Certain places on a regular basis and, and whatever, whether it was a pothole, a sidewalk or the Little Things from the bigger things, you know, really, she still believed in San Francisco as an extraordinary place. Yes. And we had to work hard every single day to deal with those challenges, no matter what. All right. Thank you. I wont say anything more about it. Good morning. Welcome. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 29th, 2023 homelessness and Behavioral Health select committee. Im hillary ronan, chair of the committee. Im joined by vice chair supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton, our clerk is stephanie cabrera. And id like to thank jason goldhammer at sf govtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you. The board of supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public c
Hillary ronan, chair of the committee. Im joined by vice chair supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton, our clerk is stephanie cabrera. And id like to thank jason goldhammer at sf govtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, thank you. The board of supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow inperson attendance and Public Comment while still providing Remote Access and Public Comment via telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. Those attending in person will be allowed to speak first. Then we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line for the public call in number is screening. Sorry streaming across your screen. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions, but youll be muted and in listening mode only when your item of interest comes up and Public Comment is called those joining us in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone should dial star thr
[roll call] clerk: we also have mrits chief paul scott. president cohen: all right. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. please rise and put our hand over your heart. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. okay. thank you. all right. ladies and gentlemen, i want to recognize international women s month. this is a time that we celebrate all the women of the world that are doing work that s seen and unseen. and, with that, i want to recognize our women that are in service within the department. we thank you for your service. we know that it is not easy. all right. sergeant youngblood, could you please call the first item. clerk: line item one, general public comment. at this time, the public is welcomed to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear within the agenda. under police nor commissioner
guests with us. we have president shaman walton that has time constraints and i want to get him on the (inaudible), particularly interested in hearing his presentation on the strategy. colleagues, i d like to go ahead, excuse me, i said item 4, i meant item 3. let s call item 3 and i want to hear from president walton first and we can get into the presentation. thank you for allowing me this point of privilege. so, sergeant young blood, i want to table this back to this item and the next item, sorry. line item 3, presentation of the california partnership for safe communities executive summary. understanding serious violence in san francisco 2017-2020 discussion. with that, hold on a minute, i want to recognize president shaman walton. thank you so much, president cohen and i just want to say good evening to the entire police commission and to everyone present. i appreciate the time to come and just really give a high-level overview about what our public safety plan is
We have gotten calls from people letting us know that theyre afraid to go to work, afraid to send their children to schools, so its really important that in order to prepare and be a united city, that is a sanctuary city, we have the full support of the city, the mayor and the board of supervisors to help support our immigrant community. Thank you. Its no our charter, me and so i hope you all will vote to appoint an interim mayor. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. I wanted to thank all the supervisors and interim mayor breed for all of your support around creating infrastructure and making Resources Available for communities with immense fear. We serve particularly api but also chinese members throughout the city, there are 10,000 undocumented in the city of San Francisco. Over the last year, we have seen a huge spike of the number of people coming to our offices around immigration because of the Chilling Effect the policies have had on the communit