Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Public Safety Neighborhood Services Committee 111915 20151202

Left is supervisor Julie Christensen and we will have the arrival of our supervisor david campos. Our clerk is erica major and televised by sfgtv and thank you so much to them for televising us. Please give the announcements. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speakers cards and documents be parted of the file should be submitted the clerk. Items will be on the december 1 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Thank you supervisor campos for being here as well. Please call the first item. Item 1 is a resolution designating Edgewood Center for evaluation and Treatment Facility pursuant to california welfare and institutions code for sections 5150, 5585. 50, and 5585. 5 for the youth ages 5 to 17 and authorizing the director of Behavioral Health services to enter into a designation agreement with said facility. Thank you and we have a presentation from our Public Health department. This is ken epstein from the Public Health department representing children youth families of Behavioral Health. We have been here before. There was a mild change in the designation. We had put one of the wrong designation numbers in there so were asking to redesignate the csu facility, the crisis stabilization facility for this which is part of the board of supervisors responsibilities. I can answer any questions. I see no questions. Thank you mr. Epstein for being here. Lets open it up for Public Comment. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak . Welcome back walter. Thanks supervisor mar. I get so emotional city, every time i think of safety with you. I get so emotional, aint it shocking what these items can do. Aint is shocking what these items can. Do i want to see this item number 1 turn out all right and i cant wait for it to be out of sight. I remember the night the board of supervisors went so much. I get so emotional city every time i think of items with safety in you. I get so emotional good luck edgewood to you. Thank you. Is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak in seeing none. Public comment is now closed. [gavel] and colleagues we also have a memo from the Youth Commission that they looked at this resolution, and that they are strongly supportive of it and they have their discussion on this at the november 16 meeting so colleagues the resolution is before us. Is there a motion . Supervisor christensen. [inaudible] so i just want to make a brief comment because this personally meaningful to me. The first meeting of the group they attended in january this issue was before us, and at the time it seemed like a no brainer. We have children in San Francisco who if they are in psychiatric distress must be taken far outside San Francisco in order to receive treatment and a hardship on them and their parents. Turned out there were issues of fair representation and the voice of workers that came up and we were forced to choose between the rights of workers and services deeply needed by family and children in our city. I am sad its taken 11 months to resolve this. I hoped we would have done this much sooner but its an interesting parenthetical bracket for me in one of my last hearings in this committee i get to finally approve this and to know that the children and family are taken care of. I am also grateful that the issues related to the fine employees of edgewood seem to be on the way to better resolution so i am delighted and grateful to support this at this stage. Thank you supervisor christensen. So is there a motion to move this forward . So its been moved and done without objection colleagues. [gavel] thank you. Thank you. Mis major please call the next item. Item two is a resolution urging the establishment of fair and effective guidelines for beach fires at ocean beach that protect the publics access to Recreational Activities and support environmental protection. Thank you. Colleagues this resolution comes to us with the cosponsorship of myself, supervisor tang from the sunset, supervisor yee from district 7. All three of us having some parts of ocean beach in our districts and cosponsored by supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos as well. The resolution was introduced several months ago and we held off the urging of the National Park service at the time but now as the Comment Period is continuing for people to give input into the National Park Services Proposal for further restricting beach fires as they call them at ocean beach its important that the city have a position and a strong position on the tradition of family and Community Bonfires at ocean beach. In a city facing a growing affordability crisis as we all know bonfires have provided a fire and Recreational Activities enjoyed by families and beachers and surfs and many others and its outside lands. Org and has a good history and nonprofit preserving the history of San Francisco but they document that the richmond and sunset and west side have a tradition that goes back to 1890 where surfers at kelly cove and in the northern part of ocean beach would surf and warm themselves with bonfires after surfing but the tradition has continued in the early years with drift wood collected for use and in the middle of the 20th century before modern wet suits and the surfers and others would warm around the bonfire and Building Community and history and traditions in the city. It took place largely near the fulton street beach stair wells right now the designated area area for beach fires are allowed and the continue continues today. Over the years i wanted to say that the National Park service and working with groups and worked together to fully fan the bonfires and eight years ago a community with Community Based groups and National Park service in the city was agreed upon to maintain the beach fires, and todays hearing and as we move forward is really single off of that sense and the communities. I will say when the fire pits were installed in 2007, really beautiful artistic one kept the fires to a controlled area of fulton street instead of spreading throughout the beach leading to easier Maintenance Area for the National Park service and also the city, but it kept the fires away from environmentally sensitive areas like the snowy area south of the bonfire area for example and confining to a specific area of the beach made cleanups easier as well. I think its an example of guidelines that improved everyones experience and i want to say that the National Park service proposed a number of further regulations that i have serious concerns about and the resolution sponsored by a number of our colleagues also expressed those concerns. To me maintaining the level of access free and accessible access is the most important thing, but also as stewards of ocean beach to change the culture of litter and nuisances around the bonfires so trying to Work Together with the park service to have a shared enforcement mechanism so that enforcement is real, but also shared responsibility of changing culture so people leave no trace which is a burning man leaving no trace and by the park service and when you can and cannot have a bonfire and what can be brought to them and what cant and were protecting the beach while maintaining the tradition. I also wanted to say my offices with others on the Budget Committee allocated 60,000 from our budget and this past year 185,000 to allow the rec rec and Park Department to coordinate along with the National Park service to have shared responsibility of better clean up, voluntarism, but also better education and cultural change so we can take care of ocean beach by still allowing responsible use of bonfires. My hope is that the National Park service listens to the local communities. I think there are examples whether they havent and a new superintendent christine leonards who i believe is sensitive to local communities and by passing this resolution were sending a strong message from the city but behind the scenes i am doing my best to work with her and her staff to ensure that common interests of the National Park service and the city are respected. Theres a couple of amendments to the original resolution that draw from data and also kind of put forward bringing it up to speed on the different budget allocations that we have made as a board to increase that shared responsibility of taking care of ocean beach and im going to read the quick amendments before we open it up, and we have a number of speakers that will come forward that have been working on this issue for many years and some for decadeses so the ocean beach amendments page one lines 1920 it acknowledges the budget allocations that the city has made to help the National Park service with clean up so it says at lines 1920 whereas in the spirit of the ocean beachs welfare the city and county of San Francisco allocated 50,000 to the parks and Recreation Department and add in an additional 185,000 in fiscal year 201516 to conduct janitorial and Maintenance Services in a robust outreach and Education Campaign to ensure compliance with regulations and the Second Amendment page two, lines 12 whereas from calendar year 201315 only 15 citations were issued by the National Park service for illegal fires on ocean beach and i will thank sasha for gathering the data and were trying to get more data from the Police Department and others on number of citations for illegal activity and from my understanding there have been very few over the years so National Park Service Almost no citations and from the police very few as well and the last amendment is page two, lines 912. Its add additional resolve that the city and county of San Francisco urges the National Park service to not implement the current proposal to create a fee base system to limit firings and limits access and financial barrier that affects the ocean beach experience. Those are the amendments that i made. At the end i will move that we accept these amendments as well. Colleagues do you have any opening comments . Supervisor christensen, supervisor campos. Thank you. I want to thank you chair mar for bringing the item forward and if i could be add as a cosponsor as well and thank you for your leadership. Thank you supervisor campos. I will add we have a letter from the association of dog patch and we have Sally Stephens in the audience too and there is a petition and thanks to andrea and others for the hundreds of people that will be signing in support of the petition to maintain the beach bonfires. I also wanted to acknowledge as the incoming chair of the histor bay area air quality district and were going to look at spare the air days season and part of the Park Services recommendation but its too expansive. There are a couple of key weeks which are the main ones with spare the air season is the main concern and a special time when people burn the Christmas Trees that have dried up usually around the beginning of january and a key concern of the particulate matter and the toxic stuff in the air at that time but not the full four month period but i wanted to thank the staff for providing that information and lastly again i have been reaching out to the captain of the richmond station to get accurate data on the number of criminal incidents that occurred and from my understanding its few over the years despite the National Park Services Claims there is a lot of crime and what i can see from data and anecdotal information its not near the amount theyre claiming. We have a number of speaker cards that are before us, and i should also mention that there is a public Comment Period for the beach bonfire that the National Park service initially set a deadline of i believe it was the end of this week, but they have extended it a few more weeks to december 4, and i wanted to thank superintendent christine leonards for listening to the community to give more time for input into the process. With that colleagues i will open it up for Public Comment. I have a few speaker cards but if there is anyone that wants to speak they can come forward and i encourage to you fill out a card. [calling speaker names] im sorry. I keep butchering your name. [calling speaker names] it doesnt have to be in that order. Thank you for being here. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you very much for this hearing and for the resolution. I work with a group called save our recreation. Were 10,000 plus people in the San Francisco bay bay and keep this in the area. I support the resolution and the new amendments and its important for the city to be on record opposing the proposal from the park service and standing for the land standing tradition for those that enjoy the fires. The park service has a problem with the San Francisco bay area and want to manage this areas like its a remote wilderness area. Theyre going after people that enjoy the bonfires and hike and walk with the dogs and they even implemented a new Management Plan that eliminates rec region as one of the guide principles of the area. In addition to passing this resolution i urge the city to use the other power it has to get the park service to listen to what the people in the community are saying because they dont always listen unfortunately. Some of the things they could do is ask the City Attorneys Office is look into the gold 18 gate Recreation Area is violating the agreement with San Francisco when they gave them the lands. Theyre supposed to be preserved in spaces with people in a crowded environment with enjoy the open space. Yous also have the power of the purse. You are generously giving them money to help maintain and keep ocean beach clean and i suggest that if they go forward with the current proposal that you do not support them with the funding so thank you for the resolution and standing up for this tradition. Thank you. I should acknowledge that christine leonards, the superintendent i believe is traveling this week and couldnt be with us. Sasha could we let the rec and parks representative so jenn is a representative with the department. Hes coordinated hundreds i believe of volunteers and clean up programs, and been working on ocean beach as well as other areas of the parks and recreation jurisdiction as well but hes the manager of the ocean beach program. Thank you supervisor mar. And just to let you know we actually just eclipse over 1,000 volunteers for the past fiscal year in terms of folks helping out and cleaning out ocean beach but just to reiterate what supervisor mar has already explained that fiscal year 1415 an additional 50,000 was allocated to the parks and Recreation Department and enabled my position to be filled by myself and i have been able to activate a thousand volunteers and colead and lead 45 independent cleanups and Habitat Restoration projects and i appreciate supervisor mar and his office as well as the city for the funds to allow this program to really take hold. Thank you. Thank you. Sasha. Hi. Sasha from haynes valley resident of San Francisco. I want to thank you for putting forth this resolution and coming out as opposed to the fee base permit system for the parks. I think its important that we keep them free and available to everybody so they can be shared. If permits are put in not only less people will use them but should you choose to shairt fire that is switching the burden of enforcement onto the permit holder and then youre responsible for the rules being followed at your fire. I have tried to do in the past and its put me in an unsafe situation as National Parks has said that the park police doesnt feel safe giving out citations and thats why they issued on average ten a year over the last three years, a little over ten, so given the small amount of citations overall and not just illegal fires i find there isnt a problem there or just enforcement of the current laws which is fine and again i would like to support the resolution but i would like you to add were opposed to the winter closure because that is four months. We have the books that you cant have fires during spare the air days and that wouldnt change and a 30 reduction at four months and i would ask that you add they try enforcing the existing rules before changing anything and install better signage that doesnt require a smartphone to access the rules and that is what is in the proposal that they work with the safe way and other retailers around them to let them know that glass and alcohol and wood are not allowed on the beach. People dont know. I went out on the beach and let people know and i would like to say quick of the first 40 comments received by please continue. Oh thank you. The first 40 comments received by National Parks 33 were against the permits, against the winter closure and against their new proposal. 33 out of 40 were against that. Five were for it because of air quality and one said they like the permits rather than banning the firings all together and i would urge you to ask them what the Public Comments say. I have been sending people to the link because i need as many comments as possible. I know 3,000 was required last time to not ban fires so if you could ask National Parks to see the comments they may share them with you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Price. Walter i have called a number of names. If you want to speak fill out a card. I am with a [inaudible] with borders. We built artistic firings and on the beach with the understanding that the park service would match and expand those. The reason they were going to close fires on the beach they said there was a big mess and it was all over the place and lets do it in certain places and people know how to follow the rules and like a garbage can they know how where to put the trash and they didnt do that and now there are few to none and not surprisingly they have fires all over the beach and the park service says there is a mess we cant handle this and we need to do an expensive permit and 12 spaces and fix the problem. No, the solution to ocean beach is more places for people to follow the rules and understanding what they r case in point. Huntington beach has 125 pits and spent less to clean them than the park service spends to clean ten. Tom, you said 125. 125 fire rings and the park service says they cant clean ten for 90,000. The reason there is a mess on the beach there is no where to follow the rules and have the mess in a contained area to be cleaned up. Every single public hearing that has been held, every meeting, every Public Comment for a decade has been overwhelming in support of free Public Access to this one remaining thing in San Francisco that anybody can do that you dont need a smartphone or a wallet for. We really appreciate the councils support in preserving that operation and opportunity. Thank you and thank you for sharing the history and the fundraising history and the partnership at that time. I have more speakers on the list. So if your name has been called please come forward. We have Walter Paulson that would like to thing. I am a resident of district 8 and thank you for the attention to this issue and ocean beach fires are great part of San Francisco and the Bay Area Community and like the other members have said we are facing this restriction throughout the National Park service and other Recreation Areas where they become focused on the environmental causes but unbalanced in the direction of keeping people out and watching tv at home instead of nature because all humans have impact and i appreciate this and in support of the proposal and it would be wonderful if the city could recommend the maximum firings in the proposal and great if the city could support that and there is a concerning issue this would come back every year and in the process and wonderful to make sure that the annual process is not by default to go through the whole process again. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker ms. Stephens. If anyone else would like to speak please come forward. Sorry. Yeah. My name name Sally Stephens and chair of sf dog and supporting the bonfires and those that enjoy the fires at the beach. As other speakers said there is concerned effort from the National Park service to remove recreation from the golden gate area. The general Management Plan is recreation is no longer a guiding principle. Were fighting the same fight in the attempts to where you can walk with your dogs and basically were fully supportive of recreational access here and especially on ocean beach. Its our citys play land. Its our backyard. I adopt to encourage and perhaps the board to consider adding a request for more fire rings. The ten or 12 they have now is not enough and that would help as people have indicated it would help a lot. Basically the park service has found 165,000 to enforce the permits to basically stop people from enjoying ocean beach when they enforce things rather than finding a lot of money to maintain the beach which allows people to continue to enjoy recreating on the beach so i fully support this resolution, and hope that the park service will actually begin to listen to what the public thinks about these issues. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to speak . Please come forward. Please dont fall into a ring of fire. You might fall down and the waves will get hirer and it burns, burns that beach fire, beach fire. Please dont fall into a burning ring of beach fire. You might fall down, down, down and the waves will get higher, and it burns, burns, burns, that beach fire. Please be safe with the fire. Thank you for honoring the men in black. I just got back from the Johnny Cash Museum in nashville. I love that. Next speaker. Hi. My name is paula brown and im want going to enjoy the beach anymore. I lost my son. We used to go to the beach and i put him in the shorts and bring our little fire things there to set the fire. Definitely when they had the fun house down at the beach. I have been living in this city for 55 years now, and i am so saddened that im not able to go to the beach and enjoy it anyway. Thats a shame that i cant even enjoy the beach anymore because my son is gone, so we need to have people heal people so they can start enjoying the city beaches again. I am coming here because were talking about certain things, but if we are talking about this this is relating to everything. I am not coming to sing to you or give you a heart felt story. I am coming as a parent who has lost a child and i am not able to enjoy the scenery of the beach, the water, the sand and walk my kids they have left that are still living to walk on the beach anymore because were missing one child. I am missing one child. I want these cases solved so that we can enjoy the scenery on the beaches and the sand again because i am suffering and i want to be able to enjoy life again. My life has lessened. I die daily. I want to enjoy the water, the sun, bonfires, all the above. Thank you. Thank you ms. Brown. Is there anyone else that would like to speak . My name is shawna earls born and raised here in San Francisco, spent many days at the beach, many days at the water. Took my children. They were raised at the beach. We had many good times at the beach and my son dante glen was taken away this year in the city of San Francisco where we were born and raised and i am just asking, and i am just pleading that you all take the guns off the streets. The guns are not just mysteriously just making it here to San Francisco. They are being planted all over the projects on the beaches as well, so i am just asking so i can have peace and go to the beach and enjoy the beach. I am just asking please, please i would love to have my sons murder solved. I dont want his murder to be one of the ones that go cold. I would San Francisco to have 48 hours. We need 48 hours in San Francisco because its no murders being solved in San Francisco, so thank you. Thank you to both of you for bringing such a great important issue to us, and talking about its relationship to ocean beach and keeping it accessible for everyone. I wanted to say that if there are no other Public Comment lets close Public Comment. I wanted to read into record the comment from bruce wilk the president of dog park the golden gate Recreation Area under the National Park Service Provides the needed open space of the people of bay area and the purpose was to assure the preservation of open space to provide Public Access along the waterfront and to expand to the maximum extent possible the Outdoor Recreation opportunities available to the region. National park service is performing ownership than appropriate management on behalf of the tax paying public to enjoy the open areas and parks and space. San francisco has limited open space to recreate and thus theyre in our backyard and Recreational Area plus is our only beach front to enjoy the famous west coast sunsets. The people of San Francisco did not give them rights to maintenance and stewardship of the shoreline to corner it from the public use which the restrictions are surely slowly seeking to do. This is not a National Park in the middle of the wilderness area and an area adjacent to one of the dense metropolitan cities in the nation San Francisco. Its highly inappropriate for them to refer to this as a National Park and not referred to as such in law, and i will just say the last photograph is dog pack sf urges all San Francisco supervisors to support the resolution and send a message in our collective voice as a city to prevent doing this and signed bruce wolf dog pack of San Francisco. So colleagues we ended Public Comment. Are there any comments before i make my comments . I see no comments. I did want to acknowledge