Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Public Safety Committee 111915 20151120

Speakers cards and documents be parted of the file should be submitted the clerk. Items will be on the december 1 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Thank you supervisor campos for being here as well. Please call the first item. Item 1 is a resolution designating Edgewood Center for evaluation and Treatment Facility pursuant to california welfare and institutions code for sections 5150, 5585. 50, and 5585. 5 for the youth ages 5 to 17 and authorizing the director of Behavioral Health services to enter into a designation agreement with said facility. Thank you and we have a presentation from our Public Health department. This is ken epstein from the Public Health department representing children youth families of Behavioral Health. We have been here before. There was a mild change in the designation. We had put one of the wrong designation numbers in there so were asking to redesignate the csu facility, the crisis stabilization facility for this which is part of the board of supervisors responsibilities. I can answer any questions. I see no questions. Thank you mr. Epstein for being here. Lets open it up for Public Comment. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak . Welcome back walter. Thanks supervisor mar. I get so emotional city, every time i think of safety with you. I get so emotional, aint it shocking what these items can do. Aint is shocking what these items can. Do i want to see this item number 1 turn out all right and i cant wait for it to be out of sight. I remember the night the board of supervisors went so much. I get so emotional city every time i think of items with safety in you. I get so emotional good luck edgewood to you. Thank you. Is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak in seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] and colleagues we also have a memo from the Youth Commission that they looked at this resolution, and that they are strongly supportive of it and they have their discussion on this at the november 16 meeting so colleagues the resolution is before us. Is there a motion . Supervisor christensen. [inaudible] so i just want to make a brief comment because this personally meaningful to me. The first meeting of the group they attended in january this issue was before us, and at the time it seemed like a no brainer. We have children in San Francisco who if they are in psychiatric distress must be taken far outside San Francisco in order to receive treatment and a hardship on them and their parents. Turned out there were issues of fair representation and the voice of workers that came up and we were forced to choose between the rights of workers and services deeply needed by family and children in our city. I am sad its taken 11 months to resolve this. I hoped we would have done this much sooner but its an interesting parenthetical bracket for me in one of my last hearings in this committee i get to finally approve this and to know that the children and family are taken care of. I am also grateful that the issues related to the fine employees of edgewood seem to be on the way to better resolution so i am delighted and grateful to support this at this stage. Thank you supervisor christensen. So is there a motion to move this forward . So its been moved and done without objection colleagues. [gavel] thank you. Thank you. Mis major please call the next item. Item two is a resolution urging the establishment of fair and effective guidelines for beach fires at ocean beach that protect the publics access to Recreational Activities and support environmental protection. Thank you. Colleagues this resolution comes to us with the cosponsorship of myself, supervisor tang from the sunset, supervisor yee from district 7. All three of us having some parts of ocean beach in our districts and cosponsored by supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos as well. The resolution was introduced several months ago and we held off the urging of the National Park service at the time but now as the Comment Period is continuing for people to give input into the National Park Services Proposal for further restricting beach fires as they call them at ocean beach its important that the city have a position and a strong position on the tradition of family and Community Bonfires at ocean beach. In a city facing a growing affordability crisis as we all know bonfires have provided a fire and Recreational Activities enjoyed by families and beachers and surfs and many others and its outside lands. Org and has a good history and nonprofit preserving the history of San Francisco but they document that the richmond and sunset and west side have a tradition that goes back to 1890 where surfers at kelly cove and in the northern part of ocean beach would surf and warm themselves with bonfires after surfing but the tradition has continued in the early years with drift wood collected for use and in the middle of the 20th century before modern wet suits and the surfers and others would warm around the bonfire and Building Community and history and traditions in the city. It took place largely near the fulton street beach stair wells right now the designated area area for beach fires are allowed and the continue continues today. Over the years i wanted to say that the National Park service and working with groups and worked together to fully fan the bonfires and eight years ago a community with Community Based groups and National Park service in the city was agreed upon to maintain the beach fires, and todays hearing and as we move forward is really single off of that sense and the communities. I will say when the fire pits were installed in 2007, really beautiful artistic one kept the fires to a controlled area of fulton street instead of spreading throughout the beach leading to easier Maintenance Area for the National Park service and also the city, but it kept the fires away from environmentally sensitive areas like the snowy area south of the bonfire area for example and confining to a specific area of the beach made cleanups easier as well. I think its an example of guidelines that improved everyones experience and i want to say that the National Park service proposed a number of further regulations that i have serious concerns about and the resolution sponsored by a number of our colleagues also expressed those concerns. To me maintaining the level of access free and accessible access is the most important thing, but also as stewards of ocean beach to change the culture of litter and nuisances around the bonfires so trying to Work Together with the park service to have a shared enforcement mechanism so that enforcement is real, but also shared responsibility of changing culture so people leave no trace which is a burning man leaving no trace and by the park service and when you can and cannot have a bonfire and what can be brought to them and what cant and were protecting the beach while maintaining the tradition. I also wanted to say my offices with others on the Budget Committee allocated 60,000 from our budget and this past year 185,000 to allow the rec rec and Park Department to coordinate along with the National Park service to have shared responsibility of better clean up, voluntarism, but also better education and cultural change so we can take care of ocean beach by still allowing responsible use of bonfires. My hope is that the National Park service listens to the local communities. I think there are examples whether they havent and a new superintendent christine leonards who i believe is sensitive to local communities and by passing this resolution were sending a strong message from the city but behind the scenes i am doing my best to work with her and her staff to ensure that common interests of the National Park service and the city are respected. Theres a couple of amendments to the original resolution that draw from data and also kind of put forward bringing it up to speed on the different budget allocations that we have made as a board to increase that shared responsibility of taking care of ocean beach and im going to read the quick amendments before we open it up, and we have a number of speakers that will come forward that have been working on this issue for many years and some for decadeses so the ocean beach amendments page one lines 1920 it acknowledges the budget allocations that the city has made to help the National Park service with clean up so it says at lines 1920 whereas in the spirit of the ocean beachs welfare the city and county of San Francisco allocated 50,000 to the parks and Recreation Department and add in an additional 185,000 in fiscal year 201516 to conduct janitorial and Maintenance Services in a robust outreach and Education Campaign to ensure compliance with regulations and the Second Amendment page two, lines 12 whereas from calendar year 201315 only 15 citations were issued by the National Park service for illegal fires on ocean beach and i will thank sasha for gathering the data and were trying to get more data from the Police Department and others on number of citations for illegal activity and from my understanding there have been very few over the years so National Park Service Almost no citations and from the police very few as well and the last amendment is page two, lines 912. Its add additional resolve that the city and county of San Francisco urges the National Park service to not implement the current proposal to create a fee base system to limit firings and limits access and financial barrier that affects the ocean beach experience. Those are the amendments that i made. At the end i will move that we accept these amendments as well. Colleagues do you have any opening comments . Supervisor christensen, supervisor campos. Thank you. I want to thank you chair mar for bringing the item forward and if i could be add as a cosponsor as well and thank you for your leadership. Thank you supervisor campos. I will add we have a letter from the association of dog patch and we have Sally Stephens in the audience too and there is a petition and thanks to andrea and others for the hundreds of people that will be signing in support of the petition to maintain the beach bonfires. I also wanted to acknowledge as the incoming chair of the histor bay area air quality district and were going to look at spare the air days season and part of the Park Services recommendation but its too expansive. There are a couple of key weeks which are the main ones with spare the air season is the main concern and a special time when people burn the Christmas Trees that have dried up usually around the beginning of january and a key concern of the particulate matter and the toxic stuff in the air at that time but not the full four month period but i wanted to thank the staff for providing that information and lastly again i have been reaching out to the captain of the richmond station to get accurate data on the number of criminal incidents that occurred and from my understanding its few over the years despite the National Park Services Claims there is a lot of crime and what i can see from data and anecdotal information its not near the amount theyre claiming. We have a number of speaker cards that are before us, and i should also mention that there is a public Comment Period for the beach bonfire that the National Park service initially set a deadline of i believe it was the end of this week, but they have extended it a few more weeks to december 4, and i wanted to thank superintendent christine leonards for listening to the community to give more time for input into the process. With that colleagues i will open it up for Public Comment. I have a few speaker cards but if there is anyone that wants to speak they can come forward and i encourage to you fill out a card. [calling speaker names] im sorry. I keep butchering your name. [calling speaker names] it doesnt have to be in that order. Thank you for being here. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you very much for this hearing and for the resolution. I work with a group called save our recreation. Were 10,000 plus people in the San Francisco bay bay and keep this in the area. I support the resolution and the new amendments and its important for the city to be on record opposing the proposal from the park service and standing for the land standing tradition for those that enjoy the fires. The park service has a problem with the San Francisco bay area and want to manage this areas like its a remote wilderness area. Theyre going after people that enjoy the bonfires and hike and walk with the dogs and they even implemented a new Management Plan that eliminates rec region as one of the guide principles of the area. In addition to passing this resolution i urge the city to use the other power it has to get the park service to listen to what the people in the community are saying because they dont always listen unfortunately. Some of the things they could do is ask the City Attorneys Office is look into the gold 18 gate Recreation Area is violating the agreement with San Francisco when they gave them the lands. Theyre supposed to be preserved in spaces with people in a crowded environment with enjoy the open space. Yous also have the power of the purse. You are generously giving them money to help maintain and keep ocean beach clean and i suggest that if they go forward with the current proposal that you do not support them with the funding so thank you for the resolution and standing up for this tradition. Thank you. I should acknowledge that christine leonards, the superintendent i believe is traveling this week and couldnt be with us. Sasha could we let the rec and parks representative so jenn is a representative with the department. Hes coordinated hundreds i believe of volunteers and clean up programs, and been working on ocean beach as well as other areas of the parks and recreation jurisdiction as well but hes the manager of the ocean beach program. Thank you supervisor mar. And just to let you know we actually just eclipse over 1,000 volunteers for the past fiscal year in terms of folks helping out and cleaning out ocean beach but just to reiterate what supervisor mar has already explained that fiscal year 1415 an additional 50,000 was allocated to the parks and Recreation Department and enabled my position to be filled by myself and i have been able to activate a thousand volunteers and colead and lead 45 independent cleanups and Habitat Restoration projects and i appreciate supervisor mar and his office as well as the city for the funds to allow this program to really take hold. Thank you. Thank you. Sasha. Hi. Sasha from haynes valley resident of San Francisco. I want to thank you for putting forth this resolution and coming out as opposed to the fee base permit system for the parks. I think its important that we keep them free and available to everybody so they can be shared. If permits are put in not only less people will use them but should you choose to shairt fire that is switching the burden of enforcement onto the permit holder and then youre responsible for the rules being followed at your fire. I have tried to do in the past and its put me in an unsafe situation as National Parks has said that the park police doesnt feel safe giving out citations and thats why they issued on average ten a year over the last three years, a little over ten, so given the small amount of citations overall and not just illegal fires i find there isnt a problem there or just enforcement of the current laws which is fine and again i would like to support the resolution but i would like you to add were opposed to the winter closure because that is four months. We have the books that you cant have fires during spare the air days and that wouldnt change and a 30 reduction at four months and i would ask that you add they try enforcing the existing rules before changing anything and install better signage that doesnt require a smartphone to access the rules and that is what is in the proposal that they work with the safe way and other retailers around them to let them know that glass and alcohol and wood are not allowed on the beach. People dont know. I went out on the beach and let people know and i would like to say quick of the first 40 comments received by please continue. Oh thank you. The first 40 comments received by National Parks 33 were against the permits, against the winter closure and against their new proposal. 33 out of 40 were against that. Five were for it because of air quality and one said they like the permits rather than banning the firings all together and i would urge you to ask them what the Public Comments say. I have been sending people to the link because i need as many comments as possible. I know 3,000 was required last time to not ban fires so if you could ask National Parks to see the comments they may share them with you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Price. Walter i have called a number of names. If you want to speak fill out a card. I am with a [inaudible] with borders. We built artistic firings and on the beach with the understanding that the park service would match and expand those. The reason they were going to close fires on the beach they said there was a big mess and it was all over the place and lets do it in certain places and people know how to follow the rules and like a garbage can they know how where to put the trash and they didnt do that and now there are few to none and not surprisingly they have fires all over the beach and the park service says there is a mess we cant handle this and we need to do an expensive permit and 12 spaces and fix the problem. No, the solution to ocean beach is more places for people to follow the rules and understanding what they r case in point. Huntington beach has 125 pits and spent less to clean them than the park service spends to clean ten. Tom, you said 125. 125 fire rings and the park service says they cant clean ten for 90,000. The reason there is a mess on the beach there is no where to follow the rules and have the mess in a contained area to be cleaned up. Every single public hearing that has been held, every meeting, every Public Comment for a decade has been overwhelming in support of free Public Access to this one remaining thing in San Francisco that anybody can do that you dont need a smartphone or a wallet for. We really appreciate the councils support in preserving that operation and opportunity. Thank you and thank you for sharing the history and the fundraising history and the partnership at that time. I have more speakers on the list. So if your name has been called please come forward. We have Walter Paulson that would like to thing. I am a resident of district 8 and thank you for the attention to this issue and ocean beach fires are great part of San Francisco and the Bay Area Community and like the other members have said we are facing this restriction throughout the National Park service and other Recreation Areas where they become focused on the environmental causes but unbalanced in the direction of keeping people out and watching tv at home instead of nature because all humans have impact and i appreciate this and in support of the proposal and it would be wonderful if the city could recommend the maximum firings in the proposal and great if the city could support that and there is a concerning issue this would come back every year and in the process and wonderful to make sure that the annual process is not by default to go through the whole process again. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker ms. Stephens. If anyone else would like to speak please come forward. Sorry. Yeah. My name name Sally Stephens and chair of sf dog and supporting the bonfires and those that enjoy the fires at the beach. As other speakers said there is concerned effort from the National Park service to remove recreation from the golden gate area. The general Management Plan is recreation is no longer a guiding principle. Were fighting the same fight in the attempts to where you can walk with your dogs and basically were fully supportive of recreational access here and especially on ocean beach. Its our citys play land. Its our backyard. I adopt to encourage and perhaps the board to consider adding a request for more fire rings. The ten or 12 they have now is not enough and that would help as people have indicated it would help a lot. Basically the park service has found 165,000 to enforce the permits to basically stop people from enjoying ocean beach when they enforce things rather than finding a lot of money to maintain the beach which allows people to continue to enjoy recreating on the beach so i fully support this resolution, and hope that the park service will actually begin to listen to what the public thinks about these issues. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to speak . Please come forward. Please dont fall into a ring of fire. You might fall down and the waves will get hirer and it burns, burns that beach fire, beach fire. Please dont fall into a burning ring of beach fire. You might fall down, down, down and the waves will get higher, and it burns, burns, burns, that beach fire. Please be safe with the fire. Thank you for honoring the men in black. I just got back from the Johnny Cash Museum in nashville. I love that. Next speaker. Hi. My name is paula brown and im want going to enjoy the beach anymore. I lost my son. We used to go to the beach and i put him in the shorts and bring our little fire things there to set the fire. Definitely when they had the fun house down at the beach. I have been living in this city for 55 years now, and i am so saddened that im not able to go to the beach and enjoy it anyway. Thats a shame that i cant even enjoy the beach anymore because my son is gone, so we need to have people heal people so they can start enjoying the city beaches again. I am coming here because were talking about certain things, but if we are talking about this this is relating to everything. I am not coming to sing to you or give you a heart felt story. I am coming as a parent who has lost a child and i am not able to enjoy the scenery of the beach, the water, the sand and walk my kids they have left that are still living to walk on the beach anymore because were missing one child. I am missing one child. I want these cases solved so that we can enjoy the scenery on the beaches and the sand again because i am suffering and i want to be able to enjoy life again. My life has lessened. I die daily. I want to enjoy the water, the sun, bonfires, all the above. Thank you. Thank you ms. Brown. Is there anyone else that would like to speak . My name is shawna earls born and raised here in San Francisco, spent many days at the beach, many days at the water. Took my children. They were raised at the beach. We had many good times at the beach and my son dante glen was taken away this year in the city of San Francisco where we were born and raised and i am just asking, and i am just pleading that you all take the guns off the streets. The guns are not just mysteriously just making it here to San Francisco. They are being planted all over the projects on the beaches as well, so i am just asking so i can have peace and go to the beach and enjoy the beach. I am just asking please, please i would love to have my sons murder solved. I dont want his murder to be one of the ones that go cold. I would San Francisco to have 48 hours. We need 48 hours in San Francisco because its no murders being solved in San Francisco, so thank you. Thank you to both of you for bringing such a great important issue to us, and talking about its relationship to ocean beach and keeping it accessible for everyone. I wanted to say that if there are no other Public Comment lets close Public Comment. I wanted to read into record the comment from bruce wilk the president of dog park the golden gate Recreation Area under the National Park Service Provides the needed open space of the