Transcripts For SFGTV Mayors 20240702

I was in manila in november 1996 when they were holding the apex summit there. And i recall everywhere i turned where bus ads and billboards that read apex 2000. The Philippine Government promised that would bring prosperity and industrialization to the country. But indigenous farmers and workers who were at the front line of the protest knew better. They protested because they knew that the apec agenda would be devastating to their land and livelihood. And fast forward 22 years later, the philippine market has been flooded by foreign rice imports, which local farmers cannot compete with. Nor can a majority of filipinos afford, thereby threatening the nations Food Security and sovereignty. Apex is not about sustainability or shared prosperity. There will be no unions or farmers or indigenous representatives at the apec summit. It will be all the heads of state and billionaire ceos who are there to increase their profits. Bongbong marcos, the son of the late dictator marcos, will be there to sell out the philippines to the highest bidder. How the seniors, immigrants and Small Businesses in the south of market are being treated right now is emblematic of what the summit is really about, which is exclusion, elitism and corporate wealth. Our seniors and communities are being asked to sacrifice because apec will bring prosperity to the city. We know better. The last decade has seen the biggest tech boom, the city budget balloon and the creation of so many billionaires. And also the biggest wealth gap in economic disparity in the city, and especially south of market. Lets not repeat the same mistakes. And that think that the big corporate titans will lead the way to a sustainable economy. I also want to submit for the record a letter signed by 14 Market Community organizations, including soma child care center, childrens Creativity Museum and senior disability action, all of us are very concerned about the impact on our communities and clients of the week of apec. Thank you for your comments. Well collect that from you. Good to see you. Raquel next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is steve leeds, a resident of district seven and a member of the west side tenants association. In i urge you to send a strong message to the mayor and administration by voting unanimously for the apec resolution. Apec will impact the whole city and most of all, those residents and Small Businesses in soma, chinatown, the tenderloin and other neighborhoods which includes some of our most vulnerable residents. It will be disruptive to seniors, the disabled and working people getting to their jobs or supervisors. How many events have you heard of this type that ultimately benefit their location . In how many not super bowls, not olympics, not other large scale events . These type of events leave communities cleaning up the mess and a long Recovery Period during apec, multinationals, billionaires and heads of state will meet and develop and implement trade policies that harm people throughout the world. Those policies are the same as harmful trade policies of the past, such as the tpp. Similar to nafta, which benefit the wealthiest corporations in our workers rights and the race environmental protections. These neoliberal policies will promote deeper inequality, which we see right here in San Francisco and the us, and especially in the countries of the global south with said facing a budget shortfall, not one penny, not one penny, not 10 billion of taxpayers money should be spent on an event that will cause so much pain and havoc. The money should go for alleviating the pain that residents and Small Businesses face because of apec. San francisco has a history of promoting human rights. Birth of the un, promoting workers rights and protecting our immigrant communities as a sanctuary city. We as residents have a right to protest at apec and express our opinions without intimidation and over policing. Again, i strongly urge you to unanimously support this resolution. Apec wont thank you for your comments. It will be a disaster. Thank you for your comments. Any other speakers in the Public Chamber who would like to address the board . All right, mr. President , Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, could you please read the adoption without Committee Reference calendar . Yes. Items 28 through 37 were introduced for adoption without Committee Reference. A unanimous vote is required for adoption of resolutions on First Reading. Today alternate one member may request a resolution on First Reading to go to committee. Supervisor chan item 28 supervisor dorsey 29 on the balance of the calendar items 30 through 37 we can take those same house, same call. Mr. President. Mr. President , what . That was a ten one vote. Oh, youre right. The last one was a 10 to 1 vote. Roll call, please. On items 30 through 37. Supervisor ronan ronan i supervisor sapphire. Sapphire i supervisor stephanie stefani i supervisor walton. Walton. I supervisor chan i chan i supervisor Dorsey Dorsey i supervisor engardio i engardio i supervisor mandelman i mandelman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor peskin i peskin i and supervisor Preston Preston i. There are 11 eyes those resolutions are adopted and motions approved. Madam clerk, could you please read item 28 . Item 28 is a resolution urging the mayor and city agencies to inform residents and vulnerable communities of security, transportation and Service Impacts from Asia Pacific Economic cooperation activity to prioritize city funding towards mitigation of impacts on neighborhood us Small Businesses and vulnerable communities, and to protect peoples rights to freedom of speech and uphold city sanctuary policies. Supervisor