Transcripts For SFGTV CCII 10615 Commission On Community Investment Infrastructure 20151015

18 and two cases followed by a muni bus that seemed tailored to the street i dont understand that policy when you have a huge bus transporting people in a congested part of town. Muni buses that pack as many or more people their skinner, if you will, to fit the lane almost retrofitted to fit the lane that is a krargs contradiction thats a light way of saying that muni has a vision about how to deal with 3 issue . About 18 months ago we started a Pilot Program we put those tech buses under a framework they cant work on they street they have to come to us and we put those stops on a heavy street and more likely to go to the streets where the tech workers can congregate and get on this buses weve down k done a lot of enforcement over the stops we wrote written before 12 hundred violations in the last year for the buses blocking muni and we do it before and after and found that the tech shuttles were they dale got the message were serious the issue of commuter shuttles has gone down but the big city buses on streets we just released a report yesterday actually showing the findings of that 18 month pilot talking about the way in which blocking muni and the dynamics played out largo found that the regulated shufrlt system is better they can literally drive on the city but issues to be addressed i will say that we as we cant prevent them from operating on the streets the puc so the Pilot Program that was about us working in kind of a much leverage and power to get them on streets appropriate for large buses but we found that banning those buses if San Francisco is not an option. Im not suggesting banning but regulating other modes of transportation i find it hard to believe we cant better regulate particularly when the neighborhoods theyre in the and the other pet peeve only because i onesizefitsall witness it daily we have different modes of transportation we have people roll call skating down market ive seen bikes kind of we know blowing through you know red lights and stop signs you know we have in my opinion more cars on the street than we did before and the debate thats because the taxi was not as responsive, etc. By is seemed a lot of modes of transportation and muni has the ability to regulate those multiple modes theyre creating chaos and conditions. The most interesting projects weve put out in the last 12 months a safer Market Street Market Street west of third street and reorganized how everybody used it a continuous retaining wall red bike lane and skaters and nonmoderated users and then the designated turn on and off points for private and general traffic private drivers and uber and lyft it is transparent where we could and couldnt go it is everything comes down Market Street this is the example of the kind of tools well use more and more down the streets. Commissioner bustos laughter . One quick why cant say the transit bus follow the procedures. Buses. Thats a rhetorical question and its all yours your mr. Maguire thank you. Do you have another question so you want to yield because commissioner bustos has the floor. On slide 10 i said that parking reduces a Building Financial liability i live in a part of city in which everybody has multiple cars and if you have a family and your child goes to school in the morning and missed the bus youll have to directive to say investable you mentioned the idea to increase the parking but workingclass people and families i dont like the idea of pushing those who have to drive for example, you live in the bayview and drop anyone off on the admin of the city youre spending time that will increase the times of transportation youre forced to drive. So it is absolutely true commissioner antoninis what gaffe an example plenty of people that driving is not always an option were not saying wear trying to restrict or take that choice away from people but make sure that are other 0 modes of transportation this would not been us at mtas setting the prices of parking lake meters that about the fact it can cost up to 100,000 for just to build that parking. Do you know how many people that are losing in the development actually have cars versus those who are carless. I dont know the specifics it varies with the development it an important issue for our staff to get that data and figure out something we something we can side differently to get that. Commissioner bustos. Mr. Maguire thank you very much for joining us maybe ed reiskin should have been here hes the head of the department i actually would love to have a meeting a joint meeting with the mta commission what youve heard and what weve spoken about before in the past which is all public is nothing new and things we should look at so on slide 8 this is your slide not mine you talked about the need to protect the quality of life for existing residents part of my frustration who independence quality and for whom it seems to me as a lifelong san franciscan especially latest weve had people trying to tell us a what to do throughout our presentation you talked about choices and i happen to disagree with that youre not providing us choices mta is trying to do trying to limit our choices rather than enhance the choices i say that because we talked about on page 6 transit friendly the whole presentation was about parking not once about do i hear mta as a whole talking about the safety issues of muni people dont want to ride muni because one it is dirty not on time and not safe especially for the seniors and especially for young kids i cant tell you how many fights or near fights happen on muni and the bus driver keeps on rolling people dont feel safe riding the Public Transportation if we talk about this we need to take into consideration the system we have and make that better; right . We have we spend a lot of money and resources into the Transit System but we dont seem to be getting a lot out of it when we talk about status quo we allow the issues of the muni to go continue the way it is going and focus the attention on parking and not insensitive vices people to take Public Transportation but almost you know punish people for using their automobiles and as the commissioner said when you have families sometimes you you know you live in a multi generation house you have the parents and kids and grandparents you go shopping youll not see a family ride their bikes to shopping weve gotten into the mode that is about transit first, we median bicycles and people who are disabled cant ride a bike people that are elderly they dont feel comfortable at my age i dont feel like riding a bike ive ridden my bike on streets and almost gotten run over this is not idaho it is San Francisco lets do it the San Francisco way people should stop i know there are thirty fatalities each fatalities is really, really important for us to look at but there is also fatalities that happen in the city that happen on the streets of our aide people are getting shot and stabbed that we need to look at so a fatality is what is moving us to do something then we need to look at the whole city as a whole and; right . When it comes to the Parking Spaces taking up too much space i dont know about that i mean weve looked at designs that you know weve asked People Developers to come in and try to provide amble spaces for people everybody is quick to side bicycles what about the families and the city sharing this is assuming one you know how to use a computer or smart phone two you can pay for it and sometimes there are people whether it is because of limited english or because of the economic backgrounds or the number of people in the families they cant use ride share i specifically asked how many people in the units they said no more everybody there again, you diminish the opportunities for people that live in the development to be able to look at that i think whether you say on page 11 this stuff is all recorded you can go back and take it to the folks to the department but it is as if i give access to parking people will drive not necessarily if you want people to use Public Transportation and provide a transportation that works that make sense one that people will feel comfortable in riding and not to do it im glad we have free muni for Senior Citizens especially the seniors they deserve it and working hard and deserve it ill disagree with that particular slide when we heard you talk about the partners and i know commissioner mondejar talked about be able to have bart and the other partners to lower the cost you know if theyre great partners then he would hope to have an answer to that if theyre great partners they should have already step up to the plate and provided discounts to seniors especially who live in the city to be able to use because it is important that you know if youre going to be a partner be a partner all the way. And pardon me i there are senior and disability benefits on bart i dont know the details i dont have. Now, when we look at so the system of our transportation grid here this is more of a commentary is a one ive thought about a lot if we look at the city system that works why would we have bike lanes in the same street as cars . Because you have two groups that dont necessarily like each other and your informing them on a street like say fillmore where everyone is mad at each other going down one direction that is one direction imagine if there were two why not look at a group system you you know we have cars on fulsome street; right . There are a lot of people heading towards the bridge and a bike lane on some of the anular streets the smaller streets a bicycle system i mean, i would use then im not expediting but only competing against the cyclists and the not cars that way not forcing people on cars and bikes together where they will you know you get people upset i hear honking and people flipping each other off if we had a grids system that works in the main to fair and the side streets in opposite directions for fulsome you have there are some side streets and some men i am not you know what im saying if we looked at Something Like that rather than for these two groups that observing are not fond of each other for whatever reason and then thats where a lot of the angry happens and frustration grows and it is not very safe so the way the system was set up as we see it today it is not smart ive they had designated streets where cyclists went i said wow, that is pretty good and some of the side streets all of a sudden bays become pomthd with people in their dangerous and it is a smarter way to do it but who am i . When we talk about the accessibility i have to go back to accessibility for home the disabled and our seniors, families i think you know, i would ask mta to take that thirty thousand fee think ms. Woods said or you said that you know when the caltrain station was set up people thought it was the greatest thing but in palate it didnt workout and now a mess i hope were not getting to a situation we think weve thought it all but noted think about the practical use of this grid and then 10 years from now or 5 years from now well complain how it didnt work having focus groups with people in the communities and ask them how this will work weve asked for a focus group in the mission regarding the hundred and 27 Parking Spaces being taken out of potrero street and yet i think people use the neighborhood and use those streets should have a voice on who is happening i understand that budget are taught then why are we doing parklet and taking Parking Spaces i mean it is privatizing public space most it is floocht of a cafe and restaurant i have to tell you i t i sat down in front of with a burrito if were strapped with cash lets stop private you tigers those spaces whether you have a car or not so we can recapture some of the revenues and Small Businesses on 24th street we put a band on parklets well not support parklets on 24th street a lot of the restaurants and a lot of the the barkries they rely own people that once lived in the mission and were forced out to come back and buy their products they need those Parking Spaces i dont think it make sense especially, when roles and dozens of Parking Spaces are taken away i guess what i want to say is you know if we talk about choices and lets talk about all choices and i would love to rides muni if i felt safe if i felt it was clean and it worked but i dont as a san franciscan i dont and i should i would love to ride my bike if i felt safe with other cyclists but i dont but all im hearing in mta parking this and that and Parking Development and parking you know taking away parking it forces people to zero which with you say zero transit first or whatever the term this is not our choice no choices there are few choices limited choices if were going to talk about choices is where an honest dialogue thats why we invited mta to come not utility mta and the services it provides part of city; right . A lot of city workers my brother is a city bus driver in San Francisco it is great but weve got to make that work for everybody is back to my original question who defines quality of life and for whom you can have a lot of young folks working at mta who have not had to worried about what is like to be older making decisions for our seniors and it is not you know so i agree with you lets think of the big picture and talk about choices we can get there i think you have a commission that licenses especially to the people of the city and we also want to make that work for everybody and sometimes that means we agree great and if we dont agree lets figure out a way to make it a practical way we have Wonderful Community organizations and folks that are very interested theyre at mission bay theyve done a job and people in the mission and people from all parts of city that would love to participate and who are investors here not just going to be here 5 years and put mayor stamp okay. Now you can leave but live and stay here those are the people i know have a lot to say weve seen so much happen to you appreciate you and thank you for being here i dont know if i have questions or just talking but those are the things brought up over and over again and hopefully, a conversation with ed reiskin and others members of his Leadership Team or with the commission themselves as peers we all work on policy to make the city a better city for the residents so well be happy to do that thank you, again. Thank you. I think we have one more question. One more question can you refresh what was prop l rejected by the voters. I dont want to guess but basically, it was asking the voters to ask whether mta should be building more offstreet. That was providing more parking the things ive called in the presentation and voters like 72 to thirty something. It ivy know that commissioner will probably explain this further that would be great if we have the overview of caltrain and barts more of a global view you know of the transportation situation is going to be in the next 10 to 20 years youre only representing mta what are the other options more of a request for our executive director to consider but this other piece is at one time i recall it was exthis commission or a private sxhfgsz a discussion around water ferries or again maybe it was a meeting with other you know like caltrain and bart and also the ferry sausalito and the ferries but other discussion about utilizing the docks you know Hunters Point shipyard and you know by the water there would be smaller water fairs and the south bay and things like that that would be more options for us the residents in San Francisco and those who come here especially during game days and things like that i dont know if there is a the conversation or mta is talking to the other departments that would be great to have the global view of what to expect to questi have the physician information. The transportation authoritys governs that and the same way as barts. You work with them your sort upgrades u you know checking what other agencies are doing for as far as addressing the transportation issues. Yes. Obviously the waft we develop those areas thats an option we look to see if we can activate it. Okay. Thank you. Okay well, hopefully, you have food for thought. I appreciate there is a lot going on i learned a lot today so the nice thing we live in different neighbors so i think that you know at least i take away in exchange the fact that people live in hilly and closer to the center and sometimes, we come up with the exact same concerns which says to me it is more than what is happening in our neighborhoods. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay great lets call the next item. The nobd is item of Public Comment on nonagenda items. Any speaker cards. Any individuals that wanted to speak on this agenda item. No . Okay all right. I see okay i was i thought we had a member and perhaps she left. Please call the next item and nobd report of chair. I did not have a report next item. The nobd is item 8 the report of executive director 8 a informational memo release of request for proposal mission bay open Space Management for operation of Public Open Space in mission bay north and south discussion and 8 b informational memo with the recognized payment schedules formal january 1st, 2016, to june 30th, 2016, with 20152016 b discussion madam director. Commissioners ill take 8 a first, it is actually a request for qualifications for open Space Management services in mission bay as youre aware the mission bay open space is built out over time with the concert of private investment and other triggers in the owner participation architecture by the masters developer or Mission Bay Development group currently, the agency has formed a cf d the special tax district for Park Maintenance that is a model in similar models weve employed in many of the project areas you have 8 or 9c f d you serve as the separate and approved or disapproved from the Agency Capacity and strait sprat special tax by the Property Owners by infrastructure or maintenance and typically Affordable Housing is exempt from those fees for the last several years the mission Bay Management group is the primary contractor for 6 years now and mgm kraktdz with a number of contracting firms almost 6 years ago for shaping and janitorial and securities were not quite done with the parks in mission bay were about half done a number of parks coming online in the next 56 years and certainly there are almost 15 acres or so that are complete today so we do needs to provide continuous property Management Services you have a master lease with various e various arms of the city dpaeps and the puc and the ports it would be difficult to manage it with different multiple actresses a lease agreements with the entities that own the fee and certainly at with disillusion we need to provide for a long Term Solution and transfer the Park Properties or terminates our lease arrangements with the city in piss various departments once the parks are complete were working with the community to figure out an appropriate Management Structure many of those parks are actually subject to the public trust and the court have trustees obligations it is a complex system that merits appropriate Long Term Health management as the parks get built out this r f q we are release in a week again for Property Management and landscape and security and all in compliance with our nondiscrimination purposing fte and mbe w b e policies and the like because we want to make sure there is a appropriate procurement and the length of time there will be becoming before you before the ebtsdz of the year with a expectation of m j m contract to complete the procurement process staff are here he see the Senior Real Estate specialist and certainly available to answer any questions you may have. For clarification raw we have m j m. Theyre the primary contractor were Mission Bay Parks and other happen to be other parks that m j m in our contractor for example, yerba buena gardens. So this rfp they can bid for it, too. Certainly the request for qualifications it own. To anyone. To anyone. Thank you. Okay so moving our on the next item the recognized payment schedule this commissioners is youre aware a twice yearly requirement the state denver through the disillusion you approve our budget on an annual that goes to the executive branch and the Mayors Office and the legislative process through the board of supervisors there is an additional layer of review that the state requires every 6 months to that point the ousted boards recently approved the balance of our 6 month budget consistent with the six months budget you approved well be coming back to you for the issuance of Mission Bay South bond for infrastructure now that more buildings are on the rules of law it is an opportunity to gather more tax increment for the straights and collecting property tax for housing we havent implemented the process with the master developer during our cycle but coming back to you and the board of supervisors and the outside board for the infrastructure bones all other terms and conditions are the same as the budget you approved i want to recognize the budget person here and Deputy Director sally and other members of the staff available and ready to answer any questions you may have. Thank you that concludes my report. Okay. He need to ask any comments cards. For any of those items. I have one corin woods item 8 a hi corin woods chair of cac i know you have to go through this period of time reelevation of Mission Bay Parks management i just time you to be aware ami m j m has begun a job not only with the maintenance of the parks and the security but Telegraph Hill programming the parks to attract people to them and im hopefully that they come out on top on this rfp or r f q because we have spent a long time work with them they were working with the community and quarterly parks meetings where the stakeholders and Property Owners and residents and businesses come and talk about the park system the mission bay neighborhoods is very engaged under our park system and we want to keep it the quality that we have now in exchange the Vice President of finance. Okay. Thank you. Please call the next item. The nobd is commissioners questioning and madam chair. Any commissioner have a question. Only about the sign by the governor bringing back the development. Oh, thank you commissioner singh this is really embedded in the rocks report and the memorandum the governor signed this senate bill 107 with the active bills 441 the governor thought was a good yesterday and incorporated it into the trailer legislation became effective cement accept 22 which allows the San Francisco it was a larger bill that was a San Francisco only portion that allowed for successor agencies ocii to have stated authorized be it therefore resolved authority to complete the Housing Program in june you saw the housing annual housing report the 2 year housing report we have at least 3 three hundred if not close to 4 thousand more Affordable Housing to less to build the problem the cash flow issue waiting for the property tax to fill up so this legislation kind of like a mortgage allowed us to take what was due and pay back over time and accelerate our Housing Program so consistent with the raps we expect to put out more housing rfp 6 hundred more affordable units some in transbay and the balance of Alice Griffith and tax income