avalos, the vice chair and will be joined by the chair jane kim. to my left is david campos. our clerk today is victor young. mr. clerk could you tell announcements. >> silence all celt phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and copies of dumentds to be incluted ashould be submit today the clerk. items will appear on soouct october 25, 2016 agenda. >> thank you and like to thank s fgovtv staff. mr. clerk we will actually hear items 4, 5 and 6 first in that order. 4 first. these will be fairly quick and want to get them out oof of the way. >> item 4, hearing to consider issuance of type 48 on-sale license to real drinking jackalope located at 1092 post street included 1104 poemic street will serve the city and county of san francisco. >> very good. thank you. presenting is sergeant george from the police department. >> good afternoon supervisors. you have a pcm report for jackalope. they applied for a expansion to include 1104 polk street which will double their capacity. they have a type 48 license which allows them to sale on sale beer, wine and distilled spoorts and will include 1104 polk street also. there are zero letters of protest verified by abc. zero letters of support. they are located in 541 which is considered high crime area. they are in census tract 120 which is considered a high saturation area. northern station has no oppositions. alu recommends deninel. the reason we recommend deninel is polk street evolved into a entertainment district that reached its capacity. during special events such as halloween and new years eve the crowds overflow to the street which makeatize difficult for emergency responders to assist people in need. departments concern is that expanding the current business or adding a new club at this time can agora great a area that is already difficult to manage. by jackalope adding the new premise it doubles capacity at this location. it should be noted that lieutenant fal zon and myself met with the applicant and explessed concern and informed we would deninel. >> thank you very much. did you get response from project sponsor? >> um, >> they are here? okay. >> did you speak to the district supervisor? >> i didn't. i don't know if lieutenant fal zone did. wonder where the district supervisor is on this item. >> sorry, i can't answer that. >> i think that is important. if there is anyone from supervisor peskins office that can shed light that would be helpful. thank you. >> if we can hear from the project sponsor, the applicant. >> good afternoon supervisors. [inaudible] cla consulting. i wanted to first point out that this is not a new liquor license, it is actually a existing license premise which will expand to 700 square feet to afford seating and hand y cap accessible bathrooms. there is no entrance on the polk side or exist. it is alarmed emergency exist only, no signage fwut will have additional lightsing. this had to get conditional youth and approved umaninously by the planings condition. we have letters of support. abc provided letters of support as was alu and we provided this afternoon with letters of support from the lower polk neighborhood association, sth middle polk neighborhood association and lower polk community benefit district. we had communicated with supervisor peskins office and our belief he is in support of the expansion project as well. i'll turn it over to the applicant, cory hunt. >> just want today say quickly that we still-even with the expansion we are still one of the smallest bars on the street. we are a neighborhood bar, we are not a club, we are not a dive bar, we have well trained staff and security. we improved the neighborhood a lot. it should be noted the current tenant in that space is a financial pay day loan place. we also have agreed to make sure that we sound proof both sides as part of the agreement with the landlord and that's about it. >> great, thank you. at this time we open up for public comment on item number 4 only; if you like to speak on the itm please step up. >> please line up against the window. thank you. >> thank you. >> hi there. my name is ianima clain and live on pine between polk and larkin so of the neighborhood. just wanted to point out that i sthink jackalope is a great meeting spot. i don't know on saturday night, but go to the trivy night jz watched presidential debates. i think it is a good meeting place for the neighborhood, so i'm support of this. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> hello. my name is anna. i also live in the neighborhood over on pacific. i am in support of the expansion as jackalope along with some of the other neighborhood bars offer so much more than just the opportunity to drink. thrai about socializing, they are about community in the neighborhood. they offer a place to put down the cell phone and be around people from all walks of life that you wouldn't have normally gotten to meet. this expansion is about fostering the community through friendship and charity which we do weekly and unwavered respect for the city and its inhabitants. thank you. >> my name is ron john i live on upper polk. i moved there 12 years ago and never used to go to lower polk because i felt it was not safe. today it is very different and i think the is because of bars like jackalope which is vibrant and brings in professional and working cloud just there to relax. that whole area now is more vibrant and safer than it was before, so thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is marti and live a copal blocks awafrom jackalope and lived in the sate 10 year jz seen it change for better and worse but i can just honestly say the folks at jackalope made a change for the better. not only providing a safe fun place to socialize like everyone said before me, but just after the shootings in orlando they held an event that raised money for chairthy and raised for spca and breast cancer so the idea this is a good chaifg in the city and good people and giving more space to do more good things seems like the right choice to me. thank you. >> [inaudible] i'm also a resident of the neighborhood and i known the operators for long time. they are strong good people. to reiterate what everybody essaid rchlt take over a pay day lending place and expand a good operating bar added security and cameras, sound proof, make it better for the resident in the building above and think they do a great job if they pass. thanks. >> zane howard, former resident of polk street area, but i do come to the city i frequent jackalope. the people that run jackalope are professionals and good people and create an environment that is very supportive to community and social and comfortable place that is safe and welcoming. >> thank you. >> my name is sean [inaudible] i am a resident of the excelsior and coming to jackalope about a year now and the ownership is responsible, friendly, the crowd is neighborhood entd frndly and caring about the entire area and very cognisant about being outside, being on the streets, things like that and beyond the charity this provides a friendly and safe place for people to conrugreat and have a good time together. >> [inaudible] i have lived in the city for last several years. i want to stress what everyone else did is the owners have the upmost integrity, i think they are strong role models. i have known them a while and these are are the people you want in the community that build and expand our community and think they are very responsible and can't speak high enough about the ambition they have and what they are doing there chblt thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, my name is napeier, i think this expansion is a benefit for the lower polk street neighborhood. the owners of the establishment are good people. theyepe chbed up multiple times for organizations and non-profit charities which benefit the neighborhood and integrate new people to the community. secondly, the expansion would bring more safety through the use of security camera jz staff. the bar is very cooperative welcoming towards law enforcement and use our security footage to assist with their requests. i fully support this expansion. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm adam mayor, representing the middle polk neighborhood association and our neighborhood group support the expansion of jackalope into the adjacent space. the same ownership management group has a bar in the middle polk neighborhood, soda pop on california between polk qu & larkin and seen them as good stewards of the neighborhood managing noise on the street for the residents above, so we support their expansion. thanks. >> hell o, peter nemire and a resident about 10 years living in russian hill and knob hill about washington and clay i support the expansion. like cory said they will make several improvements, which ums also help to address the fact it was a area that has crime so security footage and security that will help give people peace. also, there are proven to be chairtable folks who want to improve the neighborhood and by enabling them it just helps the community and city as a whole. these are really the kinds of people we want to foster and help complete what they want. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> my name is eric wattcons and lib in the neighborhood. as everyone said before i support the bar. it is more that know just a bar. speaker before me is a good friend i met at the bar. it goes beyaunds the space and things they do and character that comes from it and has times when i was unable to work they gave me a job and a friend. it helped me in many ways as well as i see it continually. it really is more than just a bar and even though this is like the legal portion to take care of that, it goes beyawn that for myself and fully support the bar as well. >> my name is ian powell, a property manager for prominent property management firm in the city. in particular we have probably close a dozen buildings within a three block radius of jackalope, 1020 post, 1050 post, 990 geary, 10 twux polk and 1024 polk. in the time jackalope is open we see increase in change in the neighborhood as a whole. decreased crime. decreased activity in the evenings and overall a great support for the neighborhood so here as that. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is charley gauss here has district 3 and polk street resident. i'm a patron of jackalope and like to urge support for the expansion thmpt business they are looking to expand over is a check cashing business. predatory business my nature, but also closes around 6 o'clock and think if you allowed the business to expand that we would be providing or bar would provide additional security on the block as well as neighborhood presence. a number of people have spoken in favor of the bar and it provides a sense of community. jackalope is open twoe years now and becoming a neighborhood institution and urge your support today and at the full board. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. duncan lie, i am speaking on behalf of the expansion of jackalope. the former chairman of the polk district merchant association. i have been coming to these types of hearings for well over a decade and the fact that you only heard people coming out in support of this, i remember when every organization in that community would come out out against any increase in alcohol, restaurant if it had to do with alcohol they would oppose those projects. the fact those organizations, lpm and middle polk and merchant association are support speak highly of the changes that happened in the neighborhood and the actors like cory and jave who take care of the premises so hopefully you will approve it. thank you. >> anyone else from the public? >> thank you supervisor campos. seeing none, public comment is closed on this item. i do want to appreciate all the members of the public who came out for item 4, it is really good to hear the neighborhood support for this license. i have a number of concerns given alu recommendation but looking and seeing this is within the lower polk street alcohol rud. i think most importantly i like to hear from the district supervisor in terms of his thoughts on this issue and while i agree that a pay day loan is not the type of business we want here in our city and glad that it will be converted to a different type of use, and it seems there has been good history with the bar in the neighborhood, i thipg at this time i need a little more time before i feel comfortable moving forward with the recommendation. i just want to get a sense of all aspects and perpectives moving this forward. my recommendation will be a motion to continue to the next committee to hear directory from the supervisors aufs. the rud was put in for are a reason and want to make sure we do this appropriately and given alu negative ative recommendsation it gives me pause. that being said, glad to hear from the neighborhood and think it is important there is good community support. given there is a conflict of opinion we need a little more time to evaluate. >> chair if i may-- >> supervisor campos. >> thank you. my general approach to this is to approve these unless there is a reason not to but in this case you have a recommendation of no approval by the alu and that does n't happen often so it does give me pause. i am happy to see that so many folks from the community came out to support this so that certainly balances, but i think the approach of continuing it so we get more information makes sense, so i support that motion. >> thank you. >> soecd. >> we have a motion and the item will be continue today the next public safety and neighborhood service committee without objection. mr. clerk can we call item nive? >> hearing to consider the issuance of type 64 general theater liquor license to boxcar theater doing business as boxcar theater located akes 44 broadway street. serve the public convenience or necessity of city and county of san francisco. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. sergeant [inaudible] san francisco police. you have a pcu report for bax car theater at 644 broad way. they applied for a type 64 license which will allow them to operate as a theater providing be, wine ' beer, wine and distilled spirit. zero letters of protest or support. they are located in plot 130 which is high crime. census tract [inaudible] which is considered undue concentration. central station has no opposition. alu recommendation is approval with following conditions, loitering is kanding about without business. prohibited on sidewalk or property adjacent to the premise under the control the licenseee on the abc 7 form. now noise audible under the control of the licenseee on the abc 257 form. the sale of alcoholic bev erages for consumption is prohibited. alcoholic beverages served in containers significantly differ in appearance from those containers utilized for non alcoholic beverageism containers for beer shall not exceed 16 ounces. >> thaurng. >> thank you sergeant kennedy. is the project sponse erhere on this item? if you like to make brief comments. >> thank you supervisor. david [inaudible] boxcar is a non-profit theater that chs displaced from the previous home at 125 a hyde street. we have been working with owners of this property at 644 broad way to develop a theater. we raised $3 million to do so and the theater is now operating. we received our approval from the entertainment commission, planning commission, the helths department and fire department and so we were able to open for business about a month ago. we are currently service liquor, abc has giveren permission to serve licking with a licensed cater. there is limit to the number of days we can operate with a catering license so seeking a type 64 license rchlts we have support of the north beach business association, the upper broadway community benefit district, both submitted letters of support for our planning commission conditional use hearing. supervisor peskins office supports squus supervisor peskin attended our opening celebration about 2 weeks ago in costium. the opening production is immerseive theater project called the speakeasy, which invites audience members to dress in 1920's garb and experience it throughout the theater in multiple chases. it is a lot of fun and supervisor peskin was there with some of the family and says he had a great experience as well. so, that is a quick overview. any questions i can answer? >> no, thank you very much. in your case we got word the supervisor does support your license so thank you very much. we are remiswe were not invite today the party. >> we have to correct that >> any member thofz public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> motion to approve >> motion to move forward with pause tchb positive recommendsation and without -approve with conditions. >> so, we move forward the recommendation wow the amendments with the conditions. >> we prepared a resolution. >> we move forward with recommendation with conditions. do we need to-- >> no. that is recommended without objection. thank you. >> thank you, mr. clerk for the clarification. can we call item number 6? >> item 6, hearing to consider issuance of type 21 off-sale general alcoholic beverage control license to billie goat liquor doing business as billie goat liquor at 3499 mission street serve the pub lic convenience or nusitty of city and county of san francisco. >> thank you, mr. clerk. hello sergeant kennedy. >> hello again. pcn report for billie goat liquor. they applied for a type 21 license and if approved allows them to operate as a liquor store providing beer, wine and distilled spirit off-sale. there are zeros letters of protest or support. they are located in plate 867 which is considered low crime area. they are located in census tract, 253, which is considered a undo concentration area. inglesade station has no opposition. alu recommends approval with the following conditions: no cups glasses or similar receptquals for drichcking of beverages sold furnished or given away at the premise in quantities of less than 24 in the original multicontainer package. the sale of beer or malt beverage with alcohol content greater than 5.7 percent by volume is prohibited. the sale of the distilled spirits and sizes smaller than 2 hml is prohibited. the sale of beer or malt beverages in quantities of 16 ounce, 32 ounce, 40 ounce size containers is prohibited. within coolers only sold manufacture multipack et quantities. accept dinner wines aged 2 years or more and maintained in corked bottles. loitering, is defined as stanideally about without lawful business and prohibited on sidewalk or property ajais tonight the premise under the control of the license depicted on the abc form. the petitioner is responsible for maintaining litter to the premise which they have control. sales and service of alcoholic beverage shall be permitted between 7 and 12 a.m. mpt gruthetefeety removed from the premise and parking lots under control within 72 hours of application. if the graffiti occurs on a friday or weekend or holiday removed 72 hours within the following business day. thank you. >> thank you very much. is the project sponsor here for the item? >> how are you doing? i am here on behalf of billow goat liquor, john gaven and plan on following the recommendations they set out and continue business and operating as a part the community and doing a good job keeping it clean and working. >> thank you. there is a question for you. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you for the presentation. wonder if you can talk more about the kind of outreach you have done arounds the neighborhood. >> reached out the murnant service people and called your office as well roontly to figure what you want today hear from us and reach out to the community. we reached out to merchant service and haven't gotten back but plan to join the group. when i'm in a area and open up a business i become part of that. i lib in the mission myself. it isn't my frequent corner store but saw is closed a few months back and thought it was a place that needed to be reopened and brought back to the community considering it was a store over 30 years. there are 3 bus stops in the area and in the morning we plan to service coffee. part of the stipulation is no alcohol until 7. i have a coffee shop in another part of the city so serve coffee from 6 to 11 and transitionarve that. other than that we reached out but didn't hear back. people thatd are walking by the neighborhood are asking when will you open, can't wait for you to open. they are looking forward to something that can service them when they want a can or coke or bag of chip jz healthy snack and plan on doing coffee and donut and not just focus on liquor. >> thank you. hopefully you will have fruits also and--[laughter]. thank you. >> thank you supervisor cam pos . we will open up for public comment. seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take a motion on this item? >> motion to accept the conditions from police department and move forward with recommendsation. >> we have a motion to accept the recommendation and move forward with recommendsation. >> district supervisor happy to move this item forward mptd i do want to thank the applicant for the outreach they have done and the fact that they will be a responsible player so happy to support it. >> thank you very much. we have the motion and do that without- >> the mater is prepared as a resolution. >> without objection. thank you. mr. clerk can we go back and call item number 1. >> item hearing to consider the concept of establishing a behavioral health justice center that can provide a continuum of care for individuals suffering from mental illness and/or substance abuse who have contacttss with the criminal justice system; and requesting the department of public health, district attorney's office, sheriff's office, department of homelessness and supportive housing, and police department to report. >> thank you. colleagues for hearing this item here today. every day and this is something that is widely considered throughout the city or office and i know my colleagues office receive calls about san franciscan who are clearly suffering from mental illness, subsstance abuse or boket. the crimial justice system from the police officer to countsy jail are the answer to the lack of mental health and subsstance abuse streement in san francisco and cities across the country. san francisco police department receives 20 thousand cault frz individuals in mental health crisis avenue year and in fact this morning at one of my muni stops there was a older woman sick lying othen street. the residents in the neighborhood had known about for weeks. san francisco general hospital psychiatric emergency is unable to accept new patients for more than two months in the last year due to lack of capacity. of the all most 5 thousand incarcerated individuals seeing by the jail behavioral health between november twnt 15 14 and 15. 57 percent were homeless at some point, 31 in just the last year. the sis a situation where individuals in great need of treatment are pushed through the criminal justice resolving down and no one winwise the system in place. that is why i am supervisor breed campos and i called for a hearing on a consent known as behavioral health justice center models on the [inaudible] which had truly remarkable outcome. the behavioral health court identifies people in the criminal justitous system because of untreated mental illness. after 18 months 26 percent of participant are less likely charged with a new offense. 55 percent less likely to be charge would a new violent auchs and the lejt of jail time is reduced by close to 40 percent. the behavioral justice center is a kant cept we believe is wurkt exploring with experts from department of public health, the sheriff, san francisco police department, district attorney and department on homelessness and supportive housing. i want to recognize george gas gone who introduced this last june. i want to thank several authorers who i understand are here today and look forward herring from you in regards to the issue. we can't continue to use a system that we know is not working or addressing the issues we see on the sthreets. the families or individuals suffering from mentsal health or impacted by the behavior are safer or healthier if we throw inl jail and back on the street without service. i want to thank supervisor campos and breed for cosponsoring the hearing request and do look forward to the discussion. it is a discussion over the last year. there is a alternative to jail task force that is convened by department of public health since january when the board first turned down rebuild expansion jail grant from the state because we roy roig it isn't we need more jail beds, thatd we actually need resources that will address who we are seeing in the jails, primarily those addicted and suffering from mental health. i do know that due to the day that we have scheduled the hearing last night the director of public health could not make the hearing today and submitted a litter letter to be included in the record. we have copies of the let frr committee members as well as the public. i would like to then call tup our district attorneys office who also said that some of the authors for the paper that they put forward is here today. i want to bring up susan christian here from disrect attorneys office. thank you so much mrs. christian for being here and your service as chair of the human rights commission as well. >> good to see you. >> good to see you. i believe that kathleen lacy and jennifer johnson are also here today to answer questions if committee members have any so thank you so much for being here. i know you have a presentation but we would like to hear the process by which the report was developed and what role the district attorney offices place in the development nof report and concept and then we may have more questions but open up to you first. >> so, the process for the development of this proposal was that jennifer johnson and kathleen lacy a number of years ago worked oa proposal for mental health justice sent squr my boss became aware of the proposal and invited jennifer and kathleen and several other people to come together and to write out the proposal they had been working on to update the proposal they had been working on for a number of years. jennifer and kathleen were two of the three or four founding people who created the behavioral health court all most 15 years goy so this proposal grew out of their experience first for the need for the court and the experience they had over those years of how things were working, what wasn't working, what the needs were for the population in san francisco and so for the process for the paper i would like to turn the podium to them to speak directly to that since they are the primarily officers. the district attorney as i said, this is not his proposal, he does support it and he brought it in and gave his name and support to it, but it was created and written and finalized by kathleen and jennifer and micromono and several others whos names i think you have before you. for that piece i like to turn it over to them. i don't know if you want to hear from them now or whether you have anything else for me at this moment because i can come back up. >> thank you very much mrs. christian. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisors for having this hearing and supervisor kim, i appreciate the introduction and it was right on point. my name is jennifer johnson a public defender and a founder the behavioral health court. for the last 15 years i worked exclusively with people with serious mental illness who have involvement in the crim nm justice system. most of my clients have felony charges and most of them are charged with a crime of violence would otherwise have gone to state prison so it helps to know the population that we are talking about. when we look at the streets of san francisco and we look inside the jail it is so clear what we are experiencing is a epic public policy failure, it is nation wide and very visible on the streets of san francisco. we got to this place because of failures in both mental health and criminal justice policy together. we opened our hospitals and then never funded appropriate treatment for those people who are coming out of the hospital. at the same time, we started a dejasterous war on crime and a war on drugs and the people that were left to be swept into the criminal justice system are those people with untreated mental illness. the policy strands are different but deeply intertwined at this point and in order to change the status quo, we can't simply fix one system without payingeme wg attention to the other because we willened up simply pushing the population from one system back to the other and back again. we won't be able to get any traction and solve what i think is one of the cities greatest problems. so, the idea of this paper is about doing something new. something different. something comprehensive that will change both of our systems. um, as mrs. christian was saying, this proposal wasn't writ ten in june, this is sphene years working with this propulation. kathleen, lacy and i have been sitting alt the same table since 2002 which wh a judge came windup the idea of creating a melthal health court. we have consciously , carefully, specifically targeted funding. we looked at this country and what is going on and where people are doing well and we adopted those best practices into our courts. we never ever had the luxury creating a parallel system of care to go along with our court. we never had the luxury creates or expanding service. we used what we have in the community and have a retch number of service in san francisco, but we very strategically figured how we were going dreel with the population of people with high levels of criminal justice involve ment and serious mental illness and thank you supervisor for acknowledging that it has been a unmitigated success. it is one of the programs that looked to across the country for other people developing mental health courts so we are emensly proud of where we have come and this-the concept of the behavioral