set up the economic back the building trids and public units support a fully staffed Police Department. We need to address Public Safety and include 911 prirts health wars, nurse and per se medics of continue to w on this with puc and address funding Public Safety. Thank you. You with the Planning Commission sdoided turn so many at tenderloin and the mission as well as the bayview in the toilet boil and the condition tain am zone of most of San Franciscos problems drug and homelessness. I dont are prepare to lunch a let you if you dont make us feel safe. I dont feel safe in this town im tired of it. You are affecting my Mental Health with your inaction and lack of support. Im tired of it. Do something. [applause] if i can normally the custodyum is it quiet low indicate your passport with yaz hundreds but refingerprint if clapping. Thank you. Good morning. Teacher of immigrant opportunities and stop crim in know front and several other hard working organizations. Im here on behalf many residence dens to support supervisor dorseys Charter Amendment. I grove for stounts homicide victims. For the life of our great city lets vote for the volleyball solution to make San Francisco a safer city for all. Thank you. Hi im mail young im a for you year residence denial of sudden and board member of business healthy net w we are thousands of members ofim guarantee and mall businesses and feel our liveihood is threatened. I cannot go to get my medicine in my neighborhood. I have to travel miles. And lost [inaudible] i can see a near by free fentanyl sign a now step this is is not acceptable. We need to support Charter Amendment and we mode to come to the point had we cannot count you to make decisions we need to enpores it in the charter make it help and set up a minimum Response Time for the police requirements. We need some accountable measures thank you. Im jake hunter and im copresident of d3 in 2020 the board including you in member hene veted defund the pleas not with a single justification as to why we need to give up our safety other think that supervisors making criminals help. We seen people die china funding and missed the min problem just to are more sfpd officers. Yes. The blood of those who die in our city are on your hands if you dont support the legislation. Thank you. Native San Francisco i am on the board of stop cream action and cofounder of soar. I am here to fully support this proposed Charter Amendment without Public Safety we dont have society. For me i think the police in our city do a great job. I watch today less available to us as we are losing people. I had machine try to break in my house a year and a half ago. I caught them and said im calling the police. His reaction was of to laugh and say, go head. Do you know how terrify being for a citizen to feel there is no Public Safety structure. We need this Charter Amendment. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Supervisors. Im richard lifelong San Francisco 78 years old. Im here to report seniors and veterans. You know there are asian folks and those of us in our community who have been assaulted and mugged i have been in the left 9 months i represent those folks that want you to support mr. Dorseys charter maam. We need more Police Officers to protect this vulnerable part of our population. Support him on behalf of asian seniors and seniors like me. Thank you. Yes we must refund the police the co to safe and clone society. Safe for who, clean from what in and sieh from had in homelessness, theft. Police brutality a murder of i black personnel by sfpd where the popular will not be held, countable we dont need this change we have enough place for the state hill bomb should in the happened i see police every day half a dozen show up for the most pet shit how did we go from george floyd murders to this refunning the police for had . Do right by the people and vote no on this amendment. Thank you. Well is a simple way to next Response Time bunkham this is to funding the alternate response team. Which 3 million in funds is allocated and the mayor refused to allow it to be distributed it will handle the 10,000 calls an among. Of level c responses. Take the response, way from the police. Well is no danger to life or property. And in these situations why do we need police . This wouldrous the responsibles of the Police Department and focus them on the,s this people are concerned about. And i really cant think of residential reasoning why we would spend 300 Million Dollars on the Budget Proposal opposed to 10 million on humane response. Thank you. Im here to support funding the police. I think there is an urgency it fund the Police Resource and what than i did to. We need action now. Lawlessness sf anarchy is anarchy Public Safety is not being addressed. Calls for help are in the answereder delayed for weeks. Serves are not mechlt drugktivity unchecked open drug sales and usage are out of control persons on altered states on every block. We have many levels of crime and this needs to be prioritize exclude police need to respond and responded to every call without discrim nigz and priority. Because of limited resources they cannot reach the call. I believe the time passed this we have the debates and support patrol. Pork time elapsed. Im a home sxern south of market and supervisor mat dorseyy district i want to say im here in attendance in supporting matt dorsey Charter Amendment to passport sfp d i new homeowner and a victim of several attempts of home inrigz. And encountering when sfpd has been supportive. And coming and listening to the homeowners of occurrence. Thank you. Good