Please stay home. Please take care of yourself, so its my true honor to welcome you here tonight to the 40th annual San Francisco Good Government awards. [applause] this is our opportunity to pay tribute to the people who are the great engine of our beloved city. Since its inception, s. P. U. R. Has been advocating for Good Governments. We have hundreds of awards given out to acknowledge hundreds of hard working Public Servants, and we are so proud of that. For many of us who are part of s. P. U. R. , this is our absolute favorite night of the year, so thank you for joining us. I want to start out by recognizing our champion sponsors, people who believe in innovation in government just as much as we do. Bridge, google, and San Francisco airport. Thank you for your generous support, and thanks to everyone for being here tonight. S. P. U. R. Is able to continue to honor employees only because of the collaboration with the Mayors Office, london n. Breed. Mayor breed is the 45 mayor of our
County in San Francisco. We have a Womens Resource Center on broint street across from the county jail. I want to use part of the y r. C. With a number of women lead organizations and with the adult probation depth to help provide a retail environmentalist we can turn our w r. C. Into a cafe. Weve investigated and in order to help teach and prepare the women who want to work in the process gets the culinary experience and be part of something that is something we can be proud of weve been working on that we have the capital in order to develop what the cafe will look like. The next area i want to braushgs is something thats been well discussed ill say this were the agency of last report when it comes down to evictions theres been a number of reports open the state of evictions but the true state based on the Legal Framework in court orders as their count strictly with the Sheriffs Department we have something thats an eviction assistance unit was it unit is nothing that a glorified exp
Not doing City Building inside the jail whether you want to take the model or convert it that makes sense that the triumphing of the needs for jobs in San Francisco and benefiting from our local economy then role one of the best candidates to help that opportunity starts in the system we have the space because our jail population has declined to create the space i reached out to our friends in union labor and others in the Nonprofit Community to examine what the possibilities are for the first time to bring into the San Francisco Sheriffs Department a hard training system. And since it is a component of many local hiring laws and first source laws to hire people that are formerly incarcerated to begin the training process while in custody. Weve preidentified many that apply in the i think the safety not a safety risk that well perform and by the people from a program like a bike repair is a precursor to help us ready ourself and were acquit right for wanting to implement. Weve put in t
Dispatch service and the second Largest Law Enforcement Agency in San Francisco were and were the eyes of the member of the Public Safety family this was a sobering letter to receive. I understand d e m is struggling with their own structural deficits in staffing deficiencys but as i spotlighted in the assessment of how poor and app accurate our services at sf general there is no dispatch its a Communication Center if that that resembles something out of the 1950 not having the services for the Police Department and Fire Department frankly, i think t is madness. And the fact that happened unnoticed by the Public Safety community or the board of supervisors and or the large board of supervisors not having the Emergency Management dispatch systems significantly handicaps our ability to perform the services that be common place for the Sheriffs Department. We received a bill that never occurred before i building it was 6 hundred thousand or something. 6 hundred and 40 thousand. If that sa
This is what the enter pod doesnt see it will be more practical use or around the state or country. Electronic monitoring is the electronic monitoring is something in my as precisions in being sheriff as a supervisor i spoke candidly about diversion around from incarnation and look for the tools that are afforded to the Sheriffs Department one by diverting people and making sure that there is no risk to Public Safety. We were surviving taxpayers significant amazes of money 55,000 a year and 15 and year from somebody on electronic mortgaging yet were seeing in not better sometimes on the recidivism or repeat offender. And 2013 was a banner year for electronic monitoring in the San Francisco Sheriffs Department we 3 hundred and 59 on e many there was no breach of the electronic monitoring nobody had been recidivist for those who unfortunately, this is an issue that remains unsoefld for people who cant afford bail remain in jail but those who are more higher risk for the lower risk to not