chan thank you, president peskin and first, i want to thank all the Public Commenter today for coming out, especially actually our seniors and our seniors who are monolingual. I know its not an easy track for them to come out here into city hall and make Public Comment in person. So for that, im very grateful and want to express my gratitude for them to come out and spoke and colleagues, i think that we heard from folks that are laborers, workers. We really heard from many different people. Thats also including you see the letter support from many different chambers of commerce that representing Small Business owners of color in San Francisco. And then we also have heard from activist as well as our seniors and also our young people. I think that there are many have a wide range of views about how they view apac itself as a event. Some expressed that they support the event itself, some actually do not. And do not wish to be here. Have it to be here, but also understand the fact that when it is that gives them the opportunity to protest and with that said, though, i just wanted to really for you to look at this resolution with one thing that really brought everyone with these diverse point of view and political view together is that this is a resolution to support our local communities and the communities that were impacted by this summit itself. It is no matter where you are in this political spectrum when it comes to asian Pacific Economic coop asian summit, what it is, is that this is for san franciscans. This resolution is about san franciscans and supporting especially the most vulnerable ones, our seniors, our tenants with disabilities. That will end up being tracked by the exclusion zone and our Small Businesses that already been suffering during pandemic. It is a way for us to support them. I just also want to remind colleagues that, you know, this actually do and will come with teeth at some point. The mayor during the budget process has put 10 million on reserve and also with your support that we together as a body also put that very same 10 million on reserve. So that means that it will require us as this body imagery city to vote to allocate that 10 million reserve for appropriate allocation. So with that, with your support and i look forward to your unanimous support today that also speak in volume that you know that we are here to support our local communities. And so thank you for your cosponsorship. Supervisor walton. Thank you, president peskin. I just thought i was already added at a cosponsor, but i wanted to be added as a cosponsor. Supervisor safai. Thank you. Mr. President. Thank you, supervisor chan, for putting this resolution forward. Definitely want to be added as a co sponsor. I thought i was already but just want to point out one of the lines specifically about workers weve been in. Ive had numerous conversations with our 911 call operators for the first time. They are being required as part of this emergency mobilization to do mandatory overtime. That is something that has not been done already to a department that is extremely understaffed department that is not meeting its goals in terms of 911 calls. So one of the things that i wanted to highlight, and its already kind of referenced in this resolution, it talks about workers, Small Business owners and others. I really appreciate you coming out and speaking about it. Those that are trying to get to their jobs as frontline workers and the hotel oil and Service Sector industry extremely important, but wanted to highlight that there is something to be said about this particular operation in the department of emergency management. The importance it plays, and that this is a precedent setting request on behalf of the department of emergency management. So i want to highlight the necessity to look for ways to compensate them. Not exactly sure that the proposals that have been put forward by the city meet the standards that were looking for. Weve heard things like theyre bringing people out of retirement that are aged 75 or older, asking them to work extremely long shifts. So again, as we go into asking for this money off of reserve, i just want to highlight that we have to have a real just and fair compensation package and approach to our 911 call operators and the role that they play and the role that they will play in the importance of the coming weeks, particularly during this conference. Thank you. Supervisor dorsey. Thank you, president peskin. I just wanted to express my appreciation to supervisor chan for her leadership on this and i was happy to join as a co sponsor at the beginning of the meeting this is something that is important to a lot of the businesses and residents in my district representing soma, and i really appreciate that. The point that supervisor chan made that wherever you are on this, this is really about making sure that our neighborhoods and local businesses are taken care of. In many ways, this is a were a little bit in Uncharted Waters because this is a National Special security event along the lines of an inauguration. I dont know that we have had Something Like this perhaps since the un charter. I think its one of those kinds of global things. I hope that on november 18th, were all saying, oh, that was great. We all everybody made money and it was all great, but we dont know. And i think this this resolution does a good job of providing assurance to our communities that the board of supervisors is going to be there looking out for them and doing everything we can to urge that there will not be harms suffered unduly to residents or businesses. Thanks, supervisor melgar. I just wanted to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. All right, so colleagues, i think we can take