Because the Smallest Community in this city right now is hurting, bleeding. Some of us are going out of business and we really need your help to help us rather than to shut us down. Please, for the love of god, i ask of you to give ugs an extension so that the new Board Members can get involved. Thank you very much. [ applause ]. Thank you, i will call the next number of speakers cards. Please lineup to my left and your right. calling names public speaker thank you, good afternoon. Im cheryl, from the sf mta board but im speaking for myself. I am a transit rider. I used geary on a regular basis. Riders want Better Service. Quite simply brt is the plan to deliver the service we riders deserve. We cant lose sight how important this is for riders daily. This is expected to save 20 minutes per round trip as we heard. That is over 80 hours a year and 2 weeks back in your life. That is more time to shop, live with your family and work in this beautiful city. Well be able to get off the bus, shop and get back on the bus and continue on our trip. We need to continue to move projects like this forward. Because we see improvements and we appreciate it. Ridership surveys shows we riders appreciate the changes. The most recent Customer Satisfaction survey showed 70 of riders rating muni as good or excellent. This is a huge improvement from 2001 which was just 48 . The better transit service, the less congestion and less competition to be parking for drivers. Lets not stop or delay this project. This is an affordable and achievable near win in the city. I think rail would be great and likely in gearys future. For financial future, rail is not foreseeable. But we should continue to work towards those options. Geary brt will provide Better Service now and will compliment a rail or subway line. As a rider and public servant, i ask you to support this project today by moving on the corridor. Thank you for your time and staff thank you all for your time. Thank you. Public speaker good afternoon, commissioners. A 20year resident from richmond. First i would like to say that fair is fair. But the timing of this hearing is not fair as i believe all of you know. You have provided yourselves and all of us with far too little time to review 1,000 pages of the revised eir and forced it into moments in the board of supervisors term. Pause, reset this while you can still maintain a semblance of fairness. Secondly, the geary project offers many that are not already working on Mission Street where transit times are not much reduced and the red lane usage and side traffic is more congested. More of the same is just not smart. During the planning period, the future has arrived in the form of ride hailed services. These will reduce the number of bus riders as they have on the bart line from downtown to the airport that is now hemorrhaging fair revenues. We need to build in flexibility and not to favor only buses. Richmond transit riders love the 28 rapid. The hybrid service will reduce to low serving bus of everyone piling up behind it. In explicable. The transit organizations proposes doing everything from shortening lanes and removal. If that isnt gained, look at it again, but do not throw 300 million that is out of date known not to work and would give us years of disruption and loss of community and businesses. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, mr. Pes kin and commissioners. The basic problem i see right at the start you failed to pick the primary source of transportation which is a muni underground or subway. That should have been your objective. All other projects should have been subordinate to that work to go that end. That was missed. Another thing which is important, one of them is the eir fails to address the fact that there is a street block every 3month 3 blocks on geary boulevard that will essentially close geary to traffic. That means that all other traffic will have to be shifted to california, balboa and folsom. To get there, people are going to have to drive through the neighborhoods. This is not something that mr. Post can easily dismiss. It will essentially because i am the treasurer of San Franciscos for sensible transit, it will help us get our members and our money we need. The other thing is that half the lefthand turns on geary are to be eliminated. That means the remaining half will have their traffic doubled once the brt is in place. There is a retired muni operator here that vehicles simply moved from the traffic lane is simply a yield light that comes on. Its going to have to be changed to make that sizable. Thank you for your comments. [ applause ] let me take a queue from board president breed which is if we can keep the proceedings going and you can keep that clapping to yourself if you want to express yourself, you may do so thusly and thank you very much for that, and after ms. Hilson, let me call a few more. calling names public speaker thank you, mr. Chairman. I would like to thank supervisor breed and supervisor mar for their leadership and for offering those amendments to this eir, eis. I urge the members of this commission to adopt those options for the geary brt that will include the laguna stop and the collins stop. We think its very important that seniors are not forgotten, that they not be relegated to second class citizenship. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker hi, i think im out of order, but im going to speak since im already here. There you go. Thank you, deputy. I want to start out by complimenting the county Transportation Authority. I have served on the Advisory Committee. Im sorry, for 2 years and they have done a tremendous staff job in putting this project together. And i also want to compliment them on the near term improvements on the geary bus. Its been tremendous, i have used it, and anyway, the reason im here is i will ask for a postponement on the vote for at least 30 days. The reason is in district one we had nine supervisory candidates. Seven of them were opposed to the brt. One was for it and one abstained. I believe the one who abstained is our new supervisor, sandra. So its a simple request. If it can just postpone any vote on this project for 30 days. Im sorry. The second issue to bring to your attention is that im thinking about funding the near term improvements have been great. Like i said, i benefited from it and great staff work on the authoritys part. What im concerned about is the 400 million for the larger project. Im just wondering if the city can afford it at this point. There is a sobering comment i want to make. We have a new president and already there is legislation being drafted. I got this from my friend to on the Immigration Reform and my concern is that i support that San Francisco be a sanctuary city. Being a sanctuary city there will be repercussions of funding being cut in california. I will ask to not commit the 400 million in brt that could be used for Senior Services and for disabilities and also for children and housing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, commissioners. I have emailed this to staff, but i have copies for everyone. Well have the clerk come and get it from you. The brt project as you know had a joint final eir and final eis. Please do not certify or approve or adopt an apa that incorporates changes. The ncr for Transportation Impact analysis as well as energy. It will analyze to determine which is for design. Overhead, please. Sorry, i spilled the water here. If someone can put some napkins out. The question of Funding Sources that i show on the overhead shows that annually its going to be 49 million operating cost in addition to the capital expenses. For the Richmond Center rail portion of the geary brt, the ncr must include the analysis for that should be if the far to complete the brt is being pushed to get funding for the National Transportation solution. July 20th, coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods resolution of the cta alternatives as favored and the coalition has resolved to not support the cta alternative including the par. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker im a retired muni driver. Speaking to the schedules, these are very realistic figures with most circumstances. It doesnt take into consideration a lot of alternatives, things that might happen. Also the automobiles, a part of our Transportation System here. Not everyone can take muni all the time. Its not always a viable source when people are doing shopping or going to appointments. By the way, anytime i look at a diagram of what geary is going to look like, never do i see a double parked truck. We are going to have traffic on geary with a double truck parked in the lane. I dont see how that is a big improvement. You have to consider all the things that are going on with this plan, not just an ideology driven plan. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Former planning commissioner joe. Public speaker im a stakeholder and been for two 1 2 hours. I support the pedestrian bridge. And i support the amendment to include laguna as a rapid stop. This community has had two legs, the local and the rapid. For us to hear that 30day rapid be cutoff and not for one leg, it was an outrage. Thats whyfor all of us. I do want to say i have a bone to pick on the statistic that only 2900 laguna rapid users versus 4500 at other rapid stops. Well, the data was taken june 5 00 at other rapid stops. Well, the data was taken june 9 00 laguna rapid users versus 4 5 00 at other rapid stops. Well, the data was taken june 29, 2016, 430630. Downtown workers, they dont live at our senior facilities. I want to thank the staff. Im glad that you met with us. And thank you for not throwing grandma under the bus. [ laughter ] public speaker im a 4year resident of the Inner Richmond and member of the board of directors. I thought it was a great idea. But today, it seems to me it has been over taken by events. The city has achieved remarkable progress in achieving boarding times, one of the assumed advantages of brt. The clipper card as well as low riding buses and curb sentences have extensions have been improvements. The r buses have also proved that traffic is slack enough along intervals and Additional Service has helped. More progress can be achieved with the traffic light priority system. These innovations have undermined the key system of brt namely the service on the 38 line is slow and unreliable. In fact service is good and getting better. I object to the characterization of brt opponents favoring a no bill alternative. No, we want to stay the course of the successful improvements that may also include a Pedestrian Safety measure like the landscaping. We do want to avoid the Traffic Congestion and miss spent public funds at the center lane service. Thank you very much. calling names public speaker good afternoon. Im a resident of the Richmond District. Im a retired teacher. I have been around this neighborhood since a long time. I just want to start this by saying remember the word rest. I know you are going to need this. R for the residents. Have you reached out to the residents. I have been teaching all this time and my head has been in the sand. Im new to a lot of this and you have been working on this for years. Let me say about the mailers, i never saw them. I was never able to respond to this. In terms of residents, e, for expense. Is it really worth the 300 million cannot that be better used . I would question the expense of this when san franciscans sensible transit can do it for that price and have the same result. Why cant you save on the expense. E is for the environment. Is this truly going to improve the environment. Especially im getting older and i want to see 1020 years from now, is this going to be speedy buses while im cripple along that corridor. I dont know. I cant for see the future. Im listening to what that supervisor said about a lot of us getting older, what is that going to mean for us getting older on that corridor. We do need our car to get to and from businesses. As for Small Business owners, please listen to them. Im a parttime merchants associations member. Please listen to them. There is a lot of merchants along there and they cant come out. They dont have the time. I know that. Im a merchant myself. A lot of times they dont have the time to tell you guys. Lastly, please give us the time. 30 days. We waited this long. Give us more time to look at it. I will be happy to spend my time now that im retired. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, my name is david hertz. First even though i disagree with this project, i want to honestly acknowledge supervisor mar because he had an idea and he kept it going. Whether that idea was right or wrong, i think you need to get some props for that, i give you props for what you thought what you were following was right. Im here like a lonely voice, like the Family Member who wants to buy the small dog and the family wants the cattle black. We can find better use for this money without having to disrupt geary boulevard. Also i want to mention what hasnt been mentioned in the glowing happiness of the moment. That is, although this project has gone on for 10 years, some of the comments have not had any effect. Some of the comments at Public Meetings were dumped and later found. People were not allowed to speak at Public Meetings. I have been to a bunch of Public Meetings myself and heard some of the arguing and shouting. That tells me its a contentious products. People are here today to protest that their views are not being heard. I think before you send this project forward for 300 million i think we can take a smaller look, take a little bit more time, avoid the people that want to take a lawsuit against the city that will cost more money and have a bit of negotiation before we move on this project. The basic idea of this project is viable, but i think it needs some overhaul and avoid more cost, more time. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. If i call your name, please lineup to my left, your right. calling names public speaker good afternoon, supervisors. I have a Small Business on geary boulevard and next to other Small Businesses. What i noticed is my customers drive, especially the elderly and the disabled. The young and the able, they take the bus. They can run and catch the bus, but the elderly, they drive a car. So sf mta has been a disaster in the mission area where some businesses lost 40 of their customers. The commissioners that are supporting these changes are made of true believers as i may characterize them as such. They have little effect on the city. The one in favor of the masonic project, own a home on there, on the preschool on masonic near her, they should not park on the street anyway, not offering an alternative or acknowledging the changes to parking would have to those employees that make those essential businesses possible. Also i have noticed that sf mta has i think intentionally disrupted the traffic flow on geary as of the last few months making a trip that usually takes me 3 4 minutes, 810 minutes to get from presidio down to near parker. The geary Street Project has been a solution for no problem. It is social engineering. The proposed red transit lanes would make it much more difficult for the average driver to navigate traffic and patronize the businesses on geary. The drivers have difficultyey navthing traffic as it is. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im the president of the sequoias Resident Association at 1400 geary. I would support the amendment to stop at laguna. We live on a hill and it is a hill area on geary between van ness and fillmore. This has the greatest density of seniors in the city. We appreciate supervisor breed understanding about what happens when you get older and your knees dont work like they used to. And some are in walkers and that taking the r away from laguna takes half of the senior seats a available now away because you cannot get on the r if you take it away. Thank you again. I would encourage you to vote for the brt project with the inclusion of keeping the geary arm. As you are aware by comment made by commissioner breed that issue will be addressed and will likely be voted in favor. With that, next speaker, please. Public speaker yes, very quickly. My name is an farar. I appreciate the laguna stop, as a lot of people have already left. Im here on their behalf. They were here for that purpose. Thank you. Let me mention the names on the cards. Many on the same issue. Sandy maury, paul epstein and thomas biles. Public speaker good afternoon, commissioners, my name is henry, the president of the San Francisco council of district merchants association. Whats being created is not a boulevard. What is to move people from downtown to the destination as fast as possible. What is being done is stops are being removed, parking is being removed. These sort of changes are affecting the businesses along geary and they have been affected in a negative way. The Economic Impact is going to create a terrible i feel from pushing this through. I would urge you to please extend this another 30 days to look at this. I have not seen the Impact Report from the eir. I would like to have a look at that to see what it is. Because what i believe it is going to have an impact by this change. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, my name is cory urban. If you believe everything that brt is going to be implementing for 300 million for improved transit times is safety. He said there would be a savings up to 20 minutes round trip in peoples commute times. Whats being advertised to bus commuters for the bus shelters is an average transit savings time of 20 minutes. Im assuming that that was a must stake. Its not an average 20 minutes for each commuter. Im assuming that was a mistake or just trickery. So more to that point, the eir says that after this hybrid is completed, the hope for transit time from 48 to howard and beale would be 44 minutes, 45 seconds. Thats after the built. In fact, today, the Peak Community time for the inbound seven bus at 3 30 a. M. , takes 40 minutes to get to beale. The 942 bus, 40 minutes later. Those are peak travel commute times. Those minutes are real and they are in the sf mta 30day rapid schedule available online. More to that point of the 20 minutes being saved to the average commuter. That bus arrived in 30 minutes for those buses. I dont think you are going to take 30 off of that travel time. Eric mar mentioned that if this project gets implemented that the buses will be running every 4 minutes. They are already running every 4 minutes, during peak commute times. Public speaker chairman peskin, members of the commission, my name is steve from the downtown area. I have dedicated myself to be the executive director cofounder of the Senior Center in japantown. For all seniors and definitely in terms of the advocacy of the japanese American Community. This is a Historical Perspective to the geary corridor. I need to tell you that whole area that that geary corridor when we were first introduced to us was called the geary expressway. How we have defined the approach for the Richmond District could quickly go for the Richmond District to down, they didnt mention to you that you pass the African American community and the fillmore and the community. You will go under the tunnel and eliminating the process of the African American and japanese American Community. This is the same japanese American Community that were put in concentration camps without any due process, a total destruction, removal of our community. After 42, when the war was over, no apology, nothing to say im sorry we made a mistake. The japanese returned to rebuild their community, at that time, Justin Herman decides to go through Eminent Domain to proceed with the total destruction of the japanese american and African American community. This on laguna street is another example of the disrespect and outrageous nature of treating japantown. I appreciate the resolution that commissioner breed, i appreciate commissioner farrell, supervisor mar, in terms of your support for the japanese American Community and to make laguna street stop a 38r as well as a 38 regular. Thank you. Thank you. If you would just wait one second. Let me call more speaker cards. calling names public speaker good afternoon. I have been a Senior Advocate for 5 years. I just want to comment on your support for the possible recommendations to include the laguna stop in the r route. First of all i had sent you by email a statistical information about zip codes 9411, 9415 in the laguna geary area. It will show you it is the second highest population of people 60 and over. As you may know, here in San Francisco, 25 of our population are seniors ages 60 and over. And i know many of you here are very supportive of senior issues and you have always been doing a lot of policy direction in that way. The other point i want to make is that particular stop at laguna and geary is a gateway to japantown. Japantown as you know has had its struggles. One of the issues we always promote is Economic Development and tourism. Will that stop is the very stop for people that want to visit japantown. Our town is one of the three remaining towns in the united states. The other one being in los angeles. Please maintain that stop at laguna. Thank you. Public speaker my name is paul epstein. I served on two Advisory Committees in building Major Products for the city. Dale drive and the freeway. Im very familiar with the project. This is a new association with the people with the agency and some of them were quite young when they joined it. First, i want to make a formal complaint that half the board is not here. And the board is going to be voting on this issue and they are not listening to the Public Comments. I think that is to say discourteous and perhaps even illegal. As to the reason we are here, the brt, lets keep in mind its now labeled a hybrid system. It is a hybrid system. A lot of the things that have happened in developing have been very good, in fact, a par, which i have been a member of that board for many years, when brt first came along said there are a lot of things that we can do. Lets try that before we rebuild the whole geary boulevard. Most of those things have been accomplished. Thats why the buses are running faster. You have clipper card, you have a low entry buses. You have people coming in at all doors. The question is, is there any time savings. I think thats been fudged and there is any. I think the buses will be locked into center lane configuration and they will be stuck behind each other. The buses will move at the slowest buses rate. I think there should be no vote today. I think you should thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Actually im going to read a couple more names. calling names public speaker go i live on laguna on west Park Apartments which is big and very nice low income senior complex. I take that bus everyday, sometimes 48 times a day. It is my bus. I really depend on it. But im here and im speaking on behalf of thousands, not only of seniors, but of workers, people who come to japantown, people who come to the chinese consulate. I will be very brief just to mention quickly there are two misconceptions that nobody talks about at that site. My stop is a maximum load point which means, by the time the bus gets there, its already full and they dont even stop for us. So that means its impossible to count the ridership. We dont have a low ridership, we have a high ridership, but a lot are giving up because of that. The second point is that i want to assure the people who live beyond us either way that no time is lost stopping at laguna because of the very long traffic light thats there. We are ten lanes, geary is ten lanes at that point and the traffic light is very long. The bus drivers almost every single one gets caught at that light and they use the time productively loading people. So no time loss. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker my name is glen irving. I wondering why the supervisors arent here also and whether you maybe able to vote. Back in 2012, if you read the documents to the eir, all of these baseline travel times are from 2012. At the end of 2015, i asked how come they are not going back and looking at all the improvements that were done with the multidoors and the off board payment system. All the things when you brt novels from all the other transit agencies say contribute a lot to bus travel times. Its being ignored by this current sf mta band of people who want to keep the money flowing, keep their consulting jobs of their friends and they jump back and forth from these private firms. If you look at the numbers and the times have gotten much better and this is all based on the 2012 story telling that nobody wants to talk about anymore because its going to ruin their chances for funding. In fact my gut is we are looking at this and tell you, you know what, this travel time has improved. This saving of 20 minutes route trip, its not true. If you look at that. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon. My name is larry costelo. The president of the Park Association. The jordan park is a neighborhood on the north side of geary from parker to palm. I would like to read my statement and submit it for the record. Commissioners, the Jordan Park Improvement Association oppose this brt project as proposed the hybrid alternative. This is an expensive project that offers little in terms of transit benefits. We believe it will disrupt the community particularly west of masonic avenue. Specifically we recommend the following. One. For the section of geary west of masonic avenue there needs to be greater input from the neighborhood and groups. They have not been invited to participate in the planning process, for example, the jordan Park Association or they have not been listened to, for example the Planning Association for the richmond. We were never invited to a cac meeting and we were not kept informed of the process. We are a Neighborhood Group right along geary. For this to be an inclusive process, they need to participate and be heard. No. 2. Postpone further action on geary and elect the supervisors to take office. In particular, sandra feuer needs to include her input on this project in her district. Delaying this would allow for a view from a key player. This is a special courtesy that supervisors should extend to one another. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, commissioners, my name is paul warmer. I happen to be chair of the japantown land use committee. I have a couple of comments related to that. First i want to complement ms. Chang and her staff in working with us to talk about the concerns we had about what was going on in the japantown corridor and working constructively with us. Very good outreach and the outreach came because we did ask for it and they were extremely responsive and i think they deserve kudos for that. I dont know if you know how many people wearing these laguna r stickers got up and left the room after the supervisors whose districts this runs through said we are going to keep it as an r. That was a great relief to a lot of people and i certainly hope you pass that through. Finally i would say the japantown Community Maybe unique, but in all the meetings we have participated in japantowns regular scheduled meeting open to the public, we did not have people opposed to the project. We want more of the rapid stop, not less of it, thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, authority members, im a senior and i live in the Outer Richmond near 28 and geary. So i think im one of the people you are trying to help and make service better. I think the hybrid plan is a square plan, local plans are being rude. Its a deficit. It ignores the likelihood of riders crossing the street for safety. The reduced travel and elimination of bunching analysis ignores the time required for handicapped and child strollers. I take the bus and it takes more time for someone in a wheelchair to be seated safely. The last second additions of the reduced Service Shows that lack of Public Outreach especially in the Outer Richmond. The Citizens Advisory Committee last night made a last minute to restore a stop and other reservations because the public doesnt like the service being reduced. The 28 near my home is being moved and up the hill. But when im old and its up a steep hill. I think something needs to be done. I requested the decision be delayed until the new board is in panel. Final consistent with finessing the voters to include this in the agenda. Alternatives to produce most of the time without reducing local and expressed service. Thank you. calling names thank you. Good afternoon. Im peter straus on behalf of the San Francisco transit riders. I have somewhat of a mixed message for you today. To certify the geary brt eir today. Its essential that eir be approved to continue with transit improvements which has already been on hold. However, we could not support the designation as a hybrid as the local hybrid alternative. We urge you to approve sections 14 of your clause but delete sections 5 and 6. The geary corridor includes a bus Rapid Transit and we should improve our recommended alternative. If we could not afford the subway at this time. We must develop a brt for a subway on the surface. Thats what high quality brt is supposed to be. The staff recommendation does not provide this vision. You heard about the reluctance of giving the true Rapid Service in favor of the design. We do not believe it is necessary and we have discussed with staff, other transportation professionals and other designs which does not result in significant parking removals but does allow a center lane brt project while still retaining a true service. We would like for this to be further developed. Again, we urge the eir be certified today that is essential but to modify the staff recommendations be pursued before an lp is designated and ei s is returned to you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, my name is matt climb an. In support of the riders. We support this project. We ask you to pass the eir today. This is one of the busiest bus lines in the nation. This is affecting 50,000 folks a day. Its going to affect a lot of people despite what you see in this room. Folks want this project. Folks ride this bus and with their families are right now and they are not here who want this vote passed. We can do better. Alternative 3 is the one we would like you to support. It will not have the issues in the middle park when the hybrid has with the buses being slowed down allowing us to have the full Rapid Service throughout the entire line. This project build on the city we have the success and the mission with the upcoming improvements. Thats essential for the subway. We ask you to support it. Pass the eir today with choosing alternative three as our preferred alternative. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker thank you, im asking you to delay todays vote given as others have said. The tying of the release of the final eir. Give us very little time to review it. I will be very surprised if there was anyone here other than you that is actually reviewed this important detail. Secondly, i have not received a black line version of the report so i dont know what the changes were between the draft. Thats fairly common in my business. I have over 45 years in the marine transportation business. Given the capital cost of this project Going Forward, it behoves you to delay the vote because if a vote is taken today, i can assure you there will be lawsuits brought that will embarrass the city and all of you. For much of the time today, many of the people that are here and counted as listening to this have been absent that will come up in discovery. And the fact that as a resident of richmond, i did not receive any of these reports in my mailbox and lastly, for someone who actually rides the muni pretty much everyday, it has gotten better, much much better and since i have 28 seconds, thank you. And so it is getting better. The incremental approaches work. I dont think taking the vote today is going to be beneficial to the city or to any of you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Before the next speaker. Brian hags man, gordon shafrssky, mary livea calling names public speaker good afternoon, commissioners, a Community Organizer with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. With over 2,000 members we promote the Bicycle Coalition for transportation. Its a transit friendly project and would make San Francisco a bike friendly city as well. San francisco continues to grow and a demand for Reliable Transportation has followed. The city is now focused on redesigning the streets so folks can walk and bike for transportation safely. The geary brt plan will not only improve service and cut down on travel time, but allow people to safely board the buses and walk along the corridor. In addition, the plan will provide access to people on bikes. Reconfiguring this would enhance this area. We urge you to approve the brt environmental report and take the steps towards improving the commute for many people taking this bus line. Thank you. Public speaker im a resident of seniors on laguna, and i would like to ask you to keep the 38r. Make it an amendment whatever you have to do. I enjoy riding it and i would like to praise the buses you have. The clean air in the buses. I have allergies and asthma. Also its very easy to step on the bus. I had a new knee put in a year ago and i didnt like the buses where you had to go up and down. Please, if you can get more of them, do. Thank you. Public speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is brian hoffman. Im with walk San Francisco. On behalf of walk San Francisco members, im here to encourage you to approve the eir for the local alternative and to approve the project. As you know geary boulevard is one of the highest injury corridors that account for over 70 of crashes. In fact we know that people walking on geary are eight times more likely to get hit by a car than on other city streets. The project and hybrid alternative will improve areas such as bulb outs and pedestrian count signals and new pedestrian crossings to name just a few. Further studies show that total traffic injuries and death tend to decline for all street users for public transit. By improving the transit, the brt project will not only benefit transit riders but for people walking along the corridor. San francisco needs the safety improvements that will come with this project and we could not wait any longer. Despite the citys many efforts with the reduction in the serious and fatal traffic collisions since the city adopted vision zero in 2014. Projects like the geary brt designed for safer streets for people to help us turn the tide and reach our vision zero goals. Please approve this as soon as possible. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, my name is vitali troiani. I worked for public works. My staff restored the cable car lines down the Market Street and did the embarcadero parkway. I am not a novice to transportation park ways. I would like to thank the staff for extending the section west of 27th avenue, for restoring the bus stop on collins street and for allowing me to work on some of the design staff or future changes to the project to improve traffic. But i will tell you that west of stanion street there is no reason for this project to exist. If in the past i have come to you to say i will give you a project to save you 9 minutes by eliminating half of the bus stops and geary is eight times as dangerous as cabrillo street i would have been laughed out of the room. Take a financial person to take a look at the cost of the project west of stanion street and see if this project is worth doing. Thank you for your service to the city. Mr. Taber, before you come up. calling names public speaker im a member of the Advisory Council and an Advisory Council in geary area. This current project is not the ultimate solution for Rapid Transit on geary. I think most people acknowledge that. Supervisor farrell indicated that ultimately a rail project is going to be needed particularly for that part of the line that is east. Because you cant do a brt in that area. I objected to the draft eir in that it did not take into account the impact of this project on the mtas 20year capital plan. Legally they are required to take into account the Impact Capital plans. The geary rail project is in the 20year capital plan. And the impact on that plan is rather dramatic. If we were to implement a rail project similar to the muni metro style project which was previously recommended in the 1980s, i would require you replace a brt line at a cost of several hundred Million Dollars. The city in the process of doing a Rapid Transit plan. We should wait until that comes out. Put the richmond piece on hold and do an analyses of the brt and how it would affect the rail plan. This is the only sensible way to do it and come to a solution we are not going to regret. Good afternoon. Mary eliza here. Im going to speak about the elephant that is not in the room yet. Many its been alluded to a couple of times and something we are all concerned about. Im going to speak about power and money because i think thats what we are dealing with up here. The public has entrusted you with both. Will you live up to the expectations by respecting their right to a fair and n honest debate. How are you going to approve their wishes. Remember we have a homeless problem. How is digging another hole in the street solving the homeless problem. Funding city college, how does this help with that . Did you know there is a 360 million hole to fill is not a top priority with San Francisco. We are looking at the possible loss of healthcare, cuts in Social Security and Education Funding and any member of legal disputes that could result from taking a stand at the sanctuary city. Before taking on more debt to dig more holes in the ground, please respect the voters and get them 30 days to review and comment on these proposals. And give yourselves sufficient time to study these options. We thought you have read these documents. Take the time you need to study them before you approve them blindly. Now is the time to prove to voters that they chose wisely when they chose you to represent their interest. Do not let them down. Public speaker thank you, my name is william shepherd. Im a muni rider and im really impressed with improvements in the last years particularly on the geary line. Its vastly improved. A big concern i have is that, to say by putting this section of geary from to 27. Maybe you will save a couple of minutes, but i doubt its going to be more than that. The other comment is pushing through eir Public Comment period on a hotly contested important issue during the yearend holidays i think is bad government fundamentally and its wrong for you not to extend that period. This others dont do it because they have a responsibility to the public. I think you should do the same. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. calling names public speaker hello, i just turned 60. Im joining senior hood. Im from lodi california. We have lights for more than 60 years. Buses can control lights now. We can save time that way. We can also delegate that truckloading zones can only work at certain hours of the day for traffic flow. Thats not done. We have little traffic enforcement. Things could be tinkered with. They have worked so well for many years. Why would you want to change them. Have a long term strategy. Take that tunnel board machine going through fisher mans wharf. If you get one good look at it, i think its more respect because you dont have traffic on top. You have traffic underneath and on top. It speeds up the whole process. There are so many aspects of tinkering. They are not mentioned ride sharing. Is there management of those . National i bike ride as well. I think geary is too important of a street to have a dedicated bike lane there. I would like to see it maybe a street over and maybe some access. To take out parking is a mistake. We just got out of the recession. Its too early. Moneys will come. People will support that. You can use the same amount of time by tinkering. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, my name is anna sylvester, a member of the interface council. I would like to talk to you about 38r and 38 lines that no one has talked about specifically yet about the triangle near Cathedral Hill from the universal society. Saint marks and saint marys cathedral. Not only are these three places of worship, they are architecture gems, Community Centers and tourist designations. You can understand probably how hard its been on us pedestrians and bus riders in the geary corridor in the construction of a new hospital. With the other inter faith council, we ask the community to discuss our concerns with the planners. She set up a meeting with colin and staff to address our concerns. We met october 20th. And im happy to say the staff was very responsive and listened to us. We were very happy that no. 1, 38 in bound stop at geary and gough will be relocated to saint marys cathedral. This location makes its easier for the congregation to come to services. No. 38 the stop remains across from saint marys cathedral at gough and geary. The outbound stop will be relocated to van ness and franklin. This is walking it all the way down to geary and causing it to get to outbound 38 r, we appreciate all of we of your work. We support this action today. Thank you. Thank you. Public speaker i live at laguna and ellis street. I want to thank the supervisors and collins at cac team, a tremendous job of keeping the 38 r stop at laguna. Its keeping rapid in the Rapid Transit system and i thank you very much for that. However, to continue the good work, i am a proponent of addressing the overflow problem that we are between two maximum load points and i call it maximum stuff in fact to get to laguna. So continue to work on the maximum stuffing factor on stops even rapid stops. They have buses that arrive with a full load and its very discouraging to have the door slammed when you get on. The other item to continue the good work is the mention of those double parked trucks that the traffic pattern and flow is really horrendous when that happens. Those are two things that you have to continue. This system is really working and i like it. Im a biker too. I bike. I dont right. I would rather bike. But the hills are so tough. I had a knee replaced. I have to put my bike on the rack once in a while. Its a great system. Its been around. Its 105 years old. 1905 they started. Its been around for a century and im happy that you took the advice to study the traffic engineers and london breed when she was in Elementary School in the in the 90s. Im very happy that you saw the light. Thank you again. Make it rapid, do it quick because time is of the essence. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names public speaker good evening, im a 48year resident of the mission district. Im mad as hell. 15 years ago, different people probably, but this Transportation Authority tried to cram this brt idea down our throats. At that time at least they would listen to us. The citizens rose up and we finally defeated it. Nothing has changed. The Richmond District citizens do not want brt. Period. So why dont you save us anymore aggravation, a waste of time and resources and i disagree with the people say about lets delay this vote. Lets have the vote right now and lets vote it down, the whole thing. If we had taken all the time and resources that were wasted up to this time on this project and the 300 million plus that its going to cost and put it forward to an underground system when i ran against jake gold rick years ago and i was laughed at. It is the only way to go. We must stop this nonsense and get some common sense in this issue. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker hello, im diane winkle, im sorry to see the full board is not here. I wasnt born on mars. I was born in San Francisco and im proud of it. Ihop you consider these other options. I have been a very active person in my community. It was talked about the elderly, we are saving face for the russian church, but have you considered all the rest. We have washington high school, are we forgetting our youth . Do you think they want to stand in the middle of geary boulevard. Do we need more cars . We have roosevelt junior high, we have other churches, we have saint monicas, lutheran, it just keeps going on. You have other things to consider. The man representing the bus situation, he said speed of buses. I still drive and that is not to be seen. I dont want to get stuck behind a bus in traffic. We need to move people safely. I was around when they put bart on mission and look what it did there. It destroyed big stores and little stores. That is going to be repeated. We need the people there and to save our youth. Thank you. I hope you would consider this wisely. Thank you for your testimony. Next speaker, please. Public speaker good afternoon, commission, my name is kevin stall, a member of the brt Citizens Advisory Committee. Last night when Public Comment was given for the changes to the brt line especially for keeping the rapid stop at laguna, a lot of us were in moved. There were lots of us that were approving the project and keeping it a one stop only, but as members of the Advisory Committee were representing the community and hearing the needs of the residents who will be affected by this project. So many people were advocating to have the laguna stop as a rapid stop because it will affect the people in this corridor which is of course one of the most senior areas in the city, and we heard your voices, we avoided to make sure we amended the project. We thank you for your testimony because we hear you all the time. Many i have only been on this community for a year and there were talks about wanting to keep the bridge and makes it to keep the sidewalks along the way. We hear the people talking about it and as a Community Member we heard the voices and we believe that we need to represent the people that we speak for. So im very glad that this project will go forward as amended. I want to thank you all for your time. Thank you for your service. After mr. calling names public speaker good evening, supervisors. My name is shapda. Unlike supervisor peskin, attorney, wall rick, this will this will not come out of your time, but im not an attorney nor did i go to law school. [ laughter ] anyway, for some of the seniors, the readers, please give us more time. Second very important for physicians, they become the one rule, do no harm. In that regard, dont do open heart surgery unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Especially a time for san franciscans which is a very reasonable plan which i dont think has been seriously looked at. The reason i say it needs to be investigated. 300 million the hybrid plan compared to the sensible plan of 15 million, thats a huge sum of change. If you consider that the Center Running lanes is 1. 7 miles of a 6. 5mile system. Thats only 26 . But you can believe that 1. 7 miles is going to take up 70 of the cost. Now, if you are im sure you are very concerned about financing. This is an important aspect that hasnt been discussed too much. 1. 7 miles of 6. 5 miles is going to take uppermost of the money. With a sensible transit plan, it will greatly reduce it. Next, i worked on the campaign and she was concerned about the merchants. Please be fair with the transit plan. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Public speaker my name is nad in may. I live 2 blocks from geary and i get extra credit because my mother took the bus down to the emporium the day i was born. Where do we go . Do we step out on traffic . I saw on Mission Street, the transit issue is kind of a mess. I would hope you would take into consideration the postponement for a month. With much respect, i would ask you to wait until the new Council Member is here and especially with Donald Trumps threats. Please postpone this. Thank you. Let me call two more of my remaining speaker cards. If there are any other members wishing to speak, please lineup to my left, your right. The floor is yours. Public speaker im with the transit riders as well. I support the brt so geary becomes a more attractive proposition. Please approve the final eir as soon as possible. The city has waited too long and would appreciate this service sooner. I live on the south side of Mission Street and i love the red carpet treatment we receive, the buses and the estimated travel times and putting in the red lanes, i find Mission Street less hectic and more pleasant and send more time and money at the local businesses. I feel the pain of these Small Businesses in these Business District projects. I dont think it would take very much. Let them know that it will improve this. Public speaker we are the Democratic Club in the district reaching thousands are workers. Our club has been involved in the planning with the geary brt for the last decade and we support the design in front of you today. I urge you to approve this final environmental document. Residents and more of san franciscans have taken the brunt and this is in conflict with each other. The traffic delays and transit continues to get worse and worse. We no longer can improve this system on geary. I urge to you move forward. Thank you for your time. Public speaker my name is miller. I take the 38 everyday and also a Richmond District resident and i lead a Community Group which holds Community Meetings. If you would just pull that microphone down. Perfect. Thats so much better. I also go to the geary Community Group and we talk about many transportation issues but we focus on geary. I want to let you know a little bit about the Community Input that i have heard being a member of the cac. This includes the cac meetings as the project planner incorporates the plans. I participated with the Transit Riders Union in embarcadero and geary talking to riders. I also have attended various Community Meetings and talk to my neighbors and i can tell you there is Strong Community support for this. A petition that our group has circulated that has 532 signatures. You can see that in your in boxes right now. In addition i want to say that i believe this board of supervisors is making the best decision for this and has seen the project managers have important feedback. We need to get this project off the ground. Its been ten years. 10 years. Public speaker i did fill out a speaker card. You did and i called your name a while ago. Thank you. I believe i support many of the speakers. Im in favor delaying the vote and let the new supervisors weigh in on this matter on this eir. Also this eir is miss identified because they have not weighed in on it. And also the vmp estimates given as the two brothers mention are based on 2010 to 2012 data. This doesnt take into account there are 45,000 ride sharing cars are on the streets and many other aspects that havent been taken into account in the last 56 years that have gone on in transportation in the city. Other speakers are that we move that. This is sensible. If it works, fine, if it doesnt work, look into other ways of dealing with the traffic to even doubt that bart will. But you guys can always think that maybe bart would happen. With the increased traffic times that have happened over the last few years increasing the number of buses, i think its the way to go. Also, as the lady mentioned, if you put a transit bus stops in the middle of the streets, if something horrid happens as has happened in chinatown, where are those people going to go as they are waiting for the bus. Thank you for your time. Public speaker im a member of the transit riders and i would like to see this project happen. This deserves Something Better than what we have now. It deserves Something Better than slight improvements of what we have now. I dont have much else to say that hasnt already been said. I dont ride the buses very much because i have to stand and its jerky and sometimes its a long wait. I think we deserve better than that. Thank you. Thank you. Public speaker chair peskin and commissioners, my name is peter galota. I want to first acknowledge and thank commissioner mar for your leadership and advocacy for geary brt and commissioner breed and commissioner kim for serving on the committee. I think last nights cac meeting was a nice culmination to our work. We feel very strongly about supporting the eir as well as supporting the local alternative, the hybrid alternative. We also heard from the community and put forth a recommendation as you know to also support the geary rapid stop on laguna and having heard from the community representing the community that we acknowledge the seniors and those with disabilities for that stop. As a Community Member we are happy that we reached this moment and would like to thank staff who have been really patient with us. This process has been really engaging and really inclusive. Its one of the most well vetted projects in San Francisco having given the timeline that we had to get to this point and this currently seated board is best seated and best informed to make a decision today given your deep history with the project. I also just want to put, ask for your continued support for brt today around funding. I know there is a lot of issues around the budget. Im going to ask that we fully fund geary brt in the years to come and im really excited and hoping to take action today and get geary moving. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. If there are any other members of the public wishing to testify, please come up otherwise this is the last speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is chris parks. I urge you to reject the proposal today. I appreciate this project has been in the works for process for 810 years. And however, now is the most critical time. Staff just the released its hybrid proposal december 9th right before the holidays and the public has not been allowed sufficient time to respond to this 400 million project. If this project is for Public Comment, this is the most important critical time of that process. This critical time should not be rushed. We have learned a lot from this brt project was first conceived. We need to take advantage of what we have learned. The geary brt is under way, for the project, the seniors and disabled will now have to cross to board the bus. Staff suggested there will be a 30 improvement. At the brt meetings, Citizens Advisory Committee meetings, the sf mta reported that half of that important improvement had already been achieved today by eliminating stops and lefthand turns. We will probably lose that as soon as they permanently close down 2car lanes. This project is estimated to be exceed 300 million. The van ness brt was originally conceived at approximately 65 million but now it has a 300 million estimate and it has not even Broken Ground yet. We have many competing needs for our monies. I urge you to save on limited funds and please do not approve this project as approved. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. If there are any other members of the public who would like to testify after mr. Wheat myers. Otherwise hes the last speaker. Public speaker good afternoon. Im speaking on the transit authority. I dont agree with the brt. I dont think its clear why the limited segment is on brt and why its not extended to masonic. The argument, the problems with brt is that you sacrifice the local coverage. Right now we have a good system of rapid or limited buses together with locals. And you sacrifice the local coverage and with the brt are actually slowing down and adding a few extra stops. So you are also sacrificeing the rapid part. There is no explanation why a larger segment of proposal of brt if brt is so great why are you stopping masonic. I also wonder, i feel for the people, my heart goes out to the people that live between jordan and arguelo and 26 and 27 because there will be an increased horn honking on these two side lanes. We are going to have a little bit more noise going on there. I dont think the report deals with that audible change. Another problem i have is that our Transit System is not just a corridor. Its a network. We have flushed out the brt stops on van ness. I find that transferring from the line on geary, i live on geary, transferring, im seeing the back end of the buses moving away beyond them. Its not speeding up the time if im not on the bus. Many i just wanted to point out some of the problems with brt. Thank you, sir. Maam you have already testified. I cant allow you to testify again. Thats how it works. Are there any other members of the public who have not testified who have testified on this matter item no. 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And this matter is now in the hands of the commission. I would just like to offer a few words and observations first and foremost and i say with all sincerity. I want to thank everybody who has come to testify today, who has written letters, who has been involved over a short or very long period of time and the quality of your testimony this afternoon and evening is really i think quite remarkable. I realize that there are some process issues here relative to the fact that we are in a moment of transition not only locally but at the National Level as you heard in the last item and we have changing of the composition of this body and a change at the National Level as well. But what is before us today is whether or not we are going to adopt the eir. I just want to say without bias that i have not heard words or many words as to how the eir is defective. I just wanted to say that for the record. Relative to the transition, at a certain point, the merrygoround has to stop. All of the members of this board arguably minus your chair for the month have been involved with this for the last eight plus or minus years. I actually had a little piece of it 10 years ago, but this has gone on through numerous iterations of numerous compositions of this board. I wanted to say that for the record as well. I do not have any knowledge that nor have i seen public statements or private statements that a new change of this body would change the outcome of these proceedings, but i think there is one important thing that i want to underscore and was touched on actually by a number of speakers, particularly mr. Taber and this is not only a message to the public that has been involved in this project but members of the Transportation Authority commission and i say this at risk of the fact that you might not reelect me as your chair at the end of this month, but it really is about Funding Priorities. In the last item, item no. 3, we just made or be it an unsecured promise to potentially if need be come up with 50 million. In this case, we all know that phase one of this project to stanion street has funding, but phase two, in the more controversial area of this project, in the Richmond District. Albeit i know that the last two supervisors representing that district have been enthusiastic supporters has been unfunded in large part. So i say to the eight colleagues gathered here in and the members of the public that Going Forward in the cal electrification and brt and subway extension that we really need to start having a very serious conversation about what our Funding Priorities are. It is very easy to adopt and certify an eir assuming its not defective but its much harder choosing between our projects and our transportation needs. That concludes my observations, and with that, commissioner yee . Supervisor norman yee thank you. First of all, i would also thank the public for coming out and not only today but for the process. Many of you have been involved with this for quite a while. And chair peskin, thank you for pointing out to clarify to everybody that we are voting on the eir, and not necessarily the item to fund this plan. Im not hearing anything where i would not approve the eir. However, there is a question i want some clarification. A number of the speakers talked about whats the realtime saved here in regards to the 20minute round trip versus the time that takes to get downtown and so forth currently, and it didnt seem like, i mean from just listening to the speakers, it seems like the 20 minutes was a little over stated. Mr. Dental post can we have your clarification on that. Its based ultimately on a lot of data inputs and so that modeling sound of 10 minutes travel time savings of a bus going from one end of the corridor to the other. So that would be maximum travel time savings that a rider might experience. If somebody is getting on the bus in the middle of the corridor and traveling to the other end, they would experience a portion of that benefit. The travel time benefit is modeled in future years. So the existing travel times of the buses are input into the model and validated based on the existing travel times of the buses as well as traffic counts and other data that goes into the model land use in its current scenario. We make sure the current model is reflecting the data on the ground, and then we also input into the model the future land use scenarios and other transportation and projects, ctmc which is one thing that somebody mentioned. We put all of those assumptions into our travel demand model and model the corridor to identify what the future travel time savings will be. So that 10 minutes, i think its important to note is relative to a modeled future of no built scenario. Its not that it would necessarily be exactly 10 minutes faster than the bus is today, but rather with the additional growth that we are expecting in San Francisco over the time that it will take to implement the project and the project will be in place we expect the travel times along the corridor without the project to increase to over an hour with the local bus and about 5 minutes with the 38r. That travel time saved is into the future travel time with the growth we expect in the corridor. So what you are basically saying is that your projections are based on the future for the fastest time for the system. Thats right. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner yee. Commissioner breed . I just want to thank the members of the public who came out to this meeting today. Thank you for your comments. One of the things that i wanted to especially comment on especially when i came onto the board of supervisors and what i thought i was going to do is make magic happen and i thought i was going to make sure that we got rid of the brt and we did everything underground. Wouldnt that be wonderful and amazing but wouldnt that be costly and how would we pay for it. That was really what the biissugger was for me. I had to make a decision. No, i dont want to do brt. I want to go underground. When i went to the ceremony in chinatown for whatever the big bertha was, the big drilling, i wrote on there, see you on geary boulevard, see you on van ness boulevard. I was really hopeful. We made mistakes in the past before we were born to putting things in the ground and now its much more expensive and we are a growing city and we have a lot to do with our public Transportation System. The point im making is its not what i want to do, but this particular brt strategy that we have here for geary boulevard and van ness is what i believe something that we can do, something we can accomplish and something we can afford to accomplish. So, i will be supporting this eir and i hope you will also support the amendments that we are proposing. I do know that with a report that is happening now looking the entire city and whats our going Transit System. And how we are going to move all of these people all over the place and finally, how are we going to pay for it . But at this time now is the time to move forward with this particular project. No more delays. Its been 10 years. Its time to go. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner breed, before i call on commissioner mar, and this is not an eir issue but a process issue that people have addressed that is there will be many many more votes that have just indicated on this project. The funding package is far from complete. So, the incoming supervisors if they differ from the existing supervisors are going to have plenty of opportunities to weigh in and express themselves on that side. I wanted to put that on the record. With that, commissioner mar. Supervisor eric mar chair peskin and i definitely want to be sensitive to that point that this is only one milestone that allows this to move forward. The existing board of supervisors and the new members including sandy feuer will have a significant say in especially how the stanion to 34th avenue is funded and built out. I wanted to say to the sf mta staff that are here, thank you, liz by son, santos, joanne. Thank you for the great work on this sensitivity to neighborhoods as well. I wanted to say when i visited East San Jose to fruit vale and international boulevard to oakland, the Small Businesses, mom and pop businesses by transit agencies were really critical while explaining the benefits of bus Rapid Transit. I want to say that the focus only on speed improvements is not the full picture. I think as colin dental post was mentioned its the increase in frequency of the brt vehicles in addition to the local vehicles that also saves riders time. The geary area from palm to 27th avenue is the center lane part that the significantly speed up travel from parts of central richmond all the way to the spine and core of the city. I think thats critical. Also in East San Jose along santa clara boulevard, the station is created with neighborhood artist, the safety of the creation of those stations i think is critical and again for brt systems whether its in bogota or other places around the world or cleveland for example, they really focus on the dedicated lanes which i think is critical. I think some of the speakers that mentioned why dont we just get rid of the dedicated lanes, thats what makes a brt system a brt including the dedicated lanes into a station as well. I want to say from the cac and kevin and others mentioned that there are many others that are not here. Over 530 people that are largely transit riders that have strongly supported this and the petitions are in our email boxes and to say that mta commissioner brinkman spoke and ramos couldnt be here today but hes been promoting brt and not just in our city but regionally as well. Lastly, this is critical. The tenderloin will benefit greatly from other Improvement Centers amended and i think that colleagues as we cast this vote today, i hope we understand how significant and historic this is and there will be many more votes, but i think we are casting the vote today to make the geary line the busiest and most usable and the busiest line in chicago and the nation will make geary in our city much more reliable and faster. I strongly urge your support for the amended version and the locally preferred alternative as we will vote today. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner mar. We have now two amendments before us. The first made by commissioner breed relative to the much discussed laguna stop. And there was a second for that motion. Mr. Stams would you like to restate at an or ms. Breed would you like to restate that to make laguna stop a rapid stop. Yes. On that matter, do we have the same house . We do have the same house. There are ten of us here. We will take that amendment same house, same call. And then on the 2nd amendment made by supervisor mar and seconded relative to the colin i believe would you like to restate that mr. Stams, commissioner mar . Commissioner mar to restate the action. I know that we have this in front of us, but it was basically to maintain the local stop in colin and geary especially in response to seniors and others that urged to keeping that colin street local stop. Motion made and seconded, colleagues, can we take that without objection, same house, same call, that amendment is adopted. Commissioner mar has moved the item now as twice amended. Mr. Stams, if you could have a roll call on that vote, please. Clerk all right. On the amended item 4. Commissioner avalos. One second. Counsel is waving. Im sorry, commissioner mars motion, mr. Mar, if you would remotion to move item 4 for the certification and findings and adoption of the monitoring and mitigation and the selection of the hybrid alternative as locally preferred alternative and stated in the agenda item no. 4 as guys amended, if you would move that. Supervisor eric mar so moved. Seconded by commissioner breed. On that item, a roll call please. Clerk commissioner avalos, aye, commissioner breed, aye t commissioner campos, aye, commissioner cohen, aye, commissioner farrell, aye, commissioner kim, aye, commissioner mar, supervisor eric mar thank you, everyone, aye. Commissioner peskin, aye, commissioner tang, aye, commissioner yee, aye. The item is approved unanimously as amended. Mr. Clerk, could you please call the fifth and last item. Clerk introduction of new items. This is an information item. Colleagues, thank you all for coming. Colleagues, first of all i want to thank and i should have done this at the beginning of the meeting. Phil jackson and Jessie Larson for covering this on sf govtv. And i would like to acknowledge our Assembly Member, for keeping San Francisco streets safe relative to relegated transportation vehicles which now rate some 45,000 on our city streets. I would like to ask is that this board considerate our next meeting passing a resolution of support of Assembly Member tangs bill no. 87 which will require the california dmv to revoke the registration of vehicles operating in violation of the vehicle thomas Tester Program and i want to thank senator tang for that and hes regulating this here and now these dangerous self driving vehicles. Are there any other items for no. 5 . Is there any Public Comment on item no. 5 . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Is there any general Public Comment items no. 6. Mr. Yip. The floor is yours. Public speaker thank you. The purpose for man being born is not just for sake of personal enjoyment. The prosperity of nation every man or woman would be responsible for the Better National management. The universe is one of two principals, one must spare with good manner, honesty and integrity for and also ability and holiness for practices. This is for the person. Actually which has Important Mission and duties for the common prosperity of the holy way to tragedy and downfall. The works of rescue would be firstly the rescue of human hearts. Worldly peace and prosperity. Thank you. Mr. Straus. General Public Comment. This is the last time this group is sitting together as a group and i just personally and on behalf of the transit riders and a lot of the people who i worked with over the years, i really wanted to thank in particular supervisors avalos, campos and mar for the pleasure of working with them, particularly on transportation measures. Its been rewarding. I have enjoyed it and i wish you well in future endeavors and hope this is not the end of our being able to Work Together. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Straus for those kind words. Ms. Cross. Public speaker i would like to ask the board at an appropriate time ask the metropolitan Transportation Commission for some regional data start trip and end trip in the bay area so that we can be up to date on what we need to input on our neighbors in the way of development for the whole region. The destination just in San Francisco. We may have some valuable input in San Francisco and we may get some ideas that will help us in making for safe and efficient travel routes and development when we pull our needs together in a larger framework and up to date, not just the past. Thank you, ms. Cross for your comment. Next speaker, please. If there are any other members of the preponderance for general Public Comment please lineup to my left or your right. Public speaker first of all. My name is jake. I want to thank the three members that are leaving this committee, day of camp os which i love your tie and eric mar and as well as john avalos. I wish i could have said earlier but i want to say it now is that no project is perfect. No project will ever meet the needs of every Single Person who takes a part of these projects. I hope we can do the best we can and keep reaching out to as many people we can to work out the kinks and make this all possible for future riders. I want to thank everyone for all of their hard work and great weekend. Thank you very much. Seeing no other members of the public for general Public Comment, the Transportation Commission is adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] with the equipment in the room and please rise for the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Commissioners commissioner Vice President turman id like to call roll. Sure. Commissioner president loftus is accused commissioner Vice President turman commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus is excused commissioner mazzucco commissioner serlina commissioner hing commissioner Vice President turman we have quorum and also with us the intern chief of police that chief chaplin and office of citizens complaints. Thank you. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and people of the public director intern chief chaplin and my follow commissioners welcome to the wednesday, january 4, 2017, Police Commission meeting the first meeting of the year i dont see any particular changes we need to make to the agenda so well take it from the top and our fbis ill turning the mike over to former Commission President commissioner mazzucco to tell us how we adjourn. Opened a can of worms the commission adjourns in the memory of a Police Officer a sfofr o San Francisco Police Officers and tint we adjourn in the memory of former Police Officer and assistant District Attorney dennis there is nobody here in the public so with our permission ill tell you about dennis he was a native san franciscan a product of Saint High School a son of a firefighter he attended San Francisco State University and while working as a San Francisco Police Officer for 8 years attended u. S. Law enforcement his star was 955 served at the mission station and parks station and the advice crime unit i had the pleasure of working with dense a deputy District Attorney and come back to San Francisco worked with me as an assistant District Attorney a unique character his brother retired from the Police Department a true family dedicated servant to San Francisco dennis tried one of the most difficult cases a Domestic Violence arson, murder, case successfully got a conviction and dennis was the guy that was calm under pressure and never worried about anything dennis left the District Attorneys office and became a criminal defense attorney a form public defender talked about him in court i have to read this an incredible transcript dpws was a glient e giant in the building and loved where miss common sense and examination none was better at his job he really got it hits the got people he got tare failures and the things that having can happen in life the judge said as cross Capital Improvement plan him and went on to say he loved that guy and will be sorely missed dennis is a true character to bryant street a great attorney and leaves a wife in contra costa a freshmen in college was his son thank you for everything youve done for me and the young da terry the presiding judge of the superior court has anybody seen dennis i used to say yes, but i wish i could. Thank you commissioner mazzucco well be adjoining in honor of the former Police Officer and District Attorney dennis first consent calendar request of the chief chaplin to accept the documents of 320 if Boston Properties to outfit the Police Officers that volunteered that he make a Wish Foundation request the chief of police to accept the gift cards with the central station. Colleagues a memo about those two items and the donations are there any questions. I would assume the chief of police i dont see captain lazarus any questions as these items are placed on the consent calendar not a form vote anyone object to receiving those items seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Those items are by ac application accepted chief thank you and please thank properly thank Boston Properties for the two donations commissioners and next item. Discussion two a chiefs report to allow the chief of police to report on activities with the majority events anticipate to make announcements update on the Holiday Season Community Engagement presentation on the departments notification and response portfolios and the presentation of 2016 Third Quarter firearm discharge review board and status of officerinvolved shooting. Do we have the video keyed up can you run it. Some over the past several units two videos why wear the badge and showcases the officer why they choose to join the department those videos are on social media to talk about what the Police Officers do. Okay. We can run that and the seconds were at the 3450ek e meeting with the unit thought that would be great to highlight how to make the holidays better for people that showcases the turkey give away and a make a Wish Foundation. This is our way to give back. Youre welcome. San Francisco Police department is working closely with the partners weve given away 25 persons grants into the department thank you to everyone. This little gesture we can do for them goes a long way. Happen thanksgiving. We handed out and things and next to help. Made a lot of happy people. Were it is Recreation Center today, our third thanksgiving diner. We served turkey and in general having a good time today. Overtime people see us when bad things happen we get to know people on a personal based with the residents. It is easy to see there is good in other other youre not alone and the only one that had it hard. Oh. This is a time it is more important to give than receive and for the officers to give out in terms of donations. We see a lot of people to collaborate with the folks and we collected 25 hundred toys that helped out kids and hopefully, this year interest triple the amount. Hi good morning and welcome well be talking with cops come on in we have an opportunity to get out of the police cars and come into the coffee shop. Up the hill. Cars or homes. I think that is great. This is fantastic. Here we are a private park for the sfpd raise. Sfpd. We have cable cars. We have people in the bay. You know what that is freezing out there but for a good cause people will be here to do it. With our relationship with the sfpd you all have helped us raise over half a Million Dollar and the kids to help them. It is pretty cool. The water was freezing but fun. I saw that makes a difference in their lives. This is a partner streamlining at the lodge were meeting the public and handing out stickers and fun with the kids. 3, 2, 1. Happy new year. This is good and creates involvement to get them engaged and the little kids thank you and give you a high 5. Whether talking with a cop or jumping in the bay it is all about serving our community. From all of us from the San Francisco Police Department have a safe Holiday Season happy new year. Okay. That concludes that with the Mayors Office and the make a Wish Foundation 6 thousand children are effected a successful season for us and with that, that was our Community Engagement ill run introduce the states for the year before we do the homicide portfolio and start with traffic 2016 our Traffic Company issued 4 thousand plus speed violations which was one and 8 increase of 2015 combined with the district stations 9 thousand speed violations it was a total of 13 thousand plus for citywide issuance which is an increase of 23 percent increase and 2016 data is a 19 reduction in dui from 2014 to november data our december data is not yet complete a 27 percent reduction in bicyclist collisions from 2015 again january to november, december is not available yet a fatality update in december 23, 201618 and fulsome a vehicle versus vehicle one vehicles eastbound by an elderly male and obstructed a vehicle on 18 the elderly male passed away with the medical slash condition and the death, however, the determination is made only by the Examiners Office and another involved in january the pedestrian was crossing with the green light and had a medical episode and collapsed directly in front of a motorist and in the intersection with a green light and substantially ran over the pedestrian the motorist remained at the scene and side cops and initially tried to leave but was transported with a collapsed lung and medical conditions if appear lifethreatening a citywide states for december 30th the desaturation with 3 we had 17 vehicle stops and 14 citations and one vehicle was towed. Crime trends for 2015 two homicides for 2017 and ended the year with 58 a 67 increase by 6 from 2014 we ended with 52 our shooting victims 20175 victims and 2016 end with nine hundred plus and identical in 2014 the crime ways down and the total was one thousand 12 so far for 2017 vehicle burglaries are down 3 percent and new years eve states 4 felon arrests and 2021 drudge arrests and medical calls and the two homicides for the year as far two on january 1st in the Bayview District no arrests 11 25 p. M. And the officers responded regarding a shots fired and the officers located an unresponsive person with a shot to the head and the person was transferred and succumbed to his injuries surveillance cameras are reviewed no arrests the second homicide on the same data occurred at the 214 the officers responded with a report of a shooting the officers located a unresponsive male with a wound to the chest the officers gave aid and however that victim succumbed to his injuries and the subject was detained the surveillance cameras were located in the area, no arrests were made and there were two shootings in the reporting period that was on the 29 of december and responded to the General Hospital and prior to the officers arrive the dispatch said the fires were several that were fired the officers were informed by the trauma unit that personnel that the victim suffered shoots to the chest according to 9 victim the vehicle drop off past the vehicles a suspect we respond and bayview issued a the second shooting in the Bayview District on the 30th of december at approximately 54 minutes after midnight the officers responded to northridge the victim was shot in the head on arrive the victim was had a laceration and she was listed in stable condition according to the victim a knock on the door and she was shot twice the victim gave information to the officers bullet fragments in arrests were made by the Investigation Unit and that concludes that with that, i will ask homicide im sorry investigation staff to come up for the presentation on the notification and response portfolios in that case. Good evening my name is captain bryan the captain of the major criminal justice unit thank you to the members of the public just to pass on about the lady that was shot in the face under was an arrest warrant made today on that were happy that person has been taken off the streets so i was asked here tonight to clarify some of the questions about our procedures about response notifications to officerinvolved shootings on the commission with several questions that were put forward to us and i was going to answer those the best i could i also wanted to give you an update on the year to date cleaners the chief said we have total homicides this year i think what was recorded in the examiner was 59 their including the park homicide that is the park police so we didnt include that in our homicides for the year of those 58 total homicides we had we have made 31 arrests that is a 53 percent clearance for this year, however, what we do im sorry captain obrien. How many. 31 arrests out of the 58 homicides. It is very good by the way, what is better our homicide detail the uniform Crime Reporting the way we report crime nation wide from the homicide occurs lets say in 2013 or 2014 and the arrest is made in 2016 we count that towards our arrests that year for the year of the arrest is made so our arrest percentage right now is 71 percent clearance so in addition to the 31 arrests of the 58 homicide we made numerous arrests from prior years okay for example, in 2015, 52 homicide and our clearance was 60 percent were up 11 percent for the uniform Crime Reporting our homicide investigators are working hard and everyone that includes the task force and night investigations and homicide we Work Together we are kind of comingle in the investigations. Im sorry captain i want to understand 58 homicides out of 58, 31 arrests and then end of the 2014 arrests will not come and do that. Correct. But that will be a separate reporting that will be counted towards the year. Im telling you 31 people for the 58 homicide weve cleared 31 cases. So we are not counting the prior. United states uniform Crime Reporting and the Law Enforcement any report no matter what year we solved a case from 2014 and arrested in 2015 in addition to the 31 people we have more people weve arrested this year. Thank you thats trall. Up to 71 percent thats what we report. I know that is very confusing and still you confuses us sometimes thats all thats how they want us to report it it just to take on to 2016 i know were moving forward but number 57 and 58 victim what who was shot at the golden gate we made an arrest warrant on that we ended the year within an arrest warrant and number 58 homicides matthew was stabbed in front of the van ness street and we made an arrest warrant on that. Okay im ready to move on to the arrest and let you know the response so the first question what does the homicide unit do to secure the scene of a crime the personnel are the ones that secure the scene homicide arrives we determine whether to expand or retrack we can move the perimeters homicide investigators are in control of the criminal justice any questions what is the portfolio between the department and the District Attorney investigators in terms of connecting at the crime scene or responding they put out on call memo that gets emailed to the homicide detail and Operation Centers from the District Attorneys office on theyre a they put their notification and the telephone numbers of everyone they want contact with an officerinvolved shooting that memo then gets put out weekly for dock and homicide and in the past dock if he were alerted when dock is innovative an officerinvolved shooting they pull up the on call sheets and begin with the notification process they manually make calls from 50 to 60 people. Can i stop you for a quick session dock is a form command it is manned twentyfour hour a day and our center for the Police Department for passing the information and making notifications to command staff and on call personnel throughout the Police Department. So begins the process ones their notified our Operation Center is notified with an officerinvolved shooting they start with the number one the police chief and to the crime scene and oraccc there are we moved to a new program and happy to report were live today to embody for bid an officerinvolved shooting now we have move forward at a modern communication a program called ever bridge we did a program run through 3 weeks ago we put out a text mess to the da their immediately notified all at the same time but whether there as officerinvolved shooting there innovative via text email and a phone number that is going to happen every two minutes you get a text phone call or email if you dont respond f you have to respond by texting you got the message or email or picking up the phone call this goes out to all 55 recipients we have in the program all that are notified same time now well not have an issue the chief of police getting a notification lets say someone at the District Attorneys office not notified for 20 minutes i get staggering people coming to the crime scene so everybody gets notified at the same time and were happy the department the operation is trained as well as tonight once the da gets to the crime scene they go to the crime post this is myself and the captain and the lieutenant of homicide and the investigators we get briefed at the same time and occ has done with the crime we do a walk through with occ im sure there are multiple anybody from who else am i missing chief. D o i. The occ, da i and the District Attorneys office themselves there is an actual da with the District Attorney investigators theyre given a walk through and get a visual and get an idea of what that looks like we wait for the okay. From the crime scene to walk through the crime scene to add on ever bridge now the system that will successfully take care of the recommendations by the civil grand jury and the Blue Ribbon Panel so captain conley is presenting next week and will go into the detail of ever bridge that is successfully taken care of for the recommendations do you have any questions for about. Sure. Yeah in terms of the notifications that goes to everyone one of the comments i think we heard i think from the District Attorney that is this phone number weve used for them is somebodys Office Number or something at a time theyre not in the office so is there a number they can would be the most they have to give on the District Attorneys office puts out an think on call sheet every week im pretty sure i have an example if so what phone number personal everyones puts their you know city phone number or cell phone phone i put my personally he respond to that personally. But i have in sight the District Attorney has a number and thats the number to pass around and the commissioner mazzucco worked in the office at one point and wherever an assigned da they get if thats the fixed number but ultimately the way the on call works we fissure the numbers the name of the person and the Contact Number and loaded into the system. Im sorry just wanted to i, clarify so when we put together from the Investigators Division we contracted the District Attorney and occ and ask them to give us the names ever everyone that is is on call d i and their best Contact Numbers when there are an officerinvolved shooting all of them will receive a notification what we are trying to do get away from who is on call this week and that week and make sure they know so the appropriate people on call and supposed to respond if it was to happen visually every investigator will get the nose and the ones on call will be responsible to respond to the scene that way no problems in the future. Were excited the system will take care of past issues by my third question from the District Attorney investigator is at the homicide officerinvolved shooting and while the descent is doesnt make sense or da i many times the body is not present theyre at the hospital where they later all of those succumbed to their injuries does that make sense and in 2016 one succumbed to their injuries and two survived the incident in 20143 succumbed to their injuries at general and one survived who is responsible for camp mather the District Attorney the protocol will be blasting out the notifications generally speaking who is the responsible party that decided when a body is removed from the scene and put examples like even though medical examiner the medical examiner is probable for the victims body is removed after the pictures and videos and sketches and after homicide da i say m. D. Will take over the investigation and remove the descent i 0 spoke with the chief medical investigator today they are governed by the government code gymnasium the authority over the descent ant and want to have a public descent ant they go respond for respect and not leaving the descent ant out in public view those are higher priorities any questions does the investigations work with the District Attorney investigators occ the District Attorneys office the Medicines Office and crime scene and all other participating unit to do we we think that a comprehensive investigation and walk through with the incident crime scene once occ allows it i dont know if any of you have respondent ive worked unfortunately over 15 to 12 officerinvolved shooting shooting we all Work Together but wait patiently to get people together and do one walk through to not containment the crime scene what the da needs to be present. Thats the point is the da i read the question and answer the question. Da i we try to wait for everybody. Read the question. Dont the da need to be present no. For a walk through but collaboratively we try to wait for everybody. Once the criticisms in ferguson with Michael Brown was on the ground they throughout the medical Examiners Office then the office charged with the homicide i think that is sometimes, youll have a personal call to response you try to wait as long as a you possibly came in the person is unremarkable delay you do the walk through without that person present. We need to get away from persons and talk about the Department One person there should be other people covering that individual not about persons but there should be a plan in place that sponsor should from that particular area should be present i understand you wait as long as possible and then sometimes you have to proceed and maybe none it available for whatever under the circumstances but whidepend on person. The District Attorneys office needs a back up. Im not concerned about that. But as far as the Police Department we have portfolios protocols in place. Thats the answer we need. We are covered were covered. We are covered sorry. Sorry captain when i had the the investigator signed to week they couldnt be more than 11 miles from San Francisco there was a mile restrictions and, of course, no Alcohol Consumption and happened in the middle of the night do we have anything that guarantees officers dont get stuck in traffic or the officers are near the city. We have two Homicides Team that are on call 24 7 all the time and those on call teams are restricken youre on duty not allowed to drink a takehome car that is fixed with lights and sirens the Police Department has no delay there are a team of 48 people total everyday night on call if one person is tied up lets say theres sick you have 3 on that can cover for that one. But we never had an issue with the Police Department not being there ever. Or anything like that. We appreciate that and thats the information i personally want the public to hear and understand. Absolutely. Theres a problem with Response Time not that we are protocols in place i want to clarify and right the last question that was posed what role emigrates medical examiner play in securing the descendant at the crime scene the me is responsible for progressing for a positive identified and noifsz the next of kin and conducting the autopsy the securing of the body it the responsibility of the sfpd and like i said before the chief medical examiner said as part of their programs and policies prolonged dispose of a decent ant they dont want to have they work with the department to that concludes the questions unless you have anything else you want me to clarify. Commissioner marshall two things we are having one case the community was concerned that the body was had been moved forward i think i heard you say in the occ last year that the medical people took the body to the hospital. Uhhuh. All 3 in 2000. Required medical attention. Correct. Expired at the hospital. Correct in 2006. Okay also securing weapons you can if there is a weapon involved offices may secure that weapon but it is documented how officers are very good about documenting the conditions of the body when it was on the ground and if something has to be move forward and documented as a homicide this is how the body was initially found and just. Rare. Commissioners this has been brought up in this form with just the generous sews thats why we take photographs were not always able to wait for long periods of the time and going back to calling a business home during after hours we didnt get the da and they didnt respond how because of the a lack of notification was moved by the medical examiner and thats why we mark and photograph the body so kind of like a homicide investigators transport of Something Else they can review the files and photos same thing sometimes we are not able to wait for the other person to show up via the District Attorney investigation but the whole purpose of documenting things at the scene because sometimes they have to move all kind of reasons inclement weather or safety reasons that particular case the probation officer body was moved by the medical examiner because of the time. Thank you, thank you chief. The other ivy wanted to get back to the homicide cases this year. Sure. 58 things extraordinary i mean over 50 percent sometimes ive been on the commission ive heard it not so good it is good is that higher than in the past . Can you say i mean, thats 2016 from your general analysis is that better than. At the end of the year this year is 71 percent. Again, i dont want to i want to get the end year. Year because one of the things the public wants to know how long to clear a case respect that year 58 homicides and arrested 31 so that statistic what help if you have any idea that was the past two years. I mean, you, obviously you know as well i do that a homicide can say solved in minutes and cold cases can take years depending on the evidence we have in this day and age were in a digital age with Video Surveillance which is absolutely paramount in some of the cases this helps the investigators if we have video of the crime it is put out to all of the officers that we have extremely diligent officers that can remember a face from a crime alert and see that face on the street an arrest warrant is made it is unbribl the case level and this is an amazing Task Force Unit that you know how people are connected and related we have an amazing night Investigation Team proactive and connect the dots with the criminal and frankly their serial killers that have killed not once or twice but 3 times this year has an extremely hard year for homicide 13 homicide investigators right now theyre in injury trials that is extremely depending on their ability to investigate cases theyre doing an outstanding job they sacrifice their families and put people away and sometimes the victory at injury trials are not the best. You answered what do you do you said what im saying in the eyes of the public they say it takes forever to make an arrest warrant. From the evidence. Notwithstanding 31 out of 58 in a year. Obrien alluded to video is our friend and technology we use the emails the officers are able to generate pain leslie and suddenly not just a couple of investigators but three hundred eyes on a picture and San Francisco small big city somebody stops individuals and talks with them we extend to outside agencies in case north bay so we have a lot of hits we put things out literally and the chief i get it on the phone we put out a flier and two minutes later the person as identified the technology has been a friend of ours and with video cameras everywhere making our job easier commissioner hing. Sorry im going to make you go over the staff again for the third time 31 out of 58 is that what you report because i thought i heard you say you report to the feds. We do. One percent. Okay. So unified Crime Reporting i gave you the 58 homicides and the 31 arrests because it is expressive this year alone of the 58 homicides weve closed 31 we report to the feds our total arrests for 2016 and it is well above 31 that people so our percentage goes higher. Sorry the arrests above 31 we can do the math whatever 5 or 7 those extra arrests were from homicides that occurred prior to 2016. Correct. So for example, everybody is very aware of our triple homicide so that arrest was made this year but the homicide occurred in 2015 that counts as a closure of 3 for 2016 but. Now my problem with math is about to be demonstrated so the number 58. Uhhuh. Right . That number remains the same when you divide it into the number of arrests they come up with the 71. Yes, sir. Thats how you got to the 71 percent. Yes, sir. Isnt that misleading in other words the 5 extra arrests over 31 shouldnt the the shootings those 5 extra arrests you said 5 arrests shouldnt that been added to the 58 and in 2013 i dont know what the number. I think i know what our saying at some point it catches up your catching with the arrests but it is misleading because dividing 58 into a number that includes homicides from a prior year. Uhhuh. Thats why i gave you the actual number 31 so you can clearing see that of the 58 homicides this year 31 of those cases were closed by arrests so thats why i wanted you to clarify Crime Reporting is goofy in a sense sometimes, we have one and 20 percent. Yeah. It is goofy youre right youre on us to tell us that is 31 out of 58 really what would be useful to us i dont know but is that adjustment be made to the prior years in other words prior to 2016 those new arrests in 2016 with the shootings occurred. Right. Those prior years should be adjusted. Theyre on paper we have whats called homicide books we go back to the prior years and change the information that is put into those homicide books weve closed this with an arrest warrant but some unform way but reporting. Because it will deduct the total numbers didnt have much bearing on what we boo do locally but the current murders are solved if we went back and adjusted well be here two or three days theres a lot of cold cases that we had in the 90s but for federal purposes they wanted to know that will impact their total number of murders recorded in San Francisco if we subtract to solve the total just the federal reporting they know so for for statistic hiv to now have been solved. The last time i did a presentation commissioner president loftus wanted me to tell you how many cold cases how many total homicides weve had sing a Police Department and how many cold cases we still have with a cold case presentation they wanted that broke down by zip code i did what you wanted which was to give you the percentage within that zip code of how our solve ability that was pretty low in some of the areas i had like sometimes 25 percent in some zip codes as opposed to another zip code that had 60 pregnancy i have presented and i can get the materials ill give them to sergeant killshaw. Thank you, captain obrien. And the next presentation will be to the 2016 Third Quarter firearm recommendations status for the shooting investigations. Good evening, commissioners and director hicks and chief chaplin and members of the Community Happy new year im sergeant im assigned to the San Francisco Police Department external affairs as the officerinvolved shooting penal ill be presenting the Third Quarter 2016 ois report the firearm discharge review board just a brief summary the f t rb board was convened on im sorry that was the third the second board compound on wednesday, september 2016 and during that f t rb we reviewed a 2014 case as the competition the voting members with the deputy chief michael redd man and deputy chief and others and some of the advisory members were commissioner dejesus and captain peter watching and gregory yee and low the officerinvolved shooting occurred on saturday march 8, 2014 the 13 hundred block of forest street and the finds in policy just a brief summary two officers that responded to a report of a vandalism to a vehicle when the officers approached the vehicle the person backed up towards the officers that was attempting to move for cover the officer shot and the bullet fragmented and struck the fell officer the person fled because was apprehended the next fire we did the quarter firearm discharge that con convened and will be presented to the Police Commission next week before i get into the staves of officerinvolved shooting does anyone have any questions what we discussed great well move on to the ois update the previous ois Quarterly Report the Second Quarter was submitted to the Police Commission and since that report weve closed one case and unfortunately, we have two more we picked up two more investigations both 2016 and ois 2016 as of december 13th open Police Department ois investigations and still a few under investigation weve waiting for a charting letter from the District Attorneys office prior to moving forward with the homicide closures and the internal Affairs Investigation one in criminal investigation that was an incident that took place out of county and that is currently towing because the officer is incapacitated and unable to participate in an internal Affairs Investigation and the 2013 are under investigation for the detail as well as the District Attorneys office right now we have 3 cases that are still open in 2014 again weve been waiting for the charging decision letter from the District Attorneys Office Currently will be 9 open investigations when occurred in 2015 with exemption to the out of county one i mention again waiting for the decision letter before we move forward with the Administration Investigation and as previously stated we have 3 officerinvolved shootings in 2016 that are still under criminal investigation by the homicide detail as well as the District Attorneys office. That concludes any presentation if anyone has any questions ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Commissioners any questions. Great, thank you have a good evening. And that concludes the chiefs report. Any questions for the chief . Okay. Next line item. Two b occ directors report to allow the correct to report on recent activities and make announcements for the evaluation of occs investigation process good evening commissioner Vice President turman. Good evening. Commissioners chief chaplin and members of the public other than the agendized report on occ investigative process i have no activities to report this evening Deputy Director will hostility this report that he has provided a power point presentation ive recorded to the Police Commission on in july of last year that ive retained and will evaluate the processing to determine how we can achieve great efficiency in the investigations using available resources at 2016 was the year that the office of citizens complaints practices were reviewed by the Bar Association of San Francisco criminal Justice Task Force and the civil grand jury on officerinvolved shootings the Blue Ribbon Panel task force and the Community Oriented policing services and the department of justice each of these reviews highlights the transparent climate investigation the occs mission pursuant to the charter to investigate the complaints of Police Misconduct i commissions the report because of the best practices for the professional agencies to give me in the review to object process improvement and to maintain the quality i retained him because of his past experience in auditing the agencies and as an assistant civil rights attorney without more well present our summary of the report. Good evening mr. Balthazar. Good evening commissioner Vice President turman, members of the commission and director hicks and chief chaplin and members of the public my name is eric im the Deputy Director for the office of the office of citizens complaints ill talk about the recommendations in the report the recommendation essential falls in 4 categories the evidentiary standard and weighing of etched and number two the procedures for the planning and interviews and timelines when the interviews are to be conducted and 3 attorney roles and Quality Insurance and research and technology. So other recommendation one a the recommendation states the occ should elaborate on existing preponderance of evidence for the standards the evidence shows that the alleged conduct was more likely to not have occurred to clarify the findings and one c the occ should elaborate on the weighing of evidence and the credibility assessment and attorney john alden did an assessment and the weighing of evidence we do this when we conclude our investigation and figure out how to come up with the conclusion in regards to each allegation number two a the occ should provide clear and detailed guidance with the use of a checklist with the process how to staechlg modify a plan that identifies the activities with the critical deadline two b the existing guidance should be more specific in requiring the investigators to interview all officers involved in the officerinvolved shooting case and currently the manual talks about cases where we require interviews the way it is written any investigation involving allegation of use of force or cases likely the result of sustained finding those cases we require mandated interviewing of officers, however, those are not the only once the procedural manual have to be updated for search case and person or other collection cases were in the process of reviseing the manual excuse me of occ should provide contact with the interviews two d the occ to convey the importance of field report and looking at the videos and 2e the occ should have clear proper preparation of the requests and under that section two f the occ investigators should be required to foil all investigative materials electronically in a manner that can be readily available to the supervisors. Under recommendation 3 owl managers to conduct the use of investigative activities and occ personnel to identify the attorneys that maybe recommending too many cases and then look at these recommendations to see the reason for those outcomes 3 c the occ should go see that the investigators are involved with the focus of in person discussion of cases currently we have 4 teams of investigators each team is supervised by a senior investigator last month, a month ago we made a determination that each should be with an occ attorney the attorney will help the investigator assess credibility and help are drafting the questions for officers including additional evidences that maybe required to make sure we have a thorough investigation. Was your credibility training and assessment under number one was that conducted. Im sorry. Was that conducted with all the investigators. From 2016. And moving on to 3d equal attention to those cases especially those involving the allegations of serious misconduct even if the evidence is sustained and 3 e for the attorneys to be more streamlined 3 f keeping track of deadlines and 3 g for the investigators to discuss tare investigations around well, what went well and didnt go well and under 3 h supervisor and manager responsibility should be defined in the appraisal plans. So other recommendations on number 4a talks about assigning a case should be based on involving the same officers and depending on the investigator caseload occ should have an investigator on more collection investigation which we have in oiss required the senior investigator to participate in interviews and also really alcohol supervise the investigation and the streamlining of the in take process this when we get new classrooms and the investigator is required to turn in that within 15 cases of the investigative plan and next update and higher more it staff and lastly under that section combich the occ expected mandate for the enhanced roll in respect ois the occ should look at increasing the staffing. Of course, the budget it is budget driven do you see any progress for achievement given those. In what im sorry. Do you see any prospect for improving p d and e. Yes. Commissioner Vice President turman. The budget process for budget years of 20172018, 2018, 2019 are underway mayor ed lee has the budget instructions that proposed budgets should include no new net staffing so no staffing increase in addition that the each department should offer up budget cuts of one and half percent for each of these two budget years and the target for the occ after backing out the mandated investigators pursuant to the chapter we have a one and 50,000 to three hundred thousand for year two and the occ only has about 3 a hundred and 50 thousand in discretionary money those are challenges and the budget instructions does not account for the occs added responsibility of audit which was inundated pursuant to the most recent election and most recent Charter Amendment what were seeing now a Second Technology that is the tip of the iceberg because as the gentleman recommends everything should be digitized that makes that much easier to supervise and other investigators to learn from one another and with the occ now receiving the videos from the the body worn cameras again another challenge in terms of equipment storage as well so those are recommendations that have been made but some are mandates with regards to the audit and we will be working with the mayors budget staff to determine how best to achieve those goals some of the recommendations are achieveable without additional staffing the occ has realized thirty percent increase in the staff in the last two years but mainly and. Thats basically any question because back to 4 d and e are there creative ways to solve or at least to improve the technology and it staffing needs with the increase of staffing adds just a great number of new staff but the minimal increases are we able to solve some of the issues with that staff. Commissioner Vice President turman im not sure that i fully understand. laughter . Some of the technology at it staff. We are. We are certainly mining the talent of the occ staff ac an example one of our newest senior investigators and i will not name her to embarrass her from media an aptitude for item that is working closely with our it staff we with an office the size of the occ a small office compared to most city departments we work collaboratively and you know as another example in the area of training credibility assessments, etc. John alden received a lot of training at the Police Department and now an attorney on the occ staff and has been extremely helpful with the investigators monthly holds a training on various tops and his trainings last if 2 to 3 hours but hes on the staff so the training didnt end with the monthly training and we recognize that with this report it shows us not only challenges but opportunities and we are focusing on the opportunities. Thank you. Chief do you have a comment. Just a question youre talking about manuals you guys have are those manuals available from any staff. Sure. Sure. Commissioner Vice President turman. Commissioner hing and i wanted to follow up on commissioner Vice President turmans question to mr. Balthazar when we asked you about the training and theres alluded to a second ago as well does it pertain to recommendation one. Uhhuh. It sounds like this is ongoing training the training includes at least includes a discussion of what preponderance of the evidence means in addition to witness credibility assessment. Yes. Thats correct. Is that in the form. Id like to look at that training material looks like. Are you saying preponderance of the evidence after that the evidence is in including the witness credibility. When we conclude our investigation we have to make a determination as to each the allegations against the officers well look at the evidence to see if increase enou evidence is there any way
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