Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Public Safety And Neighborhood Services Committee 101515 20151024

Todays Committee Member is Julie Christensen who is Committee Member this year. Our clerk of the board is mr. Evans. Please share your announcements. City clerk please silence all cell phones and devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor john avalos i would like a motion to excuse supervisor mar and campos. Item no. 1, please. City clerk [liquor license 745 ofarrell street] hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 42 onsale beer and wine public premises license to cuong thanh tran for key tran, inc. , dba king kong bida, located at 745 ofarrell street district 6 city clerk [liquor license 745 ofarrell street] hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 42 onsale beer and wine public premises license to cuong thanh tran for key tran, inc. , dba king kong bida, located at 745 ofarrell street district city clerk [liquor license 745 ofarrell street] hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 42 onsale beer and wine public premises license to cuong thanh tran for key tran, inc. , dba king kong bida, located at 745 ofarrell street district 6 1234 568s Supervisor John Avalos very good. Thank you. Good afternoon. From the San Francisco p. D. You have a report for they have applied for a type 42 license and if approved this will allow them to sell on sale beer and wine. There are zero letters of protest. Two letters of support. They are located in plot 548 which is considered a high crime area. They are in census attract 12201 which is a high saturation area. Tenderloin station has no opposition. Alu approves this license with the following recommended conditions. No. 1, Sales Service in conjunction with sale from 11 00 a. M. To 11 00 p. M. Daily. No. 2, the sales of alcohol beverages for off sale is strictly prohibited. No. 2, the petitioner shall provide sufficient security personnel who should be identifiable and security personnel to facilitate the orderly conduct of patrons each day of the week until 1 2 hour passed the cessation of sale service ands consumption of alcohol beverages. No. 4, no noise should be in the audible area in the ac 257 form. No. 5, the petitioner shall be responsible of the adjacent area which they have control. No. 6, loitering to stand idly about without lawful business. Its prohibited on any sidewalk or property adjacent to the licensed premise under the control of the licensee. No. 7, graffiti shall be removed from the premise and all parking lot under the control of the licensee within 72 hours of application. If it occurs on friday or weekend day or on a holiday, licensee shall remove the graffiti within 72 hours following the beginning of the next weekday. No. 8, the anterior lighting maintained there on shall be sufficient to make easily discernable appearance and conduct of all persons and patrons where the portion where alcohol beverages are sold, delivered or consumed. No. 9, the exterior of the property shall be including lighting and not include any neighboring residence. Petitioner shall not make changes to the premise without prior written approval from the department. Supervisor john avalos great. Thank you, sergeant george. There were two letters of support in the packet from neighbors to the establishment. So i feel there has been sufficient work on this from the department. So at this point, i would like to go to Public Comment. Any member would like to comment on item no. 1 related to 745 ofarrell street for a liquor license. Please come forward. Are you the project sponsor . Yes. Please come forward. Im the executive director of the Tenderloin Economic Development department and we thank the board of supervisors as well as the Police Department for supporting this. The Vietnamese Community was dumped into tenderloin in the 70s and 80s and 90s and there hasnt been any space for the neighborhood men to go and convene. Its really important that this space provides a Community Space for a lot of the vietnamese men who have families in the neighborhood to go out and have a place where they can enjoy space together. He has been living in the tenderloin since 95 and has had a business there since then. Because of the lack of training opportunities in the neighborhood a lot of residents in the neighborhood were forced to open their own small businesses. His business is his only livelihood for his family since he doesnt have any other training opportunities to advance. Thank you. And you have been in established business for how many years already . Since 1996. Its been a while and it has been a part of the community that a lot of people are already currently using and coming to . Yes, sir. I have a lot of people from the neighborhood. They come and like to hang around after people get off work at 4 00 and they come to my store to hang out for a couple hours and go back home. Okay, thank you. Supervisor christensen. Supervisor Julie Christensen i have a question to that. Is this related to off site sale . No. Onsite only. Thank you. Any other members of the public . Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay. That is approved and i will take that without objection. Next item, please. Clerk, please city clerk [liquor license transfer 415 sansome street, suite c] hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 42 onsale beer and wine public premises license from 620 post street to 415 sansome street, suite c district 3 , to sarah trubnick, for trubnick johnson jones, lcc, dba barrel room, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of city clerk sf 21234 Supervisor John Avalos okay. Sergeant george . Yes. Good afternoon supervisors you have before you a report for the barrel room at 415 sansome street. They have applied for a liquor license. There are no letters of protest. No letters of support. They are located in a 150 which is considered high crime. They are in census tract which is considered a high saturation area. It has no opposition. Alu approves the following license with recommended conditions of 1 Sales Service and consumption of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted between the hours of 11 00 a. M. To 2 00 a. M. Daily. Okay. Thank you. Thats less of a mouthful than the last one. Yes. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor christensen . Supervisor Julie Christensen my understanding is that my staff has looked at this and found no objections and we move to approve. Okay. Well take that without objection. No. 3. Please. City clerk [liquor license transfer 130 clement street] hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 20 offsale beer and wine license from 559 hayes street to 130 clement street district 1 , to tanya booth, for spanish table california, llc, dba the spanish table, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. City clerk sf 31234 good afternoon, supervisors. Nelly gordon with the San Francisco p. D. You have a report for the spanish cable located at 130 clemente street. If approved they would be allowed to sell beer and wine. There are no letters of protest, no letters of support. They are located in plot 3 which is not considered a high crime area. They are located in census attract 0401 which is considered undue concentration. Richmond station has no opposition. The alu approves with the following recommended conditions. Sale of alcoholic beverages from 8 00 a. M. To 10 00 p. M. Daily. Powder alcohol and nonliquid base product is prohibited. No more than 400 Square Footage for alcoholic beverages and 32 ounces and 40 ounces containers is prohibited. Prepackaged sale with the exception of wine coolers, beer cool ers which must be sold in manufactures prepackaged of four or more. No wine content shall be sold except for dinner wines which has been aged 2 years or more and maintained in corked bottles. Lastly wine shall not be sold in bottles or containers to more than 75 milliliters. Supervisor Julie Christensen i think this has come up before. I cant recall what the answer was. The corked bottles limitations. Certainly ages wines are appearing now in bottles with different types of closure. Do we retain the corked bottle. Does that literally mean a corked. My husband bought wine without a cork the other day. So capped wine is not allowed . That is correct. Could you tell me why that exist . I dont have an answer for that. I can get it to you later. If we approve this license with that type of limitation, whats the process for going back and expanding that to include screw top aged wines . If that is something that is going to be allowed the applicant can apply for a modification to change that condition. All right. I guess well hear from the applicant and see if thats an issue. I was just curious. It seems for like ecology that we have moved on from that. It may be from a prior time. Supervisor john avalos i think its an interesting question. I cant tell you how many times i have found a bottle searching for a screw top. Why dont we hear from the project sponsor. Maybe the project sponsor might have information about that. I might be able to answer that. Im andy booth. One of the things to answer that. The limitation was on 15 or more which really isnt an issue for us. Thats why i wasnt so concerned about that. You are right, actually a lot of different closures are now used with wines. Do you want to speak closer to the mic . Okay. Is that better . Just an introduction about the store, we have one in marin and berkeley. We are a Specialty Grocery store. We sell food, wine and cook ware. Weve been in business for 14 years in the bay area and looking for two 2 years for a new location and excited about opening up. Weve had a number of people come by. When weve been there, we dropped off a sink and people were asking when we were opening. We are excited about that. Some additional things too about what weve done reaching out with the community before hand, too. Hi. So i have reached out to supervisor mars office. When we looked at clemente street i wanted to see what the neighborhood was like. I spoke to the Police Department and victor lam was in supervisor mars office and i have gained their support and synthesis cynthia with the clemente Street Association and she was delighted to have us in the neighborhood and part of the association as well. And, we also just donated some nice items to the wine on the west side event that was held last month. We gave a nice things. We are excited to be in the neighborhood. Great, thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay. A motion to approve and second and well take that without objection. Welcome to the neighborhood. Item no. 4. City clerk [liquor license transfer 705 columbus avenue] hearing to consider that the transfer of a type 21 offsale general license from 500 laguna street to 705 columbus avenue district 3 , to carrie peters, for red fangs, llc, dba rialto mercato, will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. City clerk sf 41234 thank you, this next one that you have before you a pcn report for rialto mercado located at 705 columbus avenue. They have applied for a 21 off sale general license and to sell beer and wine. There are no letters of protest and no letters of support recorded with abc. They are located in plot 120 which is not considered a high crime area. They are located in census tract 0107 considered a high concentration. Alu approves with the following recommendations. Sales of alcoholic beverage shall be permitted from 9 00 a. M. To 10 00 p. M. Daily. Loitering standing about or aimlessly is prohibited under the control of the licensee as depicted on the 527 form. No one under the age of 21 shall sell alcoholic beverages. More than 200 milliliters is prohibited. Powder alcohol is prohibited. No wine shall be sold with alcohol content of greater than 15 by volume which is dinner wine. Wines shall not be sold in bottles or containers more than 375 milliliters. Supervisor john avalos any questions . Supervisor Julie Christensen again, we can talk to the project sponsor, what happens if we strike cork . I cant answer that. We cant alter those conditions at this point but they can apply for modification of that condition. We should hear from the project sponsor. Deputy City Attorney john gibner. The state is ultimately that imposes the conditions on the license. The board of supervisors in your resolution can make recommendations to the state about what types of conditions will be imposed. The Police Department separately makes recommendation to the state and typically in these situations, the boards resolution mirrors the polices recommendations for obvious reasons. But whether or not you mention cork in the resolution you send forward, ultimately the state is going to have the authority to make that choice. Supervisor john avalos okay. Is the project sponsor available . Hello. Its actually not an issue about the cork because im planning to make a crated wine. There are wines that are not there for logical reasons. Particularly white wines that dont need to be aged. Farewell with a little cap and protects it from the bacteria of cork which is an endangered species. However, keeping that in mind, i will certainly comply with the cork issue and the 15 is not an issue for me. The store will also contain an italian pantry. I have owned a market for years and i know what is good food and wine. I plan to open that up to the public along with books i feel people should read and a couple of paintings. It will be a little bit of an we received a lot of feedback, not only from my customers but people from the street who finally have a place that we can grab that pasta, that good bottle of wine. Thank you. Supervisor john avalos thank you very much. Supervisor christensen . Supervisor Julie Christensen we did reach out to some of the neighborhoods folks. So we have in our possession letters of support from the north Beach Business Association and from the Telegraph Hill dwellers, group that usually oh pine on these issues and they have indicated their support. We have not found any other objection. I would like to move to approve. Supervisor john avalos okay. I think we need to close Public Comment. We have a member of the public . Mr. Yip . Public speaker the liquor store. Orange juice also. Thats pretty good. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. A motion by supervisor christensen and i will second and well take that without objection. Next item. City clerk [hearing city coordination of services regarding problem residential and commercial properties] sponsor avalos hearing to assess the level and efficacy of city Agency Coordination to address persistently blighted residential and commercial properties, residential and commercial properties that operate unpermitted businesses and or harbor illegal activity, and the citys progress to permanently close illegal gambling locations along neighborhood commercial corridors in district 11; and requesting the department of building inspection, the City Attorney, the district attorney, the Police Department, public works, and the Planning Department to report. Ity clerk sf 51234 Supervisor John Avalos very good. Thank you very much. This is a hearing that i have called and have been in the works for a number of months specifically around the conditions in district 11 and Blighted Properties throughout the neighborhood and the Mission Corridor and vacant store fronts that have been places where some crime has been concentrated and thats been very difficult to uproot despite the efforts of community and working closely with Law Enforcement and Code Enforcement departments. Today is really a chance to hear what is the work that is being done. I dont think we can get into specific cases necessarily but we can get a sense of what types of activities are being conducted. How successful these efforts are and what is the role that the public can play as well in supporting the efforts of the city departments and what makes some of the cases very very difficult to uproot and expiration of these issues. Its been very very troubling that the supervisor for this district to see how challenging it is to uproot these issues affecting our neighborhoods. And its also very troubling to see how a lot of the rest of San Francisco seems to be changing dramatically before our very eyes. We have neighborhoods that are seeing incredible development, incredible changes and New Buildings being constructed. It seems like we are being left behind in district 11. To me, as a city, its important to understand how development happening elsewhere in San Francisco creates disparities in neighborhoods where that development isnt happening. We have a responsibility to see how our resources of the entire city can be mobilized around places. And greater coordinatation among the departments and dollars that will play on the role of attracting new businesses to making improvements there and we can tease out these issues as we close the hearing at the end of this hearing today. So, first up i want to invite deputy City Attorney victoria weatherford who has joined our neighborhood efforts and in the past year has been very very effective working closely with the Police Department and neighborhoods to look at Blighted Properties and been helping in this effort. Shell give an overview of the work being done by this department and the roll of enforcement. Ms. Weatherford . Thank you, supervisor avalos. My name is victoria weatherford with the City Attorneys office. Im here to describe the City Attorneys office and our Code Enforcement team and the work we do citywide. Im also here to obviously talk about my work and the Ingleside Police district and including district 11 and give recent examples with successes to give the public hope and the type of evidence that is needed to bring a case and as well as more education about Code Enforcement in general and also here to answer questions and im also here to listen to Public Comment. I see there is a lot of people here. I want to let members of the public to know that i am here to listen to their concerns even though i may not be able to talk about anything because there may be an investigation going on. I am here to listen and will take your comments and concerns back to our office and do some investigation if necessary and referral. So, the City Attorneys office for members of the public who dont know who we are. We are the lawyers for the city and county of San Francisco are between advice lawyers and for the board of supervisors and the city and we have litigators for the city. Im with the Code Enforcement team. We are seven lawyers assigned by Police District in the city. Im assigned to mostly district 11 and 7, 8, 9 and 10. We have a supervisor and two paralegal assistants and we bring cases on behalf of the city and sometimes on behalf of the state of california for violation of codes and unlawful practices and violations of law. We receive referrals from city agencies and cases brought to us from the Police Department and occasionally the Fire Department. I want to let the members of our Community Know that since we are community base, we have a hotline. 415554. 3977. If you have any Code Enforcement or concerns about specific properties, you can call our hotline and we have para legals to help with that. Supervisor john avalos can you give examples of what can be calls that can be made on the hotline . Certainly. I realize there is a lot of agencies involved in various code issues and it maybe confusing for the public to know. Thats why we have our hot lines. It can be anything from a vacant or abandoned building or storefront, any other kind of Code Enforcement concerns. Im going to give examples later on. But any concerns, if it ends up not being a Code Enforcement issue, i will give the right referral. If someone calls 911 will that have the same effect . That comes to us as well. Three 311 will get routed to the Building Department. The no. 4155543977. Our Office Investigates public nuisances for an entire neighborhood and community. I want to explain this. This is usually briefly disputes between nabz. Neighbors. If there is a problem and an issue for an entire neighborhood, then an officer may get involved to bring a civil lawsuit. We are judicious in the cases we bring and develop and focus on the worst violators and try to have the greatest impact on the public. We are conscious of our time and the citys resources are limited and expenditure of public funds. Our clients who pay our bills are city agencies and ultimately city taxpayers pay for much of what we do. Almost all the city is tied to problems in the city. For example, blighted and vacant buildings, slumlord type of situations where you dont have heat or water. We bring drug abatement and drug operations and gambling. Our office also brings cases against properties for we have illegal shortterm rentals and sros and other unlawful Legal Practices and dumping cases as well as other types of cases. I see myself in the code district as a funnel for the district for receiving complaints and i have received from people in the hotline and from city supervisors and make referrals or make actions which are appropriate. Since i joined the office in 2015 i have been able to Foster Communications and county llaboration collaboration with the district and the stations. So in particular i know that supervisor avalos is mostly interested in how the different city agencies Work Together. So, for example shortly after i came to the office, i initiated monthly Code Enforcement meetings for the various inspectors with the Police Department, Fire Department and then various branches the Building Department including housing, plumbing, electrical and the building side. The Planning Department, Public Utilities commission and mta and public works inspectors to have problem solving and share institutional and agency knowledge and expertise. I hold those meetings monthly. Supervisor john avalos you initiated those . Yes. Thats great. Thank you. Also our entire team has bimonthly meeting to discuss citywide problems and Code Enforcement. When we have those, i attend those. Everyone in our team is engaging in collaboration and trying to address common problems we see as Code Enforcement. Avalos Supervisor John Avalos is it an example in terms of getting compliance . My monthly meetings that i have initiated for example has resulted in the several different agencies for example are responsible for addressing parking related issues which i know is a huge image in district 11. So having the different agencies understand the different roles they play. For example if someone from the department of public works gets a call for a parking related issue but its not their jurisdiction, its plannings jurisdiction related to an inoperable vehicle in a driveway. I held a meeting about parking related issues. Thats different wherein inspectors and investigators can understand when they can call another agency to deal with the issue. What might happen is they respond to a call and see that its not really a public works issue but they might not know its a planning issue instead and they can reach out to the inspector. That is one way to educate the other city agencies in the district on the ground about which way to collaborate to share information. In terms of the work that i have done with the Police Department, i do a monthly ride along to discuss Problem Properties and to Foster Collaboration open communication with the police. I have gone to all four ingleside lineups at the different times throughout the day to do lineup training. To introduce myself, explain Code Enforcement, explain to the officers in the patrol cars when they should send me emails to pick up the phone when they might see code related issues and when we go to lineups on a friday or saturday night. I might get leads from officers from all properties they encounter day and night. I become aware of these properties. I have also done training at the Police Academies about Code Enforcement. We perform this training for all classes. So the graduates have a basic understanding of what Code Enforcement is and when they might want to reach out to the Code Enforcement officer or captain or designated deputy City Attorney for a problem they see that they dont know how to otherwise solve. We also my team has an annual meeting with the various Police Station Investigation Team lieutenants to educate them about working with our team. We had one last summer and have those on an on going bases. I spend so much time with the police on code issues that all the officers have come to know me and know that im a resource to them and knowing how to write a good incident report. Also, i educate them so they know when to flag cases and reports to the captain. I see myself as a funnel to the police or city agencies. In terms of the work i have done in the community with Public Education and outreach, i have joined the Community Police advisory board. Im the first recent deputy City Attorney in the district to do so. I attend the monthly meetings and respond to concerns district wide. I also attend Council Meetings and attend Public Safety and other Community Meetings to address concerns in the district and provide education to the public about Code Enforcement and again when they should call our hotline and send emails. I also educate Neighborhood Watch groups put together and speak at the citywide meetings for Community Leaders and Group Captain and other Community Groups on request. Again, education about Code Enforcement and how we can be a resource in the community and when to reach out to us when they see problems in the neighborhood. One of the things i did that is relevant to this hearing is i went on a quarter walk on Mission Street with the director of excelsior access group and the Residents Association with captain and ingleside station and the Mayors Office to see and talk about some of these Problem Properties optimization street corridor. As a result, as the quarter walks i did i made multiple referrals to the department about the vacant buildings and about some transparency violations. I also made a referral to the Public Works Department regarding a blighted vacant lot which was eventually cleaned up by the Property Owner. Supervisor john avalos we are we familiar with that site unfortunately. In that case there was a violation from the Public Works Department. Then the owner came in and i reached out to the new owner and connected them with public works and they cleaned up a lot. Thats great. As a result of the quarter walk i did convinced Property Owner for commercial business on mission and wolf to install a fence where drug sales were going on in the back of the property. And also the residents were upset about a gambling sign was up and they reached out to the Property Owners and got that taken down. That is just a few examples of some concrete actions that resulted from the quarter walk which i think are relevant for this hearing. For the nonpolice cases that i do, kind of the regular Code Enforcement type cases for Blighted Properties or other kinds of noncriminal cases. I receive complaints from a variety of sources. What happens when i receive a complaint from the member of the community or from anyone is i or one of my para legals look up the property and determine if there is a code violation. Where is the team of para legals. I dont know if there is a violation. We make referrals to the city agencies to inspect and occasionally we conduct a mobile task enforcement to investigate with the Police Department and Fire Department and animal control to do top to bottom inspection of a property where i believe there is multiple Code Violations present where the Fire Department would benefit from seeing the property at once or where the owner has denied inspectors access where there have been made complaints and unable to determine if there is a violation. In cases where Property Owners are not cooperative we can obtain from the court to allow city inspectors to inspect the property to determine if there are any Code Violations. The city Agency Planning and Public Health they are responsible for responding to complaints as specified in their codes and for issuing citations and notices of violations as they see violations happen. Most of the time this works and the city agencies are the ones to work with Property Owners to bring the properties up to code or fix the problem. If the owner is not responsible its up to the city agency to complete the administrative process for the administrative code that applies to them to direct a hearing in the final order. Each agency decides which cases to refer to the City Attorneys office for review and possible litigation. And when i do receive a referral from the city agency for possible litigation, i review the evidence and i have to make a decision about what the best course of action is. Our office and i try to resolve most of our cases without litigation because litigation is expensive. Again, we are dealing with public dollars and its also time consuming. The responses that when i get involved, is sending letters to the owners and with interested members of the community to try to resolve the issue informally and get a Task Force Investigation or filing a lawsuit when necessary. I want to list different examples on properties and what the situations were there. For example in district 9, i know its not district 11, but i have the angle. I received a complaint from the Fire Department where a squatter was living in a home where there were two fires and he burned down the back of the house. And, the owner of the house was in a messy situation and had no money and until i got the referral and got involved basically not doing anything about it. I convinced her to hire an attorney to evict the squatter and secure the home and she was able to get through probate and sell the house. Supervisor john avalos in that case the owner was not occupying the property. The owner was not occupying the property. It was occupied by a squatter. And in the district there was a nuisance home that i almost identified as a focus as a Community Concern and longstanding Code Violations and nuisance problems caused by the 11, 12, 13 residents of the properties. In early march i got a call about the Neighborhood Association near the properties and how to better document the negative impact the property was having on their lives with the Police Department and for me and for my office. They did that. They got organized and i began receiving monthly reports from them and i got reports from the police. I got together with the Neighborhood Group a month after and it was impressive to see how well coordinated they were after your meeting. Very impressive. I was amazed for the work they did and made a difference for me and police when they respond when neighbors are calling the police instead of sitting back and feeling like the situation is out of their hands. I believe it does a very good job of organizing Neighborhood Groups and i support the work they do in helping the neighbors feel empowered and become empowered to solve problems in the neighborhood. And in may i convened a task force with the property with the electrical and planning and Fire Department and Police Department all present. As a result of the inspection we performed multiple notices of violations from different city agencies were issued. Shortly after i received a litigation bill and also after concerns from neighborhoods who spoke at Public Comment in a litigation hearing as well. Again showing concern for the neighbors had a big impact. I received a referral for litigation. I sent the owner a final demand letter and at the same time the department of Public Health as a result of the inspection they issued a direct order and there was 11 People Living there without any water to flush the toilets, shower, anything. This is a case where the Code Enforcement works without issuing the order to vacate and the inspection from the city, the owner was convinced to sell the property when he did not want to do so for a very long time and he found someone to buy it and all the people who used to live there are gone. The new Property Owner pulled permits and intends to renovate and sell the house. As a new owner, i brought him to my office and he will meet the timeline for the Code Violations. Its something i feel very good about. That property its been for years, 4, 5, 6 years its been a real property. To get that property turned to the light of day is going to be a huge difference on that block. It is. The neighbors had a block party in september after they moved out of the house. I was so glad to get emails from the neighbors saying they feel safe on the street. Congratulations on that. We try to solve most of our cases without litigation. I like to talk about the police cases we do. Our police cases are also referrals like any other city agency, the city relies on the Police Department to bring us cases for possible litigation. Captain speaks to why and when. Most of our police cases involve chronic criminal activity which is in the same situation. We have state laws we use as a drug abatement act which is used to store and manufacture or sell drugs. A drug abatement act where there is gambling taking place and also prostitution and we bring from these properties unlawful Business Practices as well. These cases are where drugs and illegal gambling and we brought a case against a graffiti tagger and the damage she has caused the city. I want to say that multiple city departments have a role and say in these issues. We have a role in litigation in some criminal activity directed to conductor activity that creates a public nuisance. We aggressively pursue cases to the fullest of our ability and constantly looking to find ways to address these criminal problems. For example, in a way to show our cases are cutting edge, the California Supreme Court ruled that affirmed the position we had taken and argued shutting down an establishment. What we often see from cases that are brought to the Police Department is a Ripple Effect. Where one lawsuit has a broader impact of crime in the area. I will talk about a couple cases where we have seen a Ripple Effect in an a little bit. Specifically talking about gambling and drug cases where i know the gambling checks and the concern and the contact with the captain and Investigations Team and patrol officers about the gambling establishment and the illegal night clubs on Mission Street and the district. The City Attorneys Office Brings lawsuit against some of these properties to shut them down where there are magnets of crime. Usually these places have been raided and reopened. We also go after the owners of the operators of the illegal operations as well as the Property Owners. The state laws that i mentioned earlier give us several tools to accomplish these goals including penalties and fines. So we get money. We are able to close the premises. And we seek permanent injunctive release that puts the court order under a microscope and forces them to implement the changes in the way they run their businesses such as requiring them to have security guards on premises, security cameras, force them to install lighting and allow police entry on demand and seeing any illegal conduct for any Code Violations. The Police Department id the property of concern and when we get a case from the Police Department we review the evidence and determine the best course of action. We see if there is enough for a filing not only of a lawsuit but to get a preliminary injunction to shut it down. Where there is crime. For the drug abatement, they need from the premises to establish that there is drug abatement and gambling for the cases. Supervisor john avalos for drugs, do you have to be able to show that if people actually have a tie to that site rather than just business site to help a case. Both the drug abatement and red light abatement status are for places that harbor. Its the director of the lawsuit. All the cases are tied to a property. So evidence that we get in a drug abatement case might be a liquor store where the owner of the liquor store is selling drugs. That would be the type of properties. I have seen these type of cases. Building a case takes a lot of time. These places if you are not able to shut them down and get the owners and operators, its like playing racquetball. They will open up somewhere else and you are back at square one. We try to get the operators of the businesses to hopefully shut them down in the longer term. Is it possible, is it common for the actual Property Owners not beware that this is going on within their properties that there is illegal gambling or illegal activities happening under their properties . Under the red light drug abatement act, its a statute and doesnt matter if the Property Owners dont know. For surprises of our cases it doesnt matter. For purpose of building a stronger case for penalties, obviously showing knowledge is always good when you are trying to get a higher penalty against somebody. Do you get a sense there is coordination between different gambling sites that they are aware of their existence . I think thats a question for the police. In the meantime where these crimes are happening council day in day out. Where there are weapons and gambling machines and repeated vandalism. I want to say from what we see and the sheer volume of evidence that we get from the Police Department, the police are arresting these people and providing ugg with the evidence that will help bring a case. I would like to talk about a couple specific examples of gambling in establishments and the amount of evidence we have and use in order to bring our civil cases. The first one is you are well aware is net stop on mission and excess excelsior and we shut it down and obtained penalties against the operators. In that case we had undercover playing the gambling machines and cashing out and we had video and evidence of that. There is also documentation of these elements at this property. Before the cafe opened there were two calls for service from the police. When i say calls for serving i mean people calling 911 or the nonemergency number to the Police Department to report any crime thats going on or any kind of suspicious activity to the police. There were 200 calls for service. Can you say what the difference was . Two to 202. It quickly became a magnet for members of the community that were very concerned about the goings on at that place. We reviewed 45 incident reports from the Police Department which were tied to the property. An incident report is a written documented event basically when the Police Respond to something. Not all calls result in incident reports. Of those 45, 18 resulted for crimes such as drug possession, stabbing and multiple warrant arrest. We had as a result of calls from the community extensive documentation of the Police Department of the criminal activity attracted to this establishment. After we shut it down, this lawsuit had a ripple cafe. The cyber cafe shutdown as a result and a lot of open to the public illegal cafes went underground and thats what we are dealing with now. Some of them working concurrently with the above the ground establishments like net is stop. It has moved into it. There is no longer open to the public cafe. One thing reported to me on the city business is that people seem to be cashing out right now but not necessarily gambling on site. Is that something that is . When i did my quarter walk it was briefed to me. I believe that is a police issue. But that was raised to me as a concern that is going on there. I am aware of that concern. There is nothing legal about that. If you gamble you can cash out. Thats still a violation of state law . I dont know if it would be a violation of the i havent looked into that. To what extent they documented that. The lawsuit we filed in february for gambling on stak streets is in litigation right now. This is a property close to the public. It was shutdown. Before we sued in february there were three entries by sf p. D. With multiple gambling machines being seized where they opened their business again. So again, this is a case where this place had been shutdown by Police Multiple Times before they reopened. To bring a review from the Police Department which were tied to the property. 22 results in arrest and citation by the Police Department for stolen cars and we received a which was granted and they were required to install cameras. The volume of incident reports which are generated by the community and after we filed our lawsuit and after the gambling establishment closed, i received multiple emails from neighbors telling me they noticed a decrease of crime in their corner and in the pocket of Mission Street. For supervisor christensen, i know you are not in district 11. I wanted to mention something related to police cases involving your district. My colleague joe canon has the Police District which is almost all of your district. She sued club suede which is a bar now but at the time it was operating as an illegal nightclub and magnet for a whole host of Illegal Drugs and there was even a murder on site and it was operating illegal as a nightclub and she sued and obtained a permanent injunction banning the owners from operating as a nightclub ever and as a result i know she received tons of emails from neighbors who were thrilled about that result. I would also like to talk about other cases. One is the gang injunctions that i mentioned. We work with the Gang Task Force which is citywide and the gang members we court order safety zones where turf base criminal street gangs are prohibited from engaging in conduct such as weapons or drugs and other conduct. These in junctions have been very successful in a way for citizens and people to take back the streets from criminals and return them to the community. We have a gang injunction taking place. We have also worked with the dedicated graffiti officer herrera to bring a lawsuit under supervisor breeds new legislation to bring criminal and have defaced public and private property and multiple murals and vehicles and store fronts as well as City Property including muni buses. For this case that was brought to us from the Police Department, this particular young woman had been caught in the act twice, once by the Police Department which resulted in her arrest in 2012 and once there was a citizens arrested in sf p. D. Citation in 2013. Since that time she began to vandalize property all over the city until we sued her in august. In building that case we had over 50 separated documented incidents of her graffiti identified by officer herrera. How many . Over 50 including part of a hoerndous bombing. And private property throughout the city. We also had in the Police Department has extensive investigation into her social media accounts to document her graffiti which was almost a full account like flicker and instagram and bringing that case and preliminary injunction against her required extensive collaboration not only the Police Department but public works and City Property and mta and private Property Owners who have been victimized by her. That case is pending. We object obtained a preliminary injunction and banning her from the community and recommended her to a place of worship. Taggers tag in groups stopped tagging as well. That case again is pending. That is kind of the universe of the type of Code Enforcement we bring with the various agencies and the Police Department. I want to reiterate for the members of the public here that our Office Shares the frustration and they can see us as a resource and funnel for reporting these issues. For criminal problems, the public needs to call the Police Department for 911 or the other number. For other issues, i recommend calling 311 and the hotline. No city agency can fix a problem if they dont know about it. Supervisor john avalos thank you and thank you for your very comprehensive overview of your work and i appreciate the examples you have given and the progress weve made on some of the properties in the district. As a supervisor and legislator, that part of the enforcement or the executive part of the city, im always wanting to figure out what it is i can do to help. Are there ways that when you come to do your monthly meetings, are there ideas that come forward about particular policies that could help Code Enforcement people people to do their work to add tools and teeth to your effort. Both police and nonpolice cases that we bring, the city, our office, and the city agencies cant do anything about a problem if we dont know about it. The criminal establishment, the shacks, the drug houses. To report to the Police Department and that documents to the Police Departments to try to respond and we are using the service to generate from that and we bring against cases civiley. I know supervisor wiener is working on harmonizing different city codes and that will be a very useful endeavor. Supervisor john avalos i can check with his office what they are working on for that. But hes getting informed by you and other people in the City Attorneys office based on your experience . Yes, i believe so. Im not involved in that project, in that effort but it is my understanding there is some concern that the various municipal codes related to the different agencies dont lineup and it would be more helpful if they did. Great. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation and your service and well go on to captain mcfadden and talk about his work in district 11 ingleside. Welcome. Thank you for sharing this. There is 27 in ingleside District Community Service Groups that we have especially along the Mission Corridor. Its the second geographically Police District in the city. Along the Mission Corridor and adjacent streets like ocean avenue is where we see some of these gambling establishments, illegal night clubs and illegal or nuisance homes or residence that pop up. Most of them are store fronts. I want to thank both from the community and the Police Department City Attorneys office for all the help they have done. We appreciate the work because without them, i dont think these places would be getting shutdown at the rate we are having. Most of the times i find out about these spots through several sources. Most of the times is through the communities and residents where people see them coming and going and they will complain to me and let me know about these. The other things i find out is at our neighborhood walks. When we do these neighborhood walks we start at the top of the district and walk all the way down to district nine through 11. In fact, one of them that we just shutdown which was an illegal liquor sales establishment on the 3400block of mission, we found out primarily through a resident who met us on the street and we talked about it and listened to it. The first thing is i start digging information. I ask my patrol officers and plainclothes team what they know about their district and a specific location. I immediately send it out to my undercover sarnl sergeant and he gives me any information he might have including store robberies and things that happen late at night. We have to establish some probable cause to get a criminal warrant. If we cant get a criminal warrant, there are other agencies we work with. We work with abc that we were able to get through that door. It takes a long time and a lot of surveillance, but its a prolonged effect but once we do it, we do it right and if the district attorneys are going to follow up on it and we find out a lot about these things through emails and 311s. When we start seeing some effect in the neighborhoods, we basically compile all the Police Reports and i start to look at Different Things that happen there. Even along when you read the reports in the morning on a daily basis you find out about robberies and assaults that happened. My officers are instructed to ask the victims of these robberies, of these assaults where they were before or going to. A lot of times they are associated with these establishments because they might be walking out with money or there might be narcotics involved and thats why they were robbed or assaulted after the fact. They were in the street walking down Mission Street and they get robbed. It can happen at 2 or 3 00 a. M. Once we establish they are coming from one of these places i immediately notify district Attorneys Office about it because archie wong from the d. A. s office is assigned to our district and when we start to build a case i immediately notify the City Attorneys office and in this case ms. Weather ford. We have a format which we follow now. For example the one on 3400 mission, there was 22 different Police Reports from that establishment. We are hoping we dont need from each one of these 22 different reports but you heard where it can be 202 reports from different locations. Any officer, anyone on patrol for 5 minutes knows, but most of the time i go to my Veterans Office and they know of the establishments for a while and we can move forward. Documentation to keep a chronological report to try to compile the reports. The 311 calls, at emails and i have files on each one of them. What i have found as being the captain there is that it appears that you would ask about whether the Property Owners are involved in these establishments or not. Not all of them can i say the Property Owners know, but i feel there is some nexus to them. What i believe is the hierarchy of it is they have a so to speak, a captain of these illegal gambling establishments. They might run two or three or four and we know some people that weve identified that we believe are running two or three of these illegal gambling establishments. Once you hit one it is that domino effect that once you hit one, they all shutdown for a while. What we have to look for is that they are not going to be so transient and move to another location. Because of these illegal store fronts they had, they had cellphone shops, dress shops, these different ones where there is no legitimate business in there and it takes time to is you are 2ksh is you is and surveillance and not know whats going on there. We have our real bosses and well see them on yelp. Then we try to surveillance on them and i let the City Attorney know what we are doing and we have to keep them clandestine until we make a raid on it so to speak before we can get to the door. Its tough to get that nexus to go right in. We might get a complaint and we cant kick through the door. We have to have a warrant through the City Attorneys office. The City Attorneys office has been instrumental because they use all the other agencies with dbi and then it talks all of this to compile together before raiding it. When i first came in there was someplace that took from 48 years to close down. We are doing it in a matter of months. We have been very successful around the districts doing that. Supervisor john avalos captain, do you see the enforcement is really about the success is going to be shutting the places down or is it the more structural things to shutting it down. There is so many of them and i believe your solution as you said before is something about bringing legitimate businesses into the neighborhood. Once you have those businesses in. There is so many along the Mission Corridor. Its so easy to go to a Property Owner to say we would like to rent your place for 10,000 a month and they are going to say sure. They dont care what goes on in there. They can shutdown and move their operation overnight. They are pretty easy to identify mostly based on my merchants and residents that see it everyday. I walk every night and go by the locations when i get a complaint. During the day you are not going to see any activity at these places. Its stuff that happens at night. Thats when i go to my patrol officers and my under covers to try to gather whatever they can. What we find a lot of the times is stolen cars, gang activity, things directly related to whatever specific address we are looking at. It is a long process, but its something where we do shut them down and we do raid them, we want to shut them down permanently so they never open again. Its tough to get them because of the surveillance and the body guards they have. They have a very Intricate System and they are getting smarter at and when they know, they shut the business down. When you shut it down, when someone is accountable, and they are shutdown or is it really about shutting down the actual shop itself. Most of the criminal activity we have are misdemeanors. You are finding a lot of misdemeanor violations. So they are a citable p offense. We would like to have a bigger hammer on it but you will find maybe more of a drug sale or possession for sales which is a felony counterance to just possession. If you have possession of a small quantity of narcotics you are just going to get cited for it. You are looking for the bigger kingpins. You want to get upstream and catch the main guy running the whole establishment. Thats the tough part to get to identify that person. They are very intricate in stopping that. You talked about the machines and paying out. Thats what we are looking for is the pay out sheet and the money and who is the bank in the system. Thats the person we want to try to identify and get. Now if there is a criminal case and we get a felony, thats going to be followed through with the district Attorneys Office. Most of these are misdemeanors and when we go in there we end of citing a lot of people as we did with the illegal nightclub too. The pay out with the business center, if there is an establishment for paying out for people who present receipts for gambling elsewhere, that is an illegal activity. Thats an illegal activity but you have to see if it rises to misdemeanor level and see where that pay out is and who is holding it. Thats where we they are very intricate in hideing the whole thing. We had an issue on the 4500block of mission and it was shutdown and i get reports of neighbors who see things going on. This is very common as you were saying. People get shutdown like this opened up even again in the same spot. How do you respond to the situation where you are frustrated with the effort that you already made at this one particular spot and it continues again. Is that something you can get through with a plan. This is where we found out on a quarter walk and from the neighbors. They are the most affected by it. That was the bases of the complaint. We have the eyes on it and we looked into it and we had the City Attorney and this involved officers and sf p. D. Together we shut it down and did the raid and took whatever we needed out including speakers and what we needed for establishing evidence as an illegal nightclub. We are making sure it doesnt reopen. In addition to that, we contacted the City Attorney to format a letter to the owner of the property to let them know that this occurred there and they have to have better diligence in who they rent out to. Do you see any role from my office that we can play when it comes to Property Owners when they cant rent these properties. It would have to come from the City Attorneys to make that injunction. The City Attorneys go after the owners and they literally keep them shutdown forever because of the stipulation on board. With your office, we are going to ask for your help in mostly getting resources there if we need it. Because we have to keep the tight blanket on it prior to our enforcement on it. There are things and well let you know. Its one of the things that we dont want to leak out. Its like any operation we do of any illegal establishment, we kind of keep a blanket on it until we do it and after the fact is where we can use your help in letting them know that your eyes are on them also even something from your office, something to stipulate by a letter of you to the owner after the City Attorneys letter to let them know you are not going to allow them back in. If thats the case, well be happy to follow up with letters. In terms of policy that we might be able to create to strengthen any tools you have, any ideas on that . Most of the problem of course is getting over that threshold that people have. We are not asking for any power in doing that. I dont want to violate any rights of anybody that they have, however most of it is with the community and what their concerns are and sometimes i cant necessarily tell them that yes, we have a plan set for that location, but if in communication with the community you can help us alleviate some of the fears that they have and yes, police know about it and they are promising they are working on it to quell some of the concern. Which is a role i play with the communication i get. So the entire board of supervisors has been unanimous on supporting Police Academy classes. We have five this current fiscal year. I have been working with them to get to the 1971 numbers and to be able to sustain at that number and we had a discussion about whether we should have over that 1971 numbers and we have a report from the budget analyst can do and look at other places around the country to look at staffing issues and how to increase staffing based on what types of approaches. That is coming out sometime soon. I want to use that to think about it so we can be thoughtful to the city about Staffing Levels. When it comes to ingleside station, the city will be well under the 1971 anybody and the lower levels at the staffing. Whats it like . We have at least 100 officers minimum. We are doing okay with the staff, however the numbers have changed. I know they want to bring up the levels from 1972. I think what happens is a comparison in a city, they go to boise, idaho. It doesnt matchup to our city. It has to be a city that matches up to San Francisco and population and density. Thats where the number has to come from. Its another city that has another city department. You couldnt compare to santa rosa or los angeles which is so large or new york. But you have other cities and what you can do with the number of police officers. I personally know as these Academy Classes are coming out, i thank the board of supervisors for okaying that. I have places for them. Its been very loud from the community to have sustainable beat officers on the corridor. In 2009 when we were at that 1971 number we had 2 beats around silver up to about persia and to geneva area. It would be fantastic to be able to get to that place as quickly as we can. If i do as these Academy Classes graduate and will take about six 6 months to get to the Staffing Levels that we need. I do want to add the foot beat to take down some of these night clubs and i also want to establish them at night. Most of our foot beat are for merchants. When the merchants close around 6 00 at night, you dont see the foot beat as much but i would like to have them around the parks also and other places is exactly where i would put the personnel along with bicycle officers and foot beat. Supervisor john avalos i wanted to talk to you about amazon park where weve had shootings about 5 and at least three homicides that happened at the park and its been very alarming to the people and youve been very responsive and met with people and we addressed Staffing Levels and lighting and cameras at the park. Can you describe where we are at and what we discuss ed last month . A lot of it was brought on by the Neighborhood Association and through your office and other delegates in the community. We simply got all the players on board for that. We had a meeting in your office with mr. Ginsberg and parks and recreation. I established a foot beat in there ever since in the last shooting that happened there and its still going on today. With the staffing increases, that could increase also. It was the collaboration of everybody coming together to cut back trees to put lighting in, to put cameras in, to have cameras on the beat and to have kids interaction. That was my greatest concern when the children are using the fields and the soccer and baseball diamonds. I know what i have done there is working and there still needs to be more. Its an on going process where we are focused on. Its a beautiful park. There is bocci courts and so much else. Its been neglected by several agencies including my own. Thats why we have these efforts, the Silver Lining and shootings that happened, its brought the community together. I have emails from parents who are concerned about bringing their kids out that really pulls on your heart strings and its what police work is. I enjoy getting a break and get out there myself. The officers really interact and work well with the community. I know there are a lot of people from district 11 who are here and i would like to give them a chance to speak and get back with the departments. I want to ask you one more question before we get to the public that recently its been reported to me from several places and im not sure how true it is for every case but from security personnel who are armed on Mission Street. I know tree man there is a place where there have been Armed Security by the south of geneva avenue and i was told by tapatio and i did call tree mad yesterday and there was a lot of concern that people had and they were feeling very intimidated and people going to other establishments in the area and they said they would not use armed guards anymore in the area which i think is great. Are you aware of other establishments and other officers with security . We met with mcds that had them and a lot of them believed they were told that they had to have armed guards. I dont think it came from the public either. Just that it had to have security. However a lot of the security that have them carry a concealed weapon cards and i check those. They have to have a jacket to say what agency they are from whether it be tree med or green cross so they are not out there intimidating the people. But it is an extra set of eyes for anything thats happening along that corridor. If they are official authorized guard card carrying permitted security guards, they are allowed to do that. We dont have any authorization over that if thats what they are going to do. However, if it was something that we can establish that they are unarmed and just security guards, im fine with that also. Supervisor john avalos im curious to hear from the members of the public. I dont feel comfortable with Armed Security. Obviously security is what we have to ask for if we are having medical cannabis dispensary where something could erupt. It seems to be out of the ordinary for me. Related to that any establishment that does have Armed Security, your department, your station is supposed to know about that . Correct. We go and check to make sure their paperwork is up to date and not expired. I would rather not have to have another gun out on the street because they can also be used against that. I certainly concur. What i would like to do if perhaps we can measure and work with your office and measure what is the level of use of Armed Security on the corridor and think about ways where does it make sense and how we might be able to go to a regular security on the street that can have a strong relationship with your station to be able to help people feel secure there. Yeah, that would be fine. I dont want to see clustering of a lot of these security. I think it needs to be mobile. That they need to stay with their establishment, be identifiable to their establishment and not necessarily be armed. Okay, thank you, appreciate it. So thank you, everyone for hearing us out so far. I would like to open up for Public Comment. I dont think i have any cards. People are welcome to come. Usually they lineup along the wall where the windows are but come straight up if you would like to speak at this hearing. Public comment is now open. Public speaker good evening, im johnson. I apologize for the process here. They already have contracts in establishments where Police Department are before and we are working on the Housing Administration and we are working on the schooling to take classes. I have been taking classes. I won an award for curing the most difficult tumor in the world. This is why it was so difficult with delaying because of the poison that i had to go through for 7 years that had already put back that tumor that is in my head and cleared up more to where i can get more established. Contracts and the others. Fire department as a plan with that president he tried to poison all the pharmacies and put the drugs and counter drugs and im one to stop all that. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hi, robert mule back. A 40year resident San Francisco, 35 years in ingleside. Im here to talk about two abandoned properties in the neighborhood. I will be quick. First majestic, i moved into this neighborhood since 1988. To my knowledge one majestic has been vacant for some time. Someone said there was a dead pitbull in a garbage bag. We have folks trying to build an urban trail there. We have been trying to clean it up. Well be out there this weekend. I cant see why a property has to be vacant to be 30 years. There is another place at the top of nob hill, its been vacant for over 30 years. Why does it have to be like this generation after generation after generation. I hear in these presentations and have a couple of thoughts. In terms of these teams, it might be a good incentive to provide a community development. Perhaps there is an opportunity to talk with the owners about selling the properties, you might be able to get habitat for humanity, build Affordable Housing here. It might be family trust where its hard to get the families together. Perhaps there are some opportunities. Also with regard to these multidisciplinary teams perhaps they need to be more mutually dependent on their work programs. Its great to be talking with each other, but if they go back to their own departments and their priorities arent the same, how can we turn that culture around where they have to be mutually dependent to be successful . So i will leave it at that and thanks for the opportunity and thank you for conducting this hearing today. Thank you very much. Mr. Mueller, the first address you gave what number . One majestic and one edgar place. Im seeing a pattern. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, supervisors. David hooper from mission terrace. I would like to thank supervisor avalos for calling this agenda item and i would like to thank captain mcfadden for speaking about this. I thought i knew something about this and now i realize i still have an awful lot to learn. Regarding the Mission Street itself people deal with the symptoms and the causes are something else. Its difficult to discern. Everybody in the community and their greater Outer Mission knows that Mission Street has too many vacant buildings. I realize we have new leadership and stephanie is working dynamically to try to solve all of these reasons for these Vacant Properties. But these Vacant Properties bring in the opportunities for the tiend of issues that ms. Weatherford and captain mcfadden were talking about. Its going to take time. As time rolls on, some of the Economic Vitality will come their way and they all tried to tell me again and again that this is coming and we have to be prepared and figure out whats going to work for our community. As for the idea of the Armed Security guards. Its a symptom, its not the disease. The disease is all the vacant store fronts. When it seems to me when a business person tries to make it a major investment in the community is required to have security, chooses to have Armed Security onsite that that we are talking about that its because there are so many problems that weve been trying to address on Mission Street. I look forward to the day when an armed person on the street will be a beat officer will be welcomed by all the officers by the vacant storefronts and well all feel more comfortable. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon supervisors, my name is mark and i live on london street. I want to take a minute to thank you supervisor for holding this hearing today and for ms. Wetd weatherford and captain mcfadden for being here. I would like to point out a property on russia and mission. Its one of the properties that i have filed many tickets on. Thank you very much for that. The point i would make about that is that its discouraging for people from the public that call 311. 311 has a very an annoying habit of closing the tickets before its remedied. An example i called about raw sewage flowing out of 48 Mission Street. Central . No, this is 4817 and if im use the overhead you will see what im talking about. What you are seeing is not mud. That is human waste. I have many examples. Thats the most dramatic one. Thank you for your time. I hope we can improve those Response Times. What would be also when i ask if you dont already and perhaps you have is when you make a request and you see that it hasnt been done. Notify my office because then our pushing from my office makes it happen and we do a lot of that work if its not getting done all right. Thank you for bringing it up, supervisor because that was the way i got any results from your office after i spoke with francis shay. I appreciate your involvement with that. When i have to i do. To point out, for those of us who have jobs and work a lot. Trying to follow a problem to completion even calling your office is time consuming and difficult and it could be made easier. Thank you. Well talk to 311 about how to expedite the work thats being done. Public speaker im grace raley with excelsior can you bring that down. So you asked for action and the excelsior Mission Merchants would like you to consider using the conditional eustachian like scott wiener used to investigate businesses that do not appear from the beginning. We also think that there are some things that could be done. There are no carrots and no sticks for the closed businesses. If you have a billboard you are paying your property taxes from the billboard and you dont even need to advertise to rent. There are things to get more tools. They report to the Neighborhood Watch to report things better. One of the reasons they have data now is they told about the data needed how to report and a lot of People Living in the neighborhood dont have a good sense of how to handle for example feces on my lawn. Will they handle it. Thats a term that we can use. Thank you, i will follow up with the City Attorney. I did ask for what tools we can help with and i will ask about commercial use with the office and other carrots and sticks that might apply. There are legislations we have passed with dealing with Vacant Properties and when it comes to our district perhaps its not as strong as it perhaps could be and we can think of other ways to apply to sticks, carrots, if you have ideas about the type of carrots that we might be able to . Im sure we do. What i can say there is some assistance with clean up and graffiti that the businesses could use. Its not their fault that they get tagged and a lot of them dont have the capacity to react immediately and it gets worse for anybody looking to start a business that looks like crap. You have to wait a week until the next corridor ambassador from dpu comes along. There is so much where people dont even know how to clean their awning. This could be some projects we can talk about. Thank you, we talk very often with the office of Work Development and my office has fund clean ups and we urge that dp w does their street corridor as well and that program i believe has been curtailed by the department. I will look at that. We are just a legislative branch but i can certainly impinge upon the branch. This weekend we have our Community Clean team event which is starting at 9 00 this saturday and will be a great place to interest face around dpw to be more proactive around the neighborhood. Thank you. Its small comfort but public works does have a new program where they are trying to do it within 60 minutes Response Time to the report on sidewalks. They are trying to focus on that and clear that up as much as possible. The other thing we found really successful in my district is we are very dense and we have a lot of Community Districts formed, do you know about those, i know that is not an easy thing to do, but in our neighborhood we found that merchants banding together to collectively hire people for Homeless Outreach are more costeffective way to do it than a one off bases. That takes a critical mass. But we have merchants in the corridors who would benefit from that group time. Public speaker good afternoon. I have three small point. I want to bring up to my supervisor that you brought up that we clean up the windows and we can see inside, its going to make a big difference. Right now some of them are chaos. Some are painted and some of them have plywood. Secondly i would like to mention the 311 system used to work well and some departments are not now getting the reports. Dangerous areas are not being taken care of. The park police are not locking up the park and we have a problem with this at night. The same thing with weapons on Mission Street. The city doesnt have problem with armed officers but we would prefer if they werent as visible on the street. Perhaps inside the door would be better. On the other hand if captain mcfadden doesnt believe they need weapons, we believe we would go with that recommendation. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors, thank you supervisors avalos for having this hearing. Supervisor christensen. My name is joel, the President Community association and victoria for all of their work they have done in the district for being very responsive. Im in constant communication with the captain and with amazon and the neighborhood. I wanted to bring up the fact that 71 curtis that victoria did a lot of work on. The problem is that there is feces on your personal property, dpw will not come out and clean it up. There is frustration with the homeowners. But there are issues to take dare care of thing. Lets take care of things that are already law. You have to have Garbage Service and clean out your walk space. Make it clean and enjoyable for people to come in and make them want to buy things from your businesses. There is all these churches all of a sudden opened up on Mission Streets. Prime retail areas are now churches and one at 324 Mission Street and unfortunately it was open for 2 months. Its now an empty space again. But there was no common use. There was no planning and we have these churches showing up. So viable spaces where a business could go in is now off the market. How can that happen. Thats another thing with planning. How can a church just appear. There is another one at geneva and maple. They took over a prime space, which is good but what does that do for the vitality. Thank you very much. Churches give you the third rail. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We have a few more speakers from various departments. Mr. Wong. Good afternoon, supervisor avalos, supervisor christensen. My name is wong. I am the assistant d. A. Assigned to the ingleside and tenderloin stations. Im recently assigned there having been a trial prosecutor for 10 years. Its been my pleasure to work with captain mcfadden on problems that are plaguing the ingleside district. The gambling is the top priority. To add to that one thing to what was discussed and that is its very important obviously to have a long Term Solution to shutting down these shacks. Its important to find out who these operators are. As you suggested, you have to follow the money, you have to go upstream and find out the source for that situation. I want to advise yourself and everyone here that there have been efforts made by my office and San Francisco Police Department to do that. Its also going to take coordination with other agencies outside this area. My staff and office have had meetings with atf, irs as well as state and federal Gambling Task force in the south bay. We will continue to reach out and collaborate with them as well as the other inter agencies within the city and hopefully to fashion a long Term Solution to a long term problem. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate you mentioning that going upstream. Thank you. We have mr. Mike Michael Lennon from public works. I appreciate you being here. I understand you had a meeting at 3 and from planning john from dbi. Mike i want to talk about what that division does and about public works in terms of what the other operations handle as far as cleanliness. The Office Enforcement division we are focused on trash related issues such as garbage levels, we use private conditions and dbi when its on property. I have been told that its hard to hear. If you want to speak close to the mic. Mainly blight enforcement we are concerned with blighted vacant lots. Building usually handles more structural aspect of it. When there is structures in terms of graffiti, we have awnings well send a notice to correct. Do you have to get compliance when you get a violation because sometimes we see properties without a long time. Usually we see trash and other Hazardous Conditions on there. We enforce it on 735. We probably used the blight ordinances in 20 instances and in each of those instances we had compliance. Usually we receive contact and they have 10 days to respond. They need to start the abatement work and they have 30 days to complete the abatement work. In each of those instances when the Property Owners have contacted us, we work with them and they remove the debris and some of them have gone into deteriorated conditions again and gone through the process again. Once they are posted and get the mailing, they get it cleaned up. In terms of the nonvacant lots such as structural awnings and nuisances, we send them notices of violation and give them about 1014 days from the date of issuance. If its something that takes a little longer then we give them a few weeks. If they contact us and say they are working on it, we give them the time to work on it. As force notices that you receive about violations, are those complaints are they involved with the assessment . Its a mixed bag. We do request and we often get request. We do street inspections. We are in the commercial corridors throughout the city. Those happen tuesday through thursday. They started a couple months ago and lasted through the year and we go and do nighttime inspections around the time of garbage pick up so we can get a feel for assessing if there is insufficient service. Who is a bad act or and then we can enforce it that way. We identify once its on our radar, if its through our inspection, once we identify a problematic property, then we through technology reset the inspection. Once its on our radar, we check for the issues to be resolved and if they are tough to crack, we use the Enforcement Office to cite them. How often is the blitz happening. How how often do you do the eco blitz . Its through the division and Environmental Services division, the tree inspectors. They are addressing all the deficiencies that are out there. That happens usually once a year. This is spanning several months so about a third or quarter of the year that this is going over. In addition to that we have the daytime ones and inspectors going out to do inspections at nighttime. The individual inspections that we go through different zones. We went through the chinatown area and union square and mission bayview areas. What it has to do with the Mission Corridors . We have inspectors out there when they respond to complaints. I did mention the corridor ambassador parts of hsa where we work them so there is four 4 days a week. So friday through monday, i believe from noon to 8 00 p. M. They are assigned a 45block radius where they walk up and down and they are supposed to remove the graffiti and stickers. There are also programs that we supply the different businesses and associations where there is adopt a Street Program where you have the pickers and the streets. The carrots approach. Yes. And we work in other communities where we do a courtesy abatement where they are getting tagged and they supply with paint. And we have that service here in the Mission Corridor. Are you where we have the supply of paint and brooms . Are you talking about the corridor ambassador . Individuals can join the graffiti watch. They will go through a training with the public works and staff member and then they will be provided with the paint, different supplies, solvents that will remove graffiti and then they are able to attack the graffiti on their own and once they are done with their supplies, they can reup. They will get the pickers and trash bags as they need them. Thank you. I was going to say as far as tools you asked for, to continue the Inter Agency Cooperation and let us know what the issues are and you can only address when you know the issues. Continue to use 311 to report that and continue to work with staff in those specific areas and as mentioned they are doing a code alignment to give basically one easily aligned process. Its something we brought to the City Attorneys office a while ago when yvonne was at the corridor mission. And part of the simplistic process or universal process. Only the codes we enforce provide a special assessment whereas others arent. A lot of violations apply to the Property Owners. If you are citing a Business Owner who is not in compliance or the population, there is nothing to encourage them to follow the citation and pay up to the mist akes. We have attaching violation to the Business Licenses in order for the violate or that they be required to pay their citation. So you are saying we currently dont have those tools, they are not as strong as they can be . Correct. I would like to address that. If we can have a special meeting in my office to talk about what that would look like and start to address that with legislation. Thank you. If you want to get in touch with francis in my office to get the ball rolling. Thank you. Next up. John from the department of building inspection. We are looking at the property at one edgar place and majestic, those properties that have been around for a long time and dont change very much and are pretty much dormant but those conditions that create a lack of safety or problems exist with squatting and helping us to develop a stronger pathway to bring these buildings into compliance. Department department of building inspection. We have a process particularly with regard to vacant buildings and vacant store fronts. One of our managers is here and hes going to go over the he process and then i will be available to answer any questions. Bill strong with the department of building inspection. We have been involved in the Vacant Building Program through our Code Enforcement. John is the building inspector from the Vacant Building Program. The original Residential Program dates down to 2009 that legislation that former supervisor david chiu authorizing and most recent was supervisor tang at the end of last year and this year expanding that to the vacant storefront that many of our sister agencies have been referring to today. Im sure you are both familiar with the definition about what constitutes a vacant building and what we do on a regular bases to try and get owners to register with the program. The ordinance, requirement of building that is vacant 30 or more days has to register. The owner of the building has to pay an annual 765 fee. Lie like the other departments we are complaint driven. When we get a call from 311 or the other department, we have a dedicated inspector who will verify that we have a vacant building situation. Once thats done, the owner has 30 days to ledge register the building. If we dont get any information. It goes to a violation and second notice and a hearing can be held and a lean on the property can also be held. I would like to say that the neighborhood part of the recession, in 2005, today we have 236. Out of that district 11 there was a total of about 45 properties on that list. 20 of those have been resolved. District three; there are only three buildings. Doesnt mean there are none, just we are not being notified about them. If an owner of course can prove to us through the various documentation that they are in fact still occupying the building or if the building is for sale or make the Building Code compliant, they can be removed from our list. Here is a general overview map that you can see based on the most current cc1 test message cc1 test message cc1 test message cc1 test message cc1 test message cc1 test message a few of them may have been occupied since. But whatever communication you receive, if you pass that onto us. Supervisor john avalos he might have addresses for some of this. I dont know, you can check with him. Hes by the door on the way out. We find that is very effective. If there is a Neighborhood Association or supervisor, give us a list. There is a lot of follow up from you. Well keep up with the places. There is the places where we see the gambling establishments where they might be vacant store fronts during the day. Im hoping there is that coordination already with the Police Department and Code Enforcement with empty storefront. Dbi is often part of these task force where there may be criminal activity also going on. Obviously we dont do criminal activity but there may be building structural issues that may assist in the program to address buildings that shouldnt be used that way. Supervisor john avalos thank you. We have from the Planning Department mr. Scott sanchez. Good afternoon, supervisors. Scott sanchez from the San Francisco Planning Department. Our division is responsible for enforcing the requirement of the planning code. They are varying from bmr requirement down to some microscopic level to what you are talking about before with cork and screw tops. Thats a requirement. I think the origin of that is the 45 flavor full higher alcohol wine that would come with a screw top. The requirement if the wine is more than 15 alcohol, then it has to be dinner wine and has to be corked and aged for at least 2 years. Most of the wines that you find with screw tops are less than 15 alcohol. Those are the requirements that we have to enforce. As you heard from the agencies so far with the Planning Department involved with the nuisance issues and you heard a lot of responsibility for the Police Department for public works and for the department of building inspection. What is relevant for our purposes are the transparency requirements for ground use requirements. We had a bit of a pilot Enforcement Program in the tenderloin which results in some significant improvements to store fronts that were boarded up somewhat and in some cases you have Grocery Stores or Liquor Stores that have their appliances and refrigerators backed up against the windows and posters and other signage. Through our process which generally the planning enforcement process focuses on providing the violation with the opportunity corrected and the time and knowledge to correct it. When we did this Pilot Program we did that by developing some transparency guidelines. When we were enforcing on the business able to help them with that guideline and we have been very successful with that program and we continue to implement elsewhere. We are complaint base. We receive most of our complaints through our department. And through our website and enforcement which has a method how you can register your complaint. You can do it by fax, email, phone hotline, also 311 is another way of making those complaints. They get filtered to our agency as appropriate and we get complaints from supervisors and to a nutshell when we get a complaint, first thing we do is send a notice to the Property Owner to make thelma aware that a complaint has been filed. We like to make sure that everyone knows there is a complaint on their property and they will come in to correct the violation or show there is no violation. We through our enforcement notices to a violation of penalty of up to 250 a day. That can be an appealed to the board of appeals for someone who is protesting that. I think there is some concerns about the abandoned building and whether or not they maybe candidates for demolition. I think thats something thats come up for concern and we discussed with francis yesterday that this maybe a concern. We have not really seen that as a result. You know certainly people who do not maintain their buildings, that doesnt automatically mean they can demolish their buildings. If its a residential building, it would be through an emergency order to say its an eminent safety hazard and usually something that started with a fire. Under planning code section 317 if you have a building with two or three residential units and you have the building that is unsound in its current condition, the cost of repairing it would be cost prohibitive they can see the requirements. We do not see that many of those types of applications. Thats all. And you had a very comprehensive presentation. I will be available for any questions. Supervisor john avalos thank you very much. I do want to go back to dbi. I started to call you back up. I neglected to ask a question that was garnering in my the board of edn good morning boys and girls you not to do this by yourself. You got a lot of help but i want to introduce you to someone and hes also the mayor of the city of San Francisco. So, would you help me welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] actually, i kind of look like scott curry, dont i . I will say that anymore then. Good morning everyone. Good morning im really delighted to be here with all of these very important people from your school to your School District, from the district here in district 3, our supervisor with our elected officials, and with our police and fire chiefs. Its really great to be here together with you because we get to practice something thats really important for the city. How many of you have ever been in an earthquake . Okay. How many of you get scared . I never felt that you never saw the . [chorus of voices] a lot of us were in a pretty big earthquake a few years ago, 1989, and its about 26 years ago was a pretty big earthquake across the bay and brought down the date. It broke a piece off of our bay bridge and some buildings with brakes on it kind of fell off and hurt some people. So, i was around here in the city at that time. I made a promise to myself, to my family, good morning everyone we are going to practice our earthquake drill right now. [inaudible] called the quake shake up. What would you do is when i say soft cover were going to get under our desks and stay that way quietly until you hear me come back on and we like we do with a fire to. Are you guys ready . Remember how we practiced quietly . We are not talking. [chorus of childrens voices] is it over yet . Now the shaking has stopped and we are safe. Its time for us to evacuate like we do for a fire drill. [chorus of voices. ] good morning, boys and girls. We can do better than that . Good morning, boys and girls. There we go. I have to tell you, you did a great job in evacuate. Give yourself a round of applause. You did a great job. Everybody was in line. Everybody is quite listening for instructions, taking care of each other. Thats what you want to remember whenever we have a drill because if it ever happens in real life, youll know what to do. So, we are thrilled to be here with you today to practice today, and i want to just say, thank you to all of our teachers and all of our paraprofessionals and of course to our principal for helping you be prepared. Taking care of each other whenever there is an emergency. So, what i like to do at this point is introduce the mayor of the city and county of San Francisco, would like to say a few words to you. With give a big welcome to mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you. Good morning students. Thank you. It is my honor to join you on this duck cover hold. We called the great shakeout of california. Guess what . Youre part of over 56,000 students in San Francisco. All doing the same thing. Getting ready, make sure you are compared, following the instructions of your teachers and your School Administrators to make sure you are safe, and then we have the entire state of california. This, to people signed up for this drill in all of the state of california . 350,000 people. That is a wonderful testament that people are not just afraid of earthquakes. They want to be better prepared and ready. If you are better prepared and ready, and we want to make sure that you and your families go to sf 72. Org to make sure that you have the entire list give when you go home tonight, ask your parents, do they know about sf 72. Org . Because that is the place where you learn all the things that you need to do at home as the same were doing at the schools and where i work come up to all be better prepared to make sure were ready if there is an earthquake that happens. I want all of you , and this is why supervisor Christiansen Christiansen and i are here today, we want to experience this Wonderful School that you are at, but most important we want to be with you because being with you means that we get to practice how to be safe if theres going to be an earthquake or any other big disaster. Thats why were all here together. With the police and fire chief with our School District and school board, and all the administrators and the other elected officials to do the right thing. So, please go home tonight and you are going to be , i think, asked by events did you learn today. 72 hour. Org. 72. Org. Thats what you remember, okay . Everybody say that. 72. Org. Yes. Thank you very much. And thank you for letting me join all of you in this Wonderful School that you have. You are clean school. Good organized school. We got Great Teachers and a great principle, and we are going to continue working very closely with all of you. Thank you very much. [applause] good morning, everybody. I am really excited about being at this school. Is one my favorite schools in the whole neighborhood. I know a lot of people who went to school here. Some of them almost all grown up now and theyll still like the school a lot. So, why am i here this morning . You know, the mayor is kind of like the principal for the whole city. Right . The mayor is one of make sure everyone is close to be and does what theyre supposed to do. Then, we have fire chief john hes white shes here this morning and police captain, chief sir they help keep us safe. My job is to look after your neighborhood, so if you and your mom and dad live around here, my job is to make sure that you have nice parks and nice libraries, and that its safe to cross the street, and that we have traffic lights, and that everything you need to be safe and happy in your district comes your way. So, thats my job. So, its really great that you guys are learning something today about earthquakes. You know, earthquakes are kind of crazy things. We think of the ground as being really solid, but if we have an earthquake the ground kind of shakes like youre at the Amusement Park or something. Applicability gained all the houses shake the trees shake and the wires shake it so, learning to duck and cover is important so that you know what to do. Like, what do you do when youre going to cross the street . What do you do . Look both ways. Right . When the ground starts shaking and you go, oh my goodness, what is an earthquake, what you do . Duck and cover. I thought it was going to be a duck here today but i found out we were going to duck instead. So, make sure that you know what to do when this earthquake is all speak up on you like a surprise. You wont know so we have to be ready all the time. Will we be ready . Yes. Okay thank you all for letting us come visit. Bye. Good morning, boys and girls. How are you . Good. Im your fire chief joanne hayes white. Im also a monk it by three boys. Im really glad to be standing with this man. For boys. Hes a police chief. Greg certain hell say a few words in a moment but were kind of like one big team geared im delighted. I got participated before at the school sometimes we do read along but were grateful to be in this First Grade Class to participate in the drill in i know as fire chief, i dont think i would be in this position today it wasnt for the wonderful teachers that i had growing up here in San Francisco. How about, boys and girls, you give a big round of applause to and so young and all the teachers and the staff here at the school. [applause] im also proud to be standing with some members of my department under the direction of capt. Kevin party edge and 20. There your local files fire station so thanks for coming out today. [applause] a couple of things. I guess it merely is sort of the coach of the team. Hes in charge of the whole city. He expects us to Work Together to be ready for anything. Not just in the police and Fire Department. So, we are here today what we did today was practice. We practiced today that there isnt a true emergency so that when there is we that much better prepared. I would also like to ask you to go home and educate your families good the parents, grandparents, siblings, and talk about if youre at school or at that home what your plan is. How are you prepared to ask mary talks about 72 hours. Org. If you might have a different name at this point. Sf 72. But another thing is everybody, sure at the school knows the emergency three digit number you got. What is secular everyone can say. 911 911. Image everyone knows that but not a lot of people would try to get people to get the message another takeover your parents if theres another really important three digit number that you can call if there is something that you have a question about what you want to report something thats not an emergency and does anyone at the school know what the three digit number is . Raise your hand if you know what. Yes. In the front with a redshirt. [inaudible] three digits. Not 911 get it the nonemergency line would have all kinds of information. Does anyone know . The chief is giving some hints. 311. Excellent. Thats another thing that sf 72 and 311. Those are two important messages to bring home tonight. Tell your parents and siblings about. They give you much, boys. Its been a pleasure being here and a very proud to introducei call my Public Safety part i dont like him standing by me because you never know was that happen and that streak chief greg sir. [applause] thanks chief joined. We do, we were right under the desk with a First Grade Class. Was sold as boys and girls around. But in principle young is so lucky to have this student body to do the thing. So, if we really want to get good at something what you have to do . Practice. Right. So when we were little and growing up in San Francisco we practiced so that when something happens, you dont even think about it. You just do it. So just like supervisor christiansen in principle mayor lee said as soon as something happens in an earthquake. You what . Drop, cover and hold. Exactly. So thats what we want you to do. This is just all about practice. You just the smartest little boys and go. Please be good for your teachers and your principles. Today, its all about practice. So as you grew up in San Francisco, but throughout oregon have an earthquake and everybodys can be safe if they just do with their teachers and parents tell them and then you can help your parents by practicing at home. Okay . Deal . Deal. Cool. Whered you remember, its sf 72 for what could happen if its bad, and its 311 if we just want to get information or tell us something thats not really bad. Right . Those are the two things. Okay get undone. Fire chief took all the other stuff. [applause] okay. You guys did such a good job of listening. I know this is been really given. I just found out ms. Young made a mistake. I thought it was duck cover and hold and i just got told, it dropped cover and hold. Just like the police chief said. So when the earthquake lifted those words again. Drop, cover and hold on. Can you guys a really loud. Thank you star visitors today. Thank you. Here is what you get it you know. Just like we always do. You are going to look at your teacher and when your teacher. [music] good afternoon and welcome to the 10202015 meeting director brinkman, present. Boren, present. Hineky, present. Nolan, present. Ribky, present. You have a quarm. Announcement of sound producing devices. The use of cell phones pager and other sound producing deviceerize prohibited at the meeting. Be avised cell phones set on vibrate cause interference so the board request they be turned off [inaudible] so moved second. See none all in