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Welcome to the august 19th twept twenty meeting of the San Francisco police commission. Thank you for bearing with us. We had a few technical difficulties. Could you please call roll. roll call you have a quorum. Also here tonight chief scott from the San Francisco Police Department. Commissioner is not on video tonight due to some Internet Connection issues. But he is here on audio and able to participate in the meeting. Members of the public who wish to make comments on items on the agenda can call the number on the screen. Access code. As always please mute your lines. Mutiny televisions or devices that could contribute to background noise. It becomes difficult to hear speakers when comepter commentee things that are not muted. I thinkyou said we have two minutes of Public Comment. If you could please call the first line item. Line item one. Reports to the commission. Provide overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Provide summary of plan, activities, and events. Any unplan
Thank you for joining us today. Madam secretary, please call the first item. The first order of business is item one, role call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. role call . All members are present and the next order of business is item two, announcements, a, announcement of Public Comment procedures, be advised a member of the public has up to three minute to make pertinent Public Comments on each item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. During each period, viewers online will be instructed to please dial 140 8481388 and enter 146 7662374 and press the pound sign twice to enter the call and press pound three to enter to speak and you will hear, you have raised your hand to ask a question, please wait to speak until the host calls on you. When you hear your line has been unmuted, this is your opportunity to provide your Public Comment. You will have three minutes. Please speak clearly and slowly and you will be placed on mute once you sto
American veterans. We will hear the opening statements. I will remind you to pause two to three seconds before spe speaking, so the microphone picks up your words and so you can pause when answering questions so we capture your complete response. Thank you very much, ms. Barnes, you are recognized for five minutes. Ms. Barnes, you may have to unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted okay. Members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here to today to discuss Sexual Harassment at the department of Veterans Affairs. 2016 survey by the protection board estimated that 22 of va employees experienced some form of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va has several methods to address such Sexual Harassment complaints, but we found that the agency was falling short in a number of areas including one, the complaint structure, the [inaudible] and three [inaudible] to va employees. I will discuss issues with the complain
Hearings remotely. On may 29, 2020, the Mayors Office authorized all commissions to reconvene remotely. We request your patience in advance. The merged platforms are not perfect, and at times may even be clumsy. There are broadcast delays from the live event to sfgovtv, and the live event to those who are streamed, streaming the event live. I have been notified that sfgovtv is not currently broadcasting the event live on television. Again, members of the public may stream it live via their website and links. They will broadcast our hearing as soon as the Building Inspection Commission hearing concludes. To enable the public participation, sfgovtv will end up broadcasting, but it is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each item to todays agenda. The tollfree number to enter the hearing and to submit Public Comment is available by calling 1 888 2733658. Enter access code 3107452. And then press pound, and pound again. When you are connected and you would li