that same house. Mr. President , supervisor walton is not in the chamber. Good. I. Same house, same call. The resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, could you please read item 29 . Item 29 resolution to express support for the soma pilipinas gateway design and Gateway Construction at the intersection of folsom and rush streets, and to urge the San Francisco Arts Commission and the department of public works to work closely with the Planning Department and the soma pilipinas to build and own the gateway supervisor. Dorsey thank you, president peskin colleagues. This was the result motion i announced at roll call last week and after receiving further input from community stakeholders, id like to ask that this resolution be sent to committee for further discussion and public input with a possible amendments to come. Its my understanding no motion is necessary, but i really just want to express my appreciation to everyones forbearance for a cultural icon that will celebrate our Filipino Community and the rich Cultural Heritage of the south of market neighborhood. Thanks supervisor sapphire. Your name is on the roster. Do you want to please add me as a cosponsor . Supervisor sapphire shall be added as a cosponsor to item 29, which shall be sent to committee. Madam clerk, would you please read the immemorial. Mr. President , i have no items to a report. Wow. We are adjourned. My name is Alex Sinclair of willow on the green in San Francisco. We are the only british tea shop on the west coast and focused on high quality luxury goods from the u. K. And we have teas and baked goods. We came up with the name because willow is made with baskets and the parklett, a willow green and that is a picnic in the park. I have come up with the idea because i have lived in the neighborhood for a year. Seven years ago we had a tea shop. During covid we needed to have a new flavor and rejuvenate the business. We are between two beautiful businesses. I realized with the shop opening next to the bakery, we had a beautiful tea shop in the area. We started with british teas and want to support local tea makers in the local area. And once you have cheese and biscuits need tea and jam and lemon curd and chocolate and all of these parts basically imported from the u. K. Our most popular products come from wales. Its an extra cheddar and next popular product is a jam made with alpine strawberry. So you get a taste of a nice strawberry. This is about supporting cheese makers and business in the area and womenowned businesses around the world and always want to support the community. We support concerts, we support charities and come to the aid to those in need such as the British Society and the San Francisco society and the if you have never had british cheese, i recommend you come in on weekend. All of our staff are highly knowledgeable of all of our products and we are really passionate about what we do here and gives you a chance to explore our culture and food and our values. I encourage you to come to the inner sunset with a beautiful park to be young and academy of sciences here. Come to the shop. We have beautiful baskets and blankets so you can enjoy this wonderful nature and you can support these wonderful businesses out here. Im alice king this is my husband shawn kim and we other ordinance of joes ice cream in San Francisco. Joes ice cream in rich mondistrict since 1959 and we are proud to be registered a San Francisco legacy business since 2017. And we offer more than 50 flavors of homemade ice cream. And delicious home style burgers, sandwiches, hot dog, salad and more. We have a lot of different ice cream flavors both classic, long forgotten but classic and asian flavor inspired flavor like 3 red bean and black and now we also brought the korean im from korea. Korean coffee krooem. We mix our traditional and trendy flavors all together. Shawn and i are the first generation of the immigrants here in San Francisco. So as immigrants, we have a special connection to this diverse community, San Francisco Richmond District. So we made this place our home. That is where we are trying to build our business as a place where everybody can feel welcome like we felt when we first came here what really makes fisher or joes ice cream we have been growing together with our community. So we support our local schools throughout the fundraiser. We provide job opportunity for high school, i hire them every year. Built a beautiful parklet outside funded by donations from over 200 neighbors and friends and i think this really shows how joes ice cream and our Community Like lives together. So you see our mission is to serve as a Fun Community hub in San Francisco and Richmond District. So, i hope that we can stay this way for many years. Good morning everyone. Im San Francisco mayor london breed and i want to welcome you all to Alamo Square Alamo Square is one of the most beautiful iconic places in San Francisco. We get tourist all over the world who come here to stand behind me and hang out with george and other folks who live there at the painted ladies and have wonderful experiences. The other people who also look at this neighborhood and want to be here sadly are people who are breaking into cars and stealing items fraul not only the local residents who live here, but many of the tourists who come here. Can you imagine going to a city, a beautiful iconic city like San Francisco and all a sudden your entire trip is ruined because your passport is stolen . This has been going on far too long. Now, the reason why we are all here has a lot to do with the need to make some adjustments. Over the years, we have seen real challenges in the past between the Police Department and neighborhoods, and in fact, we worked very