morning im donna. Im i member of resident of the sunset district. Im here to passport safe San Francisco. I have read this amendment im in favor for a number of reason one of which is it is a step forward modernization of the department of the im here to sfpt the bill. The last among revolve in the 5 incidents knives pulled on me and friend and womens city halled and every time we called the cops no one showed up. I am able to defend myself most of the people here cant. Than i live in fear because they dont know if the people this will support them will be well had than i need them. We need to make sure or families are safe. Thank you. This is left call for public ment on this merit. I see no other commenters in the room. Okay. Thank you. Public ment now close. And supervisor safai. Choefr i wanted go become to the questions. Slide then and says you have about looks about helpful i mission 5 Million Dollars in the budget for recruit am, staffing this includes the development of hiring strategies have you one person llicate today this based on the slide. What happens if the numbers go up. Do you have discretion to add more or is the the big line item is sell row and benefits for recrus in case you get multiple classes we tuck body this a bit how does your budget adjust for this. If you look at saul row for recruits those are estimateos class of 25 whether it scales up or down the number would, just in terms of mark for identification the other categories. For equip or some of service hiring and testing. Fixed costs there are your where we can grow the number based on the size of the classes. If you were able to get more recruits between now and then of theier this is what you allocated for the tipical do you have more to handle this . Now. Are you able to move money to handle that . In terms of saul row well is and terrible. Within our saul row we are savings now using the savings to provide over time back fill. And instance there is is additional vacancy savings we might move it to Academy Class its is i balance in using our budget toward even this is might pop up. The memory yell for feinstein had to you have deception in case there were more you would be putting in more for your year. Yes. Ock this was that question. You dont have anything not doing anything with advertisement. We talked about diversity and hiring and the whole set of staff allocated to this work. You dont have anything in there this falls in the advertise am. Budget . And hiring. There are some funds deveted advertise am the point i make earlier advertising is sensitive. I know this. You know. And so to make the adjustment to do when we feel is necessary there is in the enough funding. And do you have in the budget when you are travelling around other now you have the changed the law 12 acts you go to many more states. There are funds for this. That follow in recruitment and advertise am budget. 250 thousand dollars item within the has not moved since 2 where are 08 in the mou to have a recruiting opinion to go roach out. That has stayed stable this year 98 thousand dollars star figure july first on this. I guess my point was i heard you had none now you have a quarter million. Im trying to get the information clear and the reason i gave texas example when we were tucking about the diversity of hiring you wanted go to black college and a lot in the states the city was ban friday travel and penning money on. Now this is removed. Is this part of your recruitment strategy . Yes and it was part of it. There is the 250 thousand dollars we had since 2008 it is not enough. Got it. I hear had. And what category does the going to recruit in other states black college in your diversity and hiring budget in the here. All i see is saul row and benefits and the other costs we talked about up for 25 number of classes for you and a half million there must be other monies for recruitment not reflected here. The numbers we provided was just for the, cad me class. Had mentioned here this to fund you know visiting College Campuses. Recruit. Events for that that has been the same since 2 where are 07 is this reflect in the your presentation in i dont know i dont believe it is. How much do you have set aside for this. 250,000 the same chief talked about in advertise am in correct. All of that is to visit other places and also that is to fund the recruit am strategies not only to the out reach of the College Campuses in and out of state, that includes the advertising budget and the costs incurred this amount. Yes. Why got it. I wanted clarify that. That makes sense. Okay. That was one of my Big Questions in terms of diversity in hiring how much is set, side for this involved recruitment and out roach. The 250 is we do have hold on, chief i know when im not i know when we did the previous hearings and had conversations about how much staff you have dedicated to do diversity in hiring there is that is dedicated within your department. Joy think we are talking about tw things you asked about the set aside for that have 250 everything. Staff for diversity and hiring is the same staff the recruitment unit did that we have the office of equity and he inclusion which is a lieutenant. Has one person this is no people to help this is different from the recruitment unit and office of inclusion. Are than i doing recruitment. They are out there trying to get more diversity in hiring. Not the office of Equity Inclusion they are focussed on equity and he inclusion the recruit. Is responsible for recruiting. All of the parts sometimes work together, yes. But we have recruiter in the unit this is their job and that is diversity. Okay. I wanted clarify that part. From the previous one we tucked about you were doing. Okay. I dont have more questions. I it is interesting to me based on the numbers you have here where you are in terms of is this these are clear this is full duty sworn officers the 1475 your entire department now . 