health justice sentser is a natural and logical extension of what we have done in our behavioral health court. kathleen will talk specifically about the facility so i want to give a little more of the history. the way we have written this is to solve two problems. one of them which i mentioned is the problem that we have that exists and that is the high number of people already in the criminal justice system and having difficulty reentering the community. and in addition to that, this proposal really spans the entire criminal justice continuum so that not only with k we reverse the decades of damage done by public policy, we can also figure out a new trajectory going forward. how is it that we stop people from entering the criminal justice system and ending up on my case loud. by the time people get to my case load, they have gone very far into both systems really. we can do much much better. we can do better by looking across the nation at what is working and those things are described in our paper. i want to comment a little bit about the gravity of the problem. i have been public defender for 18 years and work wg the population for most of my career. i have about 137 clients, which is one of the highest case loads and ever had. i have never seen this problem worse than it is today. right now, i have approximately 50 clients that are sitting in custody most of whom waiting for a bed in a community based treatment program. my clients are not prioritized for treatment t is the opposite. when someone coming out thf hospital they displace my clients from wait lists and it takes sometimes 3 and 4 interviews for the programs to decide to take them. they are people who haven't done wem in the community in the past and difficult clients to place in the community. so, i think a lot of this was confirm bide the grand jury report which i think you all have-i'm sure have seen. and, as a public defender the last thing i want-these are not numbers, to me. i walk into the jail every week, i sit in administrative segregation to meet with my clients who are housed alone in a place that is so destructive to their mental health it is hard for me to emadgeen imagine how they ever make it on the other side. a jail is not a place for mental health treatment now how pretty we make it, it is not designed for that. it is destructive and that is made very clear in our pairn paper and brought to light by craig haney who is a national expert on this issue. so, i also think that my clients deserve to have a system that specialized and understands the forensic population and has a ability to work with people who are criminal justice involved. it is special, it is different and i think that we should be targeting this population if we want to reduce the jail population. it only makes sense. i feel at this moment we have a window of time to make good policy. be innovative, be the first, to be different. right now, nationally there is a conversation going on about this very topic. there is bipartisan support for criminal justice reform and mental health reform both. we have a moment where we can do something that would be groundbreaking. i want to just acknowledge that this paper is personal to me. is was never meant to be divisive. it was meant to be innovative and think i can speak for my coauthors in saying we areope toon all idea jz want to work with the community. the reason behavioral health court is a success because we have a deep really successful collaboration and that is what we need to do if we want to fix this problem which i think we all do. i think there is more agreement than disagreement but just want you to know that we are willing and more than happy to answer questions to the the extent that we can answer them. >> i do have a few questions. >> i have one question i wondering you don't have to answer directly but if you can through-i know you will through your presentation but i think a big question that has been raised by people who have concerns about the report which the report to me seems very well thought out is people who came out against the jail have described this center as essentially a different kind of a jail or at least that is the impression i get from them and know that isn't the intent and intent from the district attorney either so want to make sure you address that issue head on because i think there has to be clarity on that because that's not what i think you are saying and so you don't have to respond to that just wanted to make sure i think that is the elfent in the room for some. >> i agree. it is anything but a jail. this is-right now there is no option. my clients in jail waiting for placement. a judge won't release to a program or to the street to get into a program so they are sitting there not getting better and only getting worse. the whole point of this document is create something that is not a jail and there is a really great segment of the paper that talks about why. to call it a jail suggests that somebody skipped that section ment kathleen and i were interviewed by kqed this week and obvious we dopet want a jail. i want my clients to get a place where they can be treated for mental health with dignity. a jail is not that place. this is the opposite of wanting to create a jail. it st. not a jail by another name, it is a entirely new and different proposal that hasn't been done anywhere in the country. so, i hope that that answers your question. i think that will probably be echoed by the other speakers. >> can i ask a few questions before we move on to mrs. johnson? >> sure. >> a couple things come up around mental health and hear from the advocates like forced treatment or treatment without consent so can you me how that works? thank you for your work over the last 18 year jz more so your commitment to behavioral courts since 2002, that is a tremendously long time to coo the work you are doing. it is very difficult and i just really appreciate your dedication to working with i think one of the most challenging population in the city and still having so much empathy squh care in your work, that is so clear today in your presentation. one question is, the consent of forced treatment for people that-individuals that are mentally il. on the other side and hear constip wnts make them do it because they are so frustrated what they see on the streets. your thoughts while you feel the court is successful. either can answer the question because i see mrs. johnson shaking her head and move to the description och the facility. >> okay. when we first started behavioral health court this was the main criticism is how could be it be voluntary and i-my answer is, the minute handcuffs are put on your wrists nothing is voluntary. what we created was a aumgz for people to avoid going to prison. as i said, my clients have serious felony charblgs charges and we have a very enlightened progressive district attorney who is willing to let us work with people who's criminal behavior is a result of untreated mental illness. because och that we are a public safety program. we are addressing people who put the public at risk and our success rate speaks for itself. so, i do understand the issue of coerced treatment but i think what we have to focus on is that we are deal wg a population of people who are in the criminal justice system. they are not getting out of the criminal justice system without either going to prison or going to another treatment program. so, i think-i'm sensitive to that because i'm also as a public defender don't want to see people incarcerated or have their liberty taken away. >> the second question in regards to the opening comment is that, it takes sometimes 3 or 4 interviews to get into the residential care facilities and get bumped by people that are other clients that are existed general hospital and so, my question is, is this is a question of not having enough beds and that's why? we are not getting people the care they deserve or is there something wrong with bureaucracy that prevents people that should get the care that we provide? >> it is both. there is a huge problem because we reduced the number of beds at san francisco general hospital from 87 to 22. while psychiatric emergency services has lotted their success with reducing the numbers, the single thing that they did not measure when they looked how they were doing is the impact on the criminal justice system. the people that i am representing have been through psychiatric emergency servicess. i have a client 43 times, 17 locked facilities. something is wrong with that. so, we have 22 beds, thrathey are expensive so people out of the hospital are prioritized for treatment. we need more, yes i'm not opposed to creating more services. i think we need them. but what i'm concerned about is criminal justice client get sh short end of the stick every time. they have to be interviewed multiple times because they are sometimes high risk. sometimes they have been to a program before i not done well. the clients i represent are not easy to place but the fact they have to be interviewed 3 and 4 times delays the amount of time in custody getting nothing. >> that's great. >> i do want to turn it over to >> mrs. johnson. thank you. >> kathleen. >> kathleen, sorry. >> i'm kathleen. >> my apology. >> so, just to let you know about myself, i run a program for ucsf city wide department of psychotry. the city contracts to provide intensive clinical case management services to folks in the criminal justice system. our program serves 300 individuals all with very serious mental illness. every one comes to me from the criminal justice system. every single referral i have gotten for the last two years was somebody who had a recent violent charge or a very long history of violent charges so are not easy peep tool traet in the community. i need to say that because that is ovlooked in this discussion and when we presented this proposal and thought about it, there really is a specific population that we need to focus on that we are not and we have a whole continuum of care with dph, we dont have a continuum of care for criminal justice involved vaujs. i know that because i fall though client everywhere they go. we work with them for years until they don't need our services so that is why background. i was with jenny at the table when we created the behavioral helt court and that model used all the services we have in san francisco open to everyone so have that model down. we use every service we can sfined. the case managers take the clients to the programs from the jail and go to the jail and take them there. this model was created to address gaps that we have that resulting in our folks waiting in custody for a long time. if we want to take down 850 bryant, close those jails, we need to focus on the people that are taking up the bed days. the people in every single person in psychiatric housing on a certain day had a felony charge. over 50 percent had 5 to 9 felony charges, the most common is assault with force. >> the most common charge is what? >> assault with force. >> assault with what? >> force. these are the people that sit and don't go anywhere because they are a safety risk so this facility we are proposing is a public saelft measure. it is a melthal health treatment measure. the level one is what we kibe as a emergency melthal health receptioner that we don't have in srf. we don't have 24 hour location. we have the police department doing great work with the crisis intervention team and started prebooking diversion program with the police department and just announced last week where mental health professionals going out sth police department but they are left what to do with this person. they don't have anywhere to take them. jenny and i work with the police department on the crisis intervention training and hear the police want a 24 hour location. the emergency center will beope toon the community and a place, a hub of servicess and run by mental health professionals. they don't have to go to incrim nm justice system. this will divert people going for to the the criminal justice system. level 2 is a short term transitional housing, very similar to what we have acuted diversion units. two weeks for crisis transitional treatment. you could go to that level from the respite center, the emergency level one center where we would also sl respite beds. you can go if you need crisis treatment. it can be a place for people to step down when they come out of the criminal gists system if they need a place to stay before their housing or treatment prm is ready. level 3 is long term dual diagnosis treatment program. that is best practice work wg people with occurring disorders. most folks have a occurring substance disorder. we have a few dual diagnosis programs in the city and they are packed and have wait lists and these are the beds the folkerize waiting for. the folks wait 5 times longer in cudomy than someone coming from the hospital or the community. there is-we are at the bottom of the picking. we know we need these services. we need to focus on this population and have dedicated spots for them to go, so they are not waiting. lvl level 4 is the secure unit that people are kind of mythically talking about it being a jail. i dont see it as a jail. we wrote it as a treatment facility run by mental health professionals. it is a secure unit, but it is a option for those people that are in custody right now who are waiting 120 days just to go to residential streement why can't they be served in a hospital setting with a joint criminal justice and hental health oversight which is key to the whole process we need both systems working closely together with authority to keep each other accountable because we dont have that now. so, there is only one direction to get into the secure level from custody. you can't go from the community to the forth level. you can only go if a judge says you are ready to go and you want treatment, we will put you in the treatment program while you wait for the residential bed in the community. from there, you can step down all the way from level 3 to level 2 to the community. it doesn't have to be linear,ioyou you can go from the secure unit and if we find permanent housing in the community which is ridiculous to talk about when it takes us years to get someone in permanent housing, if they have a bed we can take them there. so, the system of care is really essential qu and it has to be a joint effort. you need mental health professionals that work with the justice system. we have 2 $241 million the city spend on contracts. that is a lot services. our clients don't always make it into the services. it needs to be systematic in a collaborative way so why we included in the document all the agency ies and organizations we know are working with these folks. we want to bring them in on this, we want non-profit jz community based organizations working with these folks but we need a hub and think this facility answers something that we don't have nobody in the nation hayes. it is most pr gressive idea around because it isn't progressive to let people with mental illness sit in jail like we are now. >> i have two questions for you and then we got to-this isn't the only item at committee. i want to spend the whole time on just this item. could you talk about what it means to have a secure unit? a secure inpatient unit because i think this is what brings some of the fear that we are creating a different jail for those that are mentally ill. what would be the role from your perspect ovthe sheriffs department in kind of a secure mental hilth facility? >> that is a model that we need to explore and that is why we are proposing melthal health and criminal justice system work together. the way we foresee it run by mental health professionals, however, since it is a court ordered-not court ordered but court approved facility, there would have to be done in conjungz with the criminal justice system so not sure of the sheriffs role. i think they need to be at the table when we talk about it. >> to really make a impact on our streets, how many beds would be appropriate for a facility such as this at all levels from your professional experience or also a question for mrs. john son because if we put this out and can't help address what we are see ing on the streets that is adequately serviceing >> i think we didn't put numbers because that needs to be assess. to make a impact -we have 50 people now in jail wait frg a bed so if we had a facility bed now that would be a 50 bed care unitism if we had residential beds-the need is endless and know that in the city, but i think what we should be doing is talking about these kind of details instead of throwing the concept away. >> and then my last question, this can be for either of you, mrs. johnson you said this is the worse you have seen it and hear that over and over again from the constituents and my observation it appear tooz be that way as well. i know there is a lot of different factors going on in the city. emens amounts of wealth coming that i think exacerbates inequity. we are building at a rapid clip it chis great because more housing but less vacant parcels and less places to be invisible and less places under the freeway where you used to be able to provide, why is it getting worse from your professional perspective? >> because we don't treat people in hospitals anymore. we have 22 beds. the folks that i work with, i sometimes have to do 5150 them and you would be amazed at the condition of my clients that just get turned around. there is no safetynet our housing. there used to be sro's with someone on ssi can get a proom for a month. there are two sro's in the city that rent on a mumthly based. the violence is very extreme. i don't get referrals to my program with anyone without violence. we have to take extreme precautions in working with folks now. we have safety training and safety staff. we had a case manager stabbed two years ago which never happened in over 30 yies our program is in existence by a cline. when we talk about public safety that is really important to me, i take that very-that responsibility very seriously when we work with folks. when i make recommendation tooz the judge that this person go to a treatment program, the judge is trusting me to put public safety as a important priority and i do. >> thank you. that's very helpful. we heard a lot of department of homelessness and supportive housing. the tremendous decrease in single room occupancy unit available in the city. i know i used to do a lot of work with sro collaborative squz think 15 years gow emany could not imagine sro buildingsgentifyed but i live next to one. it was a single room occupancy hotel for many low income residents and it is now a [inaudible] today. there is a need for housing at ever levl. it isn't to blame group. a housing stock available for the lowest incomes are upgraded to other types of dorm store style housing and at a last hearing academy of arts raided at least 300 units and taken them off the pipeline by converted to studabout housing illegally and then of course we have increase of rent at every level make tg more exresponse frv the city to provide that as a option too. also understanding the cuts we made during the recession, general hospital having impact now we have money back in the system is helpful to hear. i want tocopy hearing from both but also want to keep the hearing moving so i did want to bring up-mrs. christian would you like to make a closing comment for the district attorneys aufss? office? >> i want to emphasize a couple of things, first, that jennifer is a public defender, kathleen is a career clinical provider and i'm a prosecutor and we sit at the table together 3 day as week basically collaborating on these issues and we don't-jennifer and especially don't always agree on issues or how to deal with somebody or disposition of a case, but we are in heated agreement that a term coined for our specific collaboration about the need for this facility and the importance of the continuity of care it provides. i know some visor campos asked us to address the concern that people have about are we creating a new jail and this level 4, the secure level, i whole heartedly agree with kathleens description why this is not just another jail. the fact is the people that we are bringing into our program and can't get into our program who are arrested in the city, kathleen noted the most common charge for a number of people was force. the rest of that phrase is force likely to create great bodily injury. these are serious and violent fell owns and crimes perpetratored with weapons knive squz fists. people are getting hurt and people in custody are also at risk. they flot well and decompensated and at risk for violence perpetrated against them too. every member of our community because everyone we are talking about is a member of our community, needs a facility like this. we can't get away from my perspective i strongly agree we can't get away from the need for a secure level of care at somewhere because the people that are coming to custody have committed serious and violent fell owns with bodily injury and they are not safe to be on the street which is why they were arrested. until we get them to a place where they are safe to be out of custody, we need a therapeutic environment to get them to that state and the jail is not that. i have been through the jail once and i-if you don't have mental health issues going in you will have them going out if you spend any amount of time there. so, i am-no one can tell me there isn't a need for a secure therapeutic place, but that being said, i do want to note that the district attorney gasgone is committed to the project and our office does not want this to get hung up on the level 4 business. it is completely and utterly unnecessary. my day to day experience teaches me that but if the whole proposal will be thrown out of because of that, we are not on board for that so just want to make that very clear. i don't-unless you have question there is nothing else i want to say. >> thank you so much, mrs. christian. the reason i called the hearing is because i want to explore the concept and i have discomfort with the secure component but it is more i just don't know what it looks like rchlt are we locking people in rooms like the process and security and how we make sure it doesn't mimic what can be traumatizing for people who are suffering from mental health and i get the concern from everyone it isn't to retraumatize people but figure how to balance safety and care. i think that is a tough question for anyone who considered themself a progressive or compassionate individual so appreciate your comments and i know this alternative jail task force is considering this behavioral health center at least component of it but i think all us justment to understand what would a secure mental health facility look like that is compassionate and not trompatizing. i visited the mental helt ward and had a immediate violent reaction to it myself. i couldn't help it. it was so clearly not the right place to put anybody. even thinking about it makes me emotional because it is hard to understand that. we as a city fund something that is clearly not addressing what is the problem and is only exacerbating the situation for people who are incredibly sick so this is why i commend you for doing this work because this one visit- >> professionals who know how to create a therapeutic environment that is secure from the architect toor the people who star it to the way it designed and looks, there are people that know how to do that. >> thank you mrs. christian, thank you so much. um, i didn't to bring up our san francisco police department here as well. i know that much of our command staff is today held in meetings with department of justice over the recommendations we have been anticipating and waiting for and cannot be here. sergeant choline and cruger here on behalf of sfpd so welcome and thank you for being here. sfpd plays a integral role and whether-i heavily relied upon by our ever day residents. i mentioned at the beginning your department sees over 20 thousand calls per year to traet individuals with mental health crisis and you are the first and last re-sort for many constituents seeing people suffer on the streets. i hoped you could talk about the resources that from your experience that substantially help addressing the issue and aumsh on the process response that your department has when you see a individual that is clearly suffering from mental health or substance abuse and is a danger but doesn't warrant 5150 and how to make the system more whole to address the situation. >> i'm sergeant kelly cruger and when we have something that isn't to the level of having being placed on a psychiatric hold and trying to think the options, generally speaking we have urgent care if they need to be at a place but they have limited number of beds, fwut is 24/7 and they did bring up the 24/7 business and we are down to door and psychiatric emergency service to take people. we can include emergency departments but they don't want to be included. that ends up being a option a bunch of times too. there is that and if they are under the influence and don't need medical attention we have the sobering center. for us one the biggest things is as they also said is being able to have access to servicess 24/7 and if let's say they-we have to book them and take them to county jail, if it is during operational hours for jail psychiatric they can have contact with the folks and decide what to do but it is medical staff that are not able to write involuntary holds so renuse individual and go to psychiatric emergency and for us that is under medical so goes before booking a individual so that means generally speaking 2 to 4 days of 2 officers not one because that is how the policy is written sitting with the individual until they are processed . last week we had 4 different hospital watchs going on so 4 times 2 just to put that out there so a lot of officers have to sit at the hospital. this would be a very good thing. so, let's see what else here--and then just we wanted to emphasize for us the more resources that we have available meaning sfpd available to us is just something we really welcome and how hard it is for us-generally speaking officers are used to fix things and make them better and it is very disheartening if psycho emergency is diversion and go to emergency department, generally speaking the emergency department doctors are able to discontinue the 5150 so put back on the streets without attention to their mental health in a short period of time and can tell you a birch of nightmaer stories but know this probably isn't the time. they send out on the streets and the officers have int written the report and the there is the person in the same crisis they were two hours prior. it just goes around and around. we really need to be able to do a better job for the folks and think the public not only the police would appreciate if we attend to it in a better way. >> do we have enough resources-you mentioned the sobering center working with dph to expand that, is there enough capacity today? >> no. it gets full, door is full, psychiatric morejs was on a 4 day one of diversion so go to the emergency department. like i medicationed, i don't think they were anticipating having to deal with psychiatric crisis stuff so generally speaking they just discontinue the hold rapidly and have them go back out. one of inincident a person was 5150 as danger to others, released and went back to the resident and stabbed a person with scissors 67 times. that's-we need folks mental health clinicians helping them not just haves emergency room doctors disopinion a 5150 and have them back out. >> you are on the ground on the streets, what is the scale in terms of what we need to provide? i ask this question before to make a imp pact. do we need double amount of beds? triple amount of beds? in the ideal word r d world we would have a bed for everyone, but to support sfpd and the work that our constituents expect what is the scale we are looking at? >> i wouldn't want to venture to get the number, but my immediate thought, the ladies may have something to say but if we got the beds back that were taken away is what i think of. at the very least. but i think if i had to say for us our biggest thing if we can take a individual in a time of crisis to a place where they were going address everything, all the needs. took the time to figure out and be able to have the resources to have them go where they needed to go, that would be like the greatest thing ever. because we take them to somewhere and discharged in a short period of time and in the exact same place and get to handle it again and beepal are just upset. >> i also was not aware, when you take a individual in mental crisis two to four offices to sit with that individual? >> it is two but last week we had up to 6. each individual had a office sitting on them that are regular patrol officers. because we are already short officers and fl is a need to keep everybody safe and take all this, it just makes it so short on had thstreet. >> that is a serious concern for me. >> exactly. >> explains why people often feel there are not enough officers too. is that necessary? too have two officers at each? >> it is because if you have-yes, is the short answer and the reason why is what if one officer got distracted and that person got away. we had a person that was a serious dangerous person that ran one time, so most of our policy is from things we need to address. after that type of stuff, that is a way of not having that person und up lose. >> thank you. >> i'm sergeant laura colleen assigned to fuld operation bureau the crisis intervention training program. i'm the sergeant that puts together the crimulum so i work closely with jennifer johnson and kathleen lacy and susan christian, they have taught for our classes. what is nice is we come together, the police department, district attorney and public defenders office to work together to help train ourophorousers which is important. as you mentioned supervisor, the command staff we are tied in other meetings but it st. quite clear that the department as a whole as we speak on behalf the department we welcome additional programs or resources that allow our offices the abilities to provide the appropriate level of care to those dealing with a mental health crisis. that is just the last thing y we want today throw out so if you have additional question. >> thank you sore so much for being here. i know we ask sfpd questions that may not be most appropriate for your officers but you do anyway and that is-i appreciate that and hope we can develop a system that better addresses what you see on the e streets to have you address pub allic safety issues. thank you for being here. notice a lot of the ladies at every level so i will balance that out by bringing up sam dodge from the department of homelessness and supportive housing who is also here today to speak to the issue. we have now create adwhole department just to address homelessness and while behavioral health it isn't just homeless individuals in need of behavioral helths or come into contact with the criminal justice system. at least 31 percent of those we have seen are homeless in the last year, 57 at some point in their lives so there is a intersection with lack of available housing and exaser baiting melthal health. thank you for being here. i called you this morning about a case that in some ways is a about what we are talking about here today. a woman i saw that was lying othen streets and talking to resident and been there weeks. i recognize your department is in contact with her sevleral time squz she is still there. that is a question we get from the constituents. why is she there on the streets, she clearly has needs for services so why can't we get those services? >> thank you supervisors for having me here today, sam dodge department of homelessness and supportive housing and appreciated that call and think just goes to show that all of us no matter how busy we are are taking aback by what we do see on the street and the level of need and the disconnect between how can we be such a caring and frankly rich community and not be able to take care of those most in danger. i think that is prompted discussion here and i'm a late comer to the discussion about the jail rebuild and just to be invited about behavioral justice center i prepare adfew slides to go through some of our thinking about it. at department of homlessness and supportive housing we are working to create a system that is coordinated, compassionate and rational focus on prevention and veet homelessness and housing solution. we have some high level go goals we are hoping to accomplish on a rather aggressive timeline. we know that we have work to do to make those goals real and part of it is just really assessing all of systems here and working together with a number of institutions looking at administrative data including jail data. we do feel like this is not hundred percent overlap with watt we are doing but there are clearly people that are homeless and suffering ing mental health issues and end up in the criminal justice system and want strong support for discharge planning. for all the people who find themselves in the criminal justice system and needed to come up with a robust discharge plan is scelsh essential to return to the community. one of the things we are work wg within our homeless service system is coordinated entry system which isope toon parallel nugzs to have open referrals and access to the servicess based on transparent standards. you know, i'll just say also-we'll get into this more. homeless-it shouldn't be a discharge plan from hospital or jails to discharge to the homeless care system. clearly we have a lot of people in need but when we are in care there should be a time to work with people to make successful discharge so it isn't the discharge to the shelter system or emergency service but back to a stable place. you know, one the options we want to make available to public health system and to the criminal justice system is if they need housing assistance for their program to be successful we have a flexible housing pool to make those dist charge plans real for those systems. this is a brief map of how we see our system redesigned working with coordinated entry system that treaugassess and aligns the resources to those that have them and different spectrum of support people need to return to housing whether it is permanent supporting housing with wrap around services, to just ability to reunit with family or somewhere between where it is time period of rental assistance and help with finding a place back into the market. la coubty already is using flexible housing pool successfully and primarily sponsors are the criminal justice system and public health system and they pay into this for the kinds of slots that they need to be able to serve their client well. this is helped along by realignment of the aca and rualign around criminal justice. this is also being used in la to create permanent affordable housing and this is a way that the systems that need these type of services to be successful help make sure those type of places are available to the client and their institutional needs. that's it. i just say that with coordinated entry system we want there to be equal access to the clients that are there, but their eligibility come from their life experience and needs. it wouldn't come because of discharge or institutional needs rks it comes from the attributes of the people that find in the institutions. the flexible housing pool creates a solution for institutional needs and institutional ability to leverage fund. i think that you know, no matter if it is a different kind of jail, behavioral health system or justice system or mental health institution or any of these iterations or mixes between there, we need to think thoroughly business about the discharge planning and that is the clog of the current system and if we built a newer more humane system i fear we would build in again that clog to the exist. i just want to make sure we are able to return people to the community and flourishing life and not just dump into the street or homelessness. >> mr. dodge, from your on the grond experience and so appreciative of all that do this work, what do you think are the most important things the city can do to move forward on the issue to truly help individuals in need while addressing the safety issues that our constituents experience on the streets? >> i think there is just mental health is a spectrum disorder and so it really incapsulates a lot. when we talk about extreme crisis that end up in involvement with the criminal justice system or psychiatric emergency, we need spaces, caring spaces to help people get clear and make the next step and clearly permanent supportive houg housing is shown to be cost sufficient and humane. a lot of the psychiatric emergency work i know now is parcel of methcrisis where someone may be in a methinduced psychosis and comes clear in there, but and that end up clogging the system because it is small. some capacity just frankly there could help meet more need and prevent the diversion and the automatic discharge that rfs described by the police officers which is a real problem. but, with state effort like no place like home and other efforts with affordable care act and think there will be the options to expand our supportive housing and pay for the services needed to make those supportive housing legal real-. >> thank you, mr. dodge. seeing no questions at this time, understanding we still have other items do you open up for pub lblg comment on this item. >> good afternoon. my name is lesley [inaudible] i am a employee of the city and county of san francisco, a principle administrative analyst but here as a member of the public and i'm one of mayor lee's appointee tooz the san francisco reentry council and resident of dist vckt 6 and appreciate supervisor kim pointing to the issue to today and also fl your ongoing work on behalf of criminal justice populations and especially women who are slaved with criminal justice system. i am a formally incarcerated woman who went to jail in the early 90's in san francisco for oo low level non violent crime and completed all of my obligations and have been working for the city for about 20 years now. since 1996 i worked in the san francisco jails providing a variety of services which includes direct service to client, developing programs for special populations, writing grants which brought 10 million dollars to the city for criminal justice programs and most recently i am administering the medi-cal enrollment in the san francisco county jails. i agree with my esteemed colleagues about the need for change-is that the end of my time? >> you have 30 second s rchlt and >> i disagrew how to make the change thmpt concerns about the program what we have to go into today so i will name a few. it appears fail tooz fully define the ruleoffs the sheriff or district attorney. it fail tooz clarify individual rights related both to- >> you can finish. >> just this is my ending. hipaa as well as rights of a person within the criminal justice system. it is also not to my knowledge include the [inaudible] formally incourseerated people or consumers of mental health and it doesn't address long term issues such as permanent stable house frg the populations. probably my personal strongest concern with this proposal is that proposals such as this tend to tip the scaleoffs the criminal justice and insufficient resources away from many to the few. the type of programs are narrow meaning the vast majority of people who pass through the jails will never qualify for them. everyone in jail has experience trauma, if only the trauma of losing their freedom. trauma is wrun of the funmental factors in mental health and to my knowledge there are no best practice in the country which recommend institutionalization as a way to help the mentally ill which is the program is proposing. >> thank you >> ask to explore and hear from other people and people impacted by the programs have the opportunity to give input. >> thank you for being