a momental piece of legislation that bend San Francisco the senate bill tovn 7 and 82 the communities reinvestment i dont know the anarchy acronym but a tailored version of the redevelopment focusing on low income areas we have not had a chance to review and analysis what that means and successor agencies cant participate but potentially help others existing areas of the city very low income areas of city i cant were reilly looking at it with the city college to see how it benefits some of the areas we cant continue frankly as a result of disillusion so i think this is the reluctanconti continuous but a hurdle and test were not quite a sure of the system yet it is a start are we still going to have the area board. Yes. The oust board yes, in place until were complete with everything or state law changes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for raising that question thank you. Any other questions or matters . No i have one the chronicle recorded i want to say on sunday about the recent census day, if you will, the boom in San Francisco those might be my words trickle down to almost everyone except for africanamerican and africanamericans lost grown in terms of income which was called you know called attention to the issue i want to make sure we receive a report when the next reporting cycle from receive from the workforce report in the Small Business reporting i dont know when the next one is were on a cycle we highlight the staff highlights the all members i want to have a sense of are we doing our fair share in spreading the wealth basically, he think we are it made me think i just was surprised to see that asians and latinos and whites all across the board had significant increase in income but africanamericans lost ground that would be interesting to see at least in our small part address that issue make sure we doing everything we can basically. Well, thats not housing it is income Employment Opportunities i dont know. I think that you know for example, i know your last reports the latinos are the ones in the Small Businesses theyre one percent two cycle of one percent so my recollection is africanamericans didnt have it but in workforce i remember that latinos having high numbers on the workforce. Were trying to do with the sbe and local hire to make sure. Yeah. Exactly so you know remember the questions it is one thing to have the dollars represented and more interested in how Many Companies are prarpd in those dollars one company can do really, really well but hundreds of other ones not thats a policy shift. Part of issue that we see is that a lot of the companies are not hiring local and this is outside of our world like twitter and facebook and theyre hiring people from all over the world but when it comes to San Francisco folks theyre not hiring that i dont know if we as a city have put the local hire piece to the new companies. Yeah i think hiring locally. There is some of that. Talent in the city that in some cases homegrown talent why not have folks have an opportunity. We cant talk about it much we talked about the Retail Outlet like candle stick park opportunities not that well hire people to side but the developer or the shopping hall developers so were talking about Grocery Stores and opportunities there. What we could do is looking at the numbers and ethnicity and the contractors we monitor later on they also extend the employment to other communities. Outside of construction. Yeah. Just a suggestion bear in mind that are other opportunities. We might be able to require laughter we could there would be the least we could do. Yeah. To make sure that we are doing our part. Right. Exactly. Not just making sure that our charge is that but also these types of things to help to alleviate or some of the numbers 20,000 annual income thats nuts. In San Francisco. Thats the one that jumped out at me. I had a conversation with the members of the Arts Commission inaudible worldclass city we want to make sure that the arts in the Commission Must extend to the world best artists because the city is a worldclass city and but at the same time what are the numbers inaudible . That are local. Right. In San Francisco. Worldclass city oh, im sorry my microphone is off one thing to make sure or maintaining the imagine of San Francisco a worldclass city lets not forget we have qualified artists and local artists to make sure their considered so this is kind of one of the things thats there obviously the Arts Commission you know something from a conversation from just one commissioner but it was interesting to learn that that, yes there are aware we should be hire locally but at the same time, they want San Francisco to represent worldclass art and artists anyway. We probably should. That beyond the scope. Were near the ends please call the next item. Closed session there is nun and the next order of business item 11 adjournment. Madam chair. Yes. The meeting is adjourned at allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President lofts i would like it call roll. Please do commissioner prosedant loftus here. Commissioner termman is excused. Commissioner marshall, commissioner dejesus, present. Commissioner [inaudible] commissioner hwang [inaudible] president loftus you have a quarm. Also with us tonight is cheer gregory suhr and joyce hicks good eerfckening and welcome to the october 14 Police Commission meeting to everyone who is here to so many faces here and everyone watching at home, welcome. Item 1, general Public Comment. The public is welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on toonts agenda but within the subject matter. People shall address the remarks to the commission as whole. Under Police Commission rule order [inaudible] commission are require today respond to questions present bide the public but my provide a brief response. Refrain from entering in debates. Please limit your comment to 3 minutes. Any general Public Comment . No problem. Good evening mrs. Brown, welcome my name is paul etbrown and here once again concerning my son [inaudible] i look a little wild today but that is what happens when you are grieving and going through things. You dont want to spruce up, but im concerning my son obru[inaudible] murdered august 14, 2006 [inaudible] to this day still no [inaudible] perpetrators or closure for myself. I just want to congratulate london breed and cohen but the 250 thousand dollar reward even though i have mine already. I am iit is a victory for me the other mother jz fathers will get this also. I want to say even though we have this, i had this for 9 year jz still no one has come forth and think if we have this this needs to bewe have no venue. We need to be in the public face daily. [inaudible] dmv, moter vehicles so the perpetrators can see their victim because if they dont see it no one will come forth. All these other young men are homicide victim cases not solved and as a brought up last time before they have the names. These names on are my sons case. Thomas hannble [inaudible] anthony carter, [inaudible] they are still walking the street to kill again. [inaudible] is getting out next year, in august. He supposedly killed my son so he is getting out. What will happen with that . I say that because this is what he left me with. This is what he left me with. This is what all those names left me with. Im not ashamed to bring this up, i need to. I need had perpetrators off the street. We need a venue for childrens picture. Give us a memorial and put the childrens names up so some the mother cz feel better than they do. This is what they see in their minds every day, what i look at. Thank you mrs. Brown we do need a venue for our children. Please consider that. Consider that for our children. They have the Police Commission put my sons pictures on the bus a while ago, how come that cant happen again . Can i use the overhead one more time before my minutes run out . By the Police Association, the San Francisco Police Association put that on the bus again, can that happen again if anyone has information [inaudible] 415575444. 4. I could go new and boston but im here in San Francisco. We have 2 cases pending right now. Right now. One is aclu lawsuit of 14 or 15 year old black male was pulled out of his car, thrown to the pavement by sfpd thmpt kid was in college. You are aware of what im talking about. You are aware. We have to deal with mrs. Lopez. Mr. Lopez was cambodian. Sfpd said [inaudible] with a knife. Somehow according to the corner he died from a gun shot wound to the back. Im logical. If i come at yoi with a knife i look at you in the face, how do i get a gun shot wound to the back . Kind of weird. I turned around, but if i turn around im no longer a threat. I turned around and have my knife and no longer a threat. There were undercover officers in the mission. Hum, hum, hum, hum. Kind of weird, hu . Kind of weird. The young man, the college kid he wasnt driving the car. You guys know the specifics, you do, but how do we handle it . Well, well handle it. Well handle it. Well handle it. Well write a check and make it all go away but conduct most likely will not change. Most likely will not change. Sadly but true. I have been around a while. I have seen this happened 40 years ago. Today we are fortunate, we will have body cameras and video, all this, but you know sometimes it makes me cry. Im not stupid. Wait a minute, how do you get shot in the back when you are [inaudible] at a cop. I spoke to a cop [inaudible] the whole thing was strange. He was stealing a bike. That is your decision. Thank you. Any further general Public Comment . You see in front of you 85 years old homeless mane. It is only in the United States this fasest terrorist country with San Francisco police with this hitler chief. Evict 6 people. 6 people came at 12 oclock at night. Why at night . It is kgb when they didnt want to know and gestapo. They evict San Francisco police evicted 85 years old on the street to die. It is interesting, you are sitting here commission and this fascist policedo you know that Homeless People not my age only, but Homeless People eating from garbage can . Drinking from garbage can to go to toilets they cant and that is quhie they do it in [inaudible] because it is no toilet on the street. [inaudible] i asked the captain of the ship how much cost [inaudible] he said many billions, not millions. Many billions for this billions you could make home for 5 million from new york to San Francisco and los angeles. Terrible country and what terrible mistakes i made since i went from russia. Russia is not good too, but nobody of 85 years they are sent on the street to die. God punished them. Any further Public Comment . Hearing none Public Comment is closed. Item 2 reports and announcement. 2 a chief rereport discussion and review oaf activities. Status update of 6. 09 Domestic Violence [inaudible] emily murase, minouche can del. Bevly up ton, katie albright, abigail, stewart kahn. Shery ezhuthachan, mollie brown [inaudible] if you allow me i would to take number 2 as 1 and go over recent activities. That sounds like a great idea i would like to invite acting captain eddy santoze the the podium so he can tell a story the Police Commission, present loftus, chief suhr, members of the command staff and community. As you may be aware october is Domestic Violence awareness month. The Police Department and membererize commit today reducing Domestic Violence and providing service squz resources to the survivors of such tragic events. In a effort to provide the best services possible to Domestic Violence survivors and family, the saf Police Department worked collaboratively with memberoffs several key organizations which ill introduce shortly. In january this year chief suhr assigned me to the special victims units and didnt realize what a big tang i had for me and was very [inaudible] to accept this position. It was then i began working with Domestic Violence advocates and city agencies in a effort to develop the best practice and provide service for our providers. In doing so, i have the wonderful opportunity to work with the most committed, drichben and dedicated people one could ask to work with. These are people who care about people and want the best possible outcome for those involved in a unfortunate live changing event. In order to provide the best possible service and practice we have to have knowledge of the service each organization or agency can provide. Today i can say we have that knowledge. Thoferb last 10 months together we have forged a partnership that has giveren the survivor a voice but a chance to have their life back. I cant thank enough the people i had the pleasure to work with. They are truly amazing leaders working together for a great cause. At this time it is my honor and plezer to have the opportunity to introduce you to the people that make it happen. With that said, we would like to present it following people with a certificate and recognition of appreciation for the work that they do with the Police Department and make our practice the best we can be. I would like to start off with if i could read one this goes to liz aguilar tarchi of the District Attorneys Office. [inaudible] it reads in recognition of Partnership Commitment and contsbution to had San Francisco Police Department special victims unit and Domestic Violence units on behalf the Police Commission i San Francisco Police Department you are hereby awarding this certificate of merit and appreciation. It is important that it be noted that commissioner loftus said and they have to be the good certificates. Not that there are any bad ones. Never ask a Trial Attorney not to speak. Members of the Police Commission, president loftus, cheech suhr what a honor to be among this group but i cannot thank enough the work i have done over29 years as a prosecutor with chief suhr, started as a misdemeanor da. We collaborate and work as a team and rarely have difference squz what i appreciate stemming from chief suhr and captain santose it is never we need to look into that t is what do we need to do to make chairchgs so thank you so much for making the lives of these families lives safer and thank you chief suhr and captain santos. Sylvia deporto. Jackie ortiz from the District Attorneys Office victims services. Thank you Beverly Upton, Family Violence counsel. I just want to thank the department and the community and to be in this group that is recognized tonight. We have done so much over the last decade and have so much more to do. I look forward to a bright future. Thank you. Abgal stewart kahn of the childrens advocacy center. Thank you for having us doctor emilymer murase. [inaudible] please forgive the dodger blue [inaudible] gone 44 month without a single Domestic Violence homicide until [inaudible] that record would havent been possible without the leadership of the commission and partnership with the Police Department and all the advocates mpt just want to thank you very much. We can do it again. We did it once before. Minouche candle. I want to say how wonderful it is to be honored with advocates and City Department staff. It is a honor to work with the city with such great collaboration, thank you. Sherry ezhuthachan, childrens advocacy center. Thank you so much. Gina castrorodriguez, victims services. Thank you very much. Mollie brown for huckleberry house. Katie albright from the childrens abuse prevention center. On behalf the San Francisco child abuse prevention sentser and my colleagues that so deeply dedicated to this work i want to thank the commission and Police Department. Someone close to me said child abuse is a crime against the fuch squr humanity and can say the same about Family Violence but together we can end Family Violence and im so privileged to part with the commission and Police Department to make this happening. We can do this together so thank you for your deep partnership in continuing this work. Last but not least our own Police Commissioner sonia melara. I will date myself a little bit here, but im thinking of 1975 when we went to the Police Department and talked about Domestic Violence and the police chief said, what is your problem . I looked at him and we looked at each other and we said, what is his problem . Now im looking at this and thinking, we have come a long way. Thank you so much. Sonia i want to [inaudible] gracious in not saying the name of that chief the rest a googling chief in 1975 i dont have a certificate but have the upmost respect for everything captain santos has done through the drop program and the patient the group showed when they [inaudible] hang on to expertise and the work they have done and everything this group has done to make us a better Police Department. There is no way we get there without everyone behind me and under eddys leadership. The Commission Wants you to have a group photo. Did we bring our commission photographer . Everybody come up to the front with the captain and well take a picture. I think if we could too maybe we can get the [inaudible] captain ewins is back there. Come on captain ewins, you are up. Are the commissioners in the photo. . Commissioner melara, you are needed as a commissioner. To all these awardees, so many want to Say Something to you. Thank you president loftus and thank you everyone for being here tonight and all the work you have done. 25 years ago i had my first domestic vilnss case and jackie ortiz which in the District Attorneys Office and rick forman was onef of the first prosecutors and we didnt have the support and different organizations helping back them so this is a Great Development and for all of you involved in Domestic Violence cases thank you so much bah we know as prosecutors it is the most dif cut case and commissioner loftus and [inaudible] it has come a long way and the cases im sure are still difficult but have support so thank you for all you have done, it is incredible and appreciate it. I just want to thank everybody and the captain, this is great and think what the chief said i want to eco it, you make the Department Much better with all the expertise and knowledge. I [inaudible] was a class mate of mine in law school. She was a District Attorney when i was a public defender so known her a long time and mrs. Ortiz know her as well and know everybody else by reputation and proud of everything that you guys have done and thank you so much. Commissioner hwang, i want to eco that and recognize how fun it is to [inaudible] i remember liz coaching me through one of my last trialwise the Sexual Assault unit. I work with many of you and will be with doctor emily on friday so it is a pleasure to honor all you work on a day to day basis doing the front line trauma work and glad you finally got recognition for what you do. Thank you commissioner and that is a perfect segue to what i wanted to say, i started off the meeting by saying so many familiar faces and people we worked with for so long. What i think is extraordinary about this group is you dont do the group for reward or award or anyone ever saying, thank you you do it because you are trying to make things better for kids and families and it is really hard work and that is quhai it is pornts to recognize what you do and encourage you and honor it is slsh to do what we hope to do which is end Family Violence and do a better job protecting kids and moms and families. Thank you for what you do, thank you for being here after a long day and keep it up. Closer remarks from doctor joe marshall i will just say i worked with a lot of young people who live in homes like this so it is bad on adults and really bad on kids. Lets hope we can eradicate this and keep on moving. Great, thanks. So chief did you want to go back to your report now or anything further . Thank you. Moving along with the last sal bruitary we view of events. This weekendthe week and weekend were busy so we were able to navigate getting president obama in and out on friday and saturday before the air show started on saturday afternoon. As knroi there is restricted air space when air force 1 flies so that was anxious but there were no problems. The columbus day parade went well. Thank you commissioner mazzucco. It was as large as officer we have had in some time. A lot of that credit going to [inaudible] who feeling his italian pride he want ed to march with the other italian officers. Other things that of a high note, we did graduate cadet class number 4 on std and have a total of 56 cadets. 45 are assigned to various stations and departments 11 are down at the Public Safety building. Nbc did a feature on jason johnson, theophorouser that is doing such great work at hunters view. He is a reluctant celebty but does great work. On saturday [inaudible] the hall of justice. It is a Program Designed to [inaudible] Human Trafficking and member thofz San Francisco and oakland chapter of the National Black Police Officer association collected the donations. It was just a great event. Our cay 9 unit participated in a event, bark in the park. I didnt make that up. Saturday they did can nane demonstration with military personal elto show how some of the veterans get past ptsd. There was a couple examples in the media, the 3 referred to as drifters that committed a homicide in fairfax in marin county. We noticed all most immediately when we learned of that homicide the similarities to the Golden Gate Park homicide were startling. We reached out immediately to marin county and compared notes and then when the Yoga Instructor victims veem was founds in oregon. Very good case and that case will be prosecuted in marin county. They did make a apairns today but believe the arraignment is delayed to later in the month. Also there was a suicide at the marriot mar key which revealed a Sexual Assault occurred. It appears we have to wait for the test to come back but believe the suspect that committed the suicide is the suspect in the Sexual Assault. The victim in very bad shape at the hospital is expected to ser vive. Finally we had a fatal bicycle collision along Market Street. The bicyclist appeared to have gotten the tire stuck in the street car track jz traveling between 2 buses and went under a bus. Very sadly but hope achieve vision zero withinby 2024, this is our 17th ped or bike fatality of the year. I wish i could conclude on [inaudible] pedestrian and bikes 14 pedestrian and 3 bikes chief, do you have last years number at this point in the year . I do not as a comparison point. That is helpful. Commissioner mu zuke mazzucco, did you have a question . Questions for the chief . I should look at my screen. Commissioner hwang i ments to ask this question last week but there was a report in the media regarding a allegation of favoritism that academy and wondering if the department has a response the article was more inaccurate than accurate. I do know the recruit they are speaking of. That recruit was not extended in the academy. He had a initial failure and aloud to recycle which is often the case. He was successful in completing the academy and went into the fto program. He was struggling so this is often the case he was not extended and in the article it said 3 months and was allowed to go to a different station. Sometimes a change of scenery awards the recruit to be successful and he was not successful and no longwer the Police Department. Doctor marshall i just want to say and to the commission that officer jason [inaudible] was excellent. It is a great piece. I have it and if you want me to snd to you so you can see it i recommend everybody see it. He is just a great example ofif you want to use the Term Community policing and see a human being do it, it is jj. [inaudible] he makes everybodys job a lot easier. Chief i have one question it was about the neighbor concerns on hate rr straight hate street for the youth of meth there was has been Community Complaint about hate rr straight for the first 4 blocks of h hate street. Captain [inaudible] that you they bought meth, extusy, pills marijuana. We are tracking those cases through the das office and additionally he put more foot paroles in the neighborhood and we are supporting him with more [inaudible] as more versatile and able to get around tool. It is important to note that when it wassomebody may have mentioned i dont know if through next door or neighborhoods conversations that the suspects spent time in Buena Vista Park and it upset the neighbors further. There was a meetest last night, breed and san ford took the meeting and a lot of the energy in the meeting everybody thought it went well and well be helping with Additional Resources in that area until we get it to where the neighborhood believes it should be. Great. Great if you can keep us posted on that. Any other questions for the chief . Okay. Chief do you have the next item on the status update on 6. 09 . Welcome back up captain santos talking about the department [inaudible] 6. 09 Domestic Violence. The way i see it from my position it is working. I think it is very well constructed and like to give you a idea of why i believe this order is working. We first start by looking at the training that is given in regards to 6. 09. At the academy the department provides 14 houroffs Domestic Violence instructions to new recruit officers. Our peace officer [inaudible] requires that the department gets 12 vlt you can see by the 2 extra hours these recruit officers are getting additional and more valuable training than the required 12 hours by post. Those 14 hours of instruction include the department general order 6. 08, 7. 04, children of [inaudible] parents and 5. 20, English Proficiency as well they get present would the post [inaudible] domain and a video presentation. Captain santos can i stop you a second . We are hear hearing about 6. 09. We adopted it last year. There was questions about what the implications might be and changes to the way Domestic Violence is investigated and cros referlthism commission asked for the department to work with Community Partner jz who are here and working oen this to look at some of the way that the [inaudible] is rolling out. Nrfgz information we have now and what we are looking to. We asked captain to report on the progress. Captain sorry i didnt give the proper introduction looking at the implementation of department 6. 09 we look to see how it is impacted the future based on the past. We looked at the referls to the Family Childrens Services for 20s 13. There were 254 referrals and of those 17 children were removed from their homes, 6 were removed in respect to Domestic Violence. In 2014 there were 387 children referred to the Family Child Services, of those, 34 remember removed and 17 were related to Domestic Violence. In 2015, we had 364 referrals. Of that 16 children had been removed and 7 had been removed as a result of Domestic Violence. From the members that i have seen presented i think we are consistent. I dont see a spike in the numbers that have been reported. I think as a result our officers are really doing a tremendous job making referrals appropriately in the situations they are placed in. I think we have done well. Now, as far as a breakdown of the race of the children that have been removed, i dont have that available. I reached out to the Family Children Services and sieveia deporto the director of Family Children Serviceicize out of town but we have been in email communication and shell look into that as soon as she gets back. As well we also looked at the Family Children Service card we want to give to all the officers. There were 4 questions that the advocates have concerns about. Language that needed to be addressed. We reached out to Family Children Services and that will be coming shortly. I had a conversation with director deporto and assured well get this taken care of as soon as she gets back. Are you referring to in the last piece the referral card officers will give to for example, a mother when the Police Officer made a determination to call family and Child Services because there were the various factors felony and arrest and other things present, a weapon and gun in the home, all the factors in the dgo, that is the card given to the woman or parent and let them know what to expect . That is correct. It helps guide them through the process so they can work through a difficult situation in a way that would make it easier for them. That is right. Do you want to talk about the community par tisitation in the creation of that card . Yes, i [inaudible] have a opportunity to work the advocates [inaudible] was tasked with that responsibility. He represented the special victims unit and worked to make sure the language in the card is currents and represents the best interest of all the advocate squz the services they provide. As well it is a construction of the great tool for the officers to have so they are not in the field wundsering what to do next. Now they can give the card to the victim can confidence knowing that they have the opportunity to seek a resource that will help them. So the idea behind it is obviously therehas been a Domestic Violence arrest and because of the [inaudible] factors now Family Child Services is brought in so it is information for the parent and mother to know exactly what to expect and what resources to avail herself of which is important we have the Community Partners involved because the whole idea is that a scary moment for the survivor of the Domestic Violence to think there is another system to interact with. Is there anything else you want ed to the share as a update . Like i said, i cant thank our advocates enough. I cant thank the commission enough for supporting the work that we do. Domestic violence is truly a unfortunate incident and people that have to go through that it is a life changing event and an event nobody wants to go to. It is something children have to grow up trying to understand. Now we have the tools to take the children involved in the ensdant including the victims and survivors and helping them toward the future so think it is a great collaborative effort by all and want to say thank you. Okay. Any questions for acting captain santos . Did you want to inviteis there anyone in particular who youmented to invite up to speak as a partner to this work . Would anybody want to come up . Come on beverly. Come on. Thank you so much. We were here together a year ago last october and you were so gracious in adopting in looking at officer involved violence and new dgo. I think we still have work to do. I say that when im here, but we do. We want to make sure that the cross reporting with cps doesvent a Chilling Effect on the community and they will still call for help and not have a Chilling Effect [inaudible] the fear of a system is quite real. But i do think we made a huge difference and meet as much as we can and need to do more and think well be in better shape when we fully implement the [inaudible] questions that minush worked on the department adopted. I dont know if we are training on those yet. The know your rights cards will make this difference. We needed this yesterday so the sooner the better and new training and protocol to implement the djo. In some ways we have done okay but we havent all our tools in place so we