Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supes 10416 20161017

400 radio stations taken away from him because he made some comment about Hillary Clinton but hes a medical doctor hes earned his degree. Made some comment about the race medical condition w abc a new york yankee him. 399 stations. Item about the other stations but he was on k sfo. This is happening right in front of our eyes could were becoming like red china. Thats what this place is becoming like you are to people become ashamed of yourself. Kim how can you respect rows back can you address your comments we wont say it again to the members as a whole and not to individual supervisors. Thank you. Ive not seen the debates with gov. Pence whats happening in our nation i guarantee you the moderator is gaining up on gov. Pence. Theyre doing the same thing to him as they did to mr. Trump. Its two against one. He still won im sure gov. Pence is coined to win because right is going to win. But its not right. I hope that these people that mr. Trump and gov. Pence take on these moderators and say you need to leave. Youre not running for president. Youre not running for Vice President , i am in they need to get out of it. I dont know whats going on with these debates and where this came in thank you. Next speaker, please. Adam president of price at the time the next big drawer mind the members of the public in the Public Gallery audible expression either in support or in opposition is prohibited by the board rules. May you sure supportive fingers. Next speaker, please. Thank you members of the board of supervisors. Minus Clay Holstein city manager brisbane. I just want to cut to the chase in terms of the resolution before you tonight. The offending section is the penultimate paragraph in the resolution. It speaks to annexation. We ask that you remove it in whole. Theres an old rock n roll song that goes something to the effect that you can talk to a man with a shotgun in his name. We ask you to remove the shotgun. Thank you next speaker, please. Its a heavy day in here today from black lives matter to its pretty heavy. Thats late in the evening before we go home and watch this debate. Talk about the board of supervisors the mastic violence. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month that i know each and every supervisor here is not want to propagate or protect abusers of Domestic Violence. But unfortunately, there is a supervisor here was protecting a person who is a Domestic Violence perpetrator. Im a survivor of Domestic Violence. I was relocated from San Francisco to my hometown for two years to protect me from my domestic abuser. It really upsets me that a person, juliusi will not say his last namewho has in days and or stargate supervisor whose it brutalized his partner who happened to be my attorney to protect me against my abuser and scott weiner has his endorsement on his Senate Website said he was sir, address your members to the board of supervisors that is shameful to have the board of supervisors to have an endorsement from a perpetrator of a gay man not only take his endorsement but put it on his website sir on pausing your time. Your viewpoints are important to us when you Start Talking about opposition or support of individuals who are on the ballot thats where you cross the line. Welcome to continue her remarks but please read out the part about the election and address your marks of the board as a whole. Thank you, sir they use much for the clarity it so hard for me to know where the line is outside the chamber and inside this chamber but i just want to ask this particular supervisor to remove his endorsement of a known abuser on that website. It is shameful. I got beaten up , brutalized and suited my attorney. Its a shame that youre supporting them. Next speaker, please. Tomsome poor vacations last week i mentioned something about the best of arun peskin you get the best of arrington doesnt it over to get it in onetwominute burst. The special millennium meeting we got mr. Peskin for hours. Its appreciated of. Judgments, decisions are made a critical thinker. Something that resonates in my case a lot of times dust settles. Alas we get this meeting we are creating buildings, tall luxury condos that will be successful even though they will be in hospital. No one will be able to have inhabit them after the big earthquake. Excuse me. That just smacks of a time out. Empty Tall Buildings the cost to take down the lost homes major major time out. There are limits to what man can do in this society that San Francisco has to look at them and recognize them. The city is going to major crossroads. Homeless, Education Police housing transportation creating Healthy Communities and we are going in the wrong direction. I just seems that were lacking leadership at the mayors office. We are lacking leadership in the best he could give us is no [inaudible] even these people came here just because they were kicked out of a parade and the way its turned into. Youre creating a Political Movement here by not doing anything. We need to recognize the reality that we are in quickly and make them move forward. Thank you. Are there any members of the public was to address the board general public commons . Please, step up mdm. Pres. Seeing oh members of the public that would like to comment, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] the clerk lets go to the item for adoption without reference to committee. Items 4248 being considered for immediate other option the Committee Reference a single roll call vote man ask these items. Member the object separate and adam have it considered separately. Supervisor kim 44 b was supervisor cohen mdm. Clerk on the remaining items lease call the roll items 4248 44, supervisor breed aye campos aye cohen aye farrell aye kim aye mar aye peskin aye tang aye weiner aye jan east aye triano aye there are 11 aye those on items are adopted in and approved it unanimously [gavel] these