[inaudible conversations] are we ready to go . Great. Welcome to todays launch of the council on Foreign Relations and the pendant Task Force Report north america time for a new focus to rid the cochairs hear Robert Zoellick of course, somebody who i think last time i interviewed you we were both in sudan. So thank you very much. Shannon oneil, director and cochair, David Petraeus i think last summer i into the jew we were in iraq. So its good to be in a slightly more tame environment. I want to get right to the question of why now, why this . Reading newspapers, the attention, the focus of this administration clearly on Foreign Policy, current prices the in the middle of these, please to the idea of a pivot to asia and effectively what youre talking about in the Task Force Report is a pivot to north america. So why . Its time for a new focus. The reason is when you come back to it, our number one and two trading partners are our two neighbors, not other countries or regions of the wor
Capital plan so we are requesting that the jail project, the jail rebuild project of the capital plan be removed from the capital plan at this time. We would like you to recommend that to the full board of supervisors for some of the reasons that you have already had in your discussion that the population is going down and the fact that in San Francisco we have the most under crowded jail in the state and probably in the country and this is because we have diversion programs. Today, in our jail we had 1108, no that was yes. 1180 inmates, today there are 1157. When the jail rebuild was proposed there were twice as many. To date we have almost as many people in diversion programs like the sf pretrial program, Behavioral Court as we have in the jails. This will continue. We do not need to spend 287 million plus operations to jail people when we can reduce the recidivism rate from 7040 by increasing diversion. Wed really appreciate that you would take that quite seriously. Thank you. Thank
Hello, my name is ervin. I with the transient program. People have been sent for any reason. The figure of the United States population being 2 and the African American 47 and Indigenous People at 30 . Its clear that incarceration is a huge and whether entrance transient of color succeed or not. The population in San Francisco that is transfeminine in incarcerated. The hall of justice must be closed because of the size of vulnerability and rather than build one high rise and the two buildings located on the 7th floors, the buildings need to be disbursing in the district remaining close to court. Why are we not locating the model and locating other nonservice such as pretrial and laundry to costly building and renovate such as Womens Recovery Center at 930 bryant. Would this not be cheaper an appropriate. If we can get more service to women, it will lower the recidivism and please remove the capital plan. Thanks, very much. Next speaker. Hello, my name is ito. Im a tenant organizer and
Options . We are expecting to assemble our appreciation for the different scenarios both in logistical and budgetary. Its a matter of examining which of them demonstrate more feasibility than the other so to speak and as far as the policy which to advance is outside of our view of public works. Thank you. Supervisor mar . Yes, mr. Hicker, i just want to ask, the 340 bed option, what is that cj 2 and the rebuild of cj 3 combined. What is that 340, 80 bed option . That 340 is a unit of construction of what is possible at the bryant street site. Its 128 less than 512 which is our two pods of 64 beds a piece. Its an exercise of a function we know that is feasible at that location for the configuration of that particular pod. It could be variable on the 64 number. Okay. I do feel like the upcoming hearing that will come up will allow us to understand more of the decline in the jail population and the need and having it with some of your staff, i see the safety issues, improving the visitati
To advance is outside of our view of public works. Thank you. Supervisor mar . Yes, mr. Hicker, i just want to ask, the 340 bed option, what is that cj 2 and the rebuild of cj 3 combined. What is that 340, 80 bed option . That 340 is a unit of construction of what is possible at the bryant street site. Its 128 less than 512 which is our two pods of 64 beds a piece. Its an exercise of a function we know that is feasible at that location for the configuration of that particular pod. It could be variable on the 64 number. Okay. I do feel like the upcoming hearing that will come up will allow us to understand more of the decline in the jail population and the need and having it with some of your staff, i see the safety issues, improving the visitation area like san bruno. So i definitely understand the conditions and to some of the public commenters, the safety of the prison population and dignity and humanity of the conditions there are really important. But i still see the Community Side