have kind of been flying under the radar for a year so we need to get all those tools that the community and department and commission committed to do. Im glad the numbers are not terrible but lets get them better. Lets have earlier intervention both in the community and with Law Enforcement so we are not seeing these situations where cps has to step in to a already terrible situation. We have a lot to do and can be proud of what we have done so far and thank you for your leadership. I also want to thank [inaudible] from Asian Pacific islander [inaudible] the language for the card and it is a honor to work with you all. Commissioner hwang. In the past year i think i heard anecdotely about cases where the lap protocol wasnt filed and think there was one complaint filed with the occ regarding a incident with a moan lingual victim wasnt interviewed in the course. I wonder if the community or if acting captain santos has seen any of these cases or put that in the con texthave we seen use the Language Line [inaudible] is there anything to see if that protocol is working in the cases . Again, i read a lot of Police Reports and think 609 is a success. Quh you look at the language English Proficiency general order we worked very closely with Beverly Upton and samara marian making sure that the process that we take is smooth. We had some issues that we noticed that we addressed when it comes to reporting. We are using that Language Access line much much more and i think if mr. Marion was here i think she would state the same. We had meetings every month regarding the lap and at that meeting we scr a opportunity to discuss issues before us and any issues wevent resolved we are working to resolve so the Language Access line is working and we are move toog get a couple more languages installed so we can better serve a greater portion of the people that reside here in San Francisco. One thing that is a benefit about the Language Access group is samaracommissioner melara attends to the extent to a issue comes up where there is a breakdown either deputy chief or someone at the levl attends the meeting so they try to troubleshoot in real time. Doctor marshall. This is moving outside the scope of the [inaudible] if anybodyin the Domestic Violence cases that happened in the last year, is it still overwemingly male on female violence . It hasnt changed . The reason i ask is i hear the card being giver toon the mother. That is probably 95 percent the time. I wonder if that is still pretty much the scenario. Commissioner marshall to answer your question, yes that is still the trend that occurring now. There hasnt been any significant change so we are still seeing male on female battery. Thank you. Other questions from the commission . Abigail stewart kahn, welcome commissioner president loftus on behalf the child abuse prevention sentser we were here with our colleagues a year ago and want to offer or support for this order. Reporting of Domestic Violence to xhiled protective services and the continued work with child pective services and Police Department is good for children and survivors of Domestic Violence if we do it correctly. It is really important those charged in the city with protecting children and keeping the safety know about those kids and it is equally important we provide the resource tooz the survivor parent so they can say connected to their child and be there with their child. They are their primary protection. What we would love to see more of is continued look of data on this to make sure it isnt having the Chilling Effect and the cases are managed in Children Service squz to work with Children Service squz the Police Department to understand the deep complexity families struggling with Domestic Violence on a daily basis. These are not open and shut cases and the more we can educate officeerse, Child Protective Services the more we can support the children who are the victims and the parents who are also the victims of these crimes so thank you for your leadership around this hoard order and keeping the spotlight here the reason i ask that is because we want to eliminate this. What he is talking about the victims, the children who are the victims inch in the this case the women but dont see enough done with the perpetrators that put us in the situation we are talking about. We have to get to them so they dont do it in the first place. [inaudible] i need to know that so i can continue to step up the work in that area because we need to stop them from doing it in the first place i think commissioner melara has thoughts for you doctor marshall doctor masher one of the biggest voids that exist in the service is service for men. Unfortunately there is nothing that is funded in San Francisco or actually in most places the only place that services to men are available are mandated when there is a criminal case a Probation Department has services but that is about it. In those cases where there is no criminal case involved, there is Nothing Available and unfortunately that is where we are at and i love to think we can do something. I dont know how, but there is no funding available for men services when it comes to issues of anger management or stopping the violence. I do think that often times as terms of probation bl thereare a number of nationally iward winning programs in San Francisco resolve to stop the violence and a number of other violence wuns someone is held accountable and on probation which we know there are so many challenges [inaudible] once we get there are programs. I just want to say we were here a year ago and had a discussion 2 years before that and think this is a good example we dont always agree completely but we will reject the notion that well choose between survivors oaf Domestic Violence and children. We will Work Together and keep resolving the issues. It is good to see we havent seen a spike and need to stay vigilant. I appreciate the captain continuing. [inaudible] can help catch things maybe we forget. What we often say is policing is reacting to things happening but this is a commission that has a continued focus to make sure we see hoy the djo plays out and will continue to look at this and grateful for the partnership because it happens when you dont agree. The fact we are still at the table and talking about these things on behalf of kids and families so thank you to everyone who is here. Yes, come on up. Berry johnson here for [inaudible] i also wanted to thank you for the leadership in thir area and express or continued partnerb with sfpd. We are working on a protocol with captain santos and his lieu tinants and the cac and the child abuse prevention counsel. We are committed to working with advocates to provide improving service squz providing you all with the data you need to show we are not having a Chilling Effect on reports. Thank you. And thanks for jumping up. Amazing what can happen when we all talk to each other. Any, enough. Im off my soap box. Chief is there anything further . No that conclude my report. Sargeen call the next line item item 2 b occ report, review of actirfbties tivities good evening commissioners chief suhr and memberoffs the audience. Occ staff and i returned from the annual training Conference Held in riverside last week. I moderated 2 panel, one on Early Intervention qu how bias effects Law Enforcement decision making. The panel on bias including uc earn u urvine [inaudible] oakland dep 25e police chief daniel outlaw and department of Justice Civil Rights Division [inaudible] professor richard wrote several scholarly articles on bias with ucla social psychologist [inaudible] professor goth is currently on sabbatical at harvard. Richardson conducts train frg the Police Department and excited to be included on the panel. Deputy chief outlaw spoke of the work oakland is