Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Budget Finance Committee 12915 20151210

Ladies and gentlemen, im asking for everyones cooperation to ensure that this meeting can run smoothly because as i said at the beginning, it is my commitment that this commission and this department hear from everyone who is here tonight. Two minutes per person. I do want to reiterate when folks are asked to stop after two minutes it is because there is a law that requires us to give the same amount of time to everyone. We ask for your cooperation and hope we dont disrupt Public Comment again and we dont have to adjourn the meeting. We have to run the meeting. Disruptive comment is not going to help us. Public speaker im going to start by saying to let those people in the public hearing. We have rights. I would like to congratulate you for not being elected as chief. Last year i was protesting alex nietos death. Did anything change . No. You need to protect the lives of the youth. I dont want to see a man being executed in public. Nobody wants to see that. Its completely unacceptable. The police need to be retrained. This system is systemic racism to the core. You are creating a hostile atmosphere outside because you are taking away their rights. Thur breaking you are breaking the law. There is empty seats. Its unacceptable. You have to let them in at some point. Greg suhr, i was brought up here and taught to respect the police. But what i have witnessed throughout my life 20 years has not backed up what i have been taught. They need to retrain police. They need to know how to deal with mental illness. That is an issue that city hall has been lacking to deal with. If you dont know how to help them, back away from the situation. Do not become a mob, a gang which you have all of your guns pointed at his face. What do you think is going to happen, really . Its called human behavior. Did you go to college, did you go to psychology classes. You need to learn about people going through issues like this. Public speaker my name is lee stack this past april, the sf p. D. Beat up my kid who is black. Because the occ is powerless to discipline and the only recourse is a civil lawsuit. I never knew to have to talk to my son when he was growing up. It is not right that African American and latino children must have a talk with their children to keep them safe from Law Enforcement, Excessive Force and racial profiling. I did everything in my power to give my son opportunity including into going into huge debt to give him a college education. When my son was coming home this april, the sf p. D. Traumatized us and had a major impact on our lives. Im hoping with exposure things will change here and it has to stop to heal. Al alameda man beat a person and the sf p. D. Looked on and now mario is killed by sf p. D. Something needs to change. Its tragic that black lives dont matter in San Francisco. Racial profiling has to stop now. Excessive use of police force in the community against color has to stop. The lack of Police Accountability has to stop and mass incarceration has to stop. We need to repeal. Police officer bill of rights, that shields violent cops from prosecution and keeps them on the street. We need to retrain sf p. D. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Good evening and welcome. Public speaker good evening, my name is oscar salinas. I represent for alex nieto. I come to represent the family of alex nieto. His father and mother could not be here tonight. We are here again for another murder in the city of San Francisco. We are tired of it. You killed our brother alex nieto in march 2014, you killed our brother mark perez this year of february. We are tired. I have seen the training of the Police Academy. I seen how you deescalate somebody with a knife, why is it not being used . I dont understand that part. We are tired of seeing this. We are not going to put with this anymore. And again, i tell you, in the past year 1 2, i myself have learned a lot of legal things and we have legal teams now. We are now right now sf st r in federal court with greg suhrs officers. You have to answer questions. A few days ago in london there was a man with a knife, a machete, no guns were used to deescalate that. Why is that not happening here . There would be less black dead men and latinos in this city if it were not for that. Think about it. If it were your child who has some sort of issue that is something you go to, the mental capacity of somebody. You use that against alex nieto and you will use that against mario woods again. You cannot do that. You have to sit up here and rethink this. We need new leadership. We have to start from the top. We are done with this. You have made the Latino Community and black Community Unified now. We are strong and we will not stop. Public speaker i came mostly to help my daughter speak. She is the future of San Francisco and she has a lot to say. They are afraid of the police these days. Hello, my name is ashley. Im 8 years old. I go to school at diablo. I really wish for Police Violence to end. Police are making rules how they get to do whatever they want though they know murder of African Americans are illegal. They should go to prison themselves, right . Here is a true story of oscar grant and ten cops surrounded him. One of them shot him at the house and he never came back. Its our chance to win this protest. Stick up and it will happen. Chief suhr needs to go. Have a happy vote. Thank you. Next speaker. Im here again tonight. What i hate more than anything where i saw john lennon was shot. Guns are something we all have to live with i guess. But in norway there is no guns. We do not need them. I saw john lennon, the first time. The monterey pop festival. He wasnt supposed to be there but he was anyway. I got to see him. And i wont see him again. Now, as far as violence, im always faced with violence on the street. There was a situation where a man was trying to stab somebody on a muni bus and the muni drivers shut the door and the knife was still and so i followed him around. And i got to a meter maid and i said, this guys got a knife and hes being searched for it right now. He ran up to the meter maid and said this guy is crazy and hes standing there with the knife. The meter maids have nothing to protect themselves with. They need to have a camera so everything is filmed. So if he does use that taser, it is being videoed and there is discretion at whats going on. But we need something other than guns. Its a hard life that we live here. I thank you for being here, you know. Police have to do the right thing. This is wrong because see that bicycle stood between me and the knife. Like they say a shield better than a gun. Anything. And to unload the gun, a revolver. At least give some kind of discretion. We need to get rid of. Thank you, sir. Public speaker hello, my name is reginald. I live in the tenderloin. I want to say the way police are handling stuff is deplorable especially in the black community, especially in the hispanic community. We have been treated like trash, talked down, looked down upon, thrown at. Thrown to the ground and beaten. This man got shot 21 times. Now this man had a knife going away from the police. What gives the police the right to think they can move in on him. 21 gun salute . I dont think so. The man there who is backing them all up he is just as corrupt as they are because hes allowing it. Hes supposed to be the chief and hes obeying them, not obeying him. Hes not the police. Hes acting like the police. Hes in uniform. We have a problem. We have to stop this nonsense. All of you people sitting behind your desk with all your names written down, big deal. When it comes down to it, you are not doing your job either. How should we do it and when we should speak and shut us up when you dont want to hear no more. Let me tell you, it is not the end, you are not shutting me up. You are wrong, period. Mayor lee is wrong, period. Everything is happening to the poor people that should not be happening. Guess who is watching you. You might not believe in him but its jesus. Those mens deaths are on your hands. Thank you, sir. We want to hear from everyone. Next speaker. Good evening and welcome. Public speaker first of all i would like to say commissioners, if you are typing on your cell phones, we can see it so stop that. Second of all i have this from the family that itemize the burial information. Give it to the secretary. Im going to repeat what everybody else said. The last time i was here with the texting scanned dal. No. 1 release the names of the officer, no. 2, apologize to the mother, totally disrespectful. Pay for the funeral. I dont think its fair to do a firing squad on someone and expect the family to pay for it. Its disgusting. The fourth one is to fire chief suhr. As you can see the community has no faith anymore. Then we need an independent external investigation in addition to an independent federal investigation. You cannot investigate yourself. And finally i think this is a no brainer, you need to fire the officers that discharged their weapons. Training is not going to solve this. Weve had problems. I really really encourage you to listen to the community because we are not going to stop. Thank you. Next speaker. Public speaker my name is felicia jones. First i would like to say that its really sad that these meetings are just routine. And this is not my first time for many of the people of the public, this is their first time being at a commission meeting. This is routine. You want to hear from us, but when are we going to be able to have dialogue where we can sit in a room that you first of all would trust us enough to be intelligent enough to carry out dialogue. The second thing is that the whole issue here is bigger than mario woods, and it started way back but im going to start in 1982 with the war on drugs as the campaign when it was to criminalize young black men around drugs and the decriminalization of black men. When i watch the video that the only way one can shoot another human being 26 times. I know someone is saying 15 times, 16 times. I believe it actually hit his body 26 times. When you look at another human being as being worthless nothing to the world. So, again, you have to begin to Say Something and have dialogue with the community. Chief suhr, during the racial text i talked to you and told you that you owed the community an apology and you should have come out to the community and apologized and you never did. Until you respect black and brown people we will be here. But i think we are ready to do Something Else now. I think the people are ready to unite. We can be like the people of chicago. Thank you for your comments, maam. Thank you. Public speaker robert chew. Im ashamed the city i have lived at all my life. I didnt expect to walk through a memorial. If this is supposed to be a Public Meeting to the public to hoping to change, why are we not having it in a bigger location. Why is this in a court house. Why dont we have it in a place where people can come and speak and have constructive dialogue. Im not here for that. What im here for post pca 32. Once i get a copy of the training manual, i would like to know. Alex nieto, i was crushed and while i was sitting in a cafe and another person got shot, i knew it wasnt going to be justified. Im not here to attack, im saying that maybe pc 32 needs to be updated. Most is version 3 and 4. This is absurd. A person with a knife at close range, it would have been a different situation. He got shot by police who are supposed to serve and protect. It doesnt say deescalation on this page at all. I dont know what your deescalation. What i saw when i saw the video when i saw the cafe that night i saw that it was animalistic, the beanbag brought the person down to his knees. Why didnt you continue to use the beanbags. Hes dead, hes acting disabled. Why dont we shoot more bean bags. Know, lets rifrt to guns. In england, they did not use guns. Good evening, welcome. Public speaker my name is james. First i want to say thank you for taking Public Comment and sticking with our democratic process that we have here. I know its difficult for you. Last week, i watched two disturbing videos. The first was a cellphone video of mario woods being shot and killed by a group of sfpd officers while standing against the wall. The second was even more disturbing and the reason that im here tonight. In the video i watched chief suhr only hours after the shooting explain how the officers involved have followed procedure which justified the killing. And that saddened me, that angered me. The grotesque comedy of those two videos makes it very clear that the entire system is brought to the core. And i call on you, the Police Commission to act. You are an integral part of that system that killed mario. You have the power to fix it. You heard the Community Demands here tonight and i urge you to listen to them, take them seriously and do something because if you dont, the blood of sfpds next victim will be on your hands. Thank you. Public speaker good evening, im pastor mcneil of the baptist church. Im here tonight to speak on the behalf of justice for mario woods. Last year we met with the Police Commission during the ferguson incident. At that time chief suhr assured us that San Francisco would not be a ferguson. That was last august. That was when Michael Brown was murdered by a Police Officer while unarmed. Now, we have a killing in San Francisco by police of a young man with a steak knife. Lethal force for a minor incident. And tasers are not the answer. Im a retired peace officer, 30 years. Worked as parole agent. Carried a weapon. First we had the 38 and 9millimeter, automatic. In 30 years i never had to shoot or pull a weapon on any of my felons. I worked with some Police Officers that were rogue officers and i had to sometimes intervene. I know thats not good as a peace officer. But we have to take vicarious responsibilities as leaders. If we have people that are working for us, that are in violation, we need to just let the facts fall and let the results be justice. Right is right and wrong is wrong. We need new leadership. Thank you. Sir, may i ask you a question. Just as a follow up. You said there were times when you had to intervene . Yes, sir. Can you tell me the nature of that intervention . At the time we intervened we had to arrest suspects and some of the officers were overly aggressive and one incident where the officer took his pistol and he took it to his ear and he said breathe mother if im not going to let you put my job in jeopardy nor am i going to sit by and by the way, the officer just by chance were white and the victims were black. You did that as an officer intervening with another officer . Yes, sir. Thank you. Yes, sir, not once, but a few times. 