Think outside the box good morning good morning and welcome to the to the special meeting of the San FranciscoGovernment Audit Oversight Committee for this friday, october 7, 2016, im the chair of the Committee Aaron peskin joined by vice chair to my right is supervisor norman yee and by member and president of the board to my left is london breed to our clerk a ink a thank you. The folks at sfgovtv for live extremely this morning. Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 18th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you m read the first item. Item one an ordinance appropriately one how u hundred from the department of Emergency Management to provide precisely for earthquake victims for fiscal year 20162017. Thank you, madam clerk first, i want to thank supervisor president london breed for transferring this legislation so it can be heard timely to make a difference to the folks in center aisle a devastating earthquake happened in august thousand dollars were displaced and, of course, we remember that 1989 about the Lottas Fountain earthquake in San Francisco folks and cities and countries from around the world responded including the nation state of italy and what comes around going around i hope we can show our sorry and try to be helpful by appropriately one hundred thousand dollars through our to our department of Emergency Management for them to provide appropriate relief to earthquake victims in italy we received a bit of Public Comment at the full board of supervisors earlier had week so ill ask folks given the length of our agenda and all the civilly grand jury report they dont need but well obviously open up for Public Comment supervisor breed thank you supervisor cohens unfortunately im not going to be able to report this particular item i appreciate the sentiment i think this is the kind of support that should be done with private dollars and at this time i wouldnt be able to support it but appreciate our sentiment in trying to be supportive of thirty the folks experiencing this tragedy. Thank you. Thank you supervisor yee. Thank you chair peskin i als also appreciate your reason for wanting to do this and i guess im i have a lot of questions around this mainly it seems like a more logical thing to ask the u. S. Government to support their efforts in italy rather than the city entity and im not sure if we ever done this before where we actually as a city make donations to a country that is going to throw some terrible issues im thinking of more recent ones like a. D. I dont know what weve done more them. Thank you for that question supervisor yee as a matter of fact the funds the city received in the 1989 Lottas Fountain earthquake a long proud tradition of the city and county of San Francisco making traditions in 1989, 200 and 50,000 for taipei and 2000 one of the board of supervisors appropriated one hundred thousand dollars for similar earthquake relief and substantially appropriately one hundred thousand dollars for the American CouncilsEarthquake Relief Fund there is a long proud history of doing this time have been good in San Francisco we have a proud italian heritage in San Francisco and im saying that on the eve of the italian parade it is my respect request it perhaps colleagues, we consider sending this to the full board without a positive recommendation any Public Comment on matter seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor president london breed will that be okay with a roll call without objection well sends this matter supervisor yee without a positive recommendation to the full board without a positive recommendation to the full board without objection thats the call madam clerk read the next item. Item number two the administrative code to reflect is changes in job classifications okay. This is brought to us by the human resources. Supervisor peskin im susan the Employee Relations director before you a fairly brief matter we bring to you on a periodic basin ordinance for the amending the administrative code this is the area of the administrative code that establishing the bargaining unit for the city and county and specification the classifications within each bargaining unit on ann an annual basis all the classifications and classifications that are moving from an unrepresented status to a bargaining unit the item before you this morning. Thank you for that i noticed as i was reading a number of new classifications mostly in the trade for apprenticeships can you talk about the history and backward. Yes. Weve been working to create in any apprenticeship programs to help bring new untrained labor into the trades and so this is an area of increased focus for the department we weve been working with the bargaining unit to expand those programs and then owe noticed on page thirty a new classification for recreation assistance what is that. Let me just check one thing. I actually need to ill have to get back with you and dont have the backward on that classification specifically and he can get back to you. Well delay this to further in the meeting and im interested just to understand whether or not that is part of a a changing Management Structure within the rec and Park Department because number of years ago between my terms on the board of supervisors there was some amount of controversy on the eliminations of recreation directors i want to understand so we know what were looking at for how to fits in and on page 15 special examiner what is that . Sounds like it could be just about anything. 12, 29 special examiner bargaining unit number 8. I can get you background that is on existing classification previously urban represented and were moving that into bargaining unit 8 with local 21 not a new one. A local 21st rep i get it. How did we think i might know the tort it is your duty history of the affirmation by page 20 the eliminations of the position classifications. Ill have to get back with you information on that as well. On page 11 a distinct recollection maybe ms. Campbell reminds at 13479 the board of supervisors eliminated 9 classification of planner 5 but thats by the way, didnt show as a new classification i just thought to classification disappeared a decade agree ago it is possible it came back. Ill have to get back with you and on page 87 im sorry let me find this on page 7 the 1849 manager and Economic Development position do you know what that is . I did not have it it is another one of the unrepresented classification were moving into a bargaining unit this is like i said moving if unrepresented to bargaining unit 7 with local 21 so we remember back this this year i and received the unrepresented classifications we felt belonged with the existing bargaining united the item before you in this packet and this position included is 14 of these classifies were profiling u. S. Bancorp represented and now moving into bargaining unit that represents three hundred and 44 employees. So does that mean or mean in certain cases theyre going from the exempt to nonexempt status. Not necessarily that doesnt necessarily change this is really from unrepresented status to represented a status. Do you know how many 1849 there are. Yes. I do. How many. Actually right now on my list none existing in that classification so currently there are zero no employees in that craze been an existing classification if so utilized there are currently no active employees. Then why do we need the class. From time to time we are recruiting for classifications and theyre vacant and they are utilized at other times and so i i got why this is currently vacant but currently when we did a snapshot of this all the employees within the classifications that are moving from unrepresented to represented there was none in that classification i can get you background. Anyone wish to comment testify open that most existing item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And why not get answers and then ms. Campbell if you can go do our magic if it requires calling the controller to get what relevant history of the Program ManagerCommunity Investment and infrastructure whether or not theyre intended to be positions not filled that independently get that well be here for a while with grand jury report. Madam clerk call item number 3. And four together. Yes. Item three and four a hearing and resolution richmond to 9 proceeding Supreme Court on the 20162017 grand jury report entitled San Francisco county jails our Largest Mental HealthFacility Needs attention. This is another of the 2016 civilly civil grand jury report id like to ask mr. Cunningham. Sitting on on behalf of the jury is michael ph. D. Good morning doctor. Hello. Good morning supervisors im grad to be back to presentation is represents my fourth well, my second term of services in which ive been a contributor i guess what i want to talk about just in the beginning here is about all of our reports collectively and what they represent to me and why i think the civil grand jury it is important what this represents to may a product of agreement and the challenges of getting people to agree on anything today is significant get 19 juries to agree on years of work represents a big challenge and i think that it is worth pointing that out the jail was no exemption from that it was a challenge for us to come up with recommendations and finding that are relevant and that we all can agree upon it is a important issue a nation a state and a city that holds liberty and freedom to be at the core of its value incarcerating people is a serious action one that shouldnt be taken lighting and it perhaps why the first names of the state constitution including the clause that the civil grand juries should look out the county jails it is engaged in the process of Holding People in custody and denial of personals freedoms as a jury with little background to begin with in the jails when we look at assessing what the jails are all we have to go by the rules and regulations as to how a jail is to be operated and how a jail to be constructed so we looked to california code title 15 minimum standards for local detention and the Building Standards Commission for the local detention facilities we visited every single site and thank the members of Sheriffs Department and of the Jail Behavioral Health services and the Jail Services that coordinated and helped us to understand really how the jail operates and what the challenges are theyre significant and what the question that we begin to ask was can a local standard be 34ri8d to the operation of the county jail given the state regulations so forth those minimum standards i think this board or the board of supervisors this year answered that question and the answer is yes. That a Standard Community standard can be applied and it is a higher standard and the Sheriffs Department today is very much changed by contemporary problems within the city that led people problem kr5r9d and in the jail system for various reasons whos origins are social and family and Community Related need to say a Community Related response to them. So in our initial look at the jail in question looked could closely and intact the first twentyfour hour or 72 hours hours a person is in jail the most important time to obviously and be aware of issues related to suicides prevent suicides the department has a very good record we thought an important issue to look at had is happening in the world around us and that any life can be saved is important to consider so we looked at irks of transfer of the custody from the departments bringing people in and the tracking of medical referrals from the Sheriffs Department to San Francisco general we looked at issues of training, whether or not the Department Needs to have twentyfour hour behavioral staffing throughout we look at issues of Drug Diversion which is the exchange of drugs within the jailed population itself noting at the time we were writing this report was the time the cdc was issuing the proscribing has bearing in the jail im sure some of the people that will be presenting following me will be discussing this issue and look at the issues of increased staffing the Sheriffs Department and im happy to hear there is a a Academy Class going to take place here soon and the Staffing Levels come up we feel that it is important to relieve the fatigue under the department for ongoing overtime and we like to see an increase in a variety of work within the department as well as the inclusion of Information Management through open data it is an important Public Safety issue that seems like jail population daily populations counts and so forth with a statistic figure to allow for the study of jail by the public where the the involvement of the public and the awareness of the public the operation of the county jail is important for the reason that freedom is important to us so the challenges face by the jail that are social and medical is that we have today a situation where many People Living on the streets will have drug issues find themselves in a condition of extreme need they may commit a crime they wouldnt or unable to assess the resources that places them with within the view of Law Enforcement with few other options available oftentimes theyre brought to the county jail sometimes that is medical stabilization for psych stabilization or the provision of services the Sheriffs Department around the country are finding themselves the provider of social Services Resources that could be provided outing outside of the jail this is the challenge this city is facing right now how to separate the incarceration and the provision of social Service Resources throughout the city and it shouldnt be forgotten that unfortunate there will always be a need for a county jail but as we get better at providing Services Within the community to the people and keeping them out of the jail the level of sophistication of the people remained in jail increases and making for the need for the secure facilities and the safety of the Sheriffs Department employees to be of great concern in tare role as a safety partner at this point, ill turn to sheriff hennessey for followup. Thank you, very much. Decrease sheriff hennessey. Good morning thank you members im here today to talk about the grand jury report and thank you to the grand jury i appreciate your thoughtful con rat reporting on this subject and met with the new grudging or grand jury an interesting process and involved when i was in the Sheriffs Department earlier so i just a couple codify things that michael talked about er doctor taunted was staffing intact the variety of work the number of people working and the Data Collection that he the reenvisioning process that supervisor president london breed established through a resolution this year i want to say that i put my comments in the letter that i wrote to you and ill wait for questions at this point. Thank you are there any questions for the sheriff owe read our letter all right. Supervisor breed any questions for sheriff hennessey i understand a representative here from the Police Department lieutenant melena. Thank you sheriff. Good morning, supervisors. Im assigned to the bureaucracy and the cit coordinator for the San FranciscoPolice Department. The department is in full support of r a1 b it will be implemented 6 months to transfer the unit from the Sheriffs Department to the Police Department with prisoners to central listed jail were looking at a 6 month process to work on some paperwork we need to update. Any questions for lieutenant melena i dont think we need a presentation from the City Attorneys Office their response is very selfexplanatory and cant agree or drawer thank you lieutenant. And from the Mayors Office kelly kirk patrick. Melissa white house here to answer any questions you may have. You have nothing to tell us thats fine. All right. And i think that doctor pratt may have a horticulture presentation to present to us. Good morning and thank you. Im doctor lisa pratt 9 months into my role as the director of the jail health having come from san quentin turn to walk into civil grand jury interviews is my First Experience how thoughtful the report is based on that experience overall want to give you information about who we see in the jail and what our staffing is like in the jail we have one and 63 ftes and jail Health Services the bulk it nursing which is a 24 7 operation 32 Behavioral Health positions we have 10 medical providers, 31 million operating budget we saw 15 thousand unique patient in the jail our average consensus is 13 homicide 13 hundred patient in the jail 85 percent of the people in the jail have not been convicted their prosecute trail or in trial in about a week 60 percent of the population is gone people turnover quickly in terms of the finding and recommendations i think that sort of fall into 3 buckets the coordination of outside entities much of which we had already both on the medical and the psychiatric side a lot of involvement from the community to interface with us when patients come in obviously a time of crisis for people when their arrested and incarcerated we want to make sure we continue their care whatever that care was prior to incarceration often people are out find care we want to reestablish the link and the next bucket is really jail help operation in the facilities those are addressed in the report as well and then linkage and reentry i think really we have a lot of opportunity both from the diversion so before people come into jail and how we connect them as they leave jail it is a challenge given the short stay that most people have in the jail im happy to discuss it and answer any questions about the finding. Thank you, dr. Pratt colleagues necessary questions and welcome on board we are delighted youre with us. Okay why not open up for Public Comment i know we have a lot of folks that have been via involved in jail policy and closing that jail that permanent has bad locks but that one and 35 thousand hundreds has been proposed for sheriff hennessey to fix those locks ms. Guy would you like to come up . Thank you chair. Thank you members of the gao and thank you for having this hearing im are ma former Health Commissioner and the cochair of the workshop and a working group and a member of the taxpayers for Public Safety the purpose of the jail as the grand jury report is corrections and punishment a medical problem that we diagnose in the Mental Health system is not for punishment and yet San Francisco has the Largest Mental Health facility called a jail thats the responsibility of the be taxpayers investment and our recommendations at the board of supervisors not only the sheriff and im asking you and we are asking you as members of the public to change the paradigm how we treat mentally ill those who have Substance Abuse factors theyre on the street they are isolated in our poor neighborhoods, not in Pacific Heights and we can do better the mentally ill that live in our richer communities are served in the right places and the Health Department and Community Services thats not what were doing with the people he ask you to change that paradigm and invest in the Health Facilities thank you, thank you ms. Guy any anyone wish to comment that want to testify on items three and four Public Comment is closed. Let me add my words for other in depth piece of work by the civil grudging with that, im going to turn it over to supervisor breed. Thank you. I want to extend any thanks to the civil grudging grand jury for this comprehensive report as you may know weve been conducting regular meetings with sheriff hennessey, roma guy and Barbara Garcia the director of the department of health to try and look at it ways in which we can reenvision what it means to have the kind of facilities that w can serve the challenging population especially those individuals with mentioning the friction oftentimes is before we intervene we wanted to have was in the population didnt come to that this is frustrating i know for many of the folks that have been involved in this particular battle for so long to make sure that San Francisco is not just moving forward with business as usual and building a new jail but initiative ways to provide the right kinds of facilities that serve the population in a more humane and effective way i appreciate the work and shining the light on this issue growing up in the neighborhood i grew up oftentimes sadly a lot of crime and there were people who have and a serving time that were not not the perpetrators of those particular crimes we know there is a need you know to make sure that there are jail facilities for unfortunately violent criminals but we also know that there is a need for the right kind of humane response for people will have Substance Abuse and mentally ill it is frustrating for me, i know that sadly my brother is still incarcerated over the last 16 years in 850 bryant and sadly a Substance Abuse person needs help and support and has committed crimes i feel he spent 200 enough time paying for the system is broken and here in San Francisco fortunately, the conversation we are having now is one that is looking at a broken system and trying to come up with something more humane and something that works in order to represent help and truly rehabilitate and true support the individuals that oftentimes are put in our jails and forgotten and then they come back out and try to adjust in society and sometimes not given a fair chance to do so so im excited about the conversations im excited about the leadership the thought individuals active in trying to figure out a better solution and very appreciative of the civil grand jury for their work other than focusing on this and prepared the responses from the board of supervisors and want to be clear there are limited to the responses the civil grand jury report but make sure were still committed to addressing this issue we expect to have a hearing about this Task Force Meeting in december to discuss alternatives i appreciate the leadership of chair hennessy and Barbara Garcia who is really you know taken this role seriously and has worked closely together to come up with alternatives to what we see with the jail system im going to read into the record what the responses are the boards specific responses to the civil grand jury report at this point so madam clerk lets start the witness first recommendation. Recommendations rb the board of supervisors should approve the mayors supplemental request to address the problems with old laws that jail any other remaining issues. Okay. So the recommendation will not be implemented but just to be clear the responses into the record there is funding provided to the Sheriffs Department to address the lock issues but heres the response that will come from the board of supervisors and if my colleagues have any additional recommendations im on the mayor has not introduced a funding so the board of supervisors kaunt cant approve but Mayors Office for the fiscal year 2030 and fiscal year 20172018 budget it includes one and 32,000 plus and one hundred and 38 plus respectfully for jail number 3 and 4 lights and locks maintenance and the board of supervisors will seriously consider any additional funding needs for safety problems at j four. Supervisor breed i think i want to say this to the members of the civil grrmg a great recommendation it actually has been implemented i think the only technical problem is the word supplemental appropriation so, i mean we can phrase it has been implemented but it was not implemented through a supplemental appropriation that was implemented through the budget but it actually has been implemented it is a simple mammal issue. Can the City Attorney provide us with whether or not we can hes not here but watching i know hes watching and that would be helpful to know it has been implemented but there is also that technicality around the supplemental so im open to making that change basis from my perspective a better response. My recollection after pouring through the record the mayors response we can find i think he said it had been implemented so it that right ms. White house maybe well be consistent and say that has been implemented albeit not through a supplemental appropriation. Is that clear . Thank you. I will take that recommendation from supervisor peskin so if we can read the next recommendation and recommendation recommendation rc 2 c the board of supervisors should productive the amount with the budget reaches them. The implementation will not be implemented the 20172018 and 2018 and 2019 budget will not reach the board of supervisors for months and the board cant make commitments since when the next budget is passed in consultation with the department of health and the Sheriffs Department the board of supervisors will carefully consider staffing the Behavioral Health services 24 7. And thats our response and just to reiterate separately from our response this is definitely an important priority for me. All right. Final recommends. Supervisor president breed if i can jump in i was looking at the mayors responses i agree seminary to desire from the Mayors Office we want precomment this board and the next board that will be different from this board i was looking at the mayors response and page 7 of 11 slightly different remedies one was to the board and one to the mayor but they marry each other and requires further analysis not implemented but it was kind of required further analysis designation and a as it might be implemented we dont know yet. I want to add it is unfortunate that it does require further analysis according to the mayor because i mean, we know what the problem is and know what we need he remember the first year i was on the board of supervisors there was a request from sheriff hennessey was the sheriff a request from the Sheriffs Department with Additional Support what a clear plan to help with the Jail Behavioral Health services and i did not get a lot of support from the Mayors Office nor from many members of the board of supervisors to do an ad back to the Sheriffs Department for this particular purpose we know we with need to do and we need to make it happen sooner than later and not keep dancing around this issue thats my 0. 02 not part of our responses and want to make it clear we know what to do and know it needs to be funded and keep and a on dancing and will continue to be a strong advocate for this particular service for our jail population. And madam president i agree with you wholeheartedly for those people that dont know how this state mandated civil grand jury thing works we have a very limited number of actions that has a matter of law we can take in responding to thing that are brought for a department or board we can say the recommendations has been implemented the implementations has not been implemented will be be implemented in the future for a timeline for the implementation that were not able to do because of the uncertainly the composition of the board in the future and requires further analysis or not implement because not warned reasonable and so the reason he was pushing id like to push for number 2 not implemented but will but i dont think we can say that because of what is supervisor breed rational but requires further analysis means were working on it, it is of one and half a dozens of another. Thank you supervisor peskin and madam clerk can you please read the final recommendations. The board of supervisors shall approve the sheriffs request for the insuring all deputies in suicide intervene. The board of supervisors response is the recommendation has been implemented per the Mayors Office respond. Fiscal year 20172018 budget includes training all deputies at county jails in crisis intervene including enough for a training. So for clarity for recommendations rc 2 c it was offend by the supervisor breed the recommendations will not be implemented. No has been. Has been . Yes. For the second recommendation rc 2 c. R d4 c. For clarity for rc 2 c supervisor peskin. Yes. But were going to leave if as the recommendation will not be implemented and okay. Okay. And since there is no finding to response o respond to id like to make a motion we accept the proposed recommendations and strike the appropriate language and resolution as it relates to the findings and move forward with a positive recommendation. Theres a motion so well strike the finding language that didnt apply to the board and as amended a theres a motion on the floor without objection with recommendation thank you supervisor president london breed for bottom lineing that one madam clerk read items 5 and 6 together. Item 5 and of a hearing and resolution on the roll call published 20162017 drinking save water in San Francisco for a matter of good practice. Mr. For man good news. David will be presenting on behalf of the grand jury it is nice to know how puc has the highest water quality. Want and supervisors as the title indicates a positive report i have to say from the outset we the jury and the board of supervisors and the agencies almost all of us spent a lot of time talking about shortfalls and efficiency and sink holes so it is understandable that a good while the jury stood in front of you to give a rave to a city agency and i hope it shows that the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission proved successful the more we investigated the better we documented it protects lives and we found that really no record of them being commended so i hope today will recommend that and hope youll help us mediate the last recommendation okay. We do need to disclose we didnt investigate the puc maintenance backlog their pipes or Financial Operations or pricing we did investigate our water there stewardship of our Water Resources and water safety and hazards so as most of us know give you a little bit of background the puc collects tests and monitor, treats, and distribute our water it also champions our usage and really thanks to the excellent pros practices and conservatism by the citizens the Drinking Water sfpuc delivers to us in adequate and high quality and save our Hunters Point water source is protected and pristine and the sfpuc has gone to extra length to treat it less letting us taste the snow pack from our taps this sounds like a commercial were the jury after all and came to the inclusion of the glowing work by the sfpuc investigating the problems and briefly share them with you so our term started out in the peak of the drought before the blessings of the el nino we all of us here in San Francisco felt the water insecurity we asked the obvious question how to correct the water supply with the construction here in San Francisco we visited the reservoirs and saw the 90 percent level for ourselves on the supply side more that coming online from the ground water and use less water than 15 years ago this is amazing and thank to fixtures and conservatism we citizens use half the water of an average californian and finally the sfpuc has an expressive study they can handle more watt rationing we felt the sfpuc should be commended for that and little second thing that came up was obvious flint mifsh had a mass led water concentration tragedy that made the headlines in january and that caused the jury to wonder what happened in flint can happen here in San Francisco our investigation revealed it couldnt in flint a water supply source was stwichd sending untreats water into in their lead Distribution System and leaked the water out of the pipes and you can make matters worse the city manager lied about the problem so the first part of the problem is easy sfpuc reports to us and all there are no lead pipes in the main extra that stops a lot of the led but what about ignoring complaints and lying we visited one problem the sfpuc had in order to evaluate the response no 2015 they had a backflow incident a value was left open and untreated water was mixed request traeltd water and that was released sfpuc detected it in 17 minutes they quickly stopped the problem and then they record the problem both up to the state regularity and down to the customers and immediately recorded it had as human error immediately they tracked the slug of this untreated water throat system to resolution and then the recommended improvements were made charged to our satisfaction as well to the state finally we looked at as far as resolving the flint problem we looked at a month of 311 complaint how they respond to their customers the short all problems were resolved so thats why we included that what happened no flifrnt cant happen here before the last problem i want to give you a sidebar it is important to know there is unmeasured lead in the sierra source and no lead in the distribution line yet we looked at the report there is measurable lead in our tap water and thats because the water has to travel through the homes and plumbing to reach us this is where that gets interesting old pipes preyears can release lead into our Drinking Water the sfpuc itself listed internal Plumbing Systems as the major source of lead in our water dpw will tell you run our tap water long enough to get the water through your own pipes and have safe wonderful water that leaves one 1r50ush9 drinking foundations you know they sit for long periods of time in the pipes and very little water comes out more in the minute the last problem we flipped around a problem that happened in milwaukee wisconsin in 1993 and investigated why it doesnt happen in San Francisco so in milwaukee in the 3 in Drinking Water it was identified as a the cause of ills for people and caused several deaths approximately 11 mostly those with hiv or immune compromised situation so given our large hiv if it happened it would have been think worse through there was a crip to problem that was the sfpuc working with our department of health aware of it and testing crepitus before the milwaukee outbreak the levels were safe and documenting such cpi to was not regulate by the state until 1996 we found the individuals and the documentation we opener impressed and grateful so in fact, the department of Health Confirms that the puc has not been associated with any outbreaks of ills we agree we hope youll agree the sfpuc should be commend we look at the quality and safety and supply Salt Lake City and tested the facilities and laboratory and found the sfpuc the water system stae and theyre supporting services to be more than satisfactory so where we need your help with the last recommendation where we made one suggestion to the puc which and unwarned and unremarkable. Correct. So thats where we want your help right now theyve not rays the price for 25 any tap tested that puts the burden on the customer for the next occupant of the building arrest the attended finding out whether or not there is pleads in their water we throughout the sfpuc was in a perfect swaegs to start tracking state tested and document and suggested with a tremendous degree of lad it is the duty create a Certification Program youve been to some place and tested it were interested in hearing their response. Ill give them that opportunity it is relative to the rules about civil grand jury rules not within our jurisdiction but within the puc and the mayors so weasel forward a representative of the imp the opportunity to respond to that one mildly contentious issue but delighted by your report it is good to get great news we have a little bit of work we have to do relative to the blanks on pages 2 and 3 of our resolution where in colleagues, i would suggest we wholeheartedly agree with all of their 3 findings those will be finding f a1 2 and f a 5 and commend sfpuc on its water stewardship this has resulted in the best Drinking Water under the country we can have that be the reason in f one and that will be reason with in f a 5 and as to f a2 the reason should be given that california components drinking lead since 2010 or 2011, 2011 including San Francisco where lead piping is rare theyll make those motions is there a representative from the puc . Good morning edwin the director for the puc im here to answer any questions. On the one issue relative to the Certification Program particularly for water foundations where the response from the executive branch will not be implemented not reasonable an urban w5ir7b9d not within our jurisdiction this is what the hearings are for so the floor is yours. Thank you the concern is that it may take a lot of effort to develop the program were not aware of a program across the country and working with the city departments for example, working with the Housing Authority any department wants us to get involved ill be happy to but in terms of the resources to have a de facto hiring freeze ill be happy to work with at departments in the issue of the programs is one that causes the most concern. Thank you for that response any 3, 4, 5, 6, anyone wish to comment that wants to testify on items 5 or 6 sooevenz theres a motion for amendments that i made to item number 6 without observation and i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Park merced and colleagues a position to file items 3 and 5 moved by supervisor president london breeds without objection madam clerk could you read item no. 7. Yes. Item 7 is hearing on the recently published 20152016 civil grand jury report on the fire inspection and the San FranciscoFire Department. Floor person cunningham. For the final report ill be reporting on behalf of the civil grand jury i want to extend an apology for the civil grand jury for those of you who dont know we have to particular jury three hundred 66 days to generate the reports and come for the 19 of us to come a agreement on this and as part of that process it is our goal it is our desire to share our finding and discuss our finding with the department shares of the areas that we vegetated we didnt have that opportunity with this report this report was approved by the civil grand jury on the 28 of june for those of you who dont know the civil grand juries term expired on the 30th of june and the reports need to get to the judge by that date our authority expires no time for us to review our finding with those departments shares so we regret. That was noted in chief joanne hayeswhite letter. Give you a little bit of background the way we went into there were a number not a number of but fires of significance in the mission area that was that generated some threats about some outstanding fire Code Violations and that got our attention what we believe as a civil grand jury that San Francisco is uniquely exposed to a catastrophic fire due to our fractured construction our 5 outlines in the immediate vicinity the age of the construction, and the fact were in the middle of an 8 year drought that is just no signs of immediate relief in sight were uniquely exposed and we have for a number of years a good job has been done but disaster has been avoided we want to evaluate the press that was generated there were outstanding Code Violations not resolved at the time of the fire with that said, we are surprised and frustrated and dbi and Sf Fire Department the volume of intersection that were required were hampered by the staffing model the civil grand jury were coming out of a recession we know because of our unique attitude and our Compassionate Services for people who are being veeshthd or listing their jobs no desire on behalf of anyone in San Francisco to have them leave the city what we find is that more people are living in smaller more cramped quarters to make ends meet we believe the recession and the nature of the recession increases the fire risks particularly some neighborhood where construction is contiguous for city blocks and i want for a passage between the buildings i cant imagine this investigation took on a life of its own two departments and two housing codes and enforcement codes we find hard workers in into departments overworked and the job was understaffed we found that Deficient Technology and dbi and what ill call a temp resistance in the Fire Department is may or may not be a realistic to expected the fire trucks assessable to them they can do their inspectors while theyre in the source of their business because we believe and noted in chief joanne hayeswhite statement was the prior the priority in in their work is to fight fires we found that information about that is being accommodated was very hard to assess for the people that are actually doing the inspectors we found the translations for the people that own the property that may or may not be in violation of one of the city codes is not readily available to them and that the levels of enforcement were inadequate and discovered changes in both department in the spring tried to incorporate those into our report the best we could we vegetated those things and a lot of it was done in the in the right direction but we do want the nature of Code Enforcement for renters and People Living in those buildings to change a little bit one of the things we talked about when you walk into a restaurant you can immediately if youre interested see the rating on one to one hundred how the restaurant does with the Health Department thats hard in your a renter or a patron of same restaurant that number is reflective of the Health Department not a reflection of the Building Code or the fire code inspection so in general thats where we were pleased that there are significant improvements in both departments not as a result of the report but in process while were investigating at this time thank you, mr. Cunningham why not go weve got dbi and fire why not start with the department of building inspection mr. Hui i know you a presentation anyway your shop. Good morning, supervisors supervisor peskin supervisor breed and supervisor yee thank you to take the opportunity to address regarding the 2017, 20152016 grand jury report before i start, i want to say thank you to the grand jury to look at this topic that is an important topic in my mind my job is make sure to protect the public in San Francisco for the you know the safety life and property thats my you know policy number one to say that also id like to thank you, my staff you know from the director and especially chief Housing Inspector rosemary to work with my staff, of course, if you read the report they should be commend and you know we we agree to highlight from the department stand point we want to work closely with other departments like fire because you know the communication with them to make sure we Work Together thats why also the mayor officers 2 housing unit 2 million to help the Fire Department to start their program to have a better system and how to reach the public the way i see it 5 f4 first of all, educate the public how to prepare for the fire thats why we have also put the funding quarter of a Million Dollars for two years to make sure they can outreach the public to educate them how to if youre in the fire there are lots of things we can know also for my staff i highly aggressively under 2012 because at this time a down turn roughly we have Housing Inspectors we have closed to thirty and working closely with you know chief Housing Inspector and make sure whatever we need to maybe increase the staff and, of course, run our shop more efficiently those are my objectives you know were totally responsible to make sure that any single fire but sometimes you cant stop the fires people are career less but before we go further maybe i ask my chief Housing Inspector to come up to give a provision to you and then stay behind to answer any questions. Thank you director huey and indeed the sharing Fire Protection alleviating it in all residents in the city has been and forefront and a serious mandate for the department of building inspection and housing inspection and the Fire Department we thank the grand jury for the amount of time they spent doing this report we realize that a lot of work went into that and over the last several years both departments have been working diligently on increasing collaboration, education, outreach, and i recall about this time last year doing a workshop with one of the fire captains on the our tv system to help with education as far as residents now, one of the things that we also did was participate and this actually began before the grand juries investigation and report was the fire safety that required collaboration before both departments before i get to that give you a little bit of background about the different roles because theres discussion about that collections i think one of the things to be noted the fire code and the housing task work individually and the fire code was originally it acted to be the preliminary code to deal with fire hazardous situations the fire code is a supplement to that with that said, partnering with the Fire Department and the department of other agencies and stakeholders to do a lot of preventive work so that fires dont occur and why is that we know that collaboration with the Fire Department that most fires start within the unit so a mechanical inspection of the common areas of the building is not thats why we have that multi ladder approach collaboration and participating in the Fire Safety Task force 9 recommendations the filings of the stakeholder all of that so unfortunately really trying to follow me here so we have a lot of recommends and that resulted in legislation we want to thank all the members of the committee you cosponsored that legislation what were some of the things we looked at when we are dealing with multi Family Building were not just dealing with the mechanical common areas of this a lot of things happening and firefighter hazards in the building we need to enhance the existing alarm systems and the smoke alarm systems between the building go and increasing the sounds like level so people can get out of the building in addition to that an action plan that is a big they know when a building is damaged by a fire that the Property Owner will need to do an assessment and give an action plan for the individuals displaced have as much information and get out of property and dbi so address those fires and the other part of this is that and as tom said our director said we have recognized that with adding Additional Resources to assist the Fire Department in addition to collaboration and sharing a lot of our documents has to do with with the issue of notice of violation sending the cases and referring the cases to the City Attorney and reoccurring fire safety violations like egress that was changed immediately sent a case to the City Attorney and sharing with the successes with the Fire Department and other agencies so and then as far ongoing efforts one of the other things we recognize is that to focus go our inspectors not only on complaint and systematic enforcement but look at particular building that are multiple level nonrated structure they maybe in a corridor that is experiencing a previous listens of fires and focused on fires elsewhere in the city in those areas it is called Code Enforcement well continue to do that and the other they know we are doing is that wanting to get data in realtime as to what the results of all those efforts have been weve been working with our it department within our division one our department and within the department of technology and with respect to that we have made some great in roads as far as the inspectors over the last few years weve identified over thirty thousand violations that is about 57 hundred notice of violations and we have abated about thirty thousand individuals item about 10 percent of those were fire safety hazards now with respect to that we also be it further resolved bill the Property Owner for Cost Recovery the board is supportive of that we come to you once a year and record orders on the property we regularly refer cases to the City Attorney ill tell you i got off the phone with hoarding case that are dangerous as far as fire safety hazard and collaborating with those much more effective and commissioner walker in attention that was instrumental in helping us look at incidents we had people with distinguished capacity and getting more assistance from the Public Guardian of certain individual they cant come replying with the fire mitigation we continue to do these and also look forward to working further with the Fire Department and our Code Enforcement outreach partners we have i understand some of them are here today and conducting workshops in sros and look at it to include those within Apartment Building and tom said weve increased our funding workplace thank you for allowing us to comment and well continue to go forward with the efforts were making with this and continue those partnerships thank you. Thank you, ms. And we will obviously want to hear from commissioner walker but why not switch to fire chief decould say. Fire marshall de cossio horrible Committee Members thank you for the opportunity to review and discuss sfpd recommendations regarding the fire safety. Dan if you straighten that microphone out the department has reviewed considerable detail the consideration from the civil grand jury report before we step through the barriers of importance to you well highlight a few considerations first, the sffd we insure the citizens safety neither the chief for the right fire marshall was invited to participate or provide insight with regards to fire safety or plans underway optimize there are thirdly, there are many involved fire safety programs that have been strementd and implemented at this point, in fact, programs with the recommendations put forth in the sf grand jury are report my understanding that the Committee Members have had the opportunity to revoke the finding and the sffd response we see a couple of options to proceed we can review the presentation delivered to the sffd commission that provides a summon of conclusions along with the corinne woods sffd processes a improvements underway or we can move forward to focus immediately only areas of specific interest to the committee how would you wish to proceed. Thank you fire marshall ive read to the matrix as i know my colleagues have theyre all pretty selfrespect as to which ones were implemented and not and which ones will be and there are pages of them there is clearly no action or responded that needs to be taken by the board of supervisors relative to any of the grand jury recommends they specific to dbi and fire but we have read them so if Committee Members have any questions for fire marshall de cossio seeing none, well call you if we need you. Thank you commissioner walker. Oh, supervisors thank you so much i would like to thank the grand jury for giving us this opportunity to review our processes and supervisors you may remember you unanimously approved the Code Enforcement reform our department and the all the relative departments have been working on for over 4 years i think that we are in the process our selves of working on extensive it reform if in our p t s system im sure youll hear more about the updates. Ive been waiting for 10 years. laughter . You and me both a lot of the disconnect that happened regarding Code Enforcement are the issues that brought up our code reform package that supervisor wiener put forward and you unanimously supported the codes are separate our departments are separate and the City Attorney who is involved in all the Code Enforcement efforts realized the need to center our departments work Better Together our department through our rp you know were an Enterprise Department funded a lot of the Code Enforcement coordinated expansion with fire and our department the Health Department we mentioned the issues around hoarding that was presented another issue that effects heath issues we also included in that expanding our Code EnforcementOutreach Program to our partners out in the community that probing have better access to folks in those buildings our inspectors go out routing only notice of violations and try to correct the issues as soon as your inspectors go away the problem what reoccur having a partner in the community obtain a daily basis it helpful the communication issue between our departments and also from the community and to the community is an issue it is something our commission brought up that we and a lot of those cases are already flowing reforms to address the issues brought up by the grand juror the public didnt know about that and in some cases the other departments dont i think quietly use the internet and our website and Public Outreach to better communicate those advances and again, the commitment to finishing the upgrades well look for your support and hopefully finish 24 in a timely way the commission is commit to that and also in our recent discussion about Code Enforcement it was suggested that we make assess available immediately to the notice of violations that are our issued by each department to say it online with our existing online complaint system where you can track having the specific information on buildings will help our partners in the community make sure we are paying attention to all the notice of violations and curing them so to reemphasize where the commission did we support working with other departments and jones us in this computer upgrade we actually support focused funding to support Code Enforcement outreach effort our department has and our commission has agreed to fund that out of our fees that we collect it make sense there is a nexus there and hope to continue the effort to build up a coordinate Code Enforcement effort by all department and include the City Attorney in that thats all i can and say from the commission stand point but ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you commissioner walker for your years of efforts and maybe we should also after we hear from