that a number of the commenters suggested language changes. Im going to say that im not going to accept additional amendments, but to Sally Stephens asking for more fire rings i believe the park service is considering up to 20 fire rings but i still would urge more, and tom prices data of Huntington Beach having 125 fire rings clean up at 50,000 i will ask also why they can clean up so many more versus what the National Park service says is their clean up budget for our little 1012 rings or its even unclear how many there are right now. I will also say that sasha maureeny mentioned a number of suggestion and it is winter closure season, the four months seems to be way too much and i am doing my best to work with the bay area air Quality Management district when the highest percentage of spare the air days and the particulate matter in the air so i am working on that behind the scenes and enforces rules and signage and working with safeway and other partners and education and those are issues that communication with the National Park service i know is ongoing and i will do my best to communicate those as i meet with the superintendent as well. Lastly funding besides the city and the National Park service the Parks Conservancy and other nonprofit entities that fund land outlook out to other areas we will begin discussions with other sources of funds so that the education, the enforcement, and the creating a sustainable bonfire system could be even more of a partnership with others as well, so i am doing my best to commit to that and urge my colleagues to support the amendments that have been introduced today at this committee, so i see no other comments. Is there a motion supervisor campos. Great. Do we need a motion to amend the resolution along the lines described by chair mar . So i would make a motion to do that. Okay. Can we do that without objection to accept the amendments . [gavel] thank you. I would like to move the item as amended forward with a positive recommendation. Thank you. And can we do this without objection colleagues . [gavel] thank you. Thank you everyone for coming out. Ms. Major please call the next item. Item 3 is administrative code for storage of peace officer of leaving firearms in a vehicle under the peace officers control either in a locked contain or a locked truck of the vehicle. And the sponsor is supervisor campos. Thank you very much mr. Chair, chair mar, and i actually have copies here for my colleagues. I have an amended ordinance and maybe the clerk can help us distribute the amendment to my colleagues. So this is a very important issue, and we get an opportunity and the board of supervisors to work on very important matters, but very few matters are matters of life and death, and what were talking about today is a crisis thats not only impacting San Francisco but the entire state and the entire country, and thats the crisis with the proliferation of guns and firearms and what this ordinance does is addressing the specific issue of a gun, a firearm being stolen from a vehicle. When we first introducinged the ordinance thats before you that ordinance was part of a larger strategy that we called security not scapegoating and it was a package of three items that specifically tried to respond to the tragic death of kate steinle here in San Francisco. One of the things that we did as part of this package was to deal with the issue of better coordination among Law Enforcement within San Francisco to make sure that if we are going to request a transfer of an individual because of an outstanding warrant that we have the sheriffs department, our District Attorney talking to one another to make sure that the specific transfer made sense in light of the specific charges pending in a case. The second issue dealt with the issue of the most recent iteration of the socalled secure communities which is the Priority Enforcement Program that essentially tried to get San Francisco to engage in the enforcement of immigration laws. The third piece of that package which is what this ordinance addressed is the issue of Law Enforcement agents leaving guns in their vehicles and those weapons being stolen, and when we first introduced this legislation the focus of the legislation was on how Law Enforcement personnel dealt with weapons that they left in their vehicle, and as we have gone through the process, the legislative process, we recognized and we have learned that the issue is much greater than simply Law Enforcement, and that in fact what we see throughout the bay area, throughout the state and the country is an unfortunate trend where you have individuals, Law Enforcement personnel, but civilians as well, leaving weapons in vehicles and those weapons being stolen and ending up in the wrong hands. In the bay area loon this year there have been several cases where guns have been stolen from vehicles and in turn used in tragic criminal activity. In august officers from the ec berkeley and others had guns stolen in the east bay. In october a gun stolen from a tourist vehicle in Fishermans Wharf was used in two killings in the city. In october a california Highway Patrol officer had a personal firearm stolen from the vehicle in San Francisco so after look at the trends we decided to expand the law that we introduced and Going Forward anyone that stores a gun within a vehicle in the city and county of San Francisco must secure the firearm in the trunk of a vehicle and disable any automatic levers. If the trunk is not enclosed the firearm must be secured in a locked box that is affixed to the vehicle. Right now california statutes that govern the transportation of guns in cars are vague in terms of the requirements for storing those firearms. Here in San Francisco we have an opportunity to make the rules clear for everyone and we want everyone storing a gun in a vehicle in San Francisco to understand their rights and responsibilities. Again we should be preventing the theft of vehicle or property within a vehicle but when that theft happens and you have a weapon that is found in that vehicle that horrible incident can lead to something even more tragic. The penalty for violating the law as amended would be a misdemeanor violation and a 10,000 fine. The convinces gun theft is serious and according to the a tf10000 guns were stolen and 15 those guns were actually used in a crime. In 2013 approximately 9,000 californians were victims of gun violence and this is in a state that actually has the toughest gun control laws in the country. Nearly 3,000 of the victims that were killed included of the 3,000 victims killed 251 were children and teenagers. More than 6,000 people were injured including 1300 children and teenagers. Its our responsibility here in San Francisco to do everything in our power to create reasonable laws that protect san franciscans from gun violence. This amendment is a common sense amendment that does just that so we can be the safest city when it comes to the issue of guns here in San Francisco. I want to thank our Police Department. I want to thank chief greg suhr for working on the legislation and his support. I want to thank a number of individuals that have been helpful and assisted us in making this legislation happen. This would be the first of its kind legislation in the state of california, and we believe that this is something that hopefully once we pass this piece of legislation in San Francisco the rest of the state can follow suit. We want to see something similar for the rest of the state of california. I want to thank Hillary Ronan of my office who has been working with me on this issue. I want to thank all the folks who have come out to an earlier press conference and who will be here today to address this important issue including president breed who came to the press conference earlier so with that colleagues you have copies of the amendment, and i would before we turn it over to Public Comment make a motion to amend the legislation along the lines that have been outlined. Thank you supervisor campos. So we have a number of speaker cards. I will read them off. [calling speaker names] and if there is anyone else that would like to speak please come forward as well. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is allen supervisor martinez and you know my nephew was killed a year and a half ago and i learned about this issue and my brother is working for gun safety now and i asked the statistician about this issue and he said they were working on a report. Its a National Problem but its hard to get statistics because theyre held in such a diverse sorts of ways but there are other municipalities around the country enacting legislation of this type, and i applaud making it a more general law to apply to everyone, not just Law Enforcement. The excuse that the nra gives for enacting legislation for this and not doing it it doesnt solve the whole problem but we didnt do that with car safety in the 60s. It just wasnt seat belts that made the car safeties but air bags and structural changes to cars and roadways to madd and making people responsible around drinking and driving. It took thousands of things and approaches to make driving safer in this country and as long as were going to live with guns and we are going to live with guns we have to do enact thousands of measures making owning a gun safer and i think this is appropriate and i think this is important to make guns safer in this way. Thank you. Thank you mr. Martinez. Next speaker. I would like to [inaudible] again [inaudible] overhead please. Again i am shawna earls. My son was dante glen and murdered in San Francisco where we were born and raised. We both were city and county workers retired last year. And my heart is just so heavy. Its just so heavy because in dealing with people i talked with the mayor. I talked with the chief of police. They gave me my meeting, my time, and i am hearing we dont want to make an arrest. We want to have a conviction, but i thought that was a good thing, but until i met up with the group of women, a whole group of women that lost their children to the streets of San Francisco. Basically they go back for 15 years of hearing i dont want an arrest. I want a i d conviction i dont want his case to go cold and i want someone to do their job and get out there. There is not enough investigators, homicide investigators and we need 48 hours here in San Francisco. Every morning we turn on the news kids are murdered and no murders are being solved, murders of color anyway. No murders of color are being solved and i need peace. I need some peace. I need some rest. I am like everyday i am trying to figure out what can i do . What can i do . And i was told today to take it to 850 bryant. Im sorry but im not going to 850 bryant. I might go there but i am coming here to city hall, whatever it takes but we need 48 hours here because theyre not solving any cases. Theyre not solving any cases. Thank you ms. Brown. Yes again hello. My name is pallet brown. And again as the mother said these guns are killing our children and i wanted to thank you david campos about implementing this gun control thing about the people selling guns or stealing guns out of a car. I can say this. My son was shot with a gun with these people in a car. These guns werent concealed. These guns were in the front seat of someone elses car and used that gun to shoot my son, so i thank you for implementing this. That the guns need to be put in the trunk and a locked box so it wont be premeditated to go and kill someone. You know i bring this because i say right here gunfire are the third leading killer of children ages 1 17. This was on 20 20, and my son was only 17 when he was shot 30 times with a semi automatic gun, so i say this to show you what bull the bullets look like and this was my son and his dead body on the gerney and guns stolen out of the car and kate steinle and a beautiful woman and her parents are grieving just as much as we are grieving so this is a great thing for mothers like myself that guns and the Law Enforcement are being held accountable too about their guns being in their cars and they need to be locked up also. Law enforcement, public it doesnt matter who it is. Whoever buys a gun lock that gun up. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I am father Richard Smith from the Episcopal Church in the mission. These are the heroes but let me lend a word of support. In the mission twice a month we in the faith communities do night walks and we walk the neighborhood and stop now and then to remember victims of gun violence and we remember for example Benny Martinez who was shot and killed one block from my church a year ago, and he was 24 years old at the time but when he was 11 years old he saw his mom shot and killed on the front steps of the family home. Just a few feet where he was killed jose escobar was killed from gunfire and we walk up and another person was killed six shots in the back from San Francisco police. Too many moms and dads have shed tears from losing sons and daughters from gun violence. Too many parents and i include myself and worry about our kids because we dont know if theyre going to be safe. This is not how god intended us to live with the fears and tears. We know this is a larger fabric of gun violence across the country and extends from santa Hook Elementary School with kids were killed to ferguson to rose berg to San Francisco. Since the Mass Shootings in newton of the first graders there have been 150 more School Shootings and it could happen here. This common sense resolution that david campos put forward gives me help that the city st. Francis can help with the bloodshed and end it and do our part to make a difference to make an end to the needless and senseless bloodshed. Thank you reverend smith. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im Alison Alderman from the law center to prevent gun violence and much of the work we do involves supporting smart effective Gun Legislation such as this one and the law center is proud to work with the city and county of San Francisco for over 22 years to make it safer from gun violence. Although the rate of gun deaths is lower in california than any many other states in the country gun violence remains the serious threat to californians. In 2013 approximately 9,000 californians were the victims of gun violence. Nearly 13,000 killed including 251 children and teens and 6,000 injured including 1300 children and teens. Thank to the courageous leadership of San Francisco it has enact the some of the best gun laws in the country and many of the laws in San Francisco have been replicated at the state level making california also one of the states with the strongest gun laws in the country if not the strongest gun laws in the country, so this is exactly what supervisor campos is doing today. He is extending this tradition of leading the state and the nation in smart Gun Legislation by requiring gun owners who leave firearms in unintended vehicles to safely store them making them inaccessible to burglars and other unauthorized users such as children. Unfortunately when they leave guns unintendeded in vehicles they can be stolen. Over 10,000 were stolen in california in 2012 and its an under estimate because theyre not required to report the stolen guns and this legislation will be the first of its kind in a California City and hopefully state legislators will take notice and enact this at the state level. Thank you supervisor campos for introducing this important and groundbreaking legislation. Thank you. Next speaker. Mr. Paulson. Always remember keep guns out of reach. Then we can say give peace a chance. Always remember keep guns out of reach. Then we can say give peace a chance. Aint no sunshine when the guns gone, only darkness everyday. Aint no sunshine when the guns gone and its always gone every time you go away. Wonder this time where this gun has gone and its gone all the way. Aint no sunshine when the guns gone. Its always gone and i know, i know, i know. Leave that gun alone. Airnt no sunshine when youre gone too. Aint no sunshine when youre gone too. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to speak . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Supervisor campos. Thank you very much chair mar, and actually before i make comments my final comments i do want to ask if we could vote on the motion to amend the ordinance. [inaudible] so supervisor campos made a motion on the amendments and theyre before us. Can we do that without objection . [gavel] thank you. Supervisor campos. Thank you. I will simply note this. You know i think that, and i want to thank commissioner mar teen ez for saying this earlier. I dont know if anyone has a solution to this crisis of the proliferation of guns and i dont know how you keep guns from getting in the wrong hands, but i do believe that given whats at stake you really have to do everything you possibly can. I have heard some of the comments from some of the people who have talked about this law, and they say you hear this from the nra. Why do we need more gun laws . Lets enforce the laws that we have the books and i am certainly not against of enforcing the laws on the books, but its clearly not enough. Its not working. The fact that in the state of california you have the toughest gun laws in the books in the country you still have 10,000 guns that were stolen in 2012, and when we look at crime, and especially violent crime, where guns are involved we know that all of those guns virtually all of the guns were stolen, so if we can keep guns from being stolen, if we can keep the stolen guns from ending up in the wrong hands we will save lives and the message is to educate people, and again were not taking peoples rights to carry weapons away from them. Were simply saying if youre coming to San Francisco, youre a gun owner, and you choose to leave your gun in your vehicle, we in San Francisco ask that you take the extra step of ensuring that there will be limited access to that gun, and thats all were saying. Thats really everything that this is about and when you think about it its actually very common sensical and what was surprising to me the most is the fact that what were doing hadnt been done before, so and i think it makes sense that we in San Francisco continue to lead the way on this issue, and my hope is that what will happen from here is that we will pass this at the board unanimously, and that maybe other jurisdictions in the state of california and other parts of the country will follow suit. Again i want to thank all of the folks that helped to make this happen. We heard from the attorney from the center who has been very helpful. My chief of staff Hillary Ronan but i especially want to thank the mothers of the victims of gun violence who have so much courage, and are using the tragedy of their loss in a positive way, and making an amazing contribution to this city, so thank you for being here and the hope is that we dont have anymore mothers going through this, and then the final point i would say is again to our Law Enforcement personnel, to the chief of police for working with us to make this happen, and to the City Attorneys Office and other folks that work to move this forward, so i respectfully ask for your support. Thank you supervisor campos. I wanted just to add my strong support for this and ask to be a cosponsor added onto the legislation. I wanted to thank chief chief for the chief sure and working with your office to implement this and thanks to the coalition of free sf and others for the work to have Real Solutions for Community Safety and this issue as well as others. I wanted to acknowledge too that this ordinance is really important. It doesnt contradict state law. Its of a serious and significant local interest that makes us different in San Francisco to pass a policy like this given the history of some of the incidents that happened recently and over time as well and i applaud Hillary Ronan from supervisor campos office and free sf that are behind this historic policy that will be followed by other cities as well. I will make the motion that we support this fully. Supervisor christensen. Thank you. I want to thank supervisor campos. I was proud of the boards reaction to Kate Steinles murder and some of the incidents that happened recently. I think this is a very measured and thoughtful response to that unfortunate situation. So congratulations. Great idea. I think it was yesterday that the nbc affiliate in the bay area did statistics of their own and million guns were stolen from civilian owners in the last five years and 380 firearms are missing from local bay area Law Enforcement agencies, the six in the region, ten of them from San Francisco in just the last five years so that is about 76 guns a year that are disappearing from Law Enforcement. This matter is a particular interest to me. The gun that was used to kill the young woman in Golden Gate Park and the hiker in marin was stolen from my district from a reportedly unlocked car owned by a man that took over 11 hours to report the theft by which time the first murder had already occurred and while the statistics city wide have auto burglar up by 47 the statistic in my district is 78 year over year so in our tourist rich and very dense district were seeing auto burglars almost dawbled. My reaction to the kate steinle murder basically this was a homeless issue. It was a gun control issue and it was an auto burglary issue and i think addressing at least this is one step in the right direction. Since we no longer have a place in the city that you can buy a gun im not quite sure how we get the word out to owners of weapons that reside within the city about this. I hope efforts are made to publicize it and make people more aware of their responsibility and i think that is another part of that and get the word out that this is now required but i think the idea of having firearms in vehicles secured specifically that the boxes need to not only exist but secured to the vehicle is i think really important. I was recently the victim of a trunk theft and everything that was not nailed down was removed from the car and putting a lockbox in the trunk isnt the solution but additional having them affixed to the vehicle preferably in a hidden way is a great idea so thank you supervisor campos. I think this is terrific. Thank you. We have a motion and can we support this without objection . [gavel] thank you. Before you take a vote. Mr. Gibner. I almost got a promotion there. This item requires another hearing in the committee so rather than forward it to the full board you should continue to the next meeting. I move that we continue this item until our next meeting. Its unclear when the next Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee is happening but so to the call of the chair. Thank you and if i may. Supervisor campos. I want to thank you and supervisor christensen for her thoughtful comments as well. I mean i think one of the things that i am very proud of about the way that San Francisco reacted to not only the steinly strategy but other tragedies we responded in a thoughtful fact base approach and i think that we need to bring more attention to this issue of gun control and gun safety because its something that that gets lost. When an incident happening people make it something its not whether its targeting immigrants but i think San Francisco has been very thoughtful and i want to thank you and very proud of my colleagues for the way they responded. Thank you. So there is a motion to continue to the call of the chair and can we do that without objection . [gavel] thank you. Ms. Major is there any other business before us . There is no other business. Great thank you. Meeting adjourned everyone. [gavel] which will . Thank you and welcome ill deputy chief of staff like to introduce a few honored guests hold our applause until im encourage id like to start off with the honorable mayor ed lee and president of the Police Commission suvs and greg suhr and the command staff the Police Department deputy smith and Michael Redman and gary tom and deputy chief ali and robert mows and osullivan and tom nolan chaplain and ann maddox and commander thank you and thank you for being here clapping. distinguished guests and family members and friends im the chief of staff and greg suhr i welcome you to the promotional ceremony between january 17th and september 26, 2015, in thank you lieutenant oconnor will you rise for the posting of the colors. Please remain stand for the National Anthem present arms. Oh, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . clapping. thank you chanel i dont think she needed a microphone if everyone will be seed correction stand fast while we present the thank you color guard please take your seats he invite pastor stacey current to say a few words. Good afternoon i woke up this morning with an overwhelm sensation of the joy of being alive if youre happy to be alive turn to our neighbor real quick and say it is good to be alive good to be alive. repeated. yeah. Good to be alive and it is good to be here and to celebrate so as we begin this time of celebration of the promotion let us begin with a word of prayer lets pray together giver of life and sustaining god we come to you with gratitude in our hearts for all the gifts you give us each year each day family and friends and loved ones and laughter and the gift of being alive help is to receive those gifts with thanksgiving and may our hearts be stirred to remember all the blessing but today, we good faith to recognize pub those he men and women may we meaningful that have the wisdom for problems theyll, enfrustrated with a higher position of