people of bay area and the purpose was to assure the preservation of open space to provide Public Access along the waterfront and to expand to the maximum extent possible the Outdoor Recreation opportunities available to the region. National park service is performing ownership than appropriate management on behalf of the tax paying public to enjoy the open areas and parks and space. San francisco has limited open space to recreate and thus theyre in our backyard and Recreational Area plus is our only beach front to enjoy the famous west coast sunsets. The people of San Francisco did not give them rights to maintenance and stewardship of the shoreline to corner it from the public use which the restrictions are surely slowly seeking to do. This is not a National Park in the middle of the wilderness area and an area adjacent to one of the dense metropolitan cities in the nation San Francisco. Its highly inappropriate for them to refer to this as a National Park and not referred to as such in law, and i will just say the last photograph is dog pack sf urges all San Francisco supervisors to support the resolution and send a message in our collective voice as a city to prevent doing this and signed bruce wolf dog pack of San Francisco. So colleagues we ended Public Comment. Are there any comments before i make my comments . I see no comments. I did want to acknowledge that a number of the commenters suggested language changes. Im going to say that im not going to accept additional amendments, but to Sally Stephens asking for more fire rings i believe the park service is considering up to 20 fire rings but i still would urge more, and tom prices data of Huntington Beach having 125 fire rings clean up at 50,000 i will ask also why they can clean up so many more versus what the National Park service says is their clean up budget for our little 1012 rings or its even unclear how many there are right now. I will also say that sasha maureeny mentioned a number of suggestion and it is winter closure season, the four months seems to be way too much and i am doing my best to work with the bay area air Quality Management district when the highest percentage of spare the air days and the particulate matter in the air so i am working on that behind the scenes and enforces rules and signage and working with safeway and other partners and education and those are issues that communication with the National Park service i know is ongoing and i will do my best to communicate those as i meet with the superintendent as well. Lastly funding besides the city and the National Park service the Parks Conservancy and other nonprofit entities that fund land outlook out to other areas we will begin discussions with other sources of funds so that the education, the enforcement, and the creating a sustainable bonfire system could be even more of a partnership with others as well, so i am doing my best to commit to that and urge my colleagues to support the amendments that have been introduced today at this committee, so i see no other comments. Is there a motion supervisor campos. Great. Do we need a motion to amend the resolution along the lines described by chair mar . So i would make a motion to do that. Okay. Can we do that without objection to accept the amendments . [gavel] thank you. I would like to move the item as amended forward with a positive recommendation. Thank you. And can we do this without objection colleagues . [gavel] thank you. Thank you everyone for coming out. Ms. Major please call the next item. Item 3 is administrative code for storage of peace officer of leaving firearms in a vehicle under the peace officers control either in a locked contain or a locked truck of the vehicle. And the sponsor is supervisor campos. Thank you very much mr. Chair, chair mar, and i actually have copies here for my colleagues. I have an amended ordinance and maybe the clerk can help us distribute the amendment to my colleagues. So this is a very important issue, and we get an opportunity and the board of supervisors to work on very important matters, but very few matters are matters of life and death, and what were talking about today is a crisis thats not only impacting San Francisco but the entire state and the entire country, and thats the crisis with the proliferation of guns and firearms and what this ordinance does is addressing the specific issue of a gun, a firearm being stolen from a vehicle. When we first introducinged the ordinance thats before you that ordinance was part of a larger strategy that we called security not scapegoating and it was a package of three items that specifically tried to respond to the tragic death of kate steinle here in San Francisco. One of the things that we did as part of this package was to deal with the issue of better coordination among Law Enforcement within San Francisco to make sure that if we are going to request a transfer of an individual because of an outstanding warrant that we have the sheriffs department, our District Attorney talking to one another to make sure that the specific transfer made sense in light of the specific charges pending in a case. The second issue dealt with the issue of the most recent iteration of the socalled secure communities which is the Priority Enforcement Program that essentially tried to get San Francisco to engage in the enforcement of immigration laws. The third piece of that package which is what this ordinance addressed is the issue of Law Enforcement agents leaving guns in their vehicles and those weapons being stolen, and when we first introduced this legislation the focus of the legislation was on how Law Enforcement personnel dealt with weapons that they left in their vehicle, and as we have gone through the process, the legislative process, we recognized and we have learned that the issue is much greater than simply Law Enforcement, and that in fact what we see throughout the bay area, throughout the state and the country is an unfortunate trend where you have individuals, Law Enforcement personnel, but civilians as well, leaving weapons in vehicles and those weapons being stolen and ending up in the wrong hands. In the bay area loon this year there have been several cases where guns have been stolen from vehicles and in turn used in tragic criminal activity. In august officers from the ec berkeley and others had guns stolen in the east bay. In october a gun stolen from a tourist vehicle in Fishermans Wharf was used in two killings in the city. In october a california Highway Patrol officer had a personal firearm stolen from the vehicle in San Francisco so after look at the trends we decided to expand the law that we introduced and Going Forward anyone that stores a gun within a vehicle in the city and county of San Francisco must secure the firearm in the trunk of a vehicle and disable any automatic levers. If the trunk is not enclosed the firearm must be secured in a locked box that is affixed to the vehicle. Right now california statutes that govern the transportation of guns in cars are vague in terms of the requirements for storing those firearms. Here in San Francisco we have an opportunity to make the rules clear for everyone and we want everyone storing a gun in a vehicle in San Francisco to understand their rights and responsibilities. Again we should be preventing the theft of vehicle or property within a vehicle but when that theft happens and you have a weapon that is found in that vehicle that horrible incident can lead to something even more tragic. The penalty for violating the law as amended would be a misdemeanor violation and a 10,000 fine. The convinces gun theft is serious and according to the a tf10000 guns were stolen and 15 those guns were actually used in a crime. In 2013 approximately 9,000 californians were victims of gun violence and this is in a state that actually has the toughest gun control laws in the country. Nearly 3,000 of the victims that were killed included of the 3,000 victims killed 251 were children and teenagers. More than 6,000 people were injured including 1300 children and teenagers. Its our responsibility here in San Francisco to do everything in our power to create reasonable laws that protect san franciscans from gun violence. This amendment is a common sense amendment that does just that so we can be the safest city when it comes to the issue of guns here in San Francisco. I want to thank our Police Department. I want to thank chief greg suhr for working on the legislation and his support. I want to thank a number of individuals that have been helpful and assisted us in making this legislation happen. This would be the first of its kind legislation in the state of california, and we believe that this is something that hopefully once we pass this piece of legislation in San Francisco the rest of the state can follow suit. We want to see something similar for the rest of the state of california. I want to thank Hillary Ronan of my office who has been working with me on this issue. I want to thank all the folks who have come out to an earlier press conference and who will be here today to address this important issue including president breed who came to the press conference earlier so with that colleagues you have copies of the amendment, and i would before we turn it over to Public Comment make a motion to amend the legislation along the lines that have been outlined. Thank you supervisor campos. So we have a number of speaker cards. I will read them off. [calling speaker names] and if there is anyone else that would like to speak please come forward as well. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is allen supervisor martinez and you know my nephew was killed a year and a half ago and i learned about this issue and my brother is working for gun safety now and i asked the statistician about this issue and he said they were working on a report. Its a National Problem but its hard to get statistics because theyre held in such a diverse sorts of ways but there are other municipalities around the country enacting legislation of this type, and i applaud making it a more general law to apply to everyone, not just Law Enforcement. The excuse that the nra gives for enacting legislation for this and not doing it it doesnt solve the whole problem but we didnt do that with car safety in the 60s. It just wasnt seat belts that made the car safeties but air bags and structural changes to cars and roadways to madd and making people responsible around drinking and driving. It took thousands of things and approaches to make driving safer in this country and as long as were going to live with guns and we are going to live with guns we have to do enact thousands of measures making owning a gun safer and i think this is appropriate and i think this is important to make guns safer in this way. Thank you. Thank you mr. Martinez. Next speaker. I would like to [inaudible] again [inaudible] overhead please. Again i am shawna earls. My son was dante glen and murdered in San Francisco where we were born and raised. We both were city and county workers retired last year. And my heart is just so heavy. Its just so heavy because in dealing with people i talked with the mayor. I talked with the chief of police. They gave me my meeting, my time, and i am hearing we dont want to make an arrest. We want to have a conviction, but i thought that was a good thing, but until i met up with the group of women, a whole group of women that lost their children to the streets of San Francisco. Basically they go back for 15 years of hearing i dont want an arrest. I want a i d conviction i dont want his case to go cold and i want someone to do their job and get out there. There is not enough investigators, homicide investigators and we need 48 hours here in San Francisco. Every morning we turn on the news kids are murdered and no murders are being solved, murders of color anyway. No murders of color are being solved and i need peace. I need some peace. I need some rest. I am like everyday i am trying to figure out what can i do . What can i do . And i was told today to take it to 850 bryant. Im sorry but im not going to 850 bryant. I might go there but i am coming here to city hall, whatever it takes but we need 48 hours here because theyre not solving any cases. Theyre not solving any cases. Thank you ms. Brown. Yes again hello. My name is pallet brown. And again as the mother said these guns are killing our children and i wanted to thank you david campos about implementing this gun control thing about the people selling guns or stealing guns out of a car. I can say this. My son was shot with a gun with these people in a car. These guns werent concealed. These guns were in the front seat of someone elses car and used that gun to shoot my son, so i thank you for implementing this. That the guns need to be put in the trunk and a locked box so it wont be premeditated to go and kill someone. You know i bring this because i say right here gunfire are the third leading killer of children ages 1 17. This was on 20 20, and my son was only 17 when he was shot 30 times with a semi automatic gun, so i say this to show you what bull the bullets look like and this was my son and his dead body on the gerney and guns stolen out of the car and kate steinle and a beautiful woman and her parents are grieving just as much as we are grieving so this is a great thing for mothers like myself that guns and the Law Enforcement are being held accountable too about their guns being in their cars and they need to be locked up also. Law enforcement, public it doesnt matter who it is. Whoever buys a gun lock that gun up. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I am father Richard Smith from the Episcopal Church in the mission. These are the heroes but let me lend a word of support. In the mission twice a month we in the faith communities do night walks and we walk the neighborhood and stop now and then to remember victims of gun violence and we remember for example Benny Martinez who was shot and killed one block from my church a year ago, and he was 24 years old at the time but when he was 11 years old he saw his mom shot and killed on the front steps of the family home. Just a few feet where he was killed jose escobar was killed from gunfire and we walk up and another person was killed six shots in the back from San Francisco police. Too many moms and dads have shed tears from losing sons and daughters from gun violence. Too many parents and i include myself and worry about our kids because we dont know if theyre going to be safe. This is not how god intended us to live with the fears and tears. We know this is a larger fabric of gun violence across the country and extends from santa Hook Elementary School with kids were killed to ferguson to rose berg to San Francisco. Since the Mass Shootings in newton of the first graders there have been 150 more School Shootings and it could happen here. This common sense resolution that david campos put forward gives me help that the city st. Francis can help with the bloodshed and end it and do our part to make a difference to make an end to the needless and senseless bloodshed. Thank you reverend smith. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im Alison Alderman from the law center to prevent gun violence and much of the work we do involves supporting smart effective Gun Legislation such as this one and the law center is proud to work with the city and county of San Francisco for over 22 years to make it safer from gun violence. Although the rate of gun deaths is lower in california than any many other states in the country gun violence remains the serious threat to californians. In 2013 approximately 9,000 californians were the victims of gun violence. Nearly 13,000 killed including 251 children and teens and 6,000 injured including 1300 children and teens. Thank to the courageous leadership of San Francisco it has enact the some of the best gun laws in the country and many of the laws in San Francisco have been replicated at the state level making california also one of the states with the strongest gun laws in the country if not the strongest gun laws in the country, so this is exactly what supervisor campos is doing today. He is extending this tradition of leading the state and the nation in smart Gun Legislation by requiring gun owners who leave firearms in unintended vehicles to safely store them making them inaccessible to burglars and other unauthorized users such as children. Unfortunately when they leave guns unintendeded in vehicles they can be stolen. Over 10,000 were stolen in california in 2012 and its an under estimate because theyre not required to report the stolen guns and this legislation will be the first of its kind in a California City and hopefully state legislators will take notice and enact this at the state level. Thank you supervisor campos for introducing this important and groundbreaking legislation. Thank you. Next speaker. Mr. Paulson. Always remember keep guns out of reach. Then we can say give peace a chance. Always remember keep guns out of reach. Then we can say give peace a chance. Aint no sunshine when the guns gone, only darkness everyday. Aint no sunshine when the guns gone and its always gone every time you go away. Wonder this time where this gun has gone and its gone all the way. Aint no sunshine when the guns gone. Its always gone and i know, i know, i know. Leave that gun alone. Airnt no sunshine when youre gone too. Aint no sunshine when youre gone too. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to speak . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Supervisor campos. Thank you very much chair mar, and actually before i make comments my final comments i do want to ask if we could vote on the motion to amend the ordinance. [inaudible] so supervisor campos made a motion on the amendments and theyre before us. Can we do that without objection . [gavel] thank you. Supervisor campos. Thank you. I will simply note this. You know i think that, and i want to thank commissioner mar teen ez for saying this earlier. I dont know if anyone has a solution to this crisis of the proliferation of guns and i dont know how you keep guns from getting in the wrong hands, but i do believe that given whats at stake you really have to do everything you possibly can. I have heard some of the comments from some of the people who have talked about this law, and they say you hear this from the nra. Why do we need more gun laws . Lets enforce the laws that we have the books and i am certainly not against of enforcing the laws on the books, but its clearly not enough. Its not working. The fact that in the state of california you have the toughest gun laws in the books in the country you still have 10,000 guns that were stolen in 2012, and when we look at crime, and especially violent crime, where guns are involved we know that all of those guns virtually all of the guns were stolen, so if we can keep guns from being stolen, if we can keep the stolen guns from ending up in the wrong hands we will save lives and the message is to educate people, and again were not taking peoples rights to carry weapons away from them. Were simply saying if youre coming to San Francisco, youre a gun owner, and you choose to leave your gun in your vehicle, we in San Francisco ask that you take the extra step of ensuring that there will be limited access to that gun, and thats all were saying. Thats really everything that this is about and when you think about it its actually very common sensical and what was surprising to me the most is the fact that what were doing hadnt been done before, so and i think it makes sense that we in San Francisco continue to lead the way on this issue, and my hope is that what will happen from here is that we will pass this at the board unanimously, and that maybe other jurisdictions in the state of california and other parts of the country will follow suit. Again i want to thank all of the folks that helped to make this happen. We heard from the attorney from the center who has been very helpful. My chief of staff Hillary Ronan but i especially want to thank the mothers of the victims of gun violence who have so much courage, and are using the tragedy of their loss in a positive way, and making an amazing contribution to this city, so thank you for being here and the hope is that we dont have anymore mothers going through this, and then the final point i would say is again to our Law Enforcement personnel, to the chief of police for working with us to make this happen, and to the City Attorneys Office and other folks that work to move this forward, so i respectfully ask for your support. Thank you supervisor campos. I wanted just to add my strong support for this and ask to be a cosponsor added onto the legislation. I wanted to thank chief chief for the chief sure and working with your office to implement this and thanks to the coalition of free sf and others for the work to have Real Solutions for Community Safety and this issue as well as others. I wanted to acknowledge too that this ordinance is really important. It doesnt contradict state law. Its of a serious and significant local interest that makes us different in San Francisco to pass a policy like this given the history of some of the incidents that happened recently and over time as well and i applaud Hillary Ronan from supervisor campos office and free sf that are behind this historic policy that will be followed by other cities as well. I will make the motion that we support this fully. Supervisor christensen. Thank you. I want to thank supervisor campos. I was proud of the boards reaction to Kate Steinles murder and some of the incidents that happened recently. I think this is a very measured and thoughtful response to that unfortunate situation. So congratulations. Great idea. I think it was yesterday that the nbc affiliate in the bay area did statistics of their own and million guns were stolen from civilian owners in the last five years and 380 firearms are missing from local bay area Law Enforcement agencies, the six in the region, ten of them from San Francisco in just the last five years so that is about 76 guns a year that are disappearing from Law Enforcement. This matter is a particular interest to me. The gun that was used to kill the young woman in Golden Gate Park and the hiker in marin was stolen from my district from a reportedly unlocked car owned by a man that took over 11 hours to report the theft by which time the first murder had already occurred and while the statistics city wide have auto burglar up by 47 the statistic in my district is 78 year over year so in our tourist rich and very dense district were seeing auto burglars almost dawbled. My reaction to the kate steinle murder basically this was a homeless issue. It was a gun control issue and it was an auto burglary issue and i think addressing at least this is one step in the right direction. Since we no longer have a place in the city that you can buy a gun im not quite sure how we get the word out to owners of weapons that reside within the city about this. I hope efforts are made to publicize it and make people more aware of their responsibility and i think that is another part of that and get the word out that this is now required but i think the idea of having firearms in vehicles secured specifically that the boxes need to not only exist but secured to the vehicle is i think really important. I was recently the victim of a trunk theft and everything that was not nailed down was removed from the car and putting a lockbox in the trunk isnt the solution but additional having them affixed to the vehicle preferably in a hidden way is a great idea so thank you supervisor campos. I think this is terrific. Thank you. We have a motion and can we support this without objection . [gavel] thank you. Before you take a vote. Mr. Gibner. I almost got a promotion there. This item requires another hearing in the committee so rather than forward it to the full board you should continue to the next meeting. I move that we continue this