4775 officers within the sfpd . No full duty not inclusive the total is 1, 871. Of those 1, 475 are immediately deployable. What is the delta in between the 2 . You say deplayable what is delta . Why are than i not deployable. Somewhere on disability. We dont include, cad me recruits they are newscast sworn. In on modified duty due to injury. How many just curious are on modified duty . 400 about 400396. Iel and the within, 871 includes the airport as well as additional 125. I can grb the numbers in a second. Find. I just say that you know we have been chief and i have chair the the organized wing group the left 3 years since 2020. Worn year numbers at 18, 29 and down in 2021 the 17, 77 and now down to 1475 good to be you are mobilize with few are officers to be able to with regard to organized retail theft and the other property crimes. This is the important w and manage i med a top priority. You know chief, also as someone i heard people peek today i have been a victim of program crime notice home has been broken into. My stove, microwave and hood stolen when we had our hearing on retail theft in this building my car was broken into in front of city hall this is on going this many in San Francisco deal with daily. It is important that question priorize this. I think we can debit all day about had that number is. I dont think it is debatable that we are down officers in terms of when we mode to be able to do. Although i will say and i heard machine say this, one of the people that is asking for the amendment they talked about Response Times i had a hearing here sick months ago this talked abouture call center and the average time of response dropped in terms of the staffing of this departmentful i think it is important to think about crime and crime pregnancy. In the context of all of the entire environment that supports one another and not enough 911 call operators we know there are not you are not going to get your call the 9 one call answer and only 70 something percentage answer in the the time we set for city. Same if machine has i life situation they have to go to the emergency room our wall times wall times for the public is when an Emergency Vehicle sits wit to get machine in the emergency room at the hospital. They are high we are short emergency room nurses. So 911 call prirts. Nurses and then machine individuals talked about the crisis sponse team the crisis sponse team and design i know they work with you chief and through dreshgz of the mayor, to goin take some of call response, way from your department to free up your staff and so that they are also urn funded and then also our sheriff and both are jails as well as our buildings. This is know entire environment. And i think this when we think about the emergency come crime we think about it in an all inclusive environment buzz we can give you the additional officers today but if in the the 911 call prirts and nurses, Emergency Vehicles the Crisis Response tome and Mental Health bed this is is another one getting people off the streets and keeping them off the street 50 of people referred to Mental Health facility and beds are turned away there are times the same individuals back out on the street in crisis that your officers are responding to. So i have been and i said this public low supportive of this. Principle for i time i do believe we need to dpet these number become up the city is in a fiscal crisis. And the mir upon begin instructions to many of the departments cut essential services. Bus, park service, Fire Department the essential services in the city the instructions came in to all the departments that cut their numbers by over 3 because of the crisis had we are fitsing in the city. This is coming up. And so the thing this concerns mow about this proposal is this well is i line in and i know supervisor dorsey you were being thoughtful, talks about when the city face a budget short all over a quarter Million Dollars we will face this freezes. And so after year one allocation of 16. 8 million year 2 no additional funning to the fund. Tell be frozen. And so it concerns mow there is not a Revenue Source for this. I appreciate the amendment about philanthropy but i imagine mag getting over 30 Million Dollars a year dedicated to this is a heavy lift. I think the right thing will be to have i dedicated Funding Source im passportive of this proposal. I think it is thoughtful and we need the time to bell our officers become up i appreciate supervisor dorsey put ing together. I think it compliments the other item today we will talk about putting officers back out in the community. On the beats in every neighborhood. I know we will make amendments that will continue the item until next week this will give us more time to talk about Funding Source and the idea of a comprehensive safety package with the things we are talking about. Definitely in the future. And i think this is when we heard from a lot of the other representative groups this spoke out that want to work with the Police Department. Thank you. Vice chair walton. I want to thank the department for their presentation and acknowledge whoefrn did come in to provide comment. I give more comments next week. Thank you. And i am trust my appreciation to everybody who folk and everybody had came out to express their