responsible rocket and leadership we call them peacemakers shaped by experience and prepared for the new task. So we ask our blessing that on if day a day of joy and deep gratitude we remember for years to come may all gods children thankfully for this day say amen amen thank you pastor current my please to introduce the honorable mayor of San Francisco mooed mooe thank you deputy and thank you pastor current for perhaps it is appropriate for me to say it is good to be politically alive laughter im overjoyed to join you greg suhr and commission and also staff and all the officers that are part of this wonderful department family, friends, and especially those who are about to be promoted he congratulate you as well its been very interesting last four and a half years i want to say im here because i know a few of the individuals also but here as part of the support team for our Police Department and as the 403 mayor of this wonderful city we have a lot of work that weve already done to have been a successful city has we are i wont be the first one to say our city cant say you been successful unless were a safe city and all of you on the front lines are making our city save but im also had the pleasure of being the mayor in 3 world series celebrations one nabbing celebration and americas cup on the eave of hosting the incredible 50th shakespeare and get to enjoy it is finite Police Department it is to say that under the leadership of this commission with the chief weve had all the successes and continue to be a successful city as long as we also are a safe city and being a safe city i also will be the first to say that is not just on the shoulders of our police men and women their have their responsibilities youll all have our responsibilities do the Great Community policing weve engaged in but forthcoming we have challenges and we have challenges that were going to meet in the very heartfelt way because our citizens require us to be more transparent and have the body cameras that challenge us i think the public finds out more that happens on the streets than sometimes recorded we will also have the challenge of having more success a growing population but im excited for every Single Community corridor that will support and have our more officers on the beats as well as officers working Computer Systems and greats technology we have as well as officers and all of our different areas in the city that will do great work seen and unseen at the same time and complimenting the additional officers and he had a chance with the chief the other day to welcome in the new recruits in the academy what wonderful recruits we all right. Have that will have some 4 hundred more Additional Police officers that join us along with the 200 firefighters and 50 pharmacies and including some additional 35911 callers this is an incredible time for our city but we know that we cant just dont think the officers that we hire the Public Safety is a variety of things we have to do a city i want you to recognize the city will do its part as well that means not only the hiring but means a Good Environment for the people to work in a city that is successful a city that looks to the future and says lets resurrect that Police Academy program and make sure that the youth we want that they want to have a safe city also see potential crazy they can enjoy in the Police Department or at least be exposed that that to the Cadet Program to be eligible to go to the academy a city that vests in a program that reaches youth that are already in trouble reaches into their lives and suggested to go them we can interrupt the patterns of activities if drawings them into challenging lives and pull them into job saving lives with career paths i pathways lives they, see better education were all increasing those opportunities from kindergarten to college well be supporting our youth all of our youth and particularly emphasis on the youth in poverty strictly community i get to do that as the 43 mayor and begin in Public Housing that people have a way forward for themselves and their family through all the programs in education and interrupt those patterns activities that might suggest otherwise well support through our families and children and Youth Programs programs and the passage of prop c last year an incredible investment in all our families to see an unprecedented investment for our youth from the family prospective we have rebuilding every single one of our Public Housing sites so they become integrated policies sites for all of the families that are there as well as the new families that will be welcomed there people will not live in isolated poverty housing under this administration giving me a chance to move forward all the things in concert with increasing our hiring of our Police Officers but also promoting promotions is a good day this means theres movement and hiring and activity in this department the same can be said in the Fire Department in our 911 and all our dispatchers by the desire city would it be fair to say congratulations to all of you that are will be receiving pins today when i have the opportunity to pin the 3 that had a chance to work with me there might be screens of pichz i have to pay them back for the rough lives theyve given me outside of that weve had an incredible time i want to say the incredible success on every single one of youre crazy well be a successful city and whether it is issues around retirement, or the environment you work in or the people you even though again work with well do our best in support because you mean that the people on the first line that is a i will sacrifice for the other safety i want to say congratulations and health felt thank you from our 43rd mayor to our success and safety and success of you and our families i congratulate all of you today thank you clapping. thank you, mr. Mayor it is my honor to welcome the president of the Police Commission president suzy loftus clapping. thank you, thank you greg suhr mayor ed lee and the staff and director hicks and family and friends can you raise your hand if our mom or dad is getting promoted today raise your hand if youre mom reasonable person dad is getting promoted two hands over there that is a big deal big deal your can do is getting promoted i know you this is a big deal guys ill speak to the kids this is a big ceremony with the command staff what the mayor this is a tough profession your mom and dad are distinguished leaders were here to recognize and one thing i know for sure in working with in Law Enforcement with as prosecutor and in the Police Commission none did it alone with all of you, your family and your kids i know you guys are proud of them so this is a legal term but a really big deal today is a really big deal so obviously congratulations to you guys i want to say two things talk about what i think youve accomplished and what it means to the Department Today is acknowledging the hard work i mentioned that i sat for the California Bar examine im not stranger of hard tests but the tested you have to study for practice with our fell officer is not a samuel Small Matters your chosen to be a leader of this department and youve put in a lot of work now what it means for the department the mayor talked about the significant momentums well have a number of things going on but i want to say this ceremony is special the academy congratulations theyre excited and start their career cant wait to get out there this is a different moment a moment youve done that chief youve distinguished yourselves as leaders to be recognized this is your moment and you get to make choices and decisions about the rest of our career those ceremony is amazing at the end of it it two minutes where someone faubz u talks about your career im moved by sometimes, the chief or captain will rattled off your mrishtsd but nevertheless, the two minutes spent talking about the kind of leader and how you treated our officers and how you had their backs and managed tough situations and a team leader and helped others now it is the moment in our career youve gotten the acknowledgment the mayor mentioned body cameras i want to say one thing as leader of this department the success or failure of this program is depending on you your leadership as our officers to what you do will make the program a success or failure many people involved commissioners and city officials at the end of the day you as leaders of the department have the technology and learn from it and help us make the policy better and continue to lead the way for the San Francisco Police Department so that is my hinge r request of you, you an acknowledgment of everything help us embrace the future and continue to be the incredible leaders youve been and congratulations think everything youve done and thank you for being a leader at a critical time youre up to it thank you. clapping . Commissioner president loftus now greg suhr. clapping . So youve had to brave two speeches suffer through one more to emotional what commissioner president loftus said as you look at people around you take a lot of pictures people in this room nobody is going to be any younger nobody will have any more hair and sadly in the matter how much you tell you yourselves it will be thinner and the kids not younger so lots of pictures a big deal it is good to welcome you did not members and family and friends to this ceremony weve honored today to have the newly reelected mayor of San Francisco ed lee clapping. our president of the Police Commission suzy loftus clapping. someone who never misses one of those ceremonies im so honored he is with us every single time former excessive of police mr. Sandra right there clapping. and then we have a late arrive our occ director joyce hicks clapping. but most important here were privileged to be among the sworn officers to the rank of sergeant and commander and deputy chief over the last year the future leadership of the San Francisco Police Department no small deal in all endeavors leadership it critical to success but as we move into the last part of this year leadership is not as critical to the San Francisco Police Department we recently peace officer served through the you toughest recession in our lifetime we never said we cant do more with less we did that with less and good in San Francisco thanks to the mayor and the full support of the board of supervisors were under one of the biggest hiring pushlz all the new cops needs the leadership if theyre required of the San Francisco Police Officers to be the smallest thoughtful cops in the country this department to the challenges that lay before us across the country and in some community in San Francisco folks are questioning over intentions and action as we perform with the new video painting the Law Enforcement in an unfavorable light every year as fbi director spoke you can turn up the music on the radio or choose to have an open and honest discussion about the relationship today what it should and could be and needs to be if we took more time to understand one allocate across the country serious a debates how Law Enforcement will relate to the community about the appropriate use of force and the bias within an outside Law Enforcement we need to have this conversations similar conversation are being had within every Police Department as well or should be these kinetics is bumping and uncomfortable help us to understand and better serve San Francisco of course, those are only conversations and the true sense of the word only willing to talk not only but listen someone said you have to understand and be understood true words again quoting let us begin that difficult conversation by being honest to acknowledge that most of our Law Enforcement history in the country is not pretty at many points in American History before the members were borne are Law Enforcement enforced with status quo a status quo that was brooultd unfair to the labor groups and unfair to two many people a century ago the issuing my mom was issuing knew how well, the drills and the patty woolen is not named patty wug because its padded we need to be able to explain why we do what we do every time we do if we cant rethink what were doing and to do it definitely there is a renewed on a procedural justice toy decade ourselves to not allow the bias that exists in all of us not judge cope to do our job fairly and objectively to do this today more than ever requires strong leadership it is with that in mind all the men and women are promoted were selected for the Department Leaders of tomorrow the best ladders are functional intelligence and demonstrate things the right way everyone on this stage actually not on the stamp they dont it, too as evidence by the performance under the exams and experience the ability to do this im grateful to our family and france for the character awesome possess and how you cultivated our influences to be here today each of you demonstrated the ability to think on your feet ill confident you already have i ask you to demonstrate our earring in essence but more importantly challenge you to lead by x if 0 doing do the right thing and serve as a reminder to the officers why they became cops in the first time we help especially children as you sit here remember to be a successful it is not cbo you youll need other people and let other money need you no matter how smart not smart enough ive spoken about leadership what is leadership so lets look at was it isnt i spoke when he met at the Academy Management so not leadership management deals with routine not to take anything away from Good Management and youll have to dwo do a lot more management but Management Management is not leadership there is no leadership need it is a distofrtd that leadership is require in a Law Enforcement around the country is a distortion and will take our leadership to get us to a better place but the leaders dont manage people they monitor them leaders dont follow the rules as they are without question and set out to make better rules when needed leaders are looking for the replacements the future of the San Francisco Police Department is on you it is not about what a leader can do himself or herself but accomplish with our violation and support whether you make sure that when people do a job get the credit it is about the balance of others replacement the golden rule do onto others as onto you this is echoes throughout the ages in every language and cultivate it is a philosophy to support others and you yourselves will be supporting and reaching our potential and chief the goals and be where we want to be back to today you have much to be proud of we look at freezing this moment shortly will come as a relief im almost finished that was fun laughter . Anyway mid block said after climbing the great hill one finds many more hillside to climb we make take rests but foreclosure the moment we must cock e walk together not ended when you come across a mountain it takes more than one person to move a mountain there will be more times than not an uphill battle and sometimes, youll fail in one attempt or many find another way find another way a path forward a path forward and whether emily murase he son you want to respect intelligent people and the affiliation of children you left the world better and after all assessorrecorder it is easily because of your effort and helped to get there you were a good leader my parents i get choked up my parents engraved the word building on the first star i was giggle i have the same engratifying on all my stars the two o that you will make a difference in the lives of on the words of Teddy Roosevelt not the critical man that pouts points but but the doer of deeds do them better the credit to those in the arena whos face is marked by blood and those in the end have the achievement and if we fail we fail by doing better god bless and be safe clapping. thank you, chief. I now ask you administer the other of office to all personnel. Relax its the same oath i didnt add anything to it can i get everybody to please stand. Im sorry, i meant of those who are going to take the oath laughter you know it to as a help it is good to stands even once in a while laughter . Thats supposed to be a comedy we have a tradition in the San Francisco Police Department imagine in the room that has taken an oath that would like to reaffirm that oath especially someone in Law Enforcement whether sworn or not sworn we have prosecutors in the room feel free to stand at this time and take the oath with preplease raise your right hand i i. Do solemnly swear. repeated. repeated. the constitution of the united states. repeated. and the constitution of the state of california. And the codes policies and charter. repeated. of the city and county of san francis francisco. repeated. repeated. foreign and domestic. And that i will bear true faith and allegiance. repeated. to the constitution of the united states. repeated. and to the constitution of the state of california. Dooi z dooildz. repeated. without any mental reservation. repeated. that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. repeated. and during such time as i hold office. Congratulations