30 years. Yes, sir. Thank you. Public speaker good evening. My name is reverend daniel im standing here at the birthplace of the United Nations and 70 years after the birth of the United Nations you have committed a grave human rights violation. Where some might call what happened last week an officer involved shooting, the International Community through the United Nations would call that an execution and arbitrary punishment and judicial killing. I know tasers are seen as nonlethal alternative. This is a fantasy and a lie. Let me read to you a search i did called taser used on genitals. Cop shoots six times with taser on genitals. Taser manufactures recommend use on genitals. Man tasers in genitals by police and cops burn genital tasers in front of family. Police sodomize man with taser. It says to aim lower because you wont shoot him in the heart and they wont go into cardiac arrest and if you do it in the penis, its going to sterilize anyone of you all there. Thats a human rights violation. Im not going to ask you to resign. Thats up to your constituents to do that. The taser is not a panacea because there is ample evidence and investigation shows that cops torture you are with a taser, kill with a taser and if that doesnt work they will shoot him with a real gun. Thank you. Public speaker good evening. My name is elizabeth young. I grew up in a white and black and international neighborhood. Let me tell you i learned at a very very young age never to trust the police. The police in my city as now here in San Francisco killed six African American males including a sixyearold boy who they said stop and he got scared and ran. All of these people were unarmed. I have no trustor confidence in any police force in the United States of america. I do not. The only way i might become friendly to the police if they are unarmed, if they live in the neighborhoods that they are supposed to police and that they earn the same amount of money that the people do who live in their neighborhoods. The San Francisco police force, Police Officers over 100,000 a year who do not have to live in the city. That is a crime against the citizens of this city who work blood sweat and tears to build this town to make communities, to raise their children to take care of their elderly. Its a crime against humanity. These people have to go. They have to be unarmed and of course greg suhr, you have no right to represent anybody in this city. You should resign. At least should resign. You all should resign. Thank you. Public speaker i forgot to ask you a question. In the video i saw, there was a young lady bleeding to him. Im not wore eed about her video but her whereabouts, does the police know where she was that was asking him. Did she get shot by bullets. Was anyone else injured at that time. You are not going to respond. I understand. Fyi, like we said clearly before, with Mental Health, you need training. Everybody needs training to deal with a lot of situations. Like i said i am very concerned about where that lady is. I feel like shes being a secret at this point in time. Once again, i said im not worried about her video but she was so close to that situation and im worried about her whereabouts. Thank you. Next speaker. Public speaker my name is brad shapen. I was born and raised in iowa, moved to boston for graduate school in Clinical Psychology. I have been lucky to be around Mental Health professionals doing a lot of Amazing Research around bias, racism, home ophobia, transphobia and violence. In San Francisco and the United States we have a fundamental understanding of what to do with anger. I also think we have a fundamental misunderstanding of what racism is. I dont know if anyone up here can answer a question, but can i ask you what racism means to you . You cant answer questions. Yeah, its the rules. Okay. Can i also ask, i guess its a rhetorical question. Why the Police Department is not working in an evidence based manner in a city that has some of the most famous clinical psychologist and researchers who understand what to do with anger. There are black and brown researchers who would love to have a conversation with you in Clinical Psychology who can also help out. Can someone contact those people, will they be contacting those people . If you want information with the Mental Health working group, there is a group of clinicians in San Francisco and the number of folks who do that work. I think we need to be consulting with them a little bit more. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening and welcome. Public speaker hello, my name is nani clay. A Community Organizer and former vicepresident for the lgbt democratic club. The reason im former vp for Political Affairs is because we had a disagreement. My board thought that our progressive sheriff shouldnt be sheriff again. Now, i stood up and i stood with the people and i shouted and i yelled and screamed and blacked out on everybody. Right now, youve got the people standing outside of that door and we need to be heard. Im not naive enough to believe that me standing here or anyone of us given 2 minutes of comments is going to solve the problem. But these are dark time s for San Francisco. We need Law Enforcement reform. Not just one officer, one chief, we need total Law Enforcement reform. We need to look at not only training, but also accountability and transparency. I echo what everyone said in terms of what their demands are but pretending the system is going to work is a real problem. Everyone should be very uncomfortable right now because we come to the moment where we are forced another day to see another black man shot and killed. We cant do this anymore. We cant keep coming here and pretending that its working. Its not working. And i urge everyone here to please Pay Attention and i want you to know that we were shouting out there because we have to because we are desperate and we will stop shouting when you stop shooting. Public speaker i live in the mission and i have seen plenty of Police Brutality. Im with the coalition. I want to say first that greg suhr, you need to resign and so does mayor lee because i have been too many times before you in hearings like this and the rest of the commission to talk among hundreds of people to demand justice and nothing happens and federal investigation after federal investigation takes place and of course there is human rights violation but no cop ever goes to prison. The only change was ferguson and i was there for two weekends and i also got shot by a rubber bullet. In ferguson 3 hours before curfew and we were brutally beaten and fired with hundreds of rubber bullets and teargas for peacefully fighting and the people were fighting for months there and started to break up this whole epidemic crisis murder of Klu Klux Klan by cops in the country and San Francisco. The others that worked for us is the investigators in chicago, the two independent journalist who have released that video and exposed the mayor and police chief that was fired and we are not done either. I will say this, fire chief suhr and ed lee, you need to step down. That man was trapped and he was walking forward and that cop stepped in front of him and gunned him down. He had no way to get away from you all. Thank you, next speaker. Good evening and welcome. Public speaker first of all let me say the reason im in this get up because im deathly afraid of police and im a white person. I have post Traumatic Stress disorder and i get money from the government for it. Okay. Let me tell you something, you see how white i am. I was on the news the other morning at this gentlemens church. I live in a very affluent White Community where there are no black people. I was asked by my boss why was i there . Thats another reason why im in this costume. I dont want to lose my job because i live in such a racist community burling game california. Im 6 years out of the system, okay. I used to hang out in oakland at the Silver Dollar hotel, i was a crack head whore. I never got in trouble. I used to have a bb gun and i walked around and saying i was going to kill everybody. I was drunk. I never got shot. When i was in jail for three felonies, i had a firearm, they merely walked in and put handcuffs on me and didnt ask me where the gun was until they put me in the squad car, until they said ms. Where is the gun . I didnt get shot or man handled. I have survivors guilt. Im tired of turning on my social media and seeing lynching. Get the [bleep] out of here. They are doing what they are doing to the palestinians putting knives on people, pulling guns. Get out of israel. This is damn terrorism. Thank you, maam. Can we let others speak. Public speaker good evening, commissioners. This is very different than the last time when i was here. Im reflecting back on when the young people played the video for you and i dont know if you remember the video said at the beginning, before it started it said something to the effect that the police are the largest gang in the city, right . And i think that its easy to get kind of caught up in group things and the conversation around what is a gang and what a gang looks like. Im just hoping as we go through all of this and you are able to move beyond Public Comment and move into conversations around use of force and that we dont forget that there are still other issues and things that need to be happening and that we remember that there are parallel paths that need to be happening and definitely things that need to happen immediately and conversation about longterm. I want to make sure that we do all of this because tonight was crazy in the hall way and the ability to get folks in and that we dont forget the voice of young people and we dont forget who dont always get their voices heard. People come on their behalf and always come to say whats happening and the folks living it dont get their voices heard. As you move forward that you dont forget about the young people that already came before you and the recommendations because i dont know if you remember that they actually asked and were having conversations with you about deescalation. They couldnt find the word deescalation but they were saying, what can we dough and we need to make sure to empower the young people. Thank you, ms. Davis. Next speaker. Public speaker hello, im probably the youngest at this mic. Im 15 years old. Every child is born blind. You are taught to hate. You are not born to hate. I see my skin color, i feel it. You can look at me how you want to. I feel this pressure everyday. I go to the store i get followed. Im only 15 to see this injustice in these streets, my brothers, uncle, everybody died in this street from sfpd. I lost an uncle. I was 1 years old. My mom came crying with blood on her shirt. My uncle got shot. Seven bullets in his chest, one to his head. As a oneyearold when you see that, its not easy to forget that. Im only 15. Im the next generation. For you all to hear it from me, look to me in my face. You dont have the same color as me. Im going to leave it at that. That was my student. Mario was, let me correct that, was my coworkers cousin. She saw the video and mom saw the video before they even now that was their relative. Imagine how heartbreaking it was to find that out. Alex nieto was my former students brother. My other student was shot and killed running from police. Im only 40 years old. That is way too many. There is not enough room on the sidewalk for all the names. If mario would have been me, i would have been alive. Thats the bottom line. If i was holding that knife, i would be an alive. Thats the problem. Black lives does not matter, but it does. But this society continues to show us that it doesnt because trust, if that would have happen to people identified as jewish as myself, this would have been over. This has been happening for hundreds of year. If you dont understand where the rage comes from, its time to read the history books. Some of you know it because its part of your history. This has been passing since before the Middle Passage overseer officer, maybe listen to it. Police are the terrorist right now. They are terrorizing and they have been black and brown communities. Its got to stop. So how . Good evening and welcome. Public speaker good evening, i work with the antipolice terror project. I was born in this city and disgusted by what is going on right now. I want to talk to you about two things, terrorism and training. Greg suhr is going to show that you video and you all watched it. Hes going to tell you in that video that you see officers afraid for their life. Hes going to tell you in the video that you see someone refusing to cooperate and they are doing this according to training. This is incompatible. Someone who is scared to the core of their training. The only person terrorized is mario wood. The officers in a firing line. That is training. They are trained to do that. They act according to the training that greg suhr gave them like he gave them their diplomas. Thats a firing squad. You are going to tell me someone is scared, aiming at a man shot with a beanbag. Terror. Who is the terror izer. People that terrorize do not always comply immediately because they are terrorize public speaker hi, i recognize you. I definitely recognize suzy loftus. I remember you all sitting there like you didnt understand what happened and you didnt know if maybe he had stolen somebodys bike. The dude getting his bike stolen t dude disappeared. The same thing with mario wood. That dude disappeared and i also remember you where we said we dont want police. You returned shane evans mother, you sat there and your face turned red. You let these people kill us. You hired all of these [bleep] people. You tell them he didnt of wifi at the fire houses. You sit there and demand more cops. Did you know that sfpd want drones even though they were banned from getting drones several years ago and you sit there again acting like you are so sad. Dont look at my face acting like you give a [bleep] what im saying. You dont give a [bleep]. You all put that money in the community to kill us. Dont act like he didnt die in his neighborhood and building that he was getting evicted from for 3400 a month. Mario would die on the streets. Genetic facing gentrification is violence. You killed us with your actions. Public speaker because i am white, everyday im able to go out in the streets and be a bad bad man. I can do whatever [bleep] i want. Because im white because im going to say [bleep] [bleep]. Im here