opinion what in opinion may be and to the chief and his team for their presentation and answering questions i would reiterate i think it is important in this environment that it is in the just the policy that we are working on i think takes a measured prop over 5 dwreers dig out where we find ourselves in a once in i generation Police Staffing crisis not unique to San Francisco but we have issue now with one department. And i think in some way this is because we have in years past had charter memos staffing. It makes sense to do this as a discrete Charter Amendmenteen though we remember as my colleague said this there are other things short falls we need to address if not in this Charter Amendment. You know for most of the last 30 years had a Police Staffing minimum level thisseen though it was not hit often it was kept the city honest there was a threat of litigation if we were too far off the mark hat charter required. It kept city hall we were hitings those numbers i found the thing that on october 28 of 1853, 170 years ago to the day San Francisco board were alledermen the first staffing level of 56 officers. Than i have been i per of our history most of our recent history but this is not without president. I think i had out lined amendments that is going to move. I think had i will do if okay to divide. This to 2 motions . Then i explain one had is more involved. Find, yes. Why i would lect to make a motion to amend the Charter Amendment to include the maams on page 4 line 8 and 9. Which change lower the targets over 5 year by 100 officers to a final number of 2, where are 74. We will skip the amendment and come become to this on page 5. The second part would be to amend that specify the resources shall be in addition to those amounts promoted for the Department Staff dpg fitsical year 2023 and 24 and used to support full staffing on page 8 between 913 after fiscal year 2028 and 29 and specify nothing will limit the ability to accept patriot do nigzs to satisfy the required appropriations to the fund. I think those are fir low nonsubstantive like to motion to adopt those. On your sum rethis 1, 3 and 4 . Yes. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Yes on this motion to amend, vice chair walton. No. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Why aye. That motion passes. With vice chair walton voting, no. Thank you and now like to make a motion that will give me an opportunity to explain did we want to have a way of making sure that we never want to put a department headeen one a fan of chief scott but in a position of able to establish the Staffing Levels without a check and balance there was a Police Commission oversight in the language in here that broused notedrous by more than 5 ear the year that would stay. There was feedback through the moat and conifer process holding in the events the Police Commission reduced staffing level it would authorize the chief to seek review by board of Police Commissions decision. I think the thinking of this was so know lected body rather then and there appointed would have the final decision make are on that. The it would hold the board authorized to reject i major vote the commissions reduction of the staffing level and order the commission to adopt i higher staffing level shall, prove a budget funding for the saul rows required to mote the minimum level set forth in the provision. This is different and new because back in 1994 bh we had a staffing number it was a stateck number for 25 years and never changed. We want to not repoe this make we upon the flexibility in years to come to make sure if we have manage in the charter a press to change it. I think this is workable this gives us a check and balance and also provides another check in case well was a Police Commission decision it would go to the board and could hold that appeal. I like to make a motion for this. The way i wrote at this time first time makes the most sense. You have numbers you are trying to hit after you got to that number this is the process you described it clearly and the Commission Holds a hearing with the chief after analysis. Remove the section and have this be the process which i dont think at the board will we want to do. I will move this okay. And a roll call on the motion. To amend vice chair walton. No. Visor safai. No. Chair dorse. Aye the motion failed. Okay. And then can i move to continue this to the rowels committee next week we do by rule it has been amended . On the motion to condition the matter to october 30, 2023, on this motion vice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Why aye chair dorsey aye yoochlt the motion passes without objection. Good. Thank you and we continue it to next week. Can we call item 2 . Item 2 ordinance amending the code prior the chief to adopt a foot and bike patrol for the Police Department and require the Police Commission to hold hearings regarding Community Police and foot and bike patrols. Thank you, this item is experienced by supervisor safai and this is an appropriate companion to the conversations we just had. I appreciate your leadership the floor is yours. Police, dont run off. Im kidding. Talking about foot principles they are leaving. I am joking, chief. I money listen i know there are issues this can divide us and we can debate about policing and reform in our city but i believe that putting officers out on the street and in the community is one this i think the vast major of residents agree on. I think major of people want to see a Police Officers doing True Community pleasing it hen a true success all over the world. It is manage this statistically reduces crime the presence of officers it builds relationships and builds a point line of future officers and i think importantly and i want to emphasize this important low it builds more at had officers are out well they are getting the major of the time positive feedback. From the community and gives them prid in their yen in the than i dont have any during the difficult times i think it is personal for receive its be out there innerokaying with residence denials and every day san franciscans, for me in role time the other day and i told you there the other day i was out on market van ness walking back it city hall and called over by machine that was on one of the side streets there were people there. Unfortunately using drugs and drugged out. And a patrol car drove by and nobody stopped when than i were doing the officers drove by doing their job then foots patrol officers came by i thought is this a set up machine know im here in role time. The chief telling people to come it was not and 7 or 8 stops the officers offered services and asked for help and knew the individuals by name. Within 20 minutes everyone cleared out and gone on to get services or got help and the receives were there and so i have to say. This is something i think is a true practice. It requires the chief i think for the first time and we give all the discretion to the head of the department and should be to come up with i plan. But for everyone Single Police district in San Francisco. I said earlier i had been asking for consistent foot beat officers i know we are down and i think we had a long conversation we talk about that. But i do know that the average shift is 1012 hours and i think this there is a way, upon begin the now getting i strike team to organize retail theft with few are officers than 3 years ago i think well is a creative way we can ask receives to do part of their shift. On foot or bike patrols. And i leave this discretion to the chief. We have and will not hear today the amendments are in the red we had conversations with the department. We ask that once every 2 years well is i hearing on it. In your normal process of when you do in terms of staffingance analysis so this is a public process that the chief is creating the plans. And putting them all over San Francisco. I heard from residents this came today it tuck about their neighborhood weather open air drug dealing or drug use or retail theft or concerns about crime i think having the officers visible presently is manage had we need in San Francisco now. I want to thank my cosponsor supervisor engardio and president supervisor peskin are supervisor ronen and chan for their support on this. And you know i think the time is now. And so im going to say that i appreciate working with the department and i appreciate getting feedback from the commission and i appreciate getting feed become from community all over San Francisco. Thank you. Royce chair walt thank you i want to be added as a cosponsor. Great yoochl thank you and let mow say after that i want it say this was an effort this was built off previous work this supervisor walton and hooern it done. We amend today in a way i think is more workable today and want to thank them for the w they did a couple years back. Thank you. Thank you and i know since we have the chief here can i invite him to say can comments on this. I will say i am inclineed passport this. And i know this policing is better had people have a relationship with the those who are worn to serve and correct we have a fitness requirement but reality is nobody will be fit enough to run 4 blocks from i 911 call that is a problem we have an understaffed Police Department i think why this is i appreciate the leadership the supervisor is highlight when is we have if we have a fully staffed Police Department. I know my residents would love this i invite thoughts have you on this. Thank you, chair dorsey. I will say, foot beatings are good as a former foot beat officer, i understand and appreciate the value of when a foot beat brings to the community and engage am and it is a good thing. My only ask with this amendment is supervisor safai and i had many conversations this the department is able to manage the daily operations. Because as we spent a large degree in the last item had you are short cross the board we cut units cross the board but are resource and will will do everything in our power to make this help as we always try to do. If the equation is wherevero sum gain filling the car in and staff a foot beat on a day we independent to calls to service and will continue to when people call 911 we heard in the comments today they expect us to be there there is no argument. Sometimes it gets complicated having to choose this our that. Our only ask of the department we able to maintain that ability to manage this organization and do what is in the interests of Public Safety. Understanding the importance of foot beats. We are done our own research and we understand that how foot beats impact crim in a positive way. And that we are exited to foot boat its is help with the staffing we have and this is always a challenge were committed to dog everything we can. Thank you, chief. I think at this point i will ask if i can be added as a cosponsor. And are we opening up to Public Comment. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello im leah. I will like to say what i do see police every day im surveilled every day urban alchemy, parks and rec. Well is no relaxing walk because of surveillance as a woman and for people when are transthis can be identified as transit is horrible. A lot of heavily looks or weird behavior the people hor tasked with policing us exhibit. Good afternoon. Jordan he, she and her i get surveilled a lot as well. Like leah said and i dont feel safer and for reference i live in a crime ridden neighborhood in the tenderloin and i dont feel safer had police are walking i feel safer had there are Community Ambassadors and programs that help people out. But i dont want police walk around like i want them to be, i want i think we have defund the police but the police remain should be more like chief wiggin and less like dirty harry we mead to defund the police especially during the budget times. I where he would my time. Thank you. Public men on item 2 is closed. And supervisor safai. Do you have a like to make motion. I we are set it continue the amendments are not ready yet. My fault. Want to be clear. A motion to continue. Yes, if we can, on the motion to continue to october 30 issue 20 tea. Royce had i ever walon. Where aye. Supervisor safai. Where aye chair dorsey. Aye. The motion passes without objection. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Item 2 is continued to the next meeting of rules. Call item 3 a Charter Amendment the charter of know fran provide the mayor affirm approve in writing San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency proposals part of the sfmta budget or metropolitan subject to approval if changes to mechanic mum rate and hour or days of ping prescriptions and held on march 5, 20 tor. This item importanced by supervisor safai. Supervisor, the flower is yours. Great. So colleagues. Today we are i had introduced a charter maam to ensure this when we are 2 where are specific and critical decisions med by mta. To ensure the mayor of San Francisco who he or she might be. Approves in the budget increases it fares. And this is fares on riding municipal competence extending of parking meters and rate and operations. The sfmta is 5 member oversight body. 100 percent appointed by the mayor. Mir ws to choose the head of this department. And the oversight body afforded the head executive director the discretion to raise fare and extend ping motors. We believe it is personal with the decision this of this manage tude impacts so many working families. Merchannels and otherwise this we call out who make this is decision and where the responsible lies. I like to thank president supervisor peskin as a cosponsor of this. I know this we have supervisor ronen and supervisor walon as a supporter of this. And we have a couple more coming trying to remember. I will inch inning everyone later those other for you i can remember. So in 2 where are 07 approved prospect aauthority mta over charged to operations. One elected person in this body makes a decision and so we have heard over the left year whether during a couple years during covid had well was a proposal to raise rates on the bus and fares on the buses ors we come out of corid and recovering extend park meter hours it created a baptist confusion but i like to thank the golden gate Restaurant Associate and Small Business ordinance across San Francisco. Long with many people the Labor Community we heard from this the impacts the bottom line and ability to thrive and w in San Francisco. So with this, colleagues. I will hand it over to Public Comment i had questions and comments i know there are folk begin today witting it make comment open it up to Public Comment. Yes. Members had wish to peek line up to speak now. Each will be allocated a machine there will be a soft choim huare 30 seconds left. Good morning i sustained to urge to you adopt do not installation the 99 prop e. It fails to accomplish easy for mir to block new ref now does not reflect environmental priority and dangerous work in downtown San Francisco most 90 work after 5 p. M. And this parking this was they want mt, want to do is if than i extend the hour to 10 oclock will affect our members who w at 5 and 6 at night. And they cannot afford the tickets. I have today a member got a ticket on sated that worked over time. They then matters this one of the examples that happening. And the they condition w we held that pass in maam. Thank you. [speaking spanish] good afternoon im with local 87. Unionon representative and want, countability needs to be oversight over sfmta to make decision this is impact our life. The mayor should have the authority to approve or reject principle by the sfmta. Thank you. I wanted voice my ort. I dont think that someone not lected by people of San Francisco should have this much authority over the people of San Francisco. There needs to be know elected person held issue counselable for this okay. Thank you. Ir dont support this Charter Amendment. I think it is unreasonable to expect for mount tow be funded off parking fare. And i think everyone aggress that. Grit if we had fare fro mounty i worry giving the mir power to block sfmta budget increase and starve it of being in useful service it is. Are there members in the public when will like to ment on this merit . I see no more we can close Public Comment. Why thank you issue Public Comment on 3 is closed. I have a few questions can i . The direct or board has authority currently . I believe it would be the mt aboard has the authority to approve. In the budget and then the budget as a whole goes to the board of supervisors for approval part of the budget for the city. Why does the director is this something the mta can do bout without the mt, board . I believe so but i should get back to you. Just to jump in the board delegate tad to the director on fares and extending ping meter hers this is our add royce if the City Attorney had we draft third degree the purpose of when we are trying to control for. Okay. Is it it much to ask to give an over vow from then 99 prop aand 2007 prop e. This is my recollection of this from years ago was this the much of whennan mated the move for proposition e in 99 was to put mta and the fare beyond the roach of politics. Or at least further beyond the roach of politics i think this was if i understand prospect ain 07 the intention to preserve this. I said when i go to something im a person had does not own a car i want a ribrandt and well funded and strong Transit System. I always believed the measure of citys manuscript to equity can be seen in the commitment to transit had is per of why i dont want a politicized Transit System this means there may be not preponder lawyer but serve them. Become when i was i voter in 99 and supported changes to mta to prop e my understanding the idea to put this beyond the roach of lected officials board and mayor could make a decision on the budget. But thinked not Opening Statement hood on the minutiae of fares. Is that correct. If this passed can you tell me how you think this would play out in terms of service, lead to service cuts or increased. Thank you. We at mta are still facing a crisis of revenue short fall and while well is a lot of balls in the air, we have been in a position we look at very real threats to service and our ability to provide the levels of service this San Francisco come to depends on. And we as you know, have not raised fares for years now. We did listen to the board of the supervisors urging us not to. Raise fares the director of transportation and mta did not raise. What we lost from this fare increase. As well as being able to raise ref nows to remember how we refingerprint friday enforcing parking meters during the pandemic and we lost a bunch of ref nows then, too. We are still catching up where we need to be and at this time, we would imagine that while it would be painful we understand had not everybody is red and willing and able to pay for more fares. We recognize or rates higher rates. We recognize that we have extremely Vulnerable People that take buss and for them it is more challenging to live and stay in San Francisco. We have been left withingly recourse and those other tools that the mta has to keep service around and i would imagine mag that Going Forward with this decision what the way it is currently written, it does not feel like the people that would wroid would have a fair shot being able to stop the cuts that would come from a decision to stop the meters and the fares from raised. Okay. I will jump in there. Because inotropics i will not let you off the hock that easy. This in no way says this fares cant be raised. Or parking meters cannot be extended. When we are doing and be clear. It helpod slow streets and happened on extending parking meter hours. And happened on raising fares. The mayor completely controlless the sfmtas board. The mayor appoints the general manager of transportation. The mayor is now asked to put their stamp. And does say to the gentlemen that commented it say in wroiting to approve or dis, prove by may one of this year. Nothing this it stays anything about or jeopardizes any future service in the city. What it is doing is calling out what is happening today. The Mayors Office and the mayor weigh in to tell and direct the department what to do the board of supervisors does not have this authority. Keep by courteouser condition direct departments. We have not one appointment to the sfmta board. They are 100 percent the voters, if he were third degree im not challengeing in any way. When we are putting out today is if stomach necessary, and if i decision is going to be made, lets put the authority where the decision is happening today and hen happening and this is with the mayor in working with the department to make the decision on what the right thing to do is for fares or parking meters that is what is happening and we know this to be true. This is why we put this forward. We are saying. And then there is the narrative for the public and those listening the anywheretive that the mayor and the city deserves more power im not getting in this conversation this gives the mir more power in Decision Making and so for those that are in favor of this just as a footnote had is also happening in this. So. Again. For the record well is nothing in this that does in the enable decisions to be made it is calling out the process that happens today. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it, thank you. Thank you. No more questions. I have mixed feelings bull say im disinclineed support it i foal this is going in a direction we were trying to get, way from in primary ballot measures to depoliticize this is replay that is where i will be. Do have you a motion . Yes. Make a motion to send this i want to reiterate my cosponsors president supervisor peskin thank you for your work and partnership and supervisor ronen, walton and chan are all coexperiences of this item so for and we have support from more supervisors. Make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk. Is this we do on charter maams positive recommendation. Yes. A recommendation to the full board. There you go. Thank you. Why on the motion to recommend, voice chair walton. Aye supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. No. Thank you. Mr. Clerk on a 21 vote the item moves to full board. Thank you for the folk who is spoke in favor this. Appreciate it. Thank you. Mr. Clerk call item 4. Yes. On item