item until our next meeting. Its unclear when the next Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee is happening but so to the call of the chair. Thank you and if i may. Supervisor campos. I want to thank you and supervisor christensen for her thoughtful comments as well. I mean i think one of the things that i am very proud of about the way that San Francisco reacted to not only the steinly strategy but other tragedies we responded in a thoughtful fact base approach and i think that we need to bring more attention to this issue of gun control and gun safety because its something that that gets lost. When an incident happening people make it something its not whether its targeting immigrants but i think San Francisco has been very thoughtful and i want to thank you and very proud of my colleagues for the way they responded. Thank you. So there is a motion to continue to the call of the chair and can we do that without objection . [gavel] thank you. Ms. Major is there any other business before us . There is no other business. Great thank you. Meeting adjourned everyone. [gavel]. It seems like everyone in San Francisco is talking about housing San Francisco housing prizes are among the highest it tops anyone Million Dollars and rent rise unfortunately, this is not the first time housing has been in the news thought california the cost of a home has made headline the medium prices for a house in the the 207,000 in california it is more than twice that amount and the laura u bay area is higher its more than doubled the states so while more than half of the americans can afford the medium fewer in california and quarter in the bayer and now fewer than a 6th of san franciscans can afford it so why it housing in San Francisco so go cheven condition tharz the obviously a high demand to live here the city is known for cultural diversities that attacks new residents and the credible opportunity our city diverse and will daytime committee grows jobs as a result we estimate the number of jobs is at ann an alltime 0 hive of 6 hundred thousand in the 80 the population was 6 hundred and 75 thousand now, its grown steadily and quickly the recent estimate is 8 hundred and 40 thousand the highest in the citys history and its not only San Francisco it is greek the bay area has 2 million for residents and jobs then in the 80 and the growth is expected to continue by the year 20403. 9 Million People unfortunately, our housing supply does not keep up with the demand i might not realize the majority of construction is housing thats been suspended for years due to the 2008 recession while population is increasing the housing is only increasing that i 9 percent if we dont pursues housing the cost of housing about only increase how do we plan the regional allocation identifies the total number of housing unit by affordable level to support the new residents San Francisco incorporates it into the housing elements that guides the housing policies the arena data places it in the investment plans for the growth throughout San Francisco those plans developed by years of Community Planning laid the ground work for the construction so the city he e sets the goals in broad terms the private sectors builds market rate housing and nonbuilt Affordability Housing that majority of housing in San Francisco as well as throughout the Country Market rate houses built by private developers within guidelines of the city some below market rate you howls paid pie public and private dollars and prized to be variable to certain population housing is considered affordable if it costs less than 1 3rd the medium income for a 2 percent householder is 70,000 this householder will have to pay no more than 7,150 to be affordable San Francisco has see long applied federal, state and local money often built and nonprofit tint for individual families the news cities in california what the Inclusive Program requires that 10 or ottawa more units to certain blow income levels or contribute to the fund that supports the blow market rate unit almost 25 thousand have been supported by city funds and more than 6 nous thousand of the unit were built between 2000 and 2012 what you cant afford a million will home youre not alone in response San Francisco mayor ed lee has set a goal of creating thirty thousand now emails homes by the year 2020 most will be in outreach of the san franciscan with federal and state funds drying up the San Francisco Ethics Commission is, taking an iv i of actually roll is providing housing across all levels were working diligently for everyone to live here and mr. Chair protect the housing semiand strengthen goals against evictions were commented for Housing Needs for all san franciscans to learn more visit highway ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make San Francisco the best place to work and will we bring shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of whats next sf sprech of Market Street between 6th is having a Cinderella Movement with the office of Economic Workforce Development is its fairy godmother Telegraph Hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and better reason to stay office of Economic Workforce Development work to support the economic vital of all of San Francisco we have 3 distinctions workforce and neighborhood investment i work in the tenderloin that has been the focus resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great as its moved forward it is some of the place businesses engaged for the people that have living there for a long time and people that are coming into to work in the the item you have before you companies and the Affordable Housing in general people want a safe and Clean Community they see did changed coming is excited for every. Oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar has doubled in size. When we were just Getting Started we were a new Business People never saturday a Small Business owner and been in the bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we couldnt have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. We have one goal that was the night to the neighborhood while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of Community Back to the neighborhood. We wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture. That sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and seeing this change is inspiringing. Weve created a space where people walk in and have fun and it is great that as changed the neighborhood. Oewd is oak on aortas a driver for San Francisco. Weve got to 23ri7b9 market and sun setting piano and it was on the street weve seen companies we say used to have to accompanying come out and recruit now theyre coming to us. Today, we learned about the office of Economic Workforce Development and its effort to Foster Community and make the buyer Market Street corridor something that be proud of thanks to much for watching and tune in next time for alfred welcome to your unit so were going to take alfred welcome to your unit so were going to take you. Hi, im carl with the fishermans were thrilled to have you here i get to open a lot of buildings or buildings and none of them brings me more pleasure than today a one and 90 units of air forces Affordable Housing in the heart of San Francisco mere jobs and near transit in the middle of the worst housing crisis to see this project come to reality having done this inspires and brings mayor edwin lee me pride a huge Publicprivate Partnership this deals dates back to chris daily in 2003 and in his office talking about what level of affordability well need what is now infinity that deal 12 years ago is finally give me rise to this project and the two at infinity close to 4 hundred uptsz among those 3 sites so im grateful to the supervisor to the supervisors predecessor grateful to the mayor and the mayors predecessor for the public and private partnering to make that happen and grateful to the Mayors Office of housing whos down the logistics and more importantly thank you to don and n mtc that controlled that site and worked with us this is their product their housing were thrilled to be partners with t n d c the labor life company that saw and put money into this project that helps to provide housing. Jobs in San Francisco and perry this is a huge publicprivate partnering but you explicit come here to hear from me we got a call could we pull the agenda for this forward i week i didnt see what a wonderful morning to be able to open one 90 units of Affordable Housing on the dawn of the mayors reelection by more importantly the passing of prop a and the commitment to the housing bond in San Francisco so congratulations to everyone clapping. with great pleasure introduce mayor ed lee that helped to make that happen congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, carl. Well campaigns is over were going right to work and i am also grateful to carl and to your relationship with tndc to our work request supervisor kim and making this happen he was here already months ago looking at the some of the unit and visualizing what some of the new residents will see are a long, long time im glad theyre here that is the exact the stories were chasing when we said lets get a promotion up before the voter and get a 310 million which will be matched with other money from the budget thanks to the board of supervisors and us agreeing with a higher goal he, he we are already with this how do we do that . Bond were already locating nonprofit partners for more housing we are using the word carl something you and your investors know about investment and about leveraging and this was a parking lot that we invested in now were leveraging it into residences one hundred 90 brand new unit all 100 percent affordable it an incredible story i told don earlier hes the only one that can tell the history how many hands and how many relationships had to be built and trust factor to be created in order for today to happen it is complicated ill let don tell the story but those agencies that live to tell those stories im glad hes with us and not only do we have this particular site to celebrate but it is on the dawn of celebrating more well have a lot more keys given out to love people that need housing in the city the workforce is part of the success whether or not teachers the one teacher got in on an incredible lottery that she had to wind travels in order to get in but hopefully for teachers and Health Care Workers people that work in restaurant and hotels make a good living but find it did to the will live in the city in is what the housing bond does as part of this this is what the private segment a dog more and more with us in government is trying to match up what they can do with us so you can literally see that people in the business whether the marketrate or low Income Housing can find that connection with government and be supportive to make sure that more units are affordable the obligation here targeted with one and 602 unit somehow and someway that story and that relationship was to solid with City Government we reached up to one hundred 90 units thats what we want to do supervisor kim; right . We want to set a goal and see how we can steady this is what the incredible story is about well do that in many sites certainly with the package of prop k you are joint efforts to locate oil public land weve gun control sites and some of the developers with literally calling and saying what wee, we do together now the message is clear you can do more we can all be more successful if we Work Together thats the message our prop a, prop k, our incredible relationships with the private developers and certainly with communitybased nonprofits im landmark to handing out keys and people will be happy to receive and having this incredible courtyard that is a positive experience right in the middle of San Francisco are these center and we have a number of sites within two or three block radius that are going to be underdevelopment in the next few years that signals on i didnt believe amount of of Affordable Housing people will say it great that is guarantee close to transit and close to our Civic Center Park and going to be center of a lot of good activities that people want to be close to as we want to live here and closeness to our arts organizations that continue to lead the effort along mid market and so theres a lot of good news and grad to see the office of Economic Workforce Development is here and the department of building inspection, because were all ready tarnishing not only the sites were going to do housing on but ideas as to how to accelerate them and an Accelerator Fund maybe talk with our kwiblt partners to accelerate all the goals we want because i know that our labor folks dont have enough to do want more work; right . Michael they want more work and do it the right way and get the housing up that is for the would it be fair to say as well thank you to you everybody all the partnerships weve had here and lets keep doing this more than slnlt lets go to work and get more done and video more smiles on families thank you. clapping. supervisor kim. First of all, i want to give a big congratulations to the mayor for winning his election 4 more years. clapping. weve not had much such a mayor and such an hour how were you to work with him and 24 particular were seeing 80 percent of San Franciscos development the statistic im proud of district 6 is building 44 percent in all of San Franciscos Affordable Housing clapping. and i would not be possible not for first of all, the strong support of our mayor and working with us to push the envelope both looking for the Nonprofit Institution and our private developers who know how important to hows everyone in the city but also i want to recognize we have a Strong Institution of communitybased organizations in the district that fight more Affordable Housing for decades and tenderloin corporation with search warrant r is one of them i want to acknowledge their work additional don fox leadership clapping. and building more Affordable Housing and we have several anymore sites im excited about mixed use p mission and howard and 4 and the forethought so when the revenue and the opportunities came forward we built Affordable Housing in the city where the land is incredibly scarce but what is exciting for me, i want to share a story in august i interviewed commissioners 3 applicants what was astonishing most of 3 applicant were recipients of the Affordable Housing program with an lived in my District Court and the second was the housing magnitude by lifesaving strfrtd and the third housing for 14 mists a tenderloin residents it is how for this work is it feels last week were not building enough when you meet the youth and families in the neighborhood weve built Affordable Housing those are the most cranial moments im excited to welcome our recipe to the in and look forward to serving you finally he just want to give a shout out and thank the city for their support of building more Affordable Housing it has been 20 years since we last passed the Affordable Housing bond no 1996 for one hundred Million Dollars and last night for one hundred and 50 million that will have a tremendous impact not only to the district i represent across the city and we have a lot to do a lot to do when i came into the office we were building at 80 percent of low income Housing Needs that is good but have to keep up the numbers we were this only building others less than 12 percent we have to continue to build low income Affordable Housing we have to we must build more middleIncome Housing in San Francisco in order to keep diverse San Francisco whether it is giant on this site or you know with future projects i look forward to making sure we are doing the balance we need to see thank you very much and congratulations to everyone involved clapping. thank you, supervisor kim im don fox ceo of the tenderloin development c n b c im tired those kind of projects have hundreds if not thousands i want to recognize our partners mayor ed lee supervisor kim and the Mayors Office of housing tishmans and hundreds of others we just are part of progress and those dont happen without a collection of people the story of this site begins in 1998 and so if nothing else this is a story of perseverance bank of america owned a parking lot the bart or parking lot the purpose was because they were going to eventually need to expand the data center right next door they were going to need more computers well, it turn out because of the rapid growth of Technology Computers dont need more space but less space they declared it surplus land and argued to to proposal to sell the property in a bargain sale below the market value value in order for us to build housing it is 17 years later thats a very arduous and difficult process through recreations and boosts the detergent of Affordable Housing resources that are available from the state and federal government many challenges to overcome to produce housing like this i think that is important for me to say and for us to understand this is not mark farrell Affordable Housing not mark farrell dwelling units those are homes and home is the platform for opportunity for people if people have Affordable Homes they dont have to make the choice been paying rent and medical skewer and teacher of the hear of their children we do much more than off for you walls and a ceiling thank you very much for being here and ems to the next person thats correct clapping. we have two units that are open for anything that wants to go in and see the units what else am i supposed to say eric. But we thank everyone for coming that this is a great public partnering thank you to everyone for working together to make this good morning, Everyone Welcome to the Veterans Academy here node presidio and i want to thank our Veterans Administration how you doing vets great to see you and were here to rezoning confirm over commitment to the vets and thankfully for joined by address the commission up to three minutes. Par offending and mark, thank you for joining me this presidio has and this site has been a very successful model of housing Affordable Housing for our veterans and it has been a part of a network of housing that beacon hill and i worked on now sam dodge beven margaritas to rest a little bit as our homeless are thank you to the staff in working closely with any office of housing and focus on vets i know that veterans day is around the corner we have more news was we rezoning confirm our commitment to end chronic homelessness and thank you to president obama and the first lady mrs. Obama theyve challenged many mayors across the country to make sure all us mayors do we we can to he said the homeless of vets well do that in San Francisco i want to thank our source of hours sharing michael are you are a Wonderful Agency and working on homes for heros on office of the city administrator its street and residential hostilities of hotels lying ever like the one on Kearny Center the that is yet again another great model today, weer identifying that we have about 200 and 70 Homeless Veterans were going to houses by the end of the year and identifying housing unit but asking for more help were going to be helping help from the federal government we need to make sure that those vouchers that our veterans get have the opportunity value that is reflective of the kinds of housing costs our vets are facing even though we have perhaps enough of those vouchers to go around they dont reflect the high cost of living thats why were advocating with hud and the freshen to increase the value 0 so this bmsz a more valuable thing the other part to request we have a deeper commitment by the Property Owners in San Francisco we have great people who have served our country that are having have possession of the voufrngz and need homes and apartments and place kept off the market we want to make sure that we ask a broad venue of landlord and Property Owners throughout the bay area to assist us in low income those units for our fine veterans this is what were nourng today begins with the citys commitment address my commitment as a son of a vet he want San Francisco make sure i honor my father and his service by honoring the vets and treat them as theyre my own kin as well we cant do more and better by treating them well theyve stated that for the country our role to make sure we honor them and not just housing in our city when we welcome in vets do it in a holistic way services that are invaluable and a lot of issues have arisen for the vets weve identified over time and want to provide them with good Health Services and good job plummet and training thats why our office in concert with our homes are create a jobs portfolio for the vets for one stop and working with the trustees like ac election ralph at city college to make a ask the next question to those who are returning and work with them as they get the training and jobs of the 21st century we want to be there with Supportive Community communitybased organizations and all the training agencies have a spot for veterans to make sure their convenient and assessable and effective in giving job training to our vets ultimately i want to make sure our vets with work in the 15 destroys that are indicative of our success as a City Health Care a big economic driver why not and tourism and Hotel Industry and culinary worlds best were hosting the super bowl 50 why not have the opportunity veterans in that tourism and making sure theyre part with us and earner good job in the Technology Industry over the course vets can help that is what were doing with tech sf recruiting veterans and young people to Work Together to make sure they have the job skills and were creating in our city a administrative reviews segment that hopefully regrets the kind of commitment for look good men and women in the past this is making things with our hands and something we want to work request city college and the local legislators have a brewery and candy and crocks or my favorite ice cream i can make ice cream over the course i can make my favor one scoop for you two scoops for me in all the destroys we want our vets strained and ready and able well be advise our employers that you have a very great pit in picking a veteran for a job while advocate and make sure you have every chance of success ublt though that housing is one of the most important things thats why the question what a crisis in the city and make sure that out of this crisis we emphasis the needs for people who have already as far as i am concerned for our country that is getting homes for our veterans we have more to say than when it comes to veterans that are homeless we want to make sure that theyre off our streets and on to warm housing thats why were securing the are long term leases with our Residential Hotel but we want to take over the vabt Vacant Hotels and rezoning do them and rezoning wire and rezoning paint and have them with new facilities and alliances just like 250 kearny street expensive but worth it you should see the faces of those theyll not be proudly when in theyre in the center of where everything is happening and get a lot of good contact right next door in the restaurant and in the industries that are downtown to get the jobs we want those are all the things were doing were also building new housing for the veterans how about new housing in mission bay weve dedicated and break ground brand new housing for the veterans im proud of working with the mission bay residents they embraced that idea if the get go so 9 Biotechnology Companies and others welcomed the veterans where we have more and make sure that we preserve the housing that veterans with in right now and to make sure that a place like this gets a long he remember longterm history city and work with the Presidio Trust to make sure they how were you that as well i think that of all places and whether it is downtown, whether it is otis or the mission bay the presidio has extra matt haney because this is was the place a lot of people in the history took off to protect our country and welcome them so thank you veterans and the administration that is working with us and thank you to the Community Groups and homeless staff and outreach staff and the Service Providers thank you sam for your leadership youre taking acknowledge now in fulfilling big shoes that beven has in taking a but most 0 importantly will to eir e every single one of our veterans thank you for your your sacrifice and service i have gifts i want to welcome up here for a little bit of discussion about his life and what this means where patrick thank you, sir clapping. were really excited about moving into the academy today, i just my dog and i are owner movein thank you to the plowshares and the mayor and people to help house everybody that is involved in the preservations in this city and country im truly grateful for this opportunity. Thank you very, very much clapping. thank you, patrick and you know now for mark your welcomed to those welcoming bathes for the unit they have some good seeshltz and stuff you can much on a great partner in the city one i cherish flou plowshares your obvious on the other hand, and in peoples lives and advertising us on the issue buses a day to day basis that is unavailable in Central Government to keep us on track so michael. clapping. thank you i dont want else to say youve covered that all geeze what can i say ill say that this you know this building inspection former admitted base is the swords to plowshares to a place that people are former soldier are healing and having housing and since and response to that it is magical when you do things like give a veteran and can we to their own home helping with jobs and benefits thats a key weve been here since 2000 i said this base being able to take a deep breath and look around christie one of the most you Beautiful Spots this is worth several therapist i dont want to offending the therapist but taking a deep breath it is making a big difference with the community you know having a backing of mayor ed lee and this commitment that is what it takes takes a tremendous investment in the federal side and the federal assistance the veterans and the hope and a hope house and office all the working very hard people that is how it happens at the end of the day the veterans are there we need services on staff and onsite to make a difference in their lives theyve what wife be able to do with the help in the city it is typifies a time were grateful and onward and upward thank you so much really clapping. okay wow. Wow, i get to give the keys to each one alfred welcome to your unit here clapping. thank you. Thank you, sir. Mark welcome to our unit thank you were proud thank you. Patrick welcome to your unit and your. Reilly thank you very much. So were going to take age tour all right. Thanlittle tou when you show up to vote auto our local polling place everything is running smoothly but a lot of details involved in running a polling place your may have a few workers with appear to be our or on their own what happens if if the polling place is not open on time are a machinery doesnt function who can they your honor, to for help those poll workers have a large support structure managed plths the department of elections let looking at behind the screens and running hundreds of polling place is made and smooth and seam also as possible. Before a polling place opens on 7 handsomely on election day did needs support supplies the delivery trucks garnet and Vice President s warehouses to load of the equipment and supplies before we set up to vote there be that a scanner once again you scan it will tell you okay. Oogs trucks deliver deny 3 hundred and 80 and 5 hundred 86 polling place depending on the nature of the elections and right now, were loading the delivery trucks those trucks contain all the equipment that pat polling place needs for voters open election day voter booth and election materials and most important voting equipment those pause contain the presync pacific their scanned and verified as their loaded into the trucks. The scanner that theyre using will be used before that comes on the lift date gate. Because those Voting Machines handle powell equipment it is important they go on the correct truck. Once again do push the benefits get the gate back down this driver knows thats the order that expects it that way we we cant deliver those machines to the wrong place theyve not work on to ballot and hell have to pull from his right thats as the the optical scanning and system. 7604. 76 a 4. Every time we move a vetting components is tracks its location and handling system. A week before election day 7 to 10 trucks roll out to deliver the powell packaged to the polls around the city. Hello department the elections dropping off the powell equipment and. Using the scanning manager an employee checks off to make sure they have theyre voting equipment and supplies on election day what happens in a powell worker delivers the door locked at the polling place . On election day the rather sedata city hall cafe is a beehive of the activity teams work to settle issues that may arise in the field. This is the Election Center and wall the Election Center essentially a bank we i put together and on election day the poll workers call in on a procedure or parolee issues and the calls or the polling place is locked often enough the polling place are late. The poll dispatch team comprised of 60 to 80 employers are ready to be snatched to any polling place with missing or possible sick workers and there are procedural issues how to complete the roster or a machine jammed it said interand it will reject it; right . You call them and a representative on the other ends whats the issue take down our issue and get people to help you with the issues they resolve and one of the issue is recognized into the database it routes the issue to the phone bank and list on the jeep in the category. The phone bank swings into the action and the steps to deal with the issue until its resolved. It is a transparent process the public looked at the issues were dealing with throughout the day starting at 6 oclock in the morning what. What happens in an edge print wouldnt work or a machine malfunction the Colorado Base Company Applies the materials runs a phone bank at the Election Center and trains and stages 20 to thirty technicians throughout the city on election day the fielder support team tackles the issue they help the poll worker over the phone. Oh, yeah. Or they get a field election deputy or fed to retaining respond out not field. Before each election the field election deputies learn the skills to support 7 to 10 powell placed in the field. This is a copy of the material in the fed binder those are coworkers do have. They receive special training to trouble shot. People on election day theres also a big support team for every single one of you. Then the fed checks in to their mar make sure theyre available to deal with issues. I want to confirm that is locked which it is and our edge is fully set up. Some questions we resolve easily over the phone and some with the deputies each field deputy has his or her on coordinator in the Election Center if correspondent gives the advice and informs home sharer of theyre specific polling place that needs assistance. The fields election deputies with the extension of the people in the field and on the grounds with Infrastructure Research and ballots. Your ballots a 5 part ballot. Their taking care of the final details we cant while were in the Election Center. The the fields deputy or feds are issued a cell phone and check list to follow. Theyll get a list of tasks to complete throughout the day. One example of the task between 7 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. The feds should make sure the polls are open and drop off the supplemental ballets and over completed the fed indicates by checking the box. And as the feds check each polling place with that smart phone applications the relatives are track work back at the Election Center there is realtime account of polling place. The correspondent is able to access the fed court tool it lists the feds team and all the tasks the fte is in favor of completing as the fed checks off picking up theyre bags and dropping off ballets and transfers the feds quotient seize in realtime as the tasks are checked off by the feds and this allows the fed correspondent to track in realtime all the feds work in the field. Perhaps things are going smoothly out at your polling place. Those are the blaults. The feds checked in and a all is well. This is the precinct. There the city more contract with the department of the election back and city hall proactively checking in with the polling place throughout election day. The voters turn out call serve that group of 10 coworkers is calling outline polling place to see how many voters. My name is joshua josh is this 33718 percent im calling to get the numbers on the front of our machine. Navigation to the overall turn out we are concerned with how many ballots into the sight machine. The last time as a member. That information is into a database it is visual at the Election Center that the voter turnout hits a 24rer8dz showing sight think outside the box that full they notify the deputy then the field election deputy and a Deputy Sheriff go to the polling place for a transfer from the sight think outside the box so voting can continue when the polls close poll workers account for the ballots the roster of voters the memory pack from the inside machine and others edge printer with the report those are the results of the polling place and need to be transferred r transported safety to the election they can count on the parole officer to take custody of the ballots and roster and edge printer and finally they confirm their polling place are secured after a long day in the days following the trucks that deliver the machines will once again be dispatched all over San Francisco picking up the machines and packaged for deliver to the warehouse for unpca and storage the next time your that he appealing palace look at the poll workers you may actually see the teams of people and systems and technology that stand behind the poll workers to make youre voting experience as smooth as possible good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to tonights medal of valor Award Ceremony. I ask you to please rise and stand for the color guard and singing of the National Anthem and daughter of melee gordon. O, say can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we hail at the twilights last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O, say does that starbangled banner yet wave, oer the land of the free, and the home of the brave please be seated. Again, i would like to welcome you to the San Francisco Police Department medal of valor Award Ceremony. Im rachel kilshaw. I would like to announce the people on the stage and thank the people who made this Award Ceremony of valor possible. Thank you for your continued generosity in allowing us to use this beautiful facility and next to thanks those who allowed us to use this facility for this beautiful ceremony. Thank you to Briana Oakley for singing the National Anthem. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] and thank you to the sf preponderance pd color guard. Now i would like to present to you the police commission. Suzy loftus, president , victor hwang and from the airplane Bureau Deputy and from the administration bureau. Commander an man ex. From the operations bureau, robert moser, metro division, commander osullivan and from the commanders bureau Toney Chaplin and from the airport burp commander ken wade lee. We are here to honor a select group of men and women of the San Francisco Police Department who engaged in special actions and above the call of duty. Today we will describe the extraordinary selfless acts these men and women took and why they are being honored tonight. Before we present the act of valor, president suzy loftus would like to say a few words. Good evening, everyone. I would like to thank chief suhr, command staff, my fellow commissioners. A special thanks goes out to our former secretary john monroe and current secretary rachel kill shaw. They recognize the valor above the call of duty. It is nights like this that our city is reminded of important truths. Police take guard to protect lives of independent. They take a noble profession where while others run from dangers, they run towards danger in protection of others. They put service above else everyday and they dont look to be applauded for their sacrifice. Thats why tonight is so important. Tonight we honor 16 San Francisco heroes. 16 San Francisco Police Officers who displayed extraordinary value valor, they acted decidesively with great courage and put themselves in harms way to protect the lives of others. Tonight we recognize the acts of an officer who risked his life and showed bravery and courage in apprehending and disarming a suspect with a gun. We honor an officer who risks his life for others and we honor the officers who run into a burning building and we honor the officer who takes a knife from a man. We appreciate your service. Most importantly, thank you, family and loved ones. You provide unconditional support and encouragement to these men and women who put their lives at risk. We understand their commitment and deeply grateful to your sacrifice. Thank you for everything you do and be safe. [ applause ] thank you, president loftus. Now we will hear from chief gregory suhr. Good evening, could we have the attention in the room was palatable when everybody was wanting to applaud briana and couldnt because of the colors. If we could, one more time for briana. [ cheers and applause ] i want to thank the scottish right temple. Just recently we had the promotional celebration. Certainly a great day for the people and especially for exams when we spoke of leaders in the San Francisco Police Department. Great day. On friday we will graduate an Academy Class who will go out and do the work of the San Francisco Police Department. Thats a great day too. But these are the best nights because these are the nights when the scottish temple really does play home to the brave. Everyday San Francisco Police Officers, actually Police Officers all around the country leave the house and you dont know what you are going to draw. Most nights pretty routine, although San Francisco Police Officers, forgive me, im a little bit bias, as of kindness we have new policies because we have a lot of people on the streets suffering from various levels of capacity and they make the adjustment of when not to go forward and go back and they do as well as anybody and are outside just helping the needs who are in need of a doctor and the handy Police Officer and on an on. Our slogan for the city of San Francisco Police Department is ordinary people doing the extraordinary. For that process we have time honored about a 55year history of the San Francisco Police Department where, i hope i did my math right on that, where only the assembled service captain of the San Francisco police and command staff are only able to vote on medal of valor. Thousands of us, sitting in that room and there is an anxious conversation about just getting it right. So, these medals that are going to be awarded to the 16 men and women in blue they are well earned and any single one of them could have not done what they did and it wouldnt have been worthy of sanction. But they went forward when everybody else would have thought to stand down and probably would have thought smarter for it. Thats not what we signed up to do and not what they signed up to do. In that we are here to honor them and especially thank their family members when they come home and you say how was work today . And they say, its all right. Whatever. We didnt invite you here to be upset with them when you hear these stories and then you go, you might have told me about that when you came home because we are going to tell you about it right now. Congratulations. [ applause ] thank you, chief suhr. Now we will hear from these members Commanding Officer who will read the award citation for each of the officers. First, can we have captain daniel perea, Commanding Officer mission statement, sergeant dempsky and fischer, officers conway, sanchez, thank you, im commander sanchez and i will talk about one situation where an officer demonstrated bravery. On october 11, 2015, officer olson and conway were in the mission patrol district. While on patrol, they saw thick black smoke from 29th street. Simultaneously officer sanchez and upon hearing an emergency broadcast and threat to life, numerous officers at mission station responded to the scene. Upon their arrival officers responding to the occupied Apartment Building engulfed in fire with several units already engulfed in flames. Although the Fire Department was already dispatched, only these officers were there while those were experiencing death. None of the officers were equipped with breathing apparatus. These officers who responded who raced to the scene as First Responders could have stayed outside and aided the residents who managed to self evacuate. No one would have blamed the officers for that decision. This group of officers to my right did not stand by the scene and waited for others to help. Instead, officer dempsky, fischer, conway, adam shaw, trees deignan and officer hoang and shaw, they forced enter on a number of units and evacuated resident after resident after resident. Sometimes having to literally physically assist these folks from the burning building. They moved from floor to floor. Officer conway, olson, yee and zamudio and were joined by officer shaw, diegnan and wells. They proceeded to the fourth floor while visibility was zero. They found the fire extinguisher on the wall. They smashed the glass on the wall. Although the fire was already too large and fierce, according to the Fire Department, sergeant dempsky and fischer prevented the fire from spreading. As officer noticed his hand had been cut obtaining the fire extinguisher. At that time the Fire Department reid arrived and ordered the officers to evacuate the premises. Due to the bravery of these officers, not a Single Person perished. The fire was also deliberately set. San francisco officer was transported to General Hospital where he was treated for smoke inhalation and laceration to his hand. Sergeant dempsky, conway, fischer, olson, shaw, wells, yee and zamudio with full knowledge they were risking their own lives and demonstrating outstanding bravery saved the lives of these people in this building without any protective gear and without any hesitation. Sergeant dempskys and officer fischers action to prevent the fire from spreading and saving their lives. For their actions they are awarded the bronze medal. [ applause ] one more time. [ applause ] again, well have dr. Captain perea and officer buckley. On july 21st, sergeant jessica nan trup were on patrol. They attracted numerous residents and patrons to the corridor. At 7 22 p. M. , the usual quiet valley neighborhood was suddenly disrupted by a man bleeding profusely and holding a large knife. Sergeant nan troup and buckley responded. They received information that the individual had turned the knife on himself. When they arrived the officer found the subject on the corner. The subject was bleeding profusely from his wrist while holding the knife to his throat. Police observed individuals observing and the possession they placed themselves in to the individual wielding the knife. She estimated that distance to be less than 15 feet. Due to her training, she knew an individual armed with an edged we may could easily cover small distance and inflict serious injury or deliver a strike to anyone in any moment looking to on lookers to escape and defend themselves. In order to protect these individuals she deliberately moved herself in front of them to act as a barrier between the group and herself. Knowing the risk she placed herself insolely for the sake of the assembled crowd. Concurrently officer buckley conducted his own evaluation of the threat the subject posed at the scene. Officer buckley recognized the subjects actions and self is inflicted injury were possible indicators the subject was in the midst of a Mental Health crisis. Officer buckley astutely armed himself with the less Lethal Action with an an impacted weapon, which is a beanbag equivalent of a baton strike which looks like a shotgun to the average person on the street. Officer buckley and nantroup continued to talk to the subject. The subject did not respond and continued to pose a threat to himself to sergeant nantroup and officer buckley and the people in the area. After the subject spattered blood to the area and failure to respond to commands of the officer. The officers knew immediate action was necessary preventing the subject from hurting other people and requiring potential use of deadly force to stop him. Sergeant nantroup provided unwavery lethal coverage for officer buckley while officer continued to give direction to the subject to drop the knife. The on lookers were watching in fear. Several individuals added to the situation by yelling at the officers, stop, dont shoot him adding the situation the officers put themselves in for the place of Public Safety. Officer responded with one projectile. The subject appeared surprised by the action and officers repeated their direction for the subject to drop the knife and he complied throwing the knife to the sidewalk. Officer nantroup, once officer, now promoted to sergeant. Officer buckley ordered the subject to the ground and swung the rifle over his shoulder. Officer requested medical assistance to the scene and without hesitation immediately translated to first aid mode and raised the suspects arm above his head. Paramedics arrived rendering the first aid he had started. The subject told officers he was hearing voices and wanted to kill himself. The doctor said this individual severed an artery and this injury could have resulted in his death. In examination of the subjects property, the suspect was also in possession of a replica gun which had the orange tip removed. The officers made a conscious decision to place himself between a disturbed dangerous individual and the on lookers. Officer nantroup and buckley worked in a calm manner. They displayed bravery in the performance of their duties and officer buckleys direct intervention and administration of first aid for the subject saved his life. For their actions, sergeant jessica nantroup and officer buckley are awarded the bronze medal and life saving award. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] next we have captain jerome defillippo and Sergeant Tony montana montoya and officer huang and taylor. Jerome defillippo. This is my first Award Ceremony and i had the pleasure of being the first time to vote on members of my command for medal of valor. So im very proud of that. On 962014. At approximately 2400 hours officers hoang and officers responded to a scene. A suspect wanted to jump out of the window. Sergeant montoya and officer hoang arrived at the scene and directed by browns neighbor from a fire escape. Officer hoang saw that brown was dangling from the fire escape only with his right hand. Officer hoang climbed out the window to make it to the fire escape. He asked him to come down and brown replied im going to jump then he saw he was losing his grip. If he fell, he would fall 7 stories. Officer hoang knew he would lose his life. Officer held browns left arm and officer hoang was the only thing keeping brown from falling on the sidewalk. Sergeant moment i commissioner bonilla, commissioner harrison, commissioner mcdonnell, commissioner levitan will be here in a moment. We have a few announcements to make. Again, just as a reminder, i know you heard it, you need to take seats. If seats arent available, we have the south court as the overflow room. You will be able to come in under pu c