hard hand in hand with community and with the police to address those reforms. In fact, we have so many great members of the community actively engaged building bridges and helping to protect the community and helping to curve the violence and it is no wonder San Francisco has had one of its lowest homicide rates in decades as well as a huge clearance rate. [applause] so thank you to united players. And thank you to the street violence intervention program. They show up for folks in communities across this city including the folks in chinatown. These African American many behind me, who patrol chinatowns and other neighborhoods to keep the seniors place. In addition to police there are alternatives to policing and appreciative to the members of the board of supervisors, a number of commissioners, our leaders from all over San Francisco, neighborhoods from the richmond to the tenderloin to the sunset to geneva towers and other places, people are coming out with one message, yes, we want reforms to our Police Department, but unfortunately members of the Police Commission have gone way too far. Some of you remember and we chose this place deliberately, when there was a car breakin and the police were there, and the police and other members of the public disrupted that particular situation, so it didnt escalate, however, when the car sped off, many people wondered why the police could not pursue and make sure that that person is brought to justice. Part of some of the changes to policies have limited our officers ability to be as effective as we know they can. People are always wondering, why didnt the police do this, why didnt the police do that and it all goes back to many of these new consistently changing conflicting policies that have not helped with reforms. They have only made San Francisco less safe. [applause] so, now we have to make some changes, and i appreciate the members of the board of supervisors who are here, because as much as we try to work with the board of supervisors, as much as we try to work with the Police Commission and we have one oftwo of the commissioners here today, it continues to be a uphill battle. What we are introduced today is a change that is necessary. A change that recognizes that we have evolved. A change that recognizes that we want safe streets in every part of San Francisco, in every neighborhood. We want to see change in San Francisco. We dont want to just hear about it, we want to see the change in our policies and in our investments to get our city to a better place and thats why we are here , for a safer San Francisco. [applause] so, let me tell you what this is. We are taking something to the ballot. We are going around the board of supervisors, going around the Police Commission, we are going straight to the people of San Francisco, because we need the people of San Francisco to know all the details of the challenges that made it so touch for us to do simple things we know the public wants to see. We are going directly to the voters. I have been visiting police stations all over the city, attending community meetings. Everyone is speaking the same language. Whether someone has been a victim of a crime or even people who are former perpetrators of crime want to see change in this city. Willing to roll up their sleeves and work with us to do the important work that is necessary. Now San Francisco is a compassionate city. We believe in Second Chances. We believe in helping people. We ban the buck so if you are looking for employment, we have all most 5 thousand vacant positions in San Francisco. Working with us to do something that does want get you in trouble and make somebody feel worse because of the crime you committed. We want change and heres how well do it. First, are the tools. Safer San Francisco will authorize the police to install and use security cameras. Many of you thought that was already possible, but no, it is not. [applause] it authorizes them to use drones. To use drones. Modern technology so when that person is trying to get away, instead of in some cases a chase through the city streets, how do we follow them and how do we make the arrest necessary. It will also allow the department to use some of the latest in technology. We cant be living in the dark ages when technologySan Francisco is a ai capital of the world. We have Technology Tools and we need to use them. No more, no you cant, no you cant, no you cant. Lets get to yes so we can make our city safer. [applause] second, are the rules. Safer sf directs the police to pursue criminals when they commit a crime. Thats it. The ability to do their jobs without obinstruction and not micro managed and ability to do their job without having a complaint go to department of Police Accountability that is not related to the job, more so then related to basic hr stuff. It also eliminates requirements for unnecessary paperwork. We dont keep sending officers back to their desk when they can be out on the streets. [applause] if a officer revives somebody who is overdosing from narcan and two other officers are standing there, and everyone has their camera on, why does all three of those officers have to do a report in writing . One report, video footage from three cameras, thats efficiency. That is not something that should even be debatable. Third, [applause] third, under the charter, the Police Commission, which is appointed by me approved by the board of supervisor and appointed and approved by the supervisor, whole lengthy detailed process and people are like, mayor, mayor, are you responsible for department . Yes, i am but the Police Commission is responsible for policies, and they from my perspectivity, many of them are doing things to roll back important things that keep san franciscans safe. It is very problematic. People wonder are people riding bikes on the sidewalk, why can the police not pursue and use surveillance . Safe sf puts in place a transparent process so they are not making policy decisions with advocates in isolation. They have to take this to to community. They center to come to alamo square, have to go to richmond and have a transparent and they have to explain themselves to the public why a change of this nature needs to happen and they have to do a basic analysis, so people understand that how much amount of time is going to take for paperwork and what does this mean in terms of keeping officers off the streets. Police officers should not be spending more then 20 percent of their time doing paperwork in order to keep san franciscans safe. This really puts limits on their ability to do so. No more general orders today. General order tomorrow. Conflicting general orders and all a sudden the officers are like okay, i got to sit in my office for at least the next couple hours, my captain has to explain this to me, that takes officers off the streets and then it is confusing and are a whole another ball game with no time for implementation t. Is ridiculous. It is insane. [applause] so, those are the things that we are changing. The tools, the rules and the commission and their ability to make policy without informing the public about what that means. Because, even though these things may seem simple, they are very complex in terms of what is happening. Many of you again, asking the questions, why, why, why. Why cant the police do this . They want to, but they have a sworn oath to obey the general orders that get passed by the commission. Now we are going to the voters and say voters of San Francisco, this is what is happening. These are the basic tools we need to improve Public Safety in San Francisco. Support safer sf today. [applause] and let me just wrap up by saying, despite the challenges, our Police Officers have been doing an extraordinary job. Doing the best they can. [applause] you know, we have done a lot of changes to alternatives to policing. People struggling with mental illness. We have our street Crisis Response team. We have our street violence intervention programs and other non profits who are on the ground working to deal with some of those challenges. Bringing the police and other resources to prevent crimes and to also help with retaliation and other issues, and as i said earlier, San Francisco is seeing low record low numbers as it relates to homicides and also high clearance rates, which demonstrates if you cross those lines, we will do a thorough investigation and we will come for you. That is what that means. We have seen the bay car operations work where we have made significant numbers of arrests and we are starting to see those car breakins continue to decline and we want to keep it that way and we are out there. You may not see us until you get caught, but we are out there. And with regards to this retail theft, i just want to say, remember when you go into wallgreens and stealing from yourp grand mother and aunts farm pharmacy and cant go to another place to get her medicine, you are destroying the opportunity for these places to be open in your neighborhood, you are creating a health issue for your relatives who rely on these pharmacies every single day so we have Retail Operations going on as we speak. We have made arrests at walgreens, dior, lululemon and will continue to do this work so you never know what store you might walk in and something may happen where you may get arrested. To be clear, this is not something that we wanted to push for. Because San Francisco believes in Second Chances and opportunities and we will work with you on that, but these lines have been crossed time and time again. Our compassion has been taken for weakness, as if anything goes in San Francisco. No longer does anything go, despite the lack of tools we need, we are still doing the job. We are still making arrests. We are still following up with our investigations. We are still doing everything we can to bring people to justice to make San Francisco a safer city for everybody who lives here and visits here. That is our goal and that is why it is important that when we go to the ballot in march 2024 we need voters to turn out in record numbers to vote for safer sf [applause] there is so much more i can say about this, but the last thing i will end on is, i grew up in this community and im here with people who i grew up with. Times were not easy. In fact, the relationship between me and our community and Law Enforcement wasnt a good one. Would we have liked to see some reforms happen back then to help deal with that challenging relationship . Yes. But we are doing that now and havent give chb up and now those same people who may have been a part of the challenges of the community are now the leaders in the community, fighting for a safer city. Fighting for a better San Francisco. Making change and providing opportunities to see people lives better. Thats what this city is about and thats what we will continue to be about, but what we will not continue to allow to happen on our streets is the lack of accountability. We have a Police Department that is prepared to do what is necessary to make arrests. We have a District Attorney who is prepared to prosecute case s, and we have people all over San Francisco who want and deserve better. Safer San Francisco will deliver better for the people of San Francisco. [applause] with that, i like to turn it over to one of the few supervisors on the board of supervisors who actually supports common sense Public Safety measures, supervisor catherine stefani. [applause] thank you mayor breed. It is a pleasure to be