Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Govt Audits And Oversight Committee 20161020

Good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, thursday, october 20th. Im the chair of the committee, supervisor aaron peskin, joined by member and board president to my left, supervisor london breed, our clerk is ms. Erica major and ms. Major do you have any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic derises and completed speaker cards and documents included as part of file should be submitted to the clerk and items act on will appear on the november 1st, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise state ed. I. E. , 1sy resolution authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to execute a Grant Agreement with broadway sansome associates lp. Thank you, ms. Major. Is there a representative here from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development . Good morning. Joan mcnamara, Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. Good morning, ms. Mcnamara. Seeking aproval to enter into a 30year subsidy agreement with chinatown Community Development center to provide rental subsidies to 12 extremely low, and lowincome households previously displaced by city action. The subsidis would enable the 12 households to live at broadway sansome apartments and pay 30 per hour Household Income for rent with the citys Municipal Transportation Authority picking up the difference between the units full rent and 30 of the households income. In 2012 to give you a little bit of background mta purchased and later demonthished the chinatown building in which these households were living to make way for the central subway chinatown station. As required under federal relocation law, mta provided 42 months of rental subsidy to each household displace to each of the displaced households. The subsidy was used to pay the rent differential between 30 of the households income, and the rent that was being charged. In addition to the federallyrequired Relocation Assistance mta wished to provide permanent replacement units as an option to the displaced residents. Mta and mohcd identified the broadway sansome site to provide the unit and mta committed 8 million to the construction of broadway sansome a 75unit Affordable Housing Housing Development locates at 255 broadway. 12 of the displaced households with incomes at or below 50 ami were offer a unit at broadway sansome. Five of the households qualified for 50 ami units, and 7 qualified for 30 ami units. All households are required to pay 30 of their households income for rent, with mta picking up the difference between the actual rent charged and the households 30 payment. The subsidy will continue to the households for up to 30 years, provided at least one member of the households was an original displacee, and the Household Income is no higher than 50 ami. The total projected subsidy over 30 years, which is based on the households current incomes is 1,192,320. Or 39,744 per year. Households are annually certified, and as their incomes go up, their subsidy is reduced. This ends staffs presentation, and i have both Whitney Jones from chinatown cdc here and staff from mta to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Thank you it all seems very straightforward and the budget analyst recommends approval. Mr. Jones, anything that you would like to add on behalf of community cdc . Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item no. 1 . Seeing none well close Public Comment and supervisor breed, if there is no objection, well send the item to the full board with recommendation without objection. Item 2 or would you like to skip over it . Madam clerk, please call item no. 3 out of order. Yes, item no. 3 say resolution establishing a new Public Benefits civic nonprofit entitled the yerba buena gardens conservancy to assume longterm operating and management responsibilities for yerba buena gardens. I do not see ms. Venancion from supervisor kims office, so why dont we go to item 4. Item 4, hearing to consider that the transfer of type 48 onsale general public premises license from 451 bush street to 447 bush street forces sffsre, llc. Doing business as as fluxus will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of San Francisco. Do we have a representative from the Police Department . Sergeant kennedy . And let me start by thanking president breed for transferring this item from the committee to the government audit and Oversight Committee because i know time is of the essence and i was personally able to go out and meet with the applicant onsite, and look at the premises and with that, sergeant kennedy. San Francisco Police has previously mentioned that we approve and stand by our decision. Thank you, sergeant. And as to the questions that i had at a previous hearing, with regard to issues related to the singleresidency occupancy hotel those have been asked and answered. Would the applicant like to testify . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. And supervisor breed, if you have no objections, well send this item to the full board with recommendation without objection. [ gavel ] while madam clerk, please read item no. 2. Yes, item no. 2 is a hearing to receive updates from various cry departments who are required to provide a response on the implementation of recommendation no. R5 dcontained in the 20152016 civil grand jury report entitled into the open opportunities for more timely and transparent investigation into fatal San Francisco Police Department officerinvolved shootings. Let me start by thanking the civil grand jury for their work and we previously heard this item in the middle of september. And had a couple of outstanding issues. One of them, being the status of the memorandum of understanding between the Police Officers association and city and county of San Francisco, and i see that chief mckeveren is here and the other was pending the release 1. 8 million for the District Attorneys unit and those have been released and ms. Numan, what day did the budget and finance committee release those funds . September 28th, 2016. Okay. I think our hearing was september 15th and it was supposed to be released by october 1st and indeed it was. With that, deputy chief. Good morning, a appreciate the promotion, but im still a commander. [laughter ]. Commander, sorry. Thank you very much. Good morning, supervisor breed and supervisor peskin. Good to see you this morning, and members of the public and the grand jury representatives. I know there is really one topic tonight this morning that you wanted to talk on our current status of the mou with the District Attorney and i will get to that in a second, but i just wanted to speak on a couple of things that happened since our last meeting. Obviously last week the department received the doj collaborative review initiative with 270 recommendations and as you know the mayor and chief agreed with the report and committed to all recommendations within that. There are timeframes set in place, but we have a lot of work to do, especially in the next 18 months. Were currently prioritizing those recommendations and Response Plan for the implementation of those reforms. What we found that we expected within that was there were many linkages between some of the other reports that we received, and youve received in the last few months including the Blueribbon Panel its report and directives on 21st Century Policing and grand jury report specifically to ois investigations. What we did after we got that report was we looked at it and there are a number of as i said, linking recommendations, that were from the doj collaborative review, as well as from the doj report and just to name a few of them, some of the things that came out of the report was a creation of an officerinvolved shooting web page with statistics and updates to the officerinvolved shootings, which was also a recommendation from the grand jury report. And were currently working on that as we speak. So that we can get responsive to both of those reports. Obviously revisions of general orders as you know they have been outdated for a long time and that is one of the processes that well be look the. Standard methods of timely notifications to the District Attorney and other responding units, when there is is an officerinvolved shooting. Press conferences and town Hall Meetings with the policy. We do have tonight a town hall meeting with the chief out in for the ois that happened friday night. So im happeny to report those will continue, and that is something that the grand jury recommended. I know that they at the time had talked about having codified, written policies for that and i think that was a very good recommendation and were looking at that as well. So that we have not only what our responses is going to be in the future, but a directive that we can point to, and that the public can see for the transparency. And the last thing is that we talked about and here today for the creation of the new mou with the District Attorney. Where we are ot that, after we met last time, the District Attorney provided to the Police Department a draft mou between the Police Department, and the District Attorneys office. About a week ago, the department met i was there with chief sinez and christine is here from the das office and we presented changes to the mou, looking at certain things that we currently have in our general policies and procedures and policies that were required to agree with and agreements with allied agencies and agreements with other agencis with officerinvolved shootings and some codsfied response to how that would be if there was a shooting say between bart pd and an outside agency and provided them with basic of charter and discussions with the City Attorney. We presented to them last week and last week chief chaplin and chief sinese met and discuss what discussed what they agreed and they currently have a meeting planned, i believe next week, to discuss it further. So we have both exchanged mous and the chief and the District Attorney are currently in discussions with about the agreement what is in it, so we can move forward and hopefully sign an mou between the go agencies. With, that the last thing is [tkhaerplt ] is moving forward with internal change s to response to oiss and what is out of the mou and those will be presented at future presentations on grand jury reports and other reports that we got from the doj and the collaborative review. With that im happy to answer any questions, or if you want ms. Debary to come up to speak about that process from yesterday. Thank you, commander mckecklin, supervisor breed. So we have a change to the response. So this i dont have any questions. Thank you, commander. And i just want to make sure that make a change to our response for the response to the civil grand jury report and ill enter this in for the record. Resolution that the board reports to the presiding just of the superior court that recommendation r. 5. 5. On page 4 [ 3 ]. Has been implemented for the reason as follows the board of supervisors appropriated and placed on budget and finance committee reserve 1. 8 million in fiscal year 20162017 to add 14 positions in the District Attorneys office to expedite officerinvolved shooting investigations. On september 28th, 2016 the budget and finance committee released 1. 5 million to hire these 14 positions, in fiscal year 201617, and retain. 3 million onbudget and finance committee reserve. The board of supervisors agrees that future funding decisions and Department Oversight should evaluate the das improvement and promptly completing criminal investigations and issuing charging decision letter in officerinvolved shooting cases and be it resolved. Okay. Motion made by supervisor breed. Which well circle back around to after Public Comment. Ms. Debary. Good morning, chair peskin, supervisor breed, thank you for having me here this morning, Christine Debary by way of update on the work of the officerinvolved shooting civil grand jury report, we have made as indicated in the last hearing the requested improvements to our website, and continue to do so. Were hopeful at the conclusion of mou negotiations we can put up more thorough information for the public about the process and procedure. We have posted the procedures that currently exist. As indicated we received the majority of the funding, though there is still a portion of that on reserve to the Budget Committee and well see its release at the appropriate time. Immediately upon receiving approval for those positions, posted them and have been receiving resumes and conducting reviews. And are making very Good Progress towards identifying future personnel for that, and quite excited about the prospects of who will be well be able to bring on for the unit. The critical and outstanding issue is the mou and we have not reached agreement and da indicated yesterday to the chief he is fine with the vast majority of what the Police Department has proposed in their mou. But there remains the challenge of the criminal investigation. Obviously the administrative portions of any work that the Police Department would do around a firearms review board, around returntoduty, any administrative or personnel sanctions that they wanted to implement is certainly not our purview and we have no interest in crossing over that line. But the criminal investigation remains criticallies important and the 21st century report and many reports that have been released recently create deat conducting a criminal investigation of onesself is less than ideal. We would actually welcome an opportunity to reportback. Thank you. Any members of the public who would like to testify on this item or any members of the civil grand jury, who would like to testify on this item . Please come forward. Good morning, eric vander pool with 2015to 16 civil grand jury and i wanted to thank you for bringing this back on the agenda to get various updates from the departments. As a concerned citizen and representative of the civil grand jury our hearts go out to the officer who was shot in the officerinvolved shooting incidents last friday at the lakeshore district and were sending our best wishs for a full recovery and our thoughts and prayers are also with the family of the suspect who was shot and killeds and at the center of that incident. Is wanted to acknowledge that and shows it reinforces the importance of the work that everyone is diligently doing around officerinvolved shootings. On that note i would like to recognize all the departments who have been working to push forward some of the recommendations that civil grand jury made in our report. Its an exciting time, especially now that the doj has released its report, and the Blueribbon Panel report, the civil grand jury report and doj report all complementary and encourage all department s that they look at all report because they are not identical. There are different recommendations, but none of them if are in conflict and shouldnt be mutually exclusive and as everyone continues to work on this topic that we look at all of the reports in tandem to make sure that we bring our investigators in the officerinvolved shootings into the open, make them as timely and transparent as possible and encourage the San Francisco Police Department and da to work to a new agreement so this investigation process can be haged as independently and as transparently and as timely as possible. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Vanderpool and thank you again for your work and the work of the civil grand jury. Are there any other individuals who would like to testify on this item no. 2 . Seeing none, well close Public Comment and there is say motion to amend that supervisor breed made on the first resolve on page 3, can we take that without objection . I wanted to make a comment, mr. Vanderpool brought up a really good point about there being first of all a number of reports provided by the civil grand jury, which we definitely truly appreciate the work that went into developing those reports. But we also have the Blueribbon Panel report and the cops report, and the board of supervisors is currently planning to continues Quarterly Committee of the wholes in order to have continued discussion of this issue to see how far we have come from the time that these reports are issued, to implementation of many of the recommendations that exist. I do think its important that we continue to make sure that were having a public discussion around this particular issue, and were demonstrating clearly that progress is being made. And although i know that we want to see it happen sooner rather than later, to shine a light on this, to keep it in the public eye, and to consistent life move in the right direction is really important. I think in looking at these reports as a whole and continuing to Work Together is going to help us get to a place where well eventually, hopefully be able to reestablish the trust that has been broken between the communities and the San Francisco Police Department. Im looking forward to that day. I know its going to take time, but i think were taking a bold step in the right direction, and well continue to push on this body to make sure that discussion is at the top of our agenda on a regular basis. Supervisor cohen proposed as resolution, i think were meeting in november, to have these discussions, if i recall, chair peskin. And the following meeting will take place next year, 2017, in february. And quarterly after that. So im looking forward to a continued discussion. So again, thank you to the civil grand jury for their work on this and these reports will not just be put on the shelf and forgotten. They will be pushed and implemented by this body from my perspective based on the interest of this board to see us make progress in this regard. Thank you again very much. With that, chair peskin. Yes. Supervisor peskin, just for clarity, the motion the action will be recorded as prepared in committee as a motion, because this item is a hearing. Correct. Okay. And it will be recommended to the full board. Correct. That will be the order without objection and let me concur with president breed, the board of supervisors is obviously very focused, and the confluence of those three reports has been very, very helpful for our work. [ gavel ] we have already called item no. 3. And ms. Veneerasion has joined us. The floor is yours. Good morning, chair peskin and president breed, from supervisor kims office. This is the second time were hearing this urging resolution and acknowledging the establishment. Yerba buena gardens conservancy. I believe there was a lot of testimony last time about the formation of this new Nonprofit Organization to maintain it the interrelatedness and synergy of the open space in yerba buena gardens and to once again thank the stakeholders who came together with the city and the office of Community Infrastructure and it investment and the San Francisco Real Estate Division to put together this plan. I have some amendments todays to begin the feedback from the Community Hearing last week and to address some of the issues raised in harvey roses report, namely the development of a communities facilities plan. Having more direction and specificity as to the composition of the board of the yerba buena conservancy and acknowledging there are some important cultural institutions adjacent to yerba buena gardens that was mentioned at the last hearing, particularly the museum of african diaspara and adding the San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center which is adjacent to the gardens as part of the analyses and the plan. I think underlying this resolution is one, recognizing the work of the stakeholders, but also these are important assets and institutions that serve the city and purpose. Its part of the interconnectedness of the Moscone Center and these are assets that visitors attend and this is something that should be planned for in the longterm. For these types of facilities and these types of art facilitis that are also burdened with having to fundraise for their operations annually and year after year, a tenyear Capital Planning timelines is not sufficient. We need to have a longerterm horizon in terms of taking a look at what revenues are needed to maintain these assets . And that is what were calling upon the expertise of the San Francisco division of real estate to do by asking them to put together a plan by march 2017. The original resolution, which we had introduced in june, had a yearend timeline, but i think that changing the date to march 2017 should provide sufficient time for them. The plan also calls out for an investigation of resources, and names the central soma plan as a new area of upzoning and a potential. I just want to emphasize this is a potential Revenue Source and all of that will be for discussion with the expertise of the department of real estate. And then ultimately the board of supervisors to decide on the allocation of funds. So im happy to walk through the amendments linebyline. Is that what you would like me to do . I think the ones we were most focused on, which was the composition, and appointments to the board, as well as the involvement of the San Francisco Real Estate Division have been addressed on pages 4 and 5. I think that is what we were focused on. I guess a question to mr. Updike, but as the capital number moved from 30 to 50 million at our last hearing on this i said to mr. Updike, what do you think the real number is and he said, i dont know yet or words to that effect. If we turn it over to john updike, that would be helpful. Good morning, chair peskin, supervisor breed. Unfortunately, we still dont know exactly. However, we are running models of. Both the model that the mjm management, the current Management Entity for yerba buena gardens has and what is called comet. That does not produce great returns over long periods of time. So were validating that information with our own citys system known as srsf that was referenced in the civil grand jury report regarding our capital and maintenance process for improvements. So its really timely that we have taken a deepdive into what that can do and thus system to better allocate system resources. Were continuing that effort and certainly supportive to get more time to be sure these numbers are vetted. And want to work with the stakeholders on that. Plus the march timeframe syncs up very nicely with the capital plan process, when that capital plan will be put to bed in the spring and move forward to the board for review. So we can input that into the new 10year capital plan and we look forward to doing exactly that in the coming time. I dont know if 50 million is the right number. However, what i will say is that we took the revenue numbers, which are fairly known, added in some components for the conservancys anticipated costs of taking on some obligations. So added that into the expense stream. And assumed a fixed amount of capital renewal costs of 50 million taken over a 30year cost stream. Frankly, it looks fairly good. Were able to maintain a reserve in excess of a percentage of calculated replacement value that we should have as a bestpractice. So were actually initially encouraged, but well still want to vet these numbers and be sure that we have accuracy here. Of. I hope that is helpful. Im just wondering whether or not we want to further tinker with the last recital, the whereas at the bottom of the page 3 whereas the gardens is projected to need approximately 50 million Capital Funding over the next 30 years whether or not we want to Say Something about subject to the division of real estates analysis . Yes, chair peskin, it would be approximately. Or subject to validate. Something along those lines would be appreciated. Thank you. You are comfortable with the resolution as amended, mr. Updike . Having confirmed that is what we saw last night, yes, i think we are comfortable deputy City Attorney givener has any comments. Deputy City Attorney jon givner. My understanding of the resolve clauseses that say shall or will are anticipation of anticipating how, for instance, the appointments will be made, rather than imposing a legal requirement on this new nonprofit that the appointments will be made in this way. Other than that, reading those words will and shall meaning essentially should, i have no concerns. Mr. Givner, you are specifically, i assume, addressing on page 4 the be it further resolved yerba buena gardens conservancy will be governed by . That is right. As well as two resolve clauses down, the conservancy will continue to contract for i think those are all the resolution in effect is the board saying this is what we intend for this body to do and be. Do you suggest that we specifically say that, or is this selfevident in your opinion . I think it would probably be best, if the board, if you explicitly say that or replaced some of the wills owe with should, or its the intent of the board if you dont, because that is a lot of line editing right now, i would just note for the public here and for the record that is the meaning of this resolution. Okay. Are there members of the public who would like to testify on this item, please come forward . Good morning, my name is kathy, the director of the Yerba Buena Community Benefits District and here in interim board of the conservancy and to go on record saying that we are in support of the sponsors proposed amendments to the resolution. And that we had done some work that has been incorporated into this about the board size, split and composition. So i have brought copis for you guys. I think you have seen this, but just wanted to say that we are in support of a 15member board with 9 6 split and have proposed and thrown some ideas for composition for each of those, but open to conversation and looking forward to those conversations with the city on how that composition actually how it ends up in the wash. Those are just our suggestions at this point. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Ellerling. Good morning, supervisors, i just want to of course focus on the funding. As you spoke to operating and capital, these are obviously pivotal to the success of the gardens now and in the future. They are difficult challenges, and we will work with the city in solving them. But i do want to note, its very important to remind all concerned that it will be the board of supervisors, yourselves, next year and of course with the mayors agreement to really figure out how to allocate the available resources . Especially from the central soma plan, which is going to, in fact, generate hundreds of millions of dollars of resources over the long haul. And of course before it gets to there, with regard to the central soma plan, the planning commission, too, musts give support and agreement. And so the staff is not necessarily in agreement with us, but at the moment but it is the commission and it is this board and our mayor who really shall make the decision how to allocate the resources. And we look forward to that conversation. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other members of the public, well close public testimony. And well let the words of deputy City Attorney givner stand as it relates to the intent as expressed in a number of wills, and finally why dont we add on page 3, on the last whereas, the gardens is projected to need approximately 50 million Capital Funding over the next 30 years for routine renovation of its buildings and facilities subject to validation by the San Francisco Real Estate Division. If those amendments and the amendments that ms. Venarasion brought are acceptable, supervisor breed well adopt those without objection and send the item to the full board with recommendation, and that concludes our oh, one piece of housekeeping, which is we need a motion to excuse supervisor yee. So moved. Moved by supervisor breed without objection, and we are adjourned [ gavel ] i didnt o sound familiar do you keep on getting up theres an easier way. 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Welcome to our event to mark Domestic Violence awareness month. So i want to invite the folks with the signs to come on in and walk in closer. Before i introduce our speakers tonight, i want to recognize the Domestic Violence survivors among us, they deserve our continued support and a round of applause for our survivors. [ applause ] next i want to recognize the frontline staff of our Partner Agencies and all of the folks here who work on fighting Domestic Violence every day and lets show them our appreciation [ applause ] Domestic Violence continues to be a huge problem in San Francisco last year there were almost 9,000 911 calls for help, 3,000 Domestic Violence cases reported to the Police Department, and according to official counts we lost four lives in the last two years. Were so fortunate to have a mayor who has made ending violence against women, including Domestic Violence a priority. At the begin thing of mayor lees tenure in 2011 the city was investing 3 million in a year in direct services to survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking and under mayors leadership this funding has increased to 6. 3 Million Dollars today. [applause] [applause] without further ado, please help me welcome our mayor, edwin lee a true leader in ending violence against women. Please give him a warm welcome [ applause ]. Thank you emily and everyone, welcome to city hall. As you all know, october marks Domestic Violence awareness month, and i want to say thank you to members of on or our board of supervisors, supervisors campos and weiner are here and they agree with me that funding for more doors to safety is really important for this city. And you know, i think Domestic Violence and abuse of loved ones most of the time happens behind doors. So were trying to open more doors. So it doesnt happen. And that is why we have resources to spend to make sure our prosecutors and our da and Police Department are working together to make sure that we hold individuals accountable. That is, of course, our criminal Justice System. But we also know, given the great work that our department, our status of women, our great, wonderful communitybased nonprofits that are working every day, have seen other doors close, and we have opened them up. Because we need a School System that educates our youth. Violence is not acceptable. It may be good for certain types of sports to hit a ball, but its never good to hit another person. That is what education door is opened with this funding. We need our Health Care Centers to have their doors opened so we can treat and find those that are abused and help them out of that misery and Housing Authority to make sure Public Housing residents dont feel any less than anybody to get treatment and support. We open up the workplace to make sure that we can talk about it, and that reports can be made around Domestic Violence. Our schools, our youth, are there to help us prevent and to support those who are victims. All of these systems, we are opening more doors with this resource. So i have been proud to work with the board to increase funding. Its not so much about the dollar amount, we actually all have to feel that we have completed every single door opening to make sure we prevent violence. Because every time we hear of that fatality, we look upon ourselves and say what did we not do to try to prevent that from happening . That is why were going to be even more successful. Finally, were in the process of creating a brandnew program. Again to connect survivors of Domestic Violence, who call the police. We want to connect them immediately to an advocate to make sure all of the things are done properly at the very time that person that victim is in need. And were going to do that with this additional funding. Were using data from the Family Violence Council Report to start this program, and were starting it right in the bayview, because the bayview and the Bayview District has the highest call volume of 911 calls related to Domestic Violence. So let us all keep focused. Let us make sure that not only are we making awareness, but were actually investing in the very programs that will end Domestic Violence. With that, im happy again, tonight, to announce for the fourth time with everybodys support, but especially with the support maybe its 6 million times support from our San Francisco giants tonight, city hall will be lit in purple for the support that we have for awareness of Domestic Violence. Let us all celebrate that and continue with the giants. Thank you [ applause ] thank you so much, mr. Mayor. Next please help me welcome someone who represents the heart of the community, my dear friend, woman warrior, Beverly Upton with a very special presentation to make to the mayor. [ applause ]. If you know me you heard me say before i have the best job in the world and now i have the best job in the best city in the world. Thank you so much. Were really here today with this letter signed by so many of you that are ending violence against women, violence against children, violence against transgender womens, violence against the lgbt community. We are here to say that we stand together to end Domestic Violence. We want to take a moment to thank mayor ed lee for his continuing support for raising those dollars for us, for the board purple on city hall be a beacon to everyone in San Francisco and beyond for safety, justice and healing. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you so much, beverly. That is such an important acknowledgment of the citys support. Next i want to welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener who stands with us today in the fight to end violence against women. Please welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener. [ applause ] good evening. And welcome everyone to San Francisco city hall and i especially want to welcome our students from school of the arts and the district that i represent. Welcome to city hall. [ applause ] thank you. So Domestic Violence, its one of those things that it is always present, and its often just underneath the surface. And i think a lot of times people dont talk about it, and its very silent, and its secret, and its hidden. But it is always, always there, and it is deep and broad and toxic in its impact on our community. And once in a while something happens that brings it to the surface and people finally start talking. That happened four years ago this month in this building when sadly the board of supervisors, a minority of the board of supervisors made the wrong decision in allowing our sheriff to keep serving. I will just call it out. That was one of those moments when people started to talk, and i remember in the days unfortunate decision, a tragic decision, i really was reminded how broad and deep this problem is. The people that would talk to me about their experience in a relationship, about their experience as a child, observing or seeing one parent abusing another parent, or the experience that they had with a college roommate, or a friend who had been abused. People who havent been abused, but it has impacted their lives and how many people in this city, in this society have been deeply, deeply affected . Yeah have been deeply affected by Domestic Violence . And so it is so important to talk about it. And not just to sweep it under the rug, or quietly take care of it. We need to be talking about this problem, because that is the only way that were going to put an end to it once and for all. So lets keep fighting thank you. [ applause ] thank you, so much, scott i want to acknowledge a few senior officials Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu is with us today [ applause ] and if you might hold your applause, we also have list liz and jackie and Police Commander greg and adult probation chief karen fletcher, if we could give them all a big round of applause. [ applause ] i also want to thank mayors deputy chief of staff Paul Henderson and our budget analyst laura bush who joined us today and chief fletcher asked me to make one quick announcement to save the date for friday october 28th, 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. The Adult Probation Department is supporting veterans and survivors of Family Violence from trauma to healing from 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. And please join us there. I would like to if any introduce the Deputy Health director at department of Public Health and please help me welcome dr. Chan. [ applause ] thank you emily. I just want to spend my five minutes just giving a little bit of the data that reflects supervisor wieners and the mayors sentiments about us coming together. The mayors sentiment and also the underlying prevalence that we all know is in San Francisco and most of us know that the prevalence one in three women have been victims of intimate Partner Violence and in San Francisco we know among our most vulnerable women, those in ninemonths of pregnancy, there is a wide disparity in ethnicity, as well as socioeconomic class. So amongst those who are most stressed, those in poverty. The prevalence is 11 . That is about three times higher than those who are not in poverty. So that really speaks to the increasing gap between the haves and have nots in San Francisco and what that does to all of us. Im in Public Health and im a pediatrician and tell you this issue profoundly affects women and children. This prevalence of Domestic Violence experienced by lowincome women and women of all classes, causes an increase in coping and reactive behaviors and that is why we have this link in intimate Partner Violence causing a fourfold risk increased risk in drug use, fivefold risk in depression and of course, increased risk of suicidality and it affects babies too. Women who are experiencing intimate Partner Violence are three times more likely to have a baby born preterm or lowbirth weight. So this all attributes to life course of consequences in child abuse and neglect and drug addiction. But there is hope in the Health Community and research we now recognize and understand that your interventions are aeffective. Primary care intervence and communitybased interventions are effective and its more and more important that we come together, integrate our Community Programs and health services. So that we can better address this issue as an entire community. One great example is that our county hospital led by many of you advocates, and internal medicine physicians, dr. Lee kimberg, who has received a federal grant, the arise grant. That really builds upon the partnership of San Francisco General Hospital, ucsf, bay area legal aid, la casa, against violence and Trauma Recovery center to provide integrated screening, counseling, quality counseling, and effective referrals to all of the women who go through our county health system. So this type of integration we feel is very promising. Its a National Leader and its becoming a National Model of how we in San Francisco can integrate our Services Better to serve our most vulnerable population at their most vulnerable times. Thank you very much for all you have your service. [ applause ] thank you very much, dr. Chan and i want to acknowledge kathy, who is here representing sheriff Vicky Hennessey and our Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu would like to say a few words. Thank you, i serve as San Franciscos elected asesor and im so honored to stand with beverly and with you, emily and all of our Community Partners to bring awareness to Domestic Violence. My comments will be short. When i stand here today i see how wonderful it is to see over the 100 people here all behind us, but also in front of us. Who came out because they understand just how important this cause is, to bring awareness. And i know that here we have 100 people already who know that they can each play a role when they see Domestic Violence happening, or they are worried that Domestic Violence might be happening, that they are going to do something. That we all take a pledge to do something about it and to make sure that our loved ones arent suffering alone. Emily was just telling me there are a ton of resources that are available and listed on the department on the status of womens website and encourage everyone who cares about this issue to please take a look at it and if you know anybody of your friends or any of your family who is going through something and not ready to take about it, please be a shoulder and please share with them all the ways that we might we able to help them. I think that is the only way were going to end Domestic Violence with that, congratulations emily on your tireless leadership year in and year out [ applause ]. Thank you carmen and i want to next introduce carmen chung and gabby, High School Seniors who participate in the young asian women against Violence Project of the Community Youth center. Lets give it up for carmen and gabby. [ applause ] hi my name is gabby. Hi, my name is karlen and were from the Leadership Program called young asian against violence. We dedicate its a program dedicated to positive empowerment and development of api High School Youth young asian women in San Francisco and to strengthen resilience, pride, healing and knowledge of young asian women to advocate for the end of Domestic Violence in our community. We educate about violence against women through creating and for thiating workshops and education creates longterm effect rather than a bandaid solution and enable using to create a foundation of change. Together we stand in solidarity with the 15yearold meadows who was incarcerated for defending herself and her family from her abusivefather and today is the day of her Court Hearing and instead of being given a safe space to heal she is being isolated from her community and loved one as she faced prosecution. It angers us to see one of our own peers for being punished for defending herself. Why are systems that are supposed to protect us harming us . As youth, our experiences are often invalidated. We have few opportunities to speak up for ourselves. We are disempowered. There are limited resources and space for healing and safety. And its really rare for us to find the resources. It} n a society where youth hold less power than adults we need spaces to be heard and four survivors to be visible and validated and providing a space for young women to share their ideas and experiences and create and opportunity to heal and grow from trauma. Youth are capable, but we need a community willing to stand with us in times of need, rather than turning away. The end of the violence starts with us. We urge you to keep your ears open to the voices of youth. To keep your mind open, to learn. To keep your heart open to our experiences. We urge you to stand in solidarity to stand with survivors of violence. [ applause ] thank you carmen and gabby, we have a whole crew here from Community Youth camp center. If you want to wave, i want to invite the Sheriffs Department to talk about the positive reapered of sheriff hennessey, please welcome dahlia [ applause ]. Good afternoon everyone. Again im davila the survivor restoration director for the San Francisco Sheriffs Department and as i look out at all of you, im reminded once again how important it is for our community to come together to support survivors of Domestic Violence. I have had the honor in working in our Sheriffs Department for over 20 years, and proud to be in the position that i am as the director of our program for the survivors. I would just like to take a moment to share how the Sheriffs Department has supported innovative programs for Domestic Violence survivors over the years and continues under our new sheriff Vicki Hennessey to not only provide those same services, but also we have enhanced them. Many of you in the audience, i know, know about our resolve to stop the violence program, our rsvp program that was started in 1997. Yes, its been 20 years. And its still here, going strong. But it was the first Justice Program that specifically worked with male offenders who have violence documented in their criminal history. Particularly Domestic Violence and again, that program is still going strong today. In fact, with our Court Collaborations in 2015 rsvp participants that were in custody for Domestic Violence increased 93 , which was a substantial increase from 2014, which was only 20 . The Sheriffs Department also has our out of custody Community Programs utilizing the Violence Prevention Program man alive, which is used in both our Community Programs and in custody programs. While we do need programs to hold offenders accountable and to give opportunities for them to change their behavior, we need to equally and more so provide services for our survivors of Domestic Violence. The San Francisco Survivor Restoration Program which i have been honored to be with over 20 years, provides services for survivors through their own process of restoration, empowerment and providing opportunities for them to contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of all the key components of the program. As we know, as we all know the importance of having Survivor Voices at all of our takes. Tables and we offer with our Sister Community agencies many of whom are here today direct Crisis Services through the Response Program along with our empowerment groups which is under our Survivor Empowerment Program and i would like to give special acknowledgment to my staff here and my team, that together with their fierce advocacy in 2015 as we supported 65 survivors who obtained their visas and six granted political asylum and permanent residency and db survivors graduating from our empowerment program. Our Newest Program in the Sheriffs Department is our survivor in custody program. A Reentry Program that we make contact with incarcerated survivors of Domestic Violence, and provide resources which are traumainformed and culturallyresponsive to the many challenges that they face. These services are also provided for our incarcerated db transwomen, stalk and trafficking victims. I will just end with this quote, one of my favorites from helen keller, that i love and its just simple as to say, alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much. And when i look around with all of the agencies here, and the hard work in changing our systems together we can definitely make a change. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much, dahlia. I just want to acknowledge a couple of staff people who are here, alden from Assembly Member tings office and i want to acknowledge the Family Violence counsel chair Katy Albright who here as well. Next up is the Community Education at las casa delas madras that opened as the first Domestic Violence shelter in the state of california and only the second in the nation. Please welcome cara. [ applause ] im going to put this down, but i was holding the door to shelter. Good evening, its wonderful to be here with all of you standing in support of Domestic Violence survivors. Over 40 years ago we began as a small shelter for battered women in San Francisco and today la casa is still providing Emergency Services to women and children in need through confidential shelter and 24hour crisis line. We also provide counseling, case management, support groups, a teen program and Legal Services at our jobs center on Mission Street four of our advocates work as the only two womenspecific Supportive Housing sites in San Francisco, providing emotional and practical support to over 150 female residents. This partnership is entering its 18th year. La casa also had the opportunity to extend our support services in San Francisco by providing targeted programming to specific populations alongside amazing Community Partners. I would like to highlight four of these programs today first were pard to be pard of zuckerberg San Francisco gener hospital and la casa advocate is onsite to meet with patients that dispose instances of intimate partnership violence to their physician and providing danger and risk assessment, safety planning, grief counseling and resources and referrals. This individual will also provide training on intimate Partner Violence to health care professionals. Second, funded by the department on the status of women, colocated at San Francisco Housing Authority. As many of us know survivor safety challenge is navigating the Public Housing system in San Francisco. We work to ensure they have safe places to life and raise their families. Our advocates at the Housing Authority also educate Property Management and support staff at housing sites across the bay area and to incidents of Domestic Violence onsite. Third, there is say la casa advocate at 850 bryant street and follows up on Police Reports of Domestic Violence to provide the survivor with resources, referrals and support. And finally, as mentioned earlier, in partnership with the department, glide, will have a advocate responding to all Domestic Violence situations. These four programs allow our staff colocated at the hospital, sros, the Housing Authority, hall of justice and bayview to provide advocacy, support, resources and referrals to survivors. Survivors that are navigating complex processes made even more challenging by experiences of trauma. Were proud at la casa to be part of the first line of response to survivors of Domestic Violence and proud to serve as a continued support system to survivors on their path to healing. And of course, were proud to be part of a community of organizations, many of whom are here today, working tirelessly to end Domestic Violence in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ] thanks so much, cara. I want to acknowledge the executive director of la casa, kathy black is in the audience and we have another cochair of the council is here and our last speaker is commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson, our newest commissioner who joined us after retiring after a oyear career much of working as mayor lees invaluable aassistant and please women the commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson. Thank you [ applause ]. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for coming to this important event. We gather annually in october to recognize Domestic Violence awareness month, to celebrate how far we have come and to renew our efforts on what we still need to do to end intimate partner velocity. Violence in 2015 the department of Emergency Management received 18917 calls related to Domestic Violence. One in 13 Violent Crimes calls are Family Violence related and in 2015 Domestic Violence was the second most Violent Crime to which the Police Department responds. During that same time our Community Partners received over 21,000 calls to their Domestic Violence hotline, nearly three times as many as 911. This shows the importance of having multifaceted response to Domestic Violence. Many survivors may not want to involve the criminal Justice System and so we must ensure that we open many doors to safety so that different systems can assist survivors of Domestic Violence to be safe. Today we have heard from our health care system, and the wonderful work at the department of Public Health and San Francisco General Hospital and we heard from our communitybased Service Providers who provide counseling, shelter, Legal Services and advocacy and we heard from our peer educators who provide Intervention Services by working with youth to help teach healthy relationship skills and heard from our colleagues at the Sheriffs Department, who do not just house Domestic Violence offenders, but provide programs to victims and perpetrators of abuse in our jails and of course we heard from our city leaders who help ensure that we fund our public agencies and the commission on the status of women is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year from our earliest years we have focused on responding to Domestic Violence. The First Program we funded was la casa delas mad res. As you heard earlier it was the first Domestic Violence shelter in california and the second in the united states. How amazing is it that we have gone from one 75,000 grant for one program to our now over 6 million in funds to 27 different agencies . But our work is going on. In the past two years there are been four Domestic Violencerelated homicides each year, two out of those four Domestic Violence homicides in 2015 involved guns. We cannot stop our work until no one is killed by an intimate partner. Thank you for joining us. Together we will one day end Domestic Violence. [ applause ] thank you so much olga. I want to acknowledge jeff the head of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, who has joined us. To close our event today, i want to introduce the ensemable that will sing a piece that fits to music a text by the famous africanamerican poet audrey. Please give up for the ana cruces travel ensemble. [ applause ] [ music ] [ applause ] i want to bring up deputy chief of staff for Public Safety Paul Hendrickson for a very special unanticipated special announcement. Paul. Thank you, emily. How is everybody doing this evening . Great [ applause ] im a little disappointed i wasnt asked to sing [laughter ] but i think there is a reason for it. That is okay. I just wanted to thank you guys, all for coming out here tonight. Its really important to do the work that we all do, and there are so many different agencies and individuals out here, representing the work that we do with Family Violence from the Police Department to the District Attorneys office to the Mayors Office, to the nonprofit agencies, and really it all begins and it ends with community and the fact that you are all here tonight is a big deal. You all saw earlier when the mayor was out here and he was presented with the big letter signed from all of the agencies that are funded through the city services. And whether when we went back into the building he wanted to make sure that i presented to you and you know that letter will be on the display in the Mayors Office in room 200 for the next few weeks and this is something that i havent seen done in past, but he was really touched by the fact that so many of the agencies came together to thank him and thank the city for its collaborative work to end Domestic Violence. So people that will be coming into this beautiful building and into room 200 for the next few weeks will see that letter, that many of you that are here tonight signed. And it will be on display inside the Mayors Office. So thank you all so much for coming and being here. I would encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity that you are here tonight to make sure that you make a record for yourselves. This would be a great thing if you stick around in about oh, i would say about an hour or so, youll see the building lit up in purple to take a picture of that, to take a picture of some of the other speakers and your friends that you saw here tonight with your message and put it on out on your social media messages and facebook and twitter and linkedin accounts to know its end Domestic Violence awareness month. Thank you all for being here tonight. I look forward to working with you through the year with the Mayors Office. [phra ufrplts ]. [ applause ]. I want to thank paul and the Mayors Office and thank the Domestic Violence consortium and my amazing staff, policy director candell who came up with the idea of lighting city hall purple, lets acknowledge her. [ applause ] and i want to thank our policy members for putting together all of these signs. And i want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. See you same time next year. Thank you very much. [ applause ] [ gavel ] good morning. Today is september 29, 2016. Welcome to the local Agency Formation commission of San Francisco. My name is john avalos, chair of lafco. Joined by cynthia pollock, welcome, and joined by the commissioner david campos and commissioner march and i would like to congratulate ms. Pollock for her wedding. And our clerk. Please share your announcements. Clerk please silence all electronic phones and devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Supervisor john avalos okay, todays meeting is broadcast by sf govtv staff. Thank you for your service. Weve done no. 1. Roll call. Item no. 2. Clerk approval of lafco minutes from july 29, 2016, regular meeting. Any comments. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we have a motion to approve . Okay, motion from commissioner pollock and second from commissioner campos. Next item, please. Clerk item no. 3. Community choice aggregation cca activities report, a. Status update on the cleanpowersf program and timeline for program launch. And b status update on proceedings at California Public Utilities Commission. Thank you. Im barbara hale. Im going to talk about five topics. Enrollment in our program and some facts that we have solidified and we have new staff and materials from our outreach efforts. First offer enrollment, im very happy to report that the Program Continues to successfully operate. We are serving 7300 active locations. We have no additional customer opt outs for about a week now. We are at a steady 1. 9 opt out. Very low. Our fall enrollments are under way a continue. We have sent 64700 enrollment notices. What we are talking about doing here is going from 7300 to 67400. So quite a big jump. And if we continue to have that 1. 9 opt out rate, thats a huge jump. Thats a big jump, yes. And so far weve only had 0. 4 of the customers we sent notices to opt out. Thats how we started with our may enrollment. We started with two notices so far. We are going to send out two more as required by state law. For main enrollment we had a low number at the start and it grew to 1. 9. We expect a similar kind of increase as the notifications get out and we do more outreach. But so far, so good. We received 151 upgrades to super green from that cohort, from that customer group. And thats continuing to increase. That doesnt count additions that we know we got this past weekend with different activities that we had between puc staff and the department of environment staff at various fairs and festivals. We know that number is going to go up more. The uptake with green is really encouraging. We are continuing to have a queue, a sign up opportunity for customers who want to participate in our next enrollment. Now im talking about three different enrollment tranches. We are talking about after fall for the First Quarter of 2017. We have 153 customers queued up on that list and 75 want for that service as a green customer. Im sorry, this fall 150,000 . No. 153 customers said they want it and of those 75 said they want super green. Thats my report on enrollment. Im going to move on to procurement. Any questions on enrollment . Supervisor john avalos yes, they will be enrolled by when . November is when we expect to provide service to them. They are technically enrolled today, right . They are not going to receive service until november. Of that number, 151 are going to be, how many of that are we expecting super green . So far 151 have said they want to be super green. And at the end of this presentation, im going to show you what we are doing to try to bring that number up with some of our marketing materials. Okay. Great. So, procurement. We have two outstanding regulatory requirements from the state that affect our procurement efforts. One is we have to meet Resource Adequacy requirements and the other is we have to meet a long term contracting requirement. We have negotiated and are finalizing arrangements for the Resource Adequacy requirements. We actually finalized one of of four. We have more work to do there and on our second requirement our longterm contracting requirement. We are making progress but i dont have a report yet. I want to make sure that stays on your radar screen. What about those Resource Adequacy . The Resource Adequacy that the state has that owner investor agency, Community Choice, aggregator providing service directly to retail customers have to meet to make sure the overall system, the inter connective electric grid stays reliable. We have to do our share to ensure adequate services are ready to operate if the demand goes up. Its just meeting our share of that obligation. Great. And then the longterm contracting requirement is that we have to have a renewable portfolio of compliant resource. We are not there yet. Next collaboration with partnerships. We mentioned its in our interest to collaborate with other services in california. We have done that. Operating and Communication Strategies really have been improved by the dialogue and in p put we received especially from sonoma and clean power and from sacramento and regulatory form have been strengthened through those partnerships and we have now formalized that collaboration through a nonprofit ocean. Its incorporated as the California Community choice communication. Or cal cca. Its going to be convening local agencies in october to share information and our experiences around planning and operating a cca program. Just as we benefited from the work of sonoma and marin like they started. We are getting calls from other places in california asking how we got started. And interest in being a cca and operating as a cca. We are going to get together in october to talk about those issues. Its a local agency sort of supportive effort there. Great, do you have a sense of how we will expand to the market share in years to come. Since the cca is around the the state. There is a lot of interest around the cca in the state, peninsula, clean energy has already started notifying customers. They are getting ready to Service Customers soon. Sonoma valley, they havent started their notification process yet, but they are getting ready to. Los angeles county is getting ready to launch. They are planning to launch next year but they havent got a plan before the puc yet so that might be a little aggressive. But its taking off. Mendocino is getting evaluated joining sonoma power. So its taking off. Great, at the California Public Utilities Commission we are going to go through in december and do the same kind of termination they did last year how cca is going to engage in the market and what the rates are going to be for opting out . Yeah. That all is going to happen again. That happens in a filing that pg e makes every year thats decided on in december. We have submitted comments and briefs i this. So based on calcca will we have a better impact . Absolutely. Well speak as one voice and with that well be a stronger voice at c puc and sacramento. There is something always going on to try to shift cost away from investor on utilities to Community Choice aggregate. We are keeping an eye on that quite diligently. Moving on to staff. We had positions in the budget and now we have them filled and we have staff at the puc both in communications and in operations. So weve just added additional staff bringing our operations staff number up to eight for the Power Program and on the education staff 8 and 4 consultants. Thats a team of 12. Those are actually daytoday in the budget part of the cleanpowersf part of the puc power budget. There is additional Power Communications and finance staff at the puc who perform other critical functions that supports cleanpowersf that charge across from the hetch hetchy part of the subject. Thats not everybody, but thats the dedicated team. So now im really happy to say we have enough folks to take on the program and take on some additional responsibilities. I want to give you a highlight of what those are. First we are putting on a growth and phasing plan. This was a plan we implemented in september. Now we have more experience working with our customers, more experience in the market and those facts are going to improve our program. We have moderate and financials and what the demand and Market Conditions are. Our finance needs and our options for addressing our financing needs and our operational readiness. We plan to engage with stakeholders and other operating cca colleagues, and our commission in developing this plan. And our target is to bring a plan to our commission in the final form of the spring. The second activity is in grated resource plan. This is going to talk about how well meet our customers for electricity and renewable content. Effective use of electricity, affordability and financial stability. Its going to meet our resources to meet our customers demand. This is required by state law but its also good utility practice. We are going to be bringing that plan to our commission in the spring. In the final area our group staff is working on Overall Program and planning implementation in the rate and materials for that and feed and Tariff Program and the feed from go solar sf to integrate. I talked about that last time we met here at lafco and the solar programming and on