to talk to you because im white. I smoke a blitz outside. You dont care. White boy. Im one of these people. All right. My name is is jacob and i grew up in maryland. Im new here. I traveled and i saw all sorts of shit from baltimore. Im from bayview. Now, listen up, usually when people are sad, they dont do anything. They just cry over their condition, but when they get angry, they bring about change. Nobody can give you freedom or equality or justice. If you are a man take it. Truth is on the side of the oppressed. You cant separate peace from freedom. Be peaceful, be courteous. Obey the law. Respect everyone but if someone puts a hand on you, respect the cemetery. If you join the people outside, you are going to lose your job. Maybe your grandkids would want to sit on your lap 1 day because they dont right now. All of you are going to burn in whatever figurative hell you are going to burn in. The dirt you would make would not bring flowers to life. Public speaker hello, i sat for 2 hours just now just watching live stream, you greg suhr have not changed your facial expression once on tv. All of you have sat here just looking bored, bored. You guys are getting paid for this right now. My community is right here behind me. My 12yearold sister is scared. She is scared of me just leaving the house just now to come and speak because she thinks that i can be the next person. Greg suhr, i remember you came to my high school when you said we can be officers that we are in the community to serve. Community, like mario woods, alex nieto that are now gone. They are gone. Do you know how much that hurts . They are gone. They are people just like me, brown skin. You will never understand that because you are white. You are white. And before i never hated the cops. I had so much love for cops. Before i was exposed to all of this, all of this racism, all of this Police Brutality. I have grown up in my life seeing more death and negativity about cops. My sister is in that line. She knows more negativity about cops. Is this what you really want our next generation to hate cops . Public speaker im here today because i have an 18yearold son. I grew up in San Francisco. Im scared to let my son walk the streets. I really am. Its a shame. Im actually sending my son back to college because i dont want my son here. If something happens to my son its going to kill me. I have friends that are Police Officers. There are good Police Officers out here. What i cant understand and my cousin made a very good point the other night. You dont need training to have morals. I have stood in front of people with guns before trying to kill people. I have stood in front of police pointing the gun at me before because im out in the community trying to do something and trying to help everybody out. We have to come up with some type of resolution for everyone. We have all seen what slavery does. Someone said ptsd. We all have it. Youve got kids, i have kids. Im trying to help other kids get it together and help them get to school and get jobs. This does not look good for San Francisco. You have good people on the force. We need good people that are going to come out to the community and get out sidewalk with us and come talk to us and listen to what we have to say. I care about your kids like i care about mine. I care about everybodys child. Dp we cant get on this platform where we are putting this first, then this whole city is going to burn in hell. Jermaine, come back here. I will talk to you. I love you. We are going to turn this around. We love you, man. Public speaker i dont know what that was, joe marshall. It was my turn. I go by equip. I lived in San Francisco and i witnessed a lot of brutality. Its time for justice with alex nieto and mario woods. I would texting my friend he said chief suhr is a good guy. He would sit with my grandpa. Im hoping thats real. Its not too late to change. Even if you step down, you on the side and listen, if you step down especially and talk with the people and understand it you work for a corrupt organization. Thats the bottom line. I feel the good cop because we know the people personally. You might be a good person. But you have no compassion in your heart if you understand whats going on and want to understand the people. You might have worked hard to get to that position but it nothing different than what people are going through right now. I know you can relate. Just like mario woods needed help. Thats all he needed. He didnt need to get shot up like that 25 times. Its never too late. You can sfep down man with the people and walk with us, brother. You really could. It would make a world of difference, but until then you should be ashamed of yourselves. Public speaker any my name is max and i was born and raised in San Francisco. I myself have experienced Police Brutality with the Police Department and how i know the system doesnt work is because there are people i grew up with in this city who have become Police Officers and these are not the kind of people i want to be Police Officers. Not to say all Police Officers are bad. I mean just like humanity, there is good people and bad people everywhere. But the thing is, the police need to be held to a higher standard. You know. They carry guns. They are here to protect and serve the public. They really need, there needs to be a hiring process to screen the psychological backgrounds of the people who apply and somehow feel like determine what their morality is. I know a lot of Police Officers. A lot of people i grew up with are on the force now and these are not people i trust to be Police Officers and people i trust to be policing my community. A lot of these people are naive, uneducated, racist and these are not the people, sexist, misogynistic and these are different people who are hiring people. There needs to be a screening process where we hold people to a higher standard. Its just ridiculous. Public speaker good evening. My name is paula robles. Stop killing people. In the same week i was in two protest and funeral for a woman killed in the mission and for mario woods. Stop killing our people. I am in the tepid tenderloin in the communities. Instead of paying you guys, with should use the must money in a better way. We need your support. I dont think we need you. Public speaker i actually had left and was i have been here. I felt enough had been said and i know enough great things have been said, but like everybody else, im so affected by this and because i see it as so unnecessary. I have to Say Something just so i can live with myself. I have got a boy 26, not much different than mario woods. Maybe in some ways. Maybe hes had a better way to go, but i know in certain situations because i have been im 72 and i have been black all my 72, i think. Because of that i know my son has suffered the same end and hes a good dude. Hes a goodman. But i know how it works. I have been in the military. I have played ball all my life and i know the police and the jock mentality. The reality is chief and members that in 2015, if the only way that we can deal with someone who is unresponsive to commands, who knows why. Being unresponsive should not result in a death sentence. The only way that we can deal with someone whose posture is benign. His poster was benign. It was his posture was not threatening. The knife may have been considered a threat but it was not an imminent threat of danger. If the only way in 2015 we can deal with that is through death and then 1625 shots. If you are stopping the socalled threat when hes shot and hits the ground hes no longer a threat. Why would you keep shooting. Hold on. Dont take my time. Except and this is why weve been talking about sensitivity training not by Police Trainers but by people who do that for a living because the only reason you would do that is because you do not recognize that young mans humanity. Even when i break the law, im still a human being and i still deserve passion and compassion, man. Thats the only way we are going to change this culture. I say this on the cops behalf. Dont get so carried away because even when we dealt with those police text, if you dealt with every department in the city, you would find the same text except the cops have gone and operate under the color of authority because black people are marginalized in this town. God knows we shouldnt have to come here again for this. Thank you. Public speaker i grew up in the deep south. In that deep south i saw a lot of things i didnt like. I went to college and ended up here thinking it was better and it was better for me. But in all honesty it was never hard for me. But i will tell you this, it affected my father. My father is African American. Hes afraid to come to this city. He lives in louisiana. You may believe chief that in holding that position and not doing the right thing by the victim, you are complicit in his murder and it breaks my heart. I now fear that because of your police force on this television knows that im black that im no longer safe. I see you looking at me, sir, but do you hear me . So im asking you. Im not asking, im not demanding that you be fired. Im asking that you do the right thing and stop people and start demanding to be fired. Im asking this commission to realize that after all the grief and heartache and loss of life, that what you have done in the past its not doing anything and not healing anything. Subpoenas as much as you demand a quorum, mr. Mazzucco, if you dont do the right thing now you are no better than than the cops in mississippi and the cops in selma. Public speaker good evening, president. My name is Linda Maldonado and im part of the Harvey Milk Club executive board. Im not very good with public speaking but once i saw mario woods video, i was triggered personally to come out here and speak. I went about 5 years ago i was in the standard post Police Academy and i, you know i went to the training. I was at the top of my class and just my experience is there with the higher, the people that were in the academy themselves were not people i would ever want on the police force. I would say about maybe 30 were good people and the rest had several types of biases whether it be sexist or classist or racist. And there was an incident in which we were talking about Police Tactics and there was a specific video that had a guy that was hunched over and surrounded by Police Officers about 15 of them of all sides and he was hunched over and essentially the guy showed what was a flip flop and then bullets came out from everywhere. When i saw that video i couldnt be a part of that system. Although i graduated at the top of my class. I cant be complicit in that system and i dont know how you guys can even sit there and say that tactically that is the right thing to do. You could have secured the scene, you could have contained the scene in a different way. Next speaker. Public speaker i was waiting for everybody to end. You know i have been coming here for 15 years talking about Police Accountability and reconstructing the San Francisco Police Department. What we have to be clear of is so sad that all the documents, all the meetings in bayview Hunters Point begging this commission, as well as supervisors all the way throughout state of california we need to do something not only totally different. But if we keep allowing this to happen, you are watching the city go up in smoke. The people are angry. And thats the bottom line. The only way you can speak to that anger is you have to do something historic. This is a no brainer chief suhr. This is not personally to you. Resign, remove yourself. That is the best move to make. No. 1. No. 2, as a commission, lets face it, the commission has to do way better than this if you want the trust of San Francisco. I have been seeing for five straight years the department of Justice Needs to come into this city and help you guys because how can you help yourself when you have political favors, we have scared to death supervisors, we have scared to death people who work in the Mayors Office and people who cap late capitulate as reverends and pastors. Cmon you guys, if at the end of the day people are warning you, you dont want do see anarchy in this city and we havent called for it yet, but at a certain point an eye for an eye, if you keep killing black people, white people are going to die in this city. Thank you, sir. Maam, you have already spoken. If there is further Public Comment you can stand up over here. You only have one at some point. Im enforcing rules. So there is a representative from the officers citizen complaints that can talk to you. The Deputy Director can speak to you. Thank you. Next speaker, please . I feel your suffering. Im with you and weve had enough. Im not even talking to them. Im talking to you and the people out there wherever the cameras are. My name is melissa, educator, activist with black lives matter and Peoples Education movement. Enough, enough, enough, enough is enough enough is. I have got some things i want to say but im just wondering im wondering how many of these injuries. This whole country, this whole country is a lie. Manifest destiny thats called communist. Disorder has been spread for centuries and what did they do when they stole the land . They enslaved people. Im not talking about traditional slavery. This is twisted shit and they hung us. They had parties. This is our history, but we also have a history as a people. We suffered, we struggled and now we are saying enough is enough. There are people rising up around the world. Its not just San Francisco. Now is the time. Now is the time. Thank you. Good evening and welcome. Public speaker well in the video it seems like they surrounded and trapped him and then they started shooting. You have batons. Im wondering why they didnt use the riot gear to compress it so he would actually be its like you are shooting a bunch of rounds but its like you miss 80 of the time. So as you said he was going to do something about legislation. The question is when do we get a draft . I mean months, years, do you count by how many people die . When do we get this draft . And the other problem is, you see all of these incidents happening all around the country. Why do we have to wait now until someone dies in San Francisco before anybody is trying to be proactive and do something. Im from north chicago, illinois. The pleasant just tasered somebody 11 times. And they are paying 3 million. The police are using the tasers as a torture device. They are not using it to apprehend people. How much time do i have, mr. Marshall. Im not supposed to answer questions. We want to start the process tonight. The thing was to hear everybody and to answer questions for you. Well do that when we finish with Public Comment. Im here with the sunshine ordinance. You do have the right to respond not during my Public Comment time, but after and the sunshine ordinance says that you can Exchange Information except to make it a dialogue or agendaizing it. So whats your response. I gave you my response. My time is up. Anybody else here to speak . How much longer, mr. Marshall . Once Public Comment is done. The commission will begin to respond to your question. Im the last speaker. We have to officially stop Public Comment and then begin. Just be patient a little longer. Thank you. Your comments. Public speaker good evening my name is deedra smith. We in bayview have been asking for a long time for community police. In the past weve had the officers that if something happened late jameson just to name a few, if something happened in our community they would contact the parent or someone to let them know what is happening and what is going on. They stayed engaged in the community. The officers that we have now dont even know us. Are they concerned to know who we are . We are not sure. We have asked commander osullivan who i know for a fact is definitely community but now he has moved to a different status and so he is not with us as much as he used to be. I think its unfair what happened to that young man because it didnt have to happen. They had other opportunities of calling the dogs, they had other opportunities to continue to shoot that young man with them bean bags since we dont have the tasers, but they didnt even take that into consideration. Whoever the individual was that gave the officers that okay, he must be from the military. We are not the military like they did in oakland. Thats what we are not. All im asking is for them to start looking at us having Community Policemen again. Bring slade back in, bring jamison back in to train these individuals in the communities now. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, we heard a lot tonight and i think before we proceed just like business as usual, i think im going to exercise my discretion as chair and start with the items 3a and the discussion of this departments use of force. I want to say this i want to say in the wake of last weeks officer involved shooting of mario woods, we have seen the video. We have had conversations about what that video meant to us. What we saw, what we didnt see, what we wish we had seen. Now, as we speak there are three investigations into this shooting. One by the sfpd, one by the d. A. And one by the officers citizens complaints. It is essential that these investigations are complete and thorough. And i for one will not prejudge an investigation, but we as a commission are not waiting to have a conversation about the use of force in the San Francisco Police Department. We are starting this conversation tonight for one reason and we are heard it tonight over and over and over again, and i have heard it from my neighbors, from my friends, from my colleagues, from elected officials that viewing that video has rattled the trust that in particular people in the African American community have in this Police Department. I have also had people tell me that suzy, as much as you want to talk about policy and what can be done has nothing to do with the way i feel about that video. People feel different things. Weve heard a lot about it tonight but they feel they wish it ended differently. There is a large paradigm shift that is happening this this country around policing and a lot of it has to do with the use of force. It is a question about how the department is training its officers on handling conflict and what tools they have. Because of that, tonight we are having an initial discussion on the current policies for use of force. It is the policy that current governance the department. I have asked the chief to update us on the current policy, what other departmental orders related to the use of force and any bulletins he has issued. I have also had conversation with the executive Research Forum to get outside Technical Assistance in reviewing the use of force policy and identifying best practices from across the country that we can use here in San Francisco. The department will update you on a program that they are involved in around reexamining the use of force and i think that is very promising, but i do want to say that tonight was about listening and the coming months will be about action and tonight we begin. Colleagues i invite any of you to say anything before i ask the chief to give his report. Dr. Marshall . So, that thing was terrible, man. That thing was really bad. I wanted for me who works with young people all the time that was really painful. We cant hear you. Im sorry, im trying not to yell. Im hurt. Anyway. Im just saying it was really really bad. I point to jermaine, you and i have been together a long time and thats the last thing i wanted to see. We work so hard to close the gap and that is all that was done just like that. Im sorry for everybody. I said on the news, i said this from the beginning when you look at that whole thing and this is me personally, it didnt make any sense. It just didnt make any sense. Weve got to make sense. Weve got to make sense. And basically my thoughts were no. Is 1 could we have done Something Else and if we didnt, why didnt we . If we couldnt have done Something Else we have to change the policy so we can. The two things that didnt make obviously, well for me didnt make sense and i have said this and i continue to say it because this is a first thing i want to look at as we begin to change the way that we do business is the first thing was and i think he had a knife. So why were we using gun policies and tactics with a knife, no. 1. No. 2, is the whole notion of support fire. Does everyone know what i mean . When one officer shoots. I dont get that . Let me finish. Its my turn, okay . I dont get that . So those are two glaring issues, problems, it looks like we have a one size fits all thing and you cant have a one size fits all thing. The only way i know how to do and i know what we can do is change the way we operate. We can change procedures, we can change policies, we can do something about training and do something so what you saw happen doesnt happen again. Thats going to take time. Its not going to be easy. And sometimes, this is really the hard thing to say, an unfortunate incident like that points out all the gaps in the policies and procedures that we have. We got to go to a deescalation mindset. We have to build in all of those things so that those things what you saw doesnt happen. I personally have buried too many kids. Thats why i started what i do. Thats why im so glad to save him because he was on his way there. I dont want my kids being shot by anybody. I dont Like Community violence, i dont like Police Violence. So i said well change it. We are going to start the process. What i try to tell people, it takes time. It takes time. We are not going to be able to give you a time line tonight but we are going to put the thing m motion and we are going to give you feedback. We have to do the best practices and we have to find out what everybody else is doing. We have to see. When we get it back, well let you look at it and let you say if its a good idea or not a good idea. Change is going to come because it has to come because of that young man. Commissioner dejesus . So i looked at this video and we have to reflect how we are going to go forward from this tragedy and how we are going to improve Police Performance and i think its simplistic to say we needed a taser and been done with this. I think we can echo tonight that the department with tasers to panacea is a problem. I have to point out thats interesting again that they want to get tasers when everyone else is getting out of tasers. Taseers are the one that actually kills people when its used in the manner. If you recall you cannot shoot someone in the head or the chest. There is a 3inch prong. One in a liability issue, if you tase someone you have to tase them in the leg or the back. They are saying why didnt they shoot in the leg or the back. Taseers is not going to answer that question. What we need to do is listen to what the community is saying. They brought some really good points and we need to reflect on the points they brought and we should analyze the situation and see what the response is. What i heard at the Community Meeting and here tonight, the inquiries is how many years of experience did the officers have at the scene. What i heard is two officers had 5 years experience. Thats something we should be looking into in terms of tactics and how we partner our officers up. The other issue that the community mentioned were is bayview use for Training Ground as training for the community. Yes it is. Maybe we need to reevaluate that in terms of see if thats having an adverse impact in the community and that needs to change. We are taking a hard look at these questions and keep in mind and analyze and see if this is the best practices for our community. So maybe that needs to be reevaluated. One change i saw in the articles is the officers dont have any tools. They have a baton. They have shields and so before we jump to say that we need tasers there are other tools in the arsenal. One of the things that people have brought up and one of the things i know we talked about before in front of this commission is how you set yourself or how you position yourself. In moving cars, officers are not to put themselves in a position to use lethal force. You dont stand in front of a police car. Im not sure, i was not there, but whether its a tactical and the way they operate is a tactical decision to look at and see if we can improve that in the future. And in terms of experience and training, i mean, you see officers surrounding the individual and closing in on it. I understand the cit officer was present but one of the ways to deescalate is to step back and take a moment and give people time to breathe and also assess the situation. You wonder in terms of examining that to what commissioner marshall said was there someone in charge there that they were handling it and why did, i guess one of the questions the community had is why did all officers had to discharge their weapon at the same time. Was there any of the commands. I know there are other issues going on. I know this was 4 30 p. M. And people at the bus stop and a lot of other concerns going on. Even though i dont want to second guess this, this is a tactical decision and we need to see what we can do and how could it have gone better and there needs to be more training. This is something we need to look at and try resolve Going Forward. But i certainly dont think tasers are the answer especially when tasers can do a lot of harm and it just raises the concern of where these tasers are going to be used and what community are they going to be used on. So we need to look at the use of force and attack tactical use of force. What is still in our use of force procedure is the choke hold which has been outlawed. Its called the carotid restraint. Thank you, commissioner. Vicepresident turman . I agree 100 percent with a lot of what with commissioner marshall said here tonight. Of course i am disturbed by this action. Im disturbed by this shooting. Of course i have feelings about it. Of course i have emotions and of course i care what this community thinks. I dont have a son but my mother has three black sons. Any mother, any parent would care, any mother with a child would care. I am deeply concerned about the state of policing all over this country and particularly here in San Francisco. Our use of force policy has to be examined and it just cant be us looking at it. Im glad that president loftus says justice, a third party but we need to go a little bit further. Commissioner dejesus raises a more important point when she points out that there are things such as choke hold that is in our policy that needs to be reviewed and we need to guard against anything like this happening again. I dont understand how the presence of ci t did not lead to a better escalation scenario. I think looking at the video there is a lack of common sense that should accompany the policy. I dont understand this situation. Im used to policing as someone working with Law Enforcement we owe the community better. We should dough do better and that starts tonight. Anything else before we ask the chief . We need to move on. Just briefly i heard my fellow commissioners. I too have seen the video and i have already heard from the community tonight. There was a strong showing from the community and that i appreciate and there was a comment made by the commissioners looking stoic or not paying attention. Unfortunately we are here to listen. Thats what we are trying to do and hear what you have to say. For all of you that came tonight, thank you. As a commissioner, we shouldnt comment on what took place on that video if we are going to pass judgment later on when reviewing an officer involved shooting. We can take a look at what we have. What do we have in our policies and procedures, what can we do to make it better. What are our best practices. Thats our job and we need to look at that. We looked at the use of force twice with the issue myself with commissioners, we have looked at the use of tasers and seeing if there is anything better out there. What took place is a tragedy in the community. With that we should move forward and take a look at whats the best practices. Hearing from president loftus, an excellent idea. Lets see if there is something that we can do better with our use of force continuum. Lets do it. Its what we as members do in the community. Lets start that process. Excuse me one of things that we would like for to you think about is is is is if you want to have a dialogue with the people in the commission. You need to look at that seriously and consider that we are here to listen. We are not here to pass judgment until we have a plan in place and decide what this Department Needs to do at this time we are not discussing any specific strategy. Nothing has been put on the table. So i would like to move forward and begin to look at those possibilities. Thank you. Cheer is chief suhr . Yes, i too saw the video. I found it upsetting. I dont know that i talked to anybody that didnt find the video upsetting. There are three independent investigations Going Forward. One by our hospitalized division that looks at all officer involved shootings, one by the District Attorneys Office and one by the office of citizens complaints. Those investigations are Going Forward. When i gave the update at the town hall , i gave the facts as i know them to that point and when officers are allowed to use lethal force. Thats where we are on the investigations Going Forward. There has been some conversation today that i should apologize to mrs. Woods that happened. I have talked to her and i apologized for the loss of her son. I was actually contacted that night by a Community Member with her at the time she didnt know and we were able to connect her with the Homicide Division and i apologized to her too about that procedure that it wasnt and sadly hasnt been good before. So we are looking to making that a better thing where anybody at the scene would have a better number to contact. That said, i have been in meetings with the commission and the mayor about what to do immediately to try and avoid a repeat of this. We have done some things. I was on a Conference Call this morning with a group back east of 30 Police Departments that will be working on reengineering on Training Police on the use of force adapting a model used in scotland. You saw that in a train station spoke of tonight of a person in the middle east stabbed two of them and the london Police Department was able to subdue that subject with use of a device some people calling it a taser. That worked and that person is alive. If that same exact situation happened here had San Francisco, that would have resulted in lethal force because we dont have Conductive Energy devices. I know thats a whole other discussion. We will work with this group to work on officer, everything to protect the sanctity of life while protecting officers safety at the same time, critical decision making, the national model, proportionality with fire, how that should work, Tactical Communication skills, time and distance strategies. We have a strategy in place here in San Francisco when an edge person in crisis is only in danger to himself. Some of those events have gone overnight and been resolved peacefully. I think someone brought up here that we need to come up with an active edge weapon other weapon strategy that is different from an active shooter strategy. We have identified shields that are used in scotland. However contentious it would be, i would ask the commission to pick up the discussion we left on in april of 2013 with regard to a pilot. This time i dont think its as has been pointed out by Mental Health professionals have a device used as a special weapon that only our police that get the additional training uses like our Tactical Division or specialist. There was a specialist at the scene this day so there would have been one on scene. I think thats the discussion that we need to have because it does put something between the beanbag gun of what we have ordered almost doubling the content. We have ordering for additional nonlethal round. So again why didnt we just keep using nonlethal rounds. We need to get that amination we have the best training in the department in the country and we are the only department in the country that require every Academy Graduate to be is certified and they get deescalation training and firing training in the academy and that will continue to grow. What we have done immediately, weve already given new instruction to our range qualification and install deescalation. A deescalation portion prior to the officers going to the range. Weve created more pause to slow everything down because again the support fire is something that is concerning. We are also now able to discourage the threat so the officers would know when they should stop. Again the different bulletins we put out like responding to persons in crisis, trying to avoid the unlawful shooting like this one would be and addressing any officers that might shoot at vehicles. So, again, a lot of things in motion already. A lot of things will unfold in the next 30 days. This Group Engineering on police use of force will have this completed by the end of january so all Police Departments around the country can thank turn from the culture of using police force and now we can talk about our own use of force general order which no commission has sought to reopen. Since im looking at the date of october 1995. To that end, i will read the very first page of the policy. The policy of the San Francisco Police Department to accomplish the Police Mission with the highest regard as possible with the minimal reliance upon the use of physical force. The use of physical force shall be restricted to circumstances authorized by law and minimal necessary to accomplish the police task. B. Officers are confronted with situations where control must be exercised, control maybe achieved or advised where the use of reasonable force, force can not be used unless other alternatives are exhaustive or clearly effective under certain circumstances. Officers permitted to use whatever force is reasonable and necessary to protect themselves but no more. The purpose of this policy is not to restrict from the use of force to protect themselves from other guidelines of the force to be used and excessive circumstances officers should use any force reasonably necessary to protect themselves and must be able to articulate the reasons for implementing such force. This order is the governing general order and seven orders including this order that touch on matters of force additionally there are 3unit orders that need to be considered about incorporated general order and 14 active Department Bull tins that also modify this general order things like officers are prohibited from shooting a person using lethal force on a person in crisis that is only a danger to themselves. I bring up i know as controversial as the device, that in embarcadero and there was a conversation that we dont have enough trained officers and no at the scene, there should have been another officer. All of those things were there last wednesday night and none of them worked in that instance. So, to that end, i think in fairness to the officers, a very restrictive policy that would only allow them to use the Conductive Energy device as an alternative to lethal force of the continuum to those officers that give them the training with regard to use in any weapon in situations officers should be able to call for them so we never have a repeat of anything close to what happened last wednesday. Thank you, chief. I would add that there is in the pipeline officer training and that is working its way up and very relevant because it speaks to the direction around deescalation. I did forget one thing. I did have conversation with people in this room to discuss cultural competency training at the academy that would involve members of the community. We do do a lot of cultural competency. We have a racial profiling class that reverend brown brought up that we brought back in january and weve gone through quite a bit of implicit bias training and attended procedural justice classes. All of these are planned to go forward for all members Going Forward into 2016 the help of the community. Chief, i did read and im going to ask the commission to puts this up in our website. Training and the perf report. Chief, can you speak to the departments effort that the department is going to be a pilot site. If you can talk about that a little bit and i want to highlight some things that perf has already said. So, myself and the Commanding Officer and the Training Division as well as lieutenant mario molina who is the officer in charge of our crisis intervention training will be traveling back to washington d. C. In january on a 2day working group and going back again at the end of january to finalize this is a top priority for all of laughed in Law Enforcement in the country to get this change in Police Culture to go towards deescalation and other alternatives to lethal force so as was spoken to earlier that really the only time that a firearm would come into play would be when we were dealing with a person with a firearm. I just want to read a section from this report because we are squarely from a conversation. This report was a perf from an executive Research Form convening from sheriffs across the country. The report says there is a growing recognition in the policing proefgs profession that a review of an officers use of force solely for the use of force, instead saying the review should led up to the incident and officers should be able to deescalate to whatever point reached use of force is necessary. Thats why people wonder why did that officer shoot a homeless man because he had a knife. Why couldnt they tase him or pepper spray him or wait it out. They didnt have to kill him. Police are increasingly recognizing this and considering when considering use of force. The reason i say that is to credential perf and significant chief that you have committed the department to this and i think its very promising. I will share this with all the commissioners and make sure its available on our website. What i propose, colleagues because we all went through a process with creating a body camera policy is to suggest we are dark for the remainder of december. We reconvene in january. There is a number of bulletins and things need to be put together as a starting point. I also would like the experts from perf to advise on behalf of the commission, the department in revising that and i would like to set a tentative goal which dr. Marshall usually says is unreasonable. But at the end of january for that process to come back to the commission for next steps which would include Community Input before its finally adopted to give some structure to the process would be my suggestion colleague. Im certainly open to suggestions. Commissioner dejesus. Im okay with that. I do have a problem with the draft before we have the community involvement. I do have concerns about that. I think its better to have other commissioners . I think the timeline is reasonable. With reference to this use of force, there is different documents that need to be put in place and we need to look through the experts including perf what other level can we put in there and we have supervisor browns we can streak stream line this process a bit. My big concern of course all of our big concerns. I have to expect a draft that was looking very different from the current way we do things. I just we did that report im very confident that the draft we put together looks very different from the way weve been operating and well shore up and i could be wrong. You know, if its not then we probably wont accept it. Shore up the glaring i think glaring deficiencies in the way we are currently doing things. In many ways weve been lucky. This points that we have to do something quickly and do it well and i believe its going to happen. If its not like that, then we just wont accept it. Thank you, doctor marshall. Commissioner dejesus. One of the things you mentioned this 14 bulletin that modifies this order that should also be made to commissioners available to review that to compare to the draft in january. I can make sure you have that in your next packet. That was going to be my primary comment. I think you are right on giving us information a year ago. We certainly took in a lot of input, not just tonight but from the naacp meeting and the Community Meeting last week. Lets get to drafting and lets get something out there and get to this sooner rather than later. I thank you vicepresident turman. I understand commissioner dejesus where a first draft makes you feel you are committed to it and i appreciate the point that you are making and there is an urgency now and this commission has shown that we have the ability to set policy and working in collaboration with the community and as a first step, chief suhr, if you and the department can do this work, we will bring in perf and work out those details and certainly layout a Community Process that again will be worthy of how significant a shift this will be for this department. Colleagues anything further . Let me just say for me, this is not an us against them thing. Police, im trying to be cool. We are in the community, okay . This is not us against them. That kid means as much to me as jermaine and any other kid i have worked with. Thats the way we feel. If we can do, do whatever you have to do. This is not us against them. That will help us move this thing forward. I have to say that. Be very clear about that. All of us are feeling this. Lets get that straight. Im saying that for joe marshall. All of us are feeling this. Wait a minute. I have got the floor. Its not us against them. None of us like this. And we are going to move forward so that we can do our best not to have this happen again. One thing i do think is important to say is that four of us are appointed by the mayor, three of us are appointed by board of supervisors. We all have terms that expire. There is a public process where you can weigh in onthejob that weve done and whether or not we are entitled to another term. Thats the way this process works. We are not voted in. We are appointed. Anything further on this matter . Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to, im going to move back into agenda to go back to where we were. I did move this out of order. Sergeant, please call the next item. City clerk item 3, reports and announcements, review of recent activities, status update regarding social media policy, presentation redepartment general order. Given the late hour. I will leave it up to you whether you want to offer up these reports. President loftus, i will not be present at your next meeting so the next time i will be able to give these reports would be at just the first meeting in january. That is our next meeting m january. If i could speak briefly and the rest of the report we can defer until january. I just wanted to say as a director of the officer of citizen complaints in an officer involved shooting. I too am a mother of an African American son and one in another county has been subject to less than gracious treatment by a member of a sheriffs department. And i have made it my obligations to give my son the talk. However, and i as i should say as others on this diose am disturbed by this video as well. How ever i am charged with the officers on complaints to deal with fair and impartial investigation so i cannot prejudge and my staff cannot prejudge complaints filed by civilians whether they be a neglect iv duty or an officer involved in the shooting of a death of an individual. The officers have complaints from the death of mario woods and we will investigate those complaints fairly and impartially. And we have already assigned staff to do so and we will be providing full resources to do this very very serious task. In addition to our job of investigating complaints, the oc c has also charged pursuant to charter section 4. 127 with making policy recommendations to the Police Department to the Police Commission that would serve to enhance community and Police Relations to that end our office too will have involved in reviewing proposed changes to the departments use of force policies. Moving on then to some recent activities that are relevant. Last tuesday, mayor lee did meet with Department Heads and advised us that due to the Retirement Fund expenses each general Fund Department would need to provide a 1. 5 budget reduction. When we submit our budget next year. The Police Commission is aware that office of citizens complaint has struggled with not being able to fill vacancies due to budget shortfalls. The occ target for reduction is 64,000 for 128,000 additionally. I have been advised by the Budget Office that the occ office must hold totaling 364,000. I will be meeting with the mayors budget director with the heightened expectations of the occ in light of these recent tragedies and in light of the communities expectations of over sight not only with regard to investigations and policies as well. I will keep the commission informed of our progress. Thank you. Any questions for director hicks. Sergeant please call next item. Item 3 c commission reports, Commission President s reports. Commitment announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. Colleagues, weve flagged already for the end of january a discussion. So Commission Secretary if you can mark out that date for us. We still maintain a need to have a discussion about the social media policy. In that i would include what the department ace policy is around the release of mugshots many a question that weve been asked. Anything further, colleagues . Can i have a clarification, the Third Commission meeting of the month is the Community Meeting and we are in the tenderloin. That would be the last meeting in january. Did you want to put back the draft on the second or did you want to move it . Can we see if we can move our Community Meeting to be in the tenderloin on the 15th so it gives us more time. We are looking for folks following at home january 13th, the first two wednesday at the month were in city hall and the fourth wednesday we are dark. We are doing a little scheduling in realtime. To give the amount of time if we can be back at city hall on the 20th but tenderloin on the 13th. I know the captain has been very accommodating. For people in the audience, the next meeting will be the first week in january, 6, 2016 at city hall beginning at 5 30. Im going to be out of the country on the 20th. I would ask you to select a different date so we can all be here and participate in this discussion. I would love for all of us to be here and participate in the discussion. I actually can pick a date. Thats my job. So i would like for you to be able to be here. Lets do this. Chief, do you have a sense, i know we talked about this. Is the 13th too soon. I just, i want to pick a date and meet it. Commissioner dejesus is out of the country and in order to accommodate that, do we need to move it to february . I think that would be best. January 13th is one of the dates for the reengineering. Well all be in washington d. C. And since they are planning on finishing. We are planning on finishing our work for january 29th. We can incorporate it for whatever comes of that curriculum into the use of the use of force policy would give us the most forward thinking policy. In light of that lets set february for the target to come back and work with perf on behalf of the commission. Yes. Okay. Great. Thank you for clarifying that, sergeant kilshaw. Anything further on this matter, colleagues . Okay. Well now have Public Comment on items 3ad. Basically on what you just heard. Do you have any Public Comment on it right now. Im wondering what letters will go out regarding information and when do you think you will get those type of documents back because im sure some of that information is online. How many different policies and procedures do you believe you will have when you come back into session on january 16 . Th . So, thank you. I will briefly respond that what i will direct the commissioner secretary to do is we have a body camera page on our commission website. We can have a use of force page, current use of force as well as the information and that will be available on the website. When a draft policy is is provided to this commission it will be put on the website so everyone can follow that discussion. We will be back on january 6th, and we will have the discussion as we said of the draft policy on february 3rd. I would just like to add for you to consider bringing in a negotiator for these issues for your intervention by having a negotiator public is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 4, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 6 below closed session Public Comment on vote whether to hold item 6 in closed session. Is there any Public Comment on item 6 closed session. I think the sunshine ordinance allows for a brief description for what the closed session is about not excessively like names but whats the closed session about . So i will again provide a brief response on what is able to be responded is available on the public agenda. Its indicating what we will be dealing with tonight with the information that we precluded by law from sharing. I will also indicate that we go into closed session for matters that have to do with personal litigation and matters that we cant go into in public session. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 5. Vote on whether to hold item of in closed session including vote on whether to is an assert the attorneyclient privilege with regard to item 6 00 a. M. San francisco administrative code. Colleagues, do i have a vote on whether to hold item 6 in closed session. So moved. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion passes, we are in closed session. We are back in open session. President loftus, you still have a quorum. Thank you, sergeant. Please call the next line item. Item 7, vote to disclose nr all discussion on item 6 held in closed session. Do i have a motion not to disclose. So moved. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion passes. Sergeant please call our next item. Item 8 adjournment, action item. Colleagues do i have a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . We are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for being here. San francisco is thrilled to be hosting super bowl 50. When we found out we were hosting super bowl 50 we were planning right away. Weve been planning last spring with many exercises and pulling together our regional partners and local and federal partners to make sure that super bowl 50 is a safe, fun, experience for everyone who comes here. Its the golden anniversary of the super bowl. Thats something to really celebrate and we are thrilled that San Francisco was chosen for this honor to be the super bowl 50 host. Today, we have what we are calling a super bowl scrimmage. We have the second of three exercises that test our assumptions, refined our plans and actively engage our players in planning and response. Each one of these we learn new things. We alter our plans and define them an deconflict them and as we move forward we are speaking with one voice and we know what other agencies are doing and what assumptions are in place. Our goal is to work through all of these challenges together. So, again, super bowl 50 is a wonderful fun family event thats going to be 9 days long here in San Francisco. We want people all over the region, all over the world to come and celebrate with us. We think that unfortunately our own team will not be part of this. But, other than that, its like it is the perfect event for San Francisco and the bay area. We want to encourage efrj everyone in San Francisco and sf to be alerted. It will be an important way to get messaged about with such information as what streets to avoid or what areas to avoid. So please encourage your residents neighbors to sign up for alert sf. Im going to introduce my good friend. Police chief suhr who is going to come up. There you are, chief. Hes going to give us a few words of wisdom. Thank you, ann. I will preface my comments as a lifetime 9er faithful, im not ruling out that we are in the game. Dont give up. Anyway. We are so excited to be hosting the 50th anniversary of the super bowl. Again, the planning has started in ernest pretty much as soon as we won the bid for our chance to show case San Francisco and as police chief of what i believe is the finest Police Department in the country, we want it to be as safe as it can be. Weve been to the new york fan fest where the super bowl played in new jersey, weve been down to arizona, where the super bowl was played in glendale and went to the phoenix Police Department to see what they do and it got us that much more excited to be able to host this event over a 9day period event in San Francisco. One thing San Francisco is good at is planning. Its what we do. No matter what eventuality that happens, our Fire Department and with the leadership with the Mayors Office, we plan as if that event happens here. Pretty much for every eventuality all the way up to and including typhoons and or anyway, tidal waves. So, or tsunamis, which we hope never happens. That said, well be planning and it will be a great event where we plan and get to know each other. Everybody has each others cell phones and we work with our state and federal partners on what may come and i cant say enough how much preparation is going into this effort to make sure that it is safest. I know with events going on overseas is leaving people right now anxious. Again, its just one more variable that we are training to. We are in regular contact with the fbi. Again, there are no known threats to the United States, no known threats to San Francisco and certainly no known threats to the super bowl. That communication will remain open regular and we will absolutely make sure that every precaution is taken to make sure the whole world can come to the super bowl in late january and february and have hopefully what is going to be the best super bowl and best fan fest ever here or nfl experience. I would just say as police chief here in San Francisco, you are all invited. Thank you, chief. Now i would like to introduce our very own fire chief chief hayes white. Good morning, everyone. Like the two previous speakers, San Francisco is very enthusiastic about hosting super bowl 50. Although we wont be in shoulder pads and cleats. The people behind me gathered around the city are like a team. We are the team preparing, planning and communicating about whats going to happen end of january, beginning of february. We are very well prepared and thats what you see today with the men and women of San Francisco county and state and regional partners. What i want to advocate to those visiting San Francisco is we will do our utmost to keep everyone safe. We operate at a high level in San Francisco. We know there will be additional challenges but we are up to the challenges and as a team we are practicing and per perfecting and we are going to assure everyone that we are going to respond to emergencies outside of the super bowl as well as those coming to the super bowl. Chief suhr wanted me to pass along what he always talked about and not just from Law Enforcement but Fire Department perspective. If you see something, make sure you Say Something. Its important to utilize 911. If its not an emergency you can use 311. If you have some ideas related to preparedness and transit, make a good plan and utilize all the citys resources many we want you to understand that from the San Francisco Fire Department that we have 15 more paramedics that will be available. We have private providers as well. We anticipate we will have a high call volume during the period of time, but we are prepared and ready and look forward to hosting everyone here in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, chief. Im going to call chief suhr back up real quickly. So my partner at the Fire Department shouldnt have to say what chief suhr said with chief suhr standing here. Anyway, with all of our devices we are never going to be as safe as we can be with the millions of people in San Francisco looking out for one another. Whoever comes to the nfl experience during those 9 days. Especially right now with everybody anxious in San Francisco and around the country. Please, if you see something, anything remotely out of the ordinary. Please call. 911 is on alert to expedite calls. That will be the case in the nfl experience as with other major events with our three world series championships and runs with super bowls in the past and other major events in San Francisco. We need to remain vigilant as a city as a whole when it comes to taking care of one another and looking after one another. Thats when we are going to be safest and you will get the most Rapid Response you can possibly get to checkout any possible potential concern. Er on the side of the caution, if its nothing, no problem. You would be remiss what i always call a predictable surprise where you saw something and didnt say anything and something went on. Just call us. Thank you, chief. Now i would like to introduce our director of sf mta, ed reiskin. Thank you, good morning, everyone. I would like to thank ann and the team for her leadership and what the team referenced. To put on a big event like this does take a lot of coordination and planning and is really preparing us for anything that might happen and that planning is essential to making for a great event. It will be a great event as everybody else has said. I think this is a great opportunity for San Francisco whether you like football or not, whether you are planning to participate in these activities or not. The super bowl being hosted here is going to bring a lot of people, a lot of excitement and a lot of goodwill to our city which is a good thing. From a transportation point of view, our task is really straight forward. We want to make sure that people can safely and readily access the event and from and to the event and everybody else in San Francisco can go where they need to go whether its work or school or just trying to make their way across town. We have been planning with the rest of the city planning but also with the rest of the regional transportation agencies and particularly Law Enforcement and Homeland