call item 44 item 44 is a resolution to closely monitor developers of the brisbane babin area to ensure that the city brisbane prepared a conference of complete my mental Impact Report george brisbane to adopt a reasonable Land Use Plan this area dont include workforce housing. He was supervisor kim realize we only had somewhat robust discussion on this resolution already. Ive talked to chairman cohen of the Land Use Committee i know she wants to call for hearing on this immediately. So i will be furthest to committee to be discussed with the hearing could i do as i said either of some amendment to make for a conversation with pres. Breed on changing the language to explain to the portion of brisbane to which we can build housing of course as a last resort in partnership the city brisbane and the county of san mateo the was this item will go to committee. Mdm. Clerk, we you please read the in memoriam yes. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory the following beloved individuals on behalf a pres. Breed. Mr. Nathaniel mason junior, in on behalf of supervisor tang the late mr. John lionel dupree. Colleagues this brings us to the end of our agenda for today. Mdm. Clerk any further business before us a that concludes our business for today thank you. We are adjourned. [gavel] [adjournment] good afternoon recruits im going to be very short, because i am [laughter ] okay, i should start off with a joke you have to laugh. Anyway, first off, its my pleasure to be with the chief and with our department of Public Health director to welcome you into the finest Police Department in the country and i know that because that is what you have chosen to do and im very gratified i could be here in front of you as you ago through this invaluable academy and training. Really two points i want to raise. One is to thank you for making that choice. You can join any other department in the whole bay area, but you have chosen our city and im grateful for that. Second is that today i especially appear before you to make sure that you understand what we are trying to do as an entire city with our Police Department. Were undergoing one of the biggest Reform Efforts in the history of this department, and our chief is leading that, and one of the reasons today is that you will undoubtedly be involved in many of our confrontations that other Police Officers do probably on a daily basis. And the trend has been that there are more people that are victims of alcohol and drug abuse, and will exhibit in many occasions a danger to themselves or others and you will definitely be called upon to intervene in those situations. One of the principles of our Police Reform that is going on today, one that i greatly value is the principle of the sanctity of life. You probably already have been receiving training on that. But you also will be trained in the practice called receiving time and distance. That is when you are called upon, i think well ask you to do your best to create that time and distance for the purpose of preserving life. In that, i want you to know that the rest of the city is not simply asking you to carry the entire burden of that. ; that were going to be partners with you the best that we can and one of those strong partnerships that i am and this administration is funding with the full cooperation of the police commission, your chief , all the management staff is to say that when you are asked to intervene and if you can create that time and distance with everybodys safety in mind, well then have Mental Health and Public Health experts to be at your side. So that they can do the specialty crisis intervention that you create the time and distance in order to have. We have got to work as a team. If were going save more lives out there, we have to make sure that we have the ability to get some professionals to work alongside with you, so we can intervene in the sometimes very tragic circumstances and if we can get the Mental Health expertise with the people standing behind me, the crisis intervention specialists, they are referred to as our entire team train by our Public Health department to work in these crisis situations, were going save more lives and ultimate ly that is what you seek to do in your profession and we want everybodys lives to be here. You will get crisis intervention training. You will be introduced to the sanctity of life principle, but in the realstreet situations that we have, its your ability to implement that in an effective way with the chief and all of the managers crisis and all of the trainers that are here. That we want to do it with your safety in mind and with the immediate peoples safety in mind so we can gain that valuable, sometimes minutes to be able to introduce a professional. So that we can go on and perhaps save a persons life even more times than we have in the past. Quite frankly, it has worked in no less than probably five situations in the past several months. And i was with the chief on one of those occasions, almost three to four hours in those negotiations and we saved everybodys life and everybody walked away. We need more of those opportunities, because there is drugs, there is drug abuse, there is a tremendous amount of Mental Illness and you cant do it all. We dont want to tell you to do it all, but you have an invaluable part of that process. So those are two messages. Again, thank you for choosing the city and county of San Francisco to work in and well be there to create more classes as more of our officers decide they want to have an even better life and retire and at the same time, we need to get enough officers to meet the challenges of population, and the needs of every one of our neighborhoods. Thanks for being officers in the city and county of San Francisco. Chief. First of all real fast im with the mayor every wednesday and the joke you heard i have to hear those every wednesday when i meet with him [laughter ]so the sympathy should be flowing my way. The incident that the mayor was talking about wasing at market and jones and it was a support armed with a firearm and the officer showed incredible restraint and saves that mans a life. I have since met with the mother and father of the mans life that was saved and they are incredibly grateful to the San Francisco Police Department. They spent about two hours praising our efforts, and giving us kudos for making sure that resolved the way it did. That is what were trying to push forward and we all understand its not always going to work out in our favor and things that happen that are well beyond the control of anybody wearing that uniform and we need to make sure were Crystal Clear on that, but at same time, to approach every situations a lifesaving situation. The department is moving in a different direction and were trying to be at the front of this and not the back of the line. I just sat in an awards ceremony, voting process for Department Members to get silver medals and awards and most of the recipients came up in situations that they tracked about what they did and talked about using time and distancing in deescalation. One an officer was stabbed in throat on the freeway onramp and went for his firearm which he reholstered to baton because he recognized that the situation changed and the individual no longer had the knife and he had presence of mind to think about it as it unfolded. Another situation a gentleman was sharpening a knife and had residents holed because they were too afraid and they formulated the plan of creating time and distance and they subdued him and took him into custody without shooting him. Arguably a yearandahalf, two years ago the officerinvolved shooting scenarios pure and simple. That is what were trying to preach and push today and the Group Standing behind me are meant to give you additional tools in the tool belt when you have those situation and the San Francisco Police Department is proud to partner again with the department of Public Health on Mental Health services to the community and the San Francisco police have worked with department of Public Health for years including mobile crisis teams providing assistance to child Crisis Services which helps youth in crisis. This new team of clinicians standing behind me isa valuable to San Francisco Police Officers to support negotiators in the field and conduct crisis assessments and debrief persons involved and affected by incidents, and consult with victims and provide Crisis Services. They are going to also assist with our ongoing Crisis Intervention Training Program to help our officers improve their ability to recognize people with Behavioral Health problems. This program is part of an ongoing reform system that the department has undertaken over the past year and again, im talking about the San Francisco Police Department being the lead, not following, not picking things up from everybody else. We were using a model that is still effective, but there is say better model. And our people are now researching that model to bring it to San Francisco with dealing with people in crisis. That is part of us taking the lead. Were under a Collaborative Reform Initiative review by the department of justice right now that we invited in. Because again, all of these changes are meant to make us better. So i want us all to make sure we embrace it and look behind me at these white jackets with another tool for the San Francisco Police Department to use to enforce the sanctity of life on the streets and save people, because that is our primary mission to preserve life. I want to introduce director. Thank you you and thank you all of you and i saw you standing at attention to so long and you are so fortunate to be part of a city and part of a police force that are going to be at the head of many Police Forces in this country in terms of really understanding the impact of substanceabuse and Mental Health on many of the individuals that you may meet. Behind me is a team that we have been over the last decade working very closely with the police, and coming to any incidents of violence and providing assessments and support to family members. Were going to be expanding this team with three clinical psychologists and social workers to work deeper with all of you and give you training how to engage and meet the needs of many of these individuals. And also, i have been on the calls and some of these interventions that the police chief talked about, and we believe we can really give you really Important Information about the background of an individual, who you may be negotiating with. And so were very proud. Im very proud of the team that is behind you in the white coats and im very proud of the team in the blue. And together were going to be really providing you, i believe, some essential training and also support. And we believe that doing this together, we can reduce improve the health of many of the individuals who you are going to come in contact and reduce the incidents that we have at times when we have to be more forceful with individuals. So we look forward to this. Were going to be quickly hiring these individuals, and the police will be involved with this in hiring. So we have the right type of individual who will work with us closely and by the new year, well be really working closely and responding. In between now and then, this team behind me will be taking that place until our new staff is expanded. Were 24 7, and were located in the bay view, but we travel throughout the city in order to provide these services. So i want to thank you for your attention today and we look forward to working with you, and proud to see all of you today becoming new Police Officers. [ applause ] were going to conclude this and any questions that the press may have well be outside in the hallway for you. 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Commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus