Order. Welcome to the july 23, 2020 meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Ear clerk is john carol. I want to thank folks at sfgtv and it for all of their support as well. Mr. Clerk do you have any announcements. success. During the covid 19 Health Emergency the Committee Room is closed. This precaution is taken pursuant to all federal and state orders and directives. Public comment will be available for each item on this a agenda. San francisco cable channel 26 are streaming a call in number across your screen. To provide public it is available by call in. Once connected and prompted into the meeting i. D. After youve dialed in press pound followed by pound a second time to be connected to the meeting. When connected youll hear the meeting discussions but be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star followed by three to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until youve been unmuted to make your comments. Best practic
Enforcement in creating systemic change toward that goal. However, to have full conversation about policing it is imperative to deeply understand the system of policing and its budget, and that brings us to our hearing today. My office worked to include questions in the report that would give this committee as much insent insight as possible into the Police Department inned a vance of the process in august. I anticipate there may be questions asked today that there arent immediate answers to. My staff will be tracking the inquiries and work on the followup report and that the board has the information it needs. I would like to remind the committee that the Police Department budget would come before this committee again and come before us two more times and in august and engaged in the full budget process. I want to turn over to the presentation today nick menard from the budget analyst and chief William Scott from the Police Department. The San Francisco Airport Authority is also here
Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunities to speaker is available by calling 408 4189388. Access code, 1461315200. Then press pound twice. Then connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted an in listening mode only. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down our television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. When you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and be included as part of the official file. Finally, spanish and chinese interpretation are available for those who need services during Public Comment period. Im pass on to the interpreters to provide a summary of this announcement. Speaking in spanish. [speaking spanish]. [speaking spanish]. Thank you, madame clerk. [speaking chinese] [speaking chin
Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is pursuant to various local, state, federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate as if they were present. Public comment is available for each item. Cable channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the calling number on the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Comment Period are available by calling 415 4156550001. When prompted enter the access code. 145 1643769. Then pound and pound a second time to be connected to the meeting. You will hear the discussions. Your microphone will be muted. You will be in hi be in his senr listening need. Call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television, radio or streaming device. Account for time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. You may email me, john carroll, clerk of the Public Safety Neighborhood Services committee. John. Carro
Im the first to say that we have a problem that we have some services for those people who have the most severe, most complicated needs, that they dont want you know, as many people as we put on the streets say thats not how people want to engage, and thats what i hope we get to moving forward on in these main areas around that Mental Health s. F. Legislation. Supervisor mandelman but i would just point out and i think i have a couple more questions, and ill feed to the other members of the committee. You know, the meth Sobering Center was i mean, what is it many different people on the Meth Task Force had many different ideas what the Sobering Center would be and what services it would have, from a place to get out the streets to more of an altern e alternative to p. E. S. From what ive heard on the streets, there was a real need to reduce pressure on p. E. S. And how a Sobering Center does that i can see stories how it does a little bit on the margins, but unless it has more, unless