the demand side its really locally response to efficiency programming, storage programming and what we can do to promote electric vehicle participation. And also some Important Program tools to help us facilitate participation in those programs that i just mentioned particularly on bill repayment. We have a lot of interest among customer groups in using the bill as a way to repay the cost associated with making distributed Energy Resource investments be they efficiency or on the supply side. Then well engage with the stakeholders community and colleagues and environment staff to make sure we put together some programs to work with our unique base here in San Francisco. Im going to move on to the final topic which is outreach materials unless there are any questions of what i just talked about. Can you as to what you discussed can you send a memo to us summarizing to us. There is a lot of meat in there . Sure. I will be happy to send what i just described so you have it handy. So, outreach materials. You know we have an incredible Communications Team at sf puc. And then taken the time to put together some materials and taken the necessary arrangements for advertising in districts 5 and 8. We are going to have small billboards in districts 5 and 8. We are going to have the castro street muni station dominated. Station domination is the communications term. Whereas you come through that station, all advertising will be associated with cleanpowersf. You are going to see advertising for cleanpowersf on the city bus shelters. Whats that advertising going to look like. I have five examples here to promote super green particularly and three promote the general concept of cleanpowersf. You will see that these are very consistent with the look and feel of the enrollment notices we have been sending out to your constituents. The first one is its wind, its clean, its super green. This is going to give people an option. Most of it is wind so its great to advertise what we are up to. The next one, green one. It says are you the next super green hero . It encourages again upgrade today. A more general, excuse me, our next super green is go zero. Be our super green hero. It says zero Greenhouse Gas emissions. Upgrade today. Clean energy is a breeze and only you can save the planet clean energy is on its way to you. Those are what you will see soon. Great, is that what we are going to focus on . Yes, thats where the 64700 notifications are already out and we expect more upgrades to super green. Okay, great, thank you. Jason fried for lafco. The staff at sf puc has been doing tremendous work and its great to see the new staff come on board and continue to do the work. One thing beyond the sale update is i wanted to update you on ab 710. There was a lot of work done thanks to our c puc partners and other advocates. Instead of what they have for staff for electricity, they sent to the commission to put together experts, come up with a good formula that will work. Ab 110 did pass by the governor. But the answer hasnt been addressed it. It will be addressed in the who, group the way the ce does the process. So that was the one thing i wanted to add. The rest was covered as far as the cca update at this point. Supervisor john avalos great. Thank you for your work. Its great to see how things are aligning. Its been a great year finally. I know its a lot of work from your staff. Thank you for leading that way. We are going to Public Comment. Anyone who would like to comment, please come forward. Public speaker good afternoon, commissioners. Eric brooks San Francisco green party, and San Francisco Clean Energy Advocates and energy choice. Its good to hear we are making process, but since i have a short amount of time im going to talk about stuff we need work on and that is that the Mayors Office, sf puc staff and lafco staff and the environment staff have been meeting about getting the local component and getting an actual plan together. And the last meeting in september was that by november we are going to have a buildout plan, a basic outline for a buildout plan. A lot of that depends on many of the Bigger Picture plans and financials that ms. Hale was speaking of but we cant wait until spring to get started on that. Its important that sf puc staff get something by november to give us something to work on for the local buildout. On the state level especially with a new association, thats a really profoundly important development. There are scores of ccas getting ready to start in california. I was one of the folks that lobbied in sacramento against ab 1110 this year and last year, and one of the problems we are running into is that a lot of the legislators feel like once they have talked to the cca themselves they are done and they dont have to talk to anybody. Its hard to get them to listen to the thousands of advocates statewide. So its important that this new association try to form as close a relationship as possible with the statewide coalition and other groups that are working on this. So i would encourage that. One quick note on marketing is there are a lot of credit marketing that are bogus marketing wind. Supervisor john avalos thank you. Any other member of the public would like to comment . Seeing no one come forward, well close Public Comment and go on to our next item. Item no. 4. Executive officers report. I dont have a lot to report today but to congratulate ms. Pollock on her nuptuals and congratulate mr. Campos for his birthday and talk about the next meeting. Thats all i have. Supervisor john avalos okay. Public comment. Public speaker good afternoon, rumors have been going around and i think they are more than rumors that that some folks in our legislative body of board of supervisors is not interested in keeping lafco going. I in both energy and communications as you have in future agenda items how we land in forest and trees. It would be a really bad thing if we did not have lafco. I want to remind staff that without lafco, we wouldnt have this buildout. I dont fault for c puc staff to be conservative. Its their job. Their job is to take care of this. Its important to get outside of the box and think about whats needed in our local and regional level especially because with Community Church well be building relationship with other communities. There are areas that can be used for solar panel. Its crucial we keep lafco for that and Energy Technology because we have reached lawsuits on the east coast that have made it extremely difficult for one state to have local Community Broadband internet to make it illegal. If we dont get on that and really good time and aggressively, we are going to lose our shot at having broadband. Im sorry, i have to be frank. But the department of technology has had this ball in their court for 4 years and have done nothing. Its important that we have public internet and make sure we have our own energy and not just buying energy on the market. This has to be done independent of the board of supervisors. I encourage you to have this strong and keep lafco going. Its really important that we do that. Thanks. Supervisor john avalos thank you very much. Next speaker . Public speaker thank you, i wasnt planning on speaking but in the event that my comments mean anything in the future. I would like to echo the support for the continuation of lafco. The idea that because cleanpowersf has been implemented that now there is no need for lafco anymore is definitely you know somewhat misguided. Cleanpowersf will be around for a really long time until its up to full speed and ultimately the sf puc is an agency that really functions to complete some important infrastructural task and not meant to be as responsive to the public as either the board or lafco and certainly has a 100 plus year Institutional Culture that might not always be the most nimble. Compared to the other ccas which have started up primarily as a Standalone Agency and are in a very kind of nimble and forward thinking, its especially critical since our department that we have a group like lafco that is more responsive to a public at a ground level and we have the mayor that a points c puc commissioners, but that only happens every 4 years. And at a citywide level, certainly members of the board of supervisors and lafco commissioners tend to have a more grass roots connection with the community and thats kind of the reason why lafco has been so critical of this time. So, to the extent that these comments mean anything at some point in the future, 350 San Francisco and 350 bay area definitely support the continuation of lafco as a critical agent and moving this Initiative Forward to 100 clean energy. We cant have people only being heroes supporting 100 clean energy. Thats what the city has to move to by its own policies and what we all really need to survive on this planet. Thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Well go on to our next item which is general Public Comment. Item no. 5. Public comment. Public speaker good morning. The officer of realistic aspects. One must apply talent and good virtues for speech and actions and good discipline and the combination of science for philosophy and usages. A working agenda of right and wrong to determine the case would have support. The gathering of facts for the working case. One can visualize with perfect consumption. So one must have working without for colorings in order to show capabilities. One system for having close net to the people in a higher principle that requires that mercy and love into a principle bypath way onto society with destiny and true wisdom for missionary career. Of loyalty of destiny of wisdom of rescue gods holy mission. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And go on to our next item. Clerk item no. 6. Future agenda items. A how to connect fiber to every home and business in the city and county of San Francisco. B. How tree maintenance and general landscaping is coordinated and operated in the city and county of San Francisco. Jason fried. We have two items. The two items, first off the Fiber Connect in the city and we had a robust discussion about how to connect every home to high speed internet. We did a report back on underground utility wires and how to expand it and how to do the expansion itself with the theme of this subject matter. Since that last meeting i did more research and found out the department of technology issued an rfp. They got bids back submitted september 12th. I dont have the number of bids they received. They are in the review process of those bids. To my knowledge they havent at least issued any sort of awarding of the bids. But thats quick in the process. Thats where the department of technology is at in this subject matter. I will leave it up to this body if they want to continue down this path. We can continue down this path to do it ourselves. We were going to issue and rfp to do similar work to what was described in the rfp. We can do that or see what comes out of their process first. That will be up to the commission. The next item we have is tree maintenance in the city. I will give a brief description of what happens right now. Right now you have several departments that do tree maintenance, landscaping, the type of work that is done in the city. That is done in silos. You have the department that does the work, and dpg does it. They have it in silos. You can have a work go up to a park and another truck at another park. You can have at the very same time have another truck pull up and do street landscape. It seems there is a lot of overlap with what the department has things done. Instead of sending two teams out to one location, we send one team out and they do stuff and recreation and parks and then dwp for street landscaping. I think there is a better way to come up with a more comprehensive have way instead of having these emergency silos. Its not how much it cost but how costeffective and about raising more money for those items. This is a way to really dig deep into how do these departments do it. Is there a more costeffective and better way to do it and looking into the streetscapes and making sure there is not increased cost and looking at those items. Thank you, i appreciate you bringing up these two issues forward and also as people in Public Comment address the elephant in the room. The elephant in the room is very significant. Lafco is in a very existential moment right now whether we are going to continue or not. Its not that we can actually come to cca launch and that seems to be a puc function and the work that lafco has done to help to align the city departments resources for that launch. That has now happened and cca and cleanpowersf can go on without lafco. There are a number of us at lafco that has been going on for 8 years we are going to be termed out. If there is no one else to replace us, then well see that lafco could die in the vine. What led each of us to want to take part in lafco was that we had a big project that we wanted to see happen, cleanpowersf. So i think its important that if we are going to make sure that its not just the, you know, the existence of the organization, but what the organization can do. I think having these two projects are really great ideas to explore. Fiber has been one that lafco has looked at and addressed 10 years back if not more. I think there is a possibility of fiber being a really program and project that can grow. And i think its important if we are going to have, it seems like the department of technology is doing their own rfp that looks for fiber, i think thats a project that we can monitor. Lafco should have that report heard here when its ready. I think we should also you know, talk about if fiber is going to be a reality in San Francisco, what are the different ways that it could work. I think having not just the department of technology doing it perhaps from the technology perspective, but lafco being involved actually broadened the perspective of what it could be. One member mentioned the grass roots and that will be key to say to have a private person to have for fiber or is it a public or private partnership. That will be an important discussion for lafco to weigh in on and the next membership to look into that. There will have to be new blood for this to continue. As far as the tree maintenance work, yes we have issues in San Francisco where various departments have their own tree functions and where we lose out is we dont have a robust urban forest. Now we are going to see with the ballot whether or not we have the right investment and especially the alignment of our department to look at how we can keep our urban forest strong and under a single entity, that is a really important project to look at. On the one hand, fiber is a broad citywide function that has a real direct impact on local consumers, kind of like cleanpowersf and its a really great project for basis and work for board of supervisors and lafco and the other is how our city can be better as a city to take care of a primary function like maintaining our forest. I think those are both really great projects. To me, these are worthy of supporting. I do appreciate you bringing these up, jason fried. With that, i will let my colleagues comment as well. Commissioner mar . Supervisor eric mar thank you, mr. Fried and your suggestions in terms of holding on and what we would do with a study but connecting the rfp from the department of technology and miguel gammanos staff moving forward. I want to say that tom yamanos study and the municipal work done by the Columbia Telecommunications corporation, im hoping that they are drawing from that report as they issue that rfp and whatever study is done and not just reinventing the wheel but the process and i know wolf and aaron talked about the chattanooga and other models. But i know that whats missing is Community Involvement in this process. I know we have coit which is more of an inter departmental department and we have a senior tech council that is active, but im hoping that for our future there is some kind of Digital Inclusion task force like other cities have as we move forward different big ideas so that low income seniors and people with disabilities and children and families are not left behind. Im hoping that as this rfp is moved forward and data looked at that we dont reinvent the wheel and we have Different Community members involved to think about what the future of San Franciscos hopefully fiber to the home efforts as they move forward. Thats my 0. 02. Thank you, mr. Fried. Supervisor john avalos commissioner pollock . Thank you, that is great to see two great items to move forward with lafco. I just want to echo the support for the Digital Inclusion task force that commissioner mar was speaking about. I think there is a sense that in these walls that a lot of people and advocates have this sort of feeling of you are talking about us without us. So i just want to make sure that advocates are brought in on that front as well. I think that lafco along with other organizations within or inclusions within the city have a fiduciary responsibility not to squander resources. I think it makes sense for us not to do the exact same thing the department of technology is doing with an rfp but similar as we worked with cleanpowersf, we partnered with them to make sure everyone is included in the discussion. As commissioner avalos suggestion to have the results of the rfp discussed here at lafco and invite them in so we can be a part of the discussion. Lastly, i cant miss this opportunity to make a pun which is im excited to get in the weeds or in the trees for learning more about what the city can do to consolidate services with the landscaping and tree maintenance, and just in the same way that i was talking for department and technology and including advocates to bring in those groups. Like the organizations that are supporting parks and also friends of the urban forest and those groups that are really interested in maintaining our urban forest and keeping this city invested in just the environmental and Health Benefits of having trees in our city. So, excited to move forward with both of those items. Thank you. Supervisor john avalos thank you. Commissioner campos . Supervisor david campos thank you, mr. Chair. I will be very brief. I do hope that lafco continues to function to serve this city. I think its an important function. I think a lot of it though, depends on who the members of the board of supervisors are because unless you have an interest on the newly elected on the part of the newly elected supervisors, you are not going to have a quorum and not have the kind of backing needed for lafco to be effective. So one suggestion that i have is once we know what the Election Results will be to begin outreach to whoever gets elected. Because i think the best way to get people interested in lafco is if they are working on issues that they care about and as much as we have these two great ideas, im certainly willing to support that, but i dont know whats out there and depending on the individuals that get elected, there could be ideas that are really important to them that to create incentives for them to be more involved. For me one issue that has so many different components that i think its something that should be out there is the whole issue of the sharing economy because its impacting so many different aspects of how society functions, how the city functions, and so, but i know there will be other things. I will say, lets reach out once we have a better sense of who is going to be here. Thank you. Supervisor john avalos great. Thank you. Anything else to add, mr. Fried . Any reactions to what we had to say here . Yeah, i think i made notes of all your comments and they are good comments to be making. The question at this point would be if you want me to work on this, give me the say so and the staff will start working on both of these items. My first thought on 6a that perhaps at the next meeting we invite the department of technology to come and discuss what are the fees and then talk to staff and a memo and get feedback from them to get what you might want to see out of this report. They just got their person on board. It would be good to give them any feedback on what you are looking into and i can set that up with the with ralph nadar, part of the pesticide watch. I had this passed and especially dangerous herbicides in one public forum and other areas. I left 1996. I left perg in 1997 and those regulations started not because i left, but the city started weakening on these recognizes as soon as we left. We need lafco to be just looking as forward as when we started cleanpowersf and talk about how we are going to manage other areas. Another example in recreation and parks and pacifica, they are looking into chopping down trees and it will release the huge carbon stores is not good for global warming. I would encourage you to get into this structure and policy issues. The one on pesticide should not be contentious. We got involved with the department of environment to get away with that. We are not going to use tier one herbicide in our natural areas. Thanks. Supervisor john avalos thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And move on to our next item. Clerk item no. 7. Adjournment. Supervisor john avalos colleagues, we are adjourned. Everyone have a great day. Thank you. [ meeting is adjourned ] the office of controllers Whistle Blower Program is how City Employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in City Government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of City Government that. 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