Security, particularly the Transportation Security Administration to make sure we can have a safe and secure event and from secure transit agencies. We want to encourage everybody to take transit because of the transportation we have developed is very much reliant on people taking transit. But for people taking transit, we want people to report anything that looks suspicious or worry some. Like the chief said, call 911 and let them do their job. To support Emergency Services in particular, part of our effort is mapping out the security routes, the Emergency Vehicle access routes to and from all of the various events in the area to make sure that without being impeded, they can do their work. And then in terms of the Transportation Service itself, weve been working with all the providers and particularly with muni which is going to do a lot of the heavily lifting for this event to make sure that where we can work around and with the street closures to make sure that everybody who wants to take transit from and to the events can and everybody else who uses transit on a regular bases can get to where they need to be going. Weve been able to figure out routes to the buses and figure out where the taxi stands will be and the Emergency Vehicle access will be. This is something we do for many large special events. We did it for americas cup and for other large parades and other large celebrations. We are very confident in our ability to ensure people get to where they want to go whether they are participating or not safely and efficiently. We will be encouraging folks to use transit and just to address an issue thats been out there. There has been a lot of talk about the impact that sites down at the foot of embarcadero on muni might have overhead wires. Weve been working hand in hand with the community over many months as they are refining their plans. The issue with the wires if you get close to the wires, thats not a safe situation and we need to move the wires. As weve been communicating with them, they have been able to redesign their structures for the village so it will not require the removal of overhead wires. The removal of overhead wires would have brought some cost but brought disruption because it would have made the removal period long. Without the need to remove wires, that wont be an issue. Well be able to keep that window closure as soon as possible and get folks to and from the event and around the event as well as possible and well continue to work with the other Transportation Providers to make sure its great for everybody whether they are participating or not. Thanks. Thank you, ed. Its now my pleasure to introduce keith bruce who is the ceo of the super bowl 50 Host Committee. Keith . Thank you, ann. Good morning, everybody. Regardless of who is playing in the super bowl, it is 80 days from today. And more importantly 70 days to the opening of the super bowl city and the official celebrations that will mark this great event coming to the bay area. Safety and secures has been our no. 1 priority from the very first day that the Host Committee was formed. We have been working with the nfl, with city officials and with public agencies to ensure a safe and secure environment for super bowl 50. The nfl, the one beautiful thing about the super bowl is its an annual event and you are able to learn from past super bowls around Public Safety and security and apply those to future events and with this fantastic team behind me is truly a coalition, its about a team coming together to provide a strong safe and secure environment for not just the super bowl itself but the activities and events happening around super bowl week in the area. With the exercises yesterday and yesterday with the fbis efforts that we saw at levi stadium, we are clearly on a path to make sure all the safety protocols are in place that are required. In super bowl city, that is one of our crown jewel events for super bowl 50. Its a nine day9day of events and for guest and around the world who will come to the bay area for super bowl 50 and its our job to make sure they have a fantastic time and to know what bay area is known for. Chief suhr and chief white, the department of Homeland Security and the federal agencies involved in supporting our efforts, its a fantastic coalition of support that we enjoy as a Host Committee. Its our job to make sure they have the resources and information that they need to be able to do their jobs as effectively as they can so everyone enjoys this spectacular event. I would like to thank the Mayors Office and tony and martha for being so supportive of our efforts and mayor lee of our entire process of this game. We have 80 days to go to the game and 70 days to the opening of our events and we are going to be working very hard on that effort. I would like to reiterate to our partners of the mta and to partners over the past several months in safe and Reliable Transportation and solutions for not only the guest of super bowl 50, but for the residents and the bay area commuters who work here and live here. We are conscious of all of that as a Host Committee. As we are looking at plans for super bowl city and finalizing that final foot print and working hard with mta to come up with a plan, a reconfigured plan to work with the city that all of our stakeholders are expecting but still not have an impact on the muni wires and keep them in place. We will not be removing those overhead wires at any point in time during the super bowl celebration. Its important that we recognize that this event will be a great event for everybody involved, not just those who are visiting but for the bay area residents as well. Well continue to finalize our plans for super bowl city and well be announcing more details on that in the coming weeks and we want to thank our partners at the mta and all the Public Safety officials who are here to support a great super bowl 50. Thank you very much. Thank you, keith. Before i conclude, i wanted to just acknowledge some of our other partners who did not speak today. We have the Mayors Office, martha cohen here who has been doing special events for a number of mayors. But we are very lucky to have her as part of our team. We also have jody travisero, from oef, whoohoo. Kad em king from department of Homeland Security. And from dod , and john from thank you for sticking around. Well do one on one for anyone interested in that. Thank you for coming. [ applause ] clapping. the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine were at San Francisco inspirational airport to discover the awardwinning concession that conspiracies us around the world. Sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry theres many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe thats right even the airport is a diane designation. So tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special well, we have a we have food and Beverage Program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of San Francisco for our passengers. I like this its is inaudible i thank my parents for bringing me here. This the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. I have a double knees burger with bacon. I realize im on a diet but im hoping this will be good. It total is San Francisco experience because theres so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. Are repioneering or is this a model. Were definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. The food option in San Francisco airport are phenomenal thats if it a lot of the airports yeah. You dont have the choice. Some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. We definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. Wow. Have you taken up anything unique or odd here. Ive picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. C week. The San Francisco. The reporter has many opportunities to get out and placing play a 4 thousand acres of play rec and park has a place win the high sincerely the place to remove user from the upper life and transform into one of mother nachdz place go into the rec and park camp mather located one hundred and 80 square miles from the bay bridge past the oakland bridge and on and on camp mather the city owned Sierra Nevada camping facility is outings outside the gate of Yosemite Park it dates back before the area became is a popular vacation it i sites it was home to indians who made the camp where the coral now stands up and artifacts are found sometimes arrest this was the tree that the native people calm for the ac accordions that had a high food value the acorns were fatally off the trees in september but they would come up prosecute the foothills and were recipe the same as the people that came to camp camp is celebrating its 90th year and the indians were up here for 4 thousand we see every day of them in the grinding rocks around the camp we have about 15 grinding sites in came so it was a major summer report area for the 92 hawks. Through there are signs that prosperity were in the area it was not until the early part of the century with the 76 began the construction of damn in helpfully a say mill was billed open the left hand of the math for the construction by which lake was used to float logs needed for the project at the same time the Yosemite Park and company used the other side of the camp to house tourists interesting in seeing the National Park and the constructions of damn when the u son damn was completed many of the facilities were not needed then the city of San Francisco donated the property it was named camp mather the first director it was named after him Tuesday Morning away amongst the pine the giant sequoia is the giants inventories first name if our title is camp means theres going to be dirt and bugs and so long as you can get past that part this place it pretty awesome i see i see. 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We do offer and really good amount of programming and give a sample p of San Francisco rec and Park Department has to offer hopefully weve been here 90 years my camp name is falcon im a recession he leader ive been leading the bill clinton and anarchy and have had sometimes arts and crafts a lot of our guests have been coming for many years and have almost glutin up, up here he activity or Children Activity or parent activity here at camp mather you are experiencing as a family without having to get into a car and drive somewhere fill your day with with what can to back fun at the majestic life the essence of camp mather one thing a thats been interesting i think as it evolves theres no representation here oh, theres no representation so all the adults are engine i you know disconnected so theres more connection the adults and parents are really friendly but i think in our modern culture i you know everyones is used to be on their phones and people are eager to engagement and talk they dont have their social media so here they are at camp mather how are i doing. How are you doing it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches and rug i do lay out people want to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment theyre not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get creative with the latinamerican and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is seen in a different light were approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the Yosemite Park built Jackson Diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve the food. Im the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash browns our meal formulate is we have roost lion its reflecting of the audience we have people love our meals and love the idea they can pick up a meal and do worry about doing the dishes can have a great time at camp mather after camp people indulge themselves everyone racks go in a place thats crisis that i air after the crackinging of a campfire a campfire. The evening is kept up with a tenant show a longed tradition it features music i tried this trick and this talent show is famous for traditional things but we have new things the first 7, 8, 9 being on stage and being embarrassed and doing random things unlike my anothers twinkling stars are an unforcible memory admission to camp mather is through a lottery it includes meals and camp programs remember all applicant registration on line into a lottery and have a rec and Park Department family account to register registration typically begins the first week of january and ends the first week in february this hey sierra oasis is a great place to enjoy lifeiest outside of the hustle and bustle and kickback and enjoy and a half everything is so huge and beautiful. The children grew up her playing around and riding their bites e bicycles its a great place to let the children see whats outside of the city common experience is a this unique camp when you get lost in the high sierra Wilderness Camp mather is waiting and we look forward to City Managers Office you here soon San Francisco parks, Golden Gate Park transforms into one of the greatest Music Festivals of all time, lets journey, inside, outside land. To this, our 6th year doing the outside lands and our relationship with San Francisco, rec and park. And we work very closely with them in the planning and working very closely with the neighborhood organizations and with the city supervisors and with the city organizations and with the local Police Department, and i think that the outside lands is one of the unique festivals in the world and we have San Francisco and we have Golden Gate Park and we have the greatest oasis, in the world. And it has the people hiking up hills and down hills and a lot of people between stages. I love that it is all outside, the fresh air is great. They have the providers out here that are 72 local restaurants out here. Celebrating, and that is really hot. 36 local winerries in Northern California and 16 brewers out here. And you have seen a lot of people out here having a good time and we have no idea, how much work and planning has gone into this to make it the most sustainable festival in the United States. And literally, in the force, and yeah, unlike any other concept. And come and follow, and the field makeup the blueprint of the outside land here in Golden Gate Park and in the future events and please visit sffresh parks. Org. Hello. My name ischief operating officer of cdm see im here to welcome you all and thank you for joining us here today for this milestone in the history of california specific article said that as the dmc yutaka vibrant history to a clinic which was built in 1852. Sorry about that 1852 on missionwe have been serving generations of san franciscans and San Francisco residents for over 150 years. Today, we begin a new chapter in our history. This popping out ceremony is designed to recognize a terminus effort of our workers, constructing this holiday, working safely together, and to ensure we get her hospital bill on time and on schedule. Truly, an honor to be part of this event and to be part of history in the making. Thank you to our construction workers for your dedication to your craft and for the work you have completed so far in the construction of our new southern hosford to hospitals in San Francisco. Again, one more round of applause for our workers behind us since they are not down here all working. [applause] theyve been working on minutes before us and they just stopped right down to observe the ceremony. Now, i would like to ask dr. Brammer, our ceo, to come up to the podium to provide a few remarks. Thanks, pamela, and welcome to everybody. Hey, guys. This is a great day for all of us as we begin our second 150 years here in this phenomenal city that we call home. We are delighted that so many of you could join us today. This new hospital, as well as the one we are building down at our st. Lukes campus, by the beginning of a whole new era of for healthcare in San Francisco. It is taken us a long time to get to this point but were good to be around for many many years as a result of all the hard work being done by the folks back there working on this building. But, before much go much further, i want to note several people further help because without them we would not actually have made it to this day. Im going to begin with the mayor, who youll hear from charlotte. Mayor ed lee [applause] the mayor and his staff have been with us on this journey from the very beginning and their support was absolutely critical in formulating this project and getting it to this point. Sitting right here in the front row, right within five range is lou tirado. I think everybody the city owes lew a debt of thanks. [applause] for the work he did to make sure we were able to build this project. He was a key stakeholder in getting this done, along with the famous three amigos from the board of supervisors, david campos who cannot be with us, david chiu who is with us now represent us up in sacramento, and mark farrell. Where is mark . Mark is over here. We like to thank all of them [applause]. Phil are some women is with us but i understand he had to be. I want to into some of the other folks on the stage with. Bob tomasello was the chairman of our board. Michael terry of the present in the building trades. Vernon chiang our chief medical executive. Mike colville, former president of the west bay region of sutter health. Jeff gerard, our current president of the Center Health bay area. Tony wagner, the chairman of the board of Center Health bay area. And julie pacitti the ceo of the hospital for the sutter of bay area. Now, of course, most of this event is about the Team Building the hospital there represented by the management and the workers from herero bold and we want to thank them. We want to figure Architecture Group the mother smith group, jj argument in the many trade partners, subcontractors and consultants who have helped us get this project off the ground. But the biggest and should be reserved for the folks back there who are building this building, our construction workers. [applause] so, the topping out ceremony is a recognition of the final still being which will be in a few meds raised to its place way up high, a recognition that the structure has reached its highest point and we can begin filling it out. This event is a tribute to that. The folks that are working on this project in recognition of their dedication , their attention to detail and their commitment to a clean and safe worksite, and to all of them, we want to say thank you and acknowledge the job well done. [applause] i want to extend a personal thanks to the crew that helped us the most the old hotel and Office Building. Even let me drive one a little grabber things, which is the highlight of my adult life. I want to thank the folks the. The execution put up the steel and all the other jobs that are gone into getting this to to this point. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. As i mentioned, we would not be here without the support of the San Francisco City Government led by mayor edwin lee. Hes been involved in our spirit. Im delighted hes able to join us at this event and i would now like to invite him to the podium to share a few words. Mayor lee. Thank you, warren should all be short because i am. Good morning everybody. This is wonderful to be here. Lou, not only a thank you but im to give you another chart. Youve got to work on removing those toxics out of the crabs. We cant celebrate 100 without our crabs. Thats your next charge. Youve done nearly the impossible here to give you another easy thing. Thank you to the three amigos, 1 today. For all being part of that historic agreement. Thank you to all the officials from sutter for being here, see pmc has been innercity for 150 years and lisa city deserve a new hospital, so were excited about this. I also want to say, again, thank you to everyone who is been supportive of Good Health Care in our great city. But, today, topping off day is all about these folks up here. I want to say thank you to herero bold, to all of the people that have kept this place safe. I cant wait. I know people want the topping off but i want my invitation to walked the tunnel underneath van ness because thats probably the safest way to get across that. I cant wait for that to happen and, of course im celebrating because we dont have to shut down van ness anymore. I want to say the regulations to people who worked on this at this point. Its excited to have this top off. I was a huge thank you to all the workforce because what theyve done, not only in getting to this point, is an extraordinary, michael for all the labor, work, and the great work. We get to see it in evidence here but theres another exciting piece of data i want to share with you because its real San Francisco. Herero bold has been working with our workforce, all of our labor representatives, our city to make sure we hire as many residents on this job, and did you know, we have a goal of some 40 of partnerships to be local San Francisco residents. Not only did they exceeded. 60 of all the apprenticeships are San Francisco residents it that is wonderful, warm. Wonderful. All the 35 fixed workforce or i say congratulation. This is really a proud moment but also a safe moment when i would clearly enjoy congratulations, workforce. Thank you for the new hospital. Thank you, everybody, for being here. Thank you mr. Mayor. Our next speaker is tony wagner. Tony is up pastor of the west bay region foresee pmc. He is now the chairman of the Southern Health bay area board. Is also a longtime symphysis go residents. In fact, hes been working with us sidebyside in building our efforts towards the community hospitals. He was also one of the members of the Blue Ribbon Committee where it formed a few years ago and formulated the idea of what we have in front of you today. So, with that, id like to ask mr. Wagner to come up here. Welcome. Thank you, pamela. Good morning. On behalf of sutter health, i would like to thank a number of individuals for openness make this to get some of this will be repetitive but i think it deserves repeating. I would like to thank my friend, and her mayor mayor ed lee for your leadership and the board of supervisors and the three amigos. Also, i would be remiss not to thank mr. Gerardo for his help during our entitlement process. I think you, the citizens of San Francisco for your patience and continued support as we had necessary traffic disruptions when tunneling under van ness avenue. However, ive been told by the staff of tommys joint them up on more than one occasion, that we have been good and respectful neighbors during this construction process. The tunnel is now complete thanks to a worldclass construction crew. [applause] it will allow us to provide a protected and safe passage between our Health Center, our parking garages and her medical Office Building them which will house our clinical offices and clinics. This worldclass Health Center will not only be a destination to have your health restored, but it will also be a destination to maintain your health for those who are already healthy. Thank you, again, for your support, and please keep an eye out for our official opening date for both of these hospitals, st. Lukes, and this hospital. Join us for our official open house sometime in 2019. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, tony. I am now going to introduce burn and jane. Dr. Jing is a chief medical executive at see pmc and hes responsible for overall leadership overall the Clinical Programs that we have at see pmc. At her for hospitals currently. With that, dr. Jane, please. Thank you, pamela. It really is an honor to be here today. Its amazing to get a date that will patronage all the workers behind me and once that are in front of me that event building this new hospital for our community. With incredible its incredible to think just a little over a year i was looking at a whole the sandbox analysis of this hightech steel with this damper system to protect this hospital and our patients and our staff in the event of a major earthquake in the future. Now, see pmc has a very long tradition of caring for our community. With this new hospital we feel we be better equipped to care for our community moving into our future. As we know, theyre changing demands in healthcare. Changing the needs of our community. And what they need. As we know, this new hospital is going to be able to meet those needs moving forward. We can continue this 150yearold tradition of caring for community in the citizens of San Francisco. See pmc has provided medical and sick at our cal campus which is includes delivering babies that are specific campus which included our Specialty Care and i will not be combined under one roof, 2019 here at van ness and gary. We look forward to serving future generations of san franciscans right here at this site. So, on behalf of our physicians, our medical staff, are hospital staff, we really want to thank all of the individuals behind us for building this hospital for the individuals in front of me and behind me to support that you provided in the process of getting this building up. It has been truly an amazing transformation to watch this come from a office to the sandbox to a brandnew hospital that will be able to walk in in 2019. So, again, thank you for being a mate part of this amazing jerk. At this time, i want to induce one individual as part of her construction crew. He has been excellent at his work and hes contributed to the success of this tremendous progress and this project. His name is Colby Whitfield any standing behind me up on the sixth floor, by that sign. A little bit louder. [applause] oh, yes. Oh, yes. Hi, everyone. Can you hear me . Thats good. Thats my name is ivan im a construction worker. We are all gathered here to witness the main piece of the puzzle we put in place. The practice of topping out a new building can be traced to the scandinaviana pleasing a tree atop of the new building a piece of tree [inaudible]. Im a part of this amazing team that directing the new hospital can working on this project has been a great experience. The views are spectacular. This job is greater than a wonderful opportunity not only for myself, but also my family had two younger boys that i support and stability of this job has allowed me to be there for them on a regular basis. My oldest son is eight and my youngest boy, he used to. Prior to working for harrods i work several jobs. Just to maintain. When i heard about the city deal i decide to take advantage of the opportunity. Other new skills and given me the confidence to succeed. City build has given me a path for stable career am very grateful for that. Im actually grateful to harrods for giving me my first job in allowing me to be part of their team. Through see pmc im grateful to the opportunity as well to be a part of the Team Building of this new hospital for my community as a San Francisco resident. I was born and raised here, and being a part of this means a lot to me and my family. As a San Francisco resident, i know how important it is to my city and in the end, of able to point to this building to my kids, daddy built this series this right here, daddy built that. [applause] for my entire workforce, and personally for me and my family, i would to say thank you to the people down there and the people standing on this great building your. Thank you. [applause] colby, she would tell these guys to lift the beam on three . Are you ready . Yes one, two, three. Lift the beam. Yes, pick it up, boys. Here its coming into view right about now. Houston, we have liftoff. All right. On 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 you innovation on or was on over 200 years they went through extensive innovations to the existing green new metal gates were installed our the perimeter 9 project is funded inform there are no 9 Community Opportunity and our Capital Improvement plan to the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood it allows the residents and park advocates like san franciscans to make the matching of the few minutes through the philanthropic dungeons and finished and finally able to pull on play on the number one green a celebration on october 7, 1901, a skoovlt for the st. 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Nice try and hi, im been play lawn bowling affair 10 years after he retired i needed something to do so i picked up this paper and in this paper i see in there play lawn bowling in San Francisco Golden Gate Park ever since then ive been trying to bowl i enjoy bowling a very good support and good experience most of you have of of all love the peoples and have a lot of have a lot of few minutes in mr. Mayor the San Francisco play lawn bowling is in Golden Gate Park were sharing meadow for more information about the club including free lessons log will call. Commissioner katz commissioner adams mr. Kimberly brandon december 8 november 10, 2015 meeting. Motion to approve . Moved and seconded. All in favor aye. The minutes are proved. M3 of the comment and executive session any Public Comment on executive session spewed of the comment is closed executive session. Moved to move into executive session. We will now move into is there a motion t reconvene in open session speaker moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay