Team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it was thirst first time attending digital event. Teachers with a wide variety of other roles, including para professionals, substitutes, coun
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
Natoli for waiting so patiently for us to hear your nomination. Were going to conduct the hearing from ms. Natoli, if there are any questions, and then ms. Lai, and questions, and each Public Commenter will have two minutes to speak on either or both no, maam niece. We would love to hear your reason for serving in this capacity and experience, etc. Whatever you would like to share with us. Thank you. Really appreciate the opportunity today and appreciate the consideration and i know its been a while and appreciate all the hard work you are doing. I come to the advocacy for safe streets and that is how i got into this as a volunteer and organizer for infrastructure and better improvements to keep san franciscans safe and i served on the Bicycle Coalition and was an elected member there. Unfortunately as we see 30 people were hit and killed each year on the streets and over 500 are seriously injured and we all want that number to go to zero, though, so that is far too many. I have been h
Can we have the next caller. Caller good evening, supervisors. Todd snyder for district 5. I thank you for amending this measure next week and supporting it thus far. I ask that you continue to support it today. And i want to point out that an arbitrary number of Sworn Police Officers provides no flexibility to adapt to the changing needs of our city. And this came from a Consent Decree entered into in 1979. And lifted in 1998. It has no relevance to the city today. So i urge you to continue to support this measure and to put it before the voters on the ballot in november. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller i already spoke once and i have been unmuted. Clerk i believe this person has already spoken before per their comment. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller yes, im a native san franciscan, and im in my 60s. I want to express that changing the charter to minimal staffing is a deadly Public Policy decision on your part. No doubt that crimina