out here this morning with community and Public Safety advot cans and applaud the mayor for this measure, because it is so needed. The other day i was in the presidio in my district at the festival and after i spoke there was a man waiting for me, waiting to speak to me about something, and he came up to me and said, supervisor stefani, do you have a minute and i said, of course. He said about a year ago my son was murdered and i have been work wg the San Francisco Police Department who have been absolutely incredible. The homicide investigator has been there for me and my family every step of the way, but the problem he is pulled to other details and he is not able to devote hundred percent attention to it because of our staffing shortage. When we are 600 officers short, that has real impacts in our community. It has real impacts for families suffering because they have unsolved homicide investigations when we know our Police Officers want to dedicate everything they have in them to solve those crimes. This measure is a step in the right direction to make certain we are doing everything to address the shortage. We cant just go out and hire 700 Police Officers tomorrow, but we certainly can look what the Police Commission is doing, we can look at the paperwork, we can look at everything preventing the policing, the type of policing we need in this city. P im a sformer prosecutor and have gone to our stations in my district and sat with officers one on one and asked them, what is the impediment to your job . What is the problem . You are being accused of not being out there. They talk about the paperwork and policies that come down that are confusing and conflicting and duplicative and this measure will do everything to make certain we give the officerss the tools they need to keep San Francisco safe, so im a big proponent of safer San Francisco and i want to again applaud the mayor for putting this forered forward. Thank you everyone for being here. [applause] thank you so much. You know, i really want to express gratitude to mayor london breed for safer San Francisco ballot measure. I think this is worthy companion to the work we get and finally deliver on the promise of fully staffed Police Department. This is a smart on crime approach. This removes needless inefficiency. San franciscans deserve a Police Department with the same access to Surveillance Technology as every other county in california. It makes so sense we have the most restrictive and onerous Surveillance Technology policies that are preventing Law Enforcement from doing their jobs. I represent the south of market neighborhood. I live in midmarket. This is a neighborhood where the restrictions on Surveillance Technology are nothing less then a fentanyl dealer full employment act and needs to end and grateful to mayor breed for her leadership in doing that. [applause] the safer San Francisco ballot measure will streamline onerous restrictions on Police Officers use of camera technology. It will hold criminals and fentanyl dealers accountable. It will make San Francisco safer and most important, it will help save lives. Please join me in supporting this important measure and thank you mayor london breed. [applause] im supervisor engardio and represent the sunset. San francisco Police Department is a leader in reform and thats a good thing, but reform cannot get in the way of effective policingism we need it, we deserve it. We need and deserve both, reform and effective policing and this common sense measure gets us there. Thats why im grateful for the mayor to put this on the ballot because we dont have enough supervisors who could put this on the ballot ourselves, so it is important for the voters to have your voice heard and take control and go to the ballot in march and enact this common sense reform so our police can get their job done. Out in the sunset everyone asks for more police to be walking on the merchant corridors and foot patrols, but cant do that if they are stuck in the office doing all this paperwork. This helps free them up to do their job, gives the tools they need and something that we need in San Francisco. Thank you. [applause] thank you and again, i knowi wish we had more support from the Police Commission, but at least we have two of our good commissioners here, commissioner larry yee and at this time i will ask commissioner Deborah Walker to say a few words. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you mayor breed. I think for appointing me to the commission, but also for this really important effort. I have been on the Police Commission for a little over a year, and on a weekly basis if not daily basis im really frustrated by the Current System that allows Police Commissioners, which should weigh in to have a opinion representing the communities we live in, but none of us are Law Enforcement, none of us are training Law Enforcement and yet we are dictating policy that tells the police how they are supposed to enforce the law on the streets. I spent time recently at the invitation of the department to meet with the new officers who are working on policy creation, and thats where the dgos get discussed and we were discussing the department general order about writing department general orders and we went around in a circle for at least two hours and everything in it was contradictory as the schedules and who is supposed to weigh in and that is just one. Thats the order on writing orders. This needs analysis. We need to actually look at the rules we are talking about and analyze them to the effect it is having oen the force. I also want to sayi want to reiterate, we are so behind on technology because thof ham strung ability for us to try out policies. We are short in officers. There is a way to use technology to help enforce the law and deal with the issues the mayor outlined and supervisors outlined, but we need to be able to put it in the cars and put it on thein the cameras and actually make it so the officers dont have to use three hours of time after their beat to do paperwork. I really hope that we all in the city can support it. It will help us all do the job to do reforms in our department. We have one of the most reform minded departments in the country. We are a National Model for that, but we need to do reforms as well as keeping our streets safe, so thank you. I totally support this and i hope we can get everybodys vote. Thank you. [applause] and thank you chief bill scott for being here and folks from northern station who are joining us. Just two neighborhood speakers that i want to introduce. First from the street violence intervention program. I want to ask howard smith to say a few words. [applause] good morning to you all. To our mayor and police chief scott and to the community. I think this iswhat i say one thing to the commission is this, whenever policy is made, when rules are made, it is made for the most part for the safety of the community. But we have to remember it is madeit has to be made in the spirit of the community. It cant be politics, it cant be selfpersonal agendas, it has to be made with the spirit of the community and spirit of keeping our seniors safe, keeping our children safe and keeping our community safe, so i support this 100 percent. I thank you mayor breed for having the courage to stand up and do some things that against the norm. I appreciate that. Chief scott, i appreciate you for continuing to battle with us in the community, because when our communities are safe, we have a Good Relationship with the Police Department. That is when our communities are safe. I want to say that to the commission. Remember, when you make those policies it has to be in the spirit of the people you are trying to keep safe. Thank you. [applause] thank you howard, and last but not least from the Richmond District, i want to invite up to say a few words, mrs. Lee. [applause] hello. [waiting for translation] [applause] hi, im leung chow. Im supposed to do interpretation, but since the mayor talk about embracing 21 technology and with the ai, im going to use what she just read with a very common app and im going to be translating english and im going to push the voice button. If it works, then we embrace technology. Lets see how it works. Good morning, my name is lee. I live on clement street in richmond. Shop fest have been happening frequently in my neighborhood which greatly effected our neighbors shopping and personal safety. Last month i attended a meeting at the Richmond District police station. That meeting, the police explained to residents that the new guidelines set by the Police Commission stipulate that Police Officers cannot pursue thieves and robbers. We citizens are shocked by this ridiculous policy. We are extremely disappointed with this Police Commission decision and we support the mayors policy of correcting this wrong. In addition, crime problems often occur where i live. A small number of neighbors have installed antitheft video cameras. You must have a video system that comprehensively covers every area in San Francisco allowing the Police Department to effective track gangsters. Therefore, i strongly support the mayors plan to make San Francisco safer and this is the unanimous position of the neighbors i know. Thank you all. [applause] im go to lost my job, but dont worry, we got 5 thousand positions available with San Francisco. So, there you have it folks. Again, thank you all so much for being here today. As you can see, there are so many people from so many different communities. There are merchants here, residents, folks who work in senior centers, folks who work on the streets of the communities. We have to make a change and make a change today. This will go on it ballot march 2024, so when election time comes, we will be out there turning out the votes to get people to show up, to support a safer San Francisco and send a strong message. We are watching you Police Commission, we are watching the board of supervisors, and dont just say you want a safe city, make the changes to the policies that will lead to the results we need and deserve. Thank you. [applause] music . I started the o was with a financing and had a Business Partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse business in a lifetime or the best. We created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasnt used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. What the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. unintelligible . Where we would offer Food Delivery Services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. We had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an oldfashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the phone and raised over one quarter of a Million Dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. We got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i cant let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. And it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what were doing. This building used to be a and one of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we dont realize how much we affect the Community Around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. And inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the San Francisco board of surprisers meeting for today october 24, 2023. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Yes, mr. President. Supervisor chan, present. Supervisor dorsey, present. Supervisor engardio, present. Supervisor mandelman,