here and comments. two minutes i know is not nearly enough time to talk about this-i look at [inaudible] thank you for sharing your story as well. speaking of women, the two years that we worked with you roma on fighting the jail rebuild was also group of women that fought and advocateed for a different vision of criminal justice so appreciate you being here today. >> thank you supervisor kim and campos and avalos and supervise sor mar for calling this. i think is a little-it is a concept so it is hard in two minutes to dig down so i'll stay on the executive summary, but in essence, we agree can w the assessment. i represent taxpayer frz public safety and wrun of the cochairs for the jail replacement work group. to say that in the exponent tev summary we need treatment and supportive long term housing for poor people who access their health services and become more damaged in the process and building a 4 story building we have no idea who will make the judgments, the judge or the health system and especially when you name today that the department of public health was involved in this process, to my knowledge that is incorrect. >> i didn't say department- >> it was in the listing that--when you read the- >> i asked the department of public health. >> no, i'm sorry supervisor kim. i'm misleading you, it says hearing considering and then you list the department of public health. all i >> we ask them to report. >> that's one of the vulnerable places where i heard mrs. johnson and mrs. lacy that health professionals in the public sector i know you see is a non-profit, but really it is different level of it and until we do that, then how we problem solve getting and challenging as they say the lack of priority with those criminal justice involvement and therefore are acute when they wouldn't have to be. street people the same thing as mr. dodge said and when we come december 1 we have the numbers and submitted the 6 page questions. i think we can do better as they say and i don't think we have to build a 4 story facility. we do have secure units in the health system, so let's look at that. there is fundamentally capacity issue, health people made mistakes and have further stigatized poor people with behavioral health issue and the that is a problem we need to solve and will cost millions of dollars to build this bridge right there instead of what we need to do as we now have begun to do with supportive housing for the homeless population through the reframing with your leadership especially supervisor campos on the naveigation center chblt it will take as lock long to build the 4 story building as it will to problem solve and build capacity where people need to be to heal. that is essentially what we are saying. it is not that we have a problem with the assessment or how we need to look at it, it is how we need to solve it. we don't need to build more institutionalization. you have to remember when we built cj 2 we said it will be for a work fur lough. it wasn't used as that and now used a a jail that is totally inappropriate for the staff and for those who live there. >> thank you for being here and also know that you're cochairing barbara garcia alternative to jail rebuild so appreciate your work and will be having a hearing on that report very soon. so, is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed on item--okay. yes. if you want to speak stand up now so i have a sense of who is speaking. >> my name is fred martin and live in west portal. i go to had graduation behavioral health court and raised money for the support and think the presentation was outstanding today. i watched the issue 60 years and pult on two programs in berkeley. the cree is get people to recognize this is mental illness and needs treatment and got to have the capacity to do that. in 60 years when the hospitals were closeed by the liberal democrats and ronald regan if we get the people to community they get treatment and get well. we have failed and cut back on the beds. i talked to the people on the streets and know when chare on methand on medication and which are failing and i think that it is high time that we recognize that mental illness requires medical wear and the issue of money shoulden be a issue because we have great amount of money with prop 63 which accord toog the hoover commission is misspent kw once we get that channeled right we have plenty muno so the type of program they are advocating can make a difference in san francisco and the people. j thank >> thank you so much. i will close public comment on item 1. i do want to thank all of the members who came to present today. mrs. krishian and laceee and johnson and mr. dodge as well as our sergeant cruger on behalf of san francisco police department. this is a complex and big big issue and we are hearing about it more than ever whether it has always been a issue or coming to head on decisions in the past and so all the decisions are the result of what we are seeing on the street today. i'm comfortable bize the fact there so many that care. it makes sense we disgree on the appropriate solution but i think that people who care this deeply about this issue can come together on figuring out what we can do as a city to fund really trully and compassionately addressing the issue as is city as progressive san francisco says it is should be. we have a limited amount of time and have other items to get to. i just want to thank everyone for your engagement. we will continue to talk about the item-i'm completing my comments so you can make yours. know we will have the continued conversation and hear from the jail rebuild task force so this isn't theened of that discussion. at this time i turn over to supervisor campos and avalos. >> thank you madam chair. what i say is ask folks who have expressed views about how to move forward to see if it is possible to come together . i am as progressive as it gets when finding alternatives to incarceration, to institutionalization and i understand a desire to have people treated in the least restrictive setting possible. all those things make sense to me. but, i also feel based on what i have seen on the ground for the last few months and going to encampments and talking to a lot of people that the status quo is not working. i don't know, i think what i would say at least the da and consultant and folks that worked on this have something concrete and that it me seems very persuasive and i hope that there is something-if there will be criticism of it there is a concrete alternative that is presented because i think simply saying we will work on it and we will find less restrictive treatment-i won't support that. that doesn't seem right to me. i think we have to do something different. the status quo isn't working and so as murch as i usually agree with the people criticizing this report, i don't know-that is not where i am right now. i have to get something more than just criticism. there has to be a alternative because to me we have to do something different. i do believe that there are people who i r not being served and actually leaving people in jail because you don't want to build a structure, to me is not a solution. i just to be honest. i know it won't make me popular with some folks who are my friend but want to put it out there because i believe something different is needed and what we are doing now is just not working. >> thank you supervisor campos and thank you for cosponsoring the hearing today with me. i know you and i were among the first to come out against the jail rebuild and want to make sure we build something shat that is the right solution instead of to make sure that the reason frz which we oppose the rebuild are actually addressed. supervisor avalos. >> thank you and appreciated as well the presentation and yesterday i rfs at a press conference outside city hall with a group of people i have worked with for years, critical resistance and came out behavioral health center and i think that given the context that it was created in, i didn't do my homework going to the district attorneys office to hear from them and the context i heard about the health center was that it was another form of a jail and i think it calls to question not just that i stood there and said that, but that there needs to be some building of relationships and work between the da's office and critical resistance, the people at the press conference to get sense of alignment if it is possible. i think there needs to be work in that realm. i did see that the public defender jeff adachi was to speak at the press conference in support of the behavioral health center and made me think i do appreciate that we can have department held and elected official who can also have a divergent opinions within his or her own department so that was something that noteworthy to me and like that. it is very refreshing. i know as a city we are still grappling with how to do with what we will do with a lot of people who have mental health issues in our justice system and who need really who need care and need to have a way to deal with trauma. i want to see obviously yesterday was about how to establish community based alternatives to what is incarceration and i still think that is the best approach to go with, but we may need to have intermediary facility that can help people get better care and access to that, those services in essential location in san francisco. i'm open to that and hope that the da's office and people who working towards the behaveruralsenter can do that work with member thofz community who have a huge stake making sure people from our communities do not get incourseerated and knet get into the industrial complex so thank you for your presentation and work on this. >> supervisor mar. >> i was going to appreciate decades of work of many of the family violence council members and activist but especially the presentations from commissioner christian of the human rights commission to mrs. lacy and mrs. johnson. i did want to also acknowledge from the report one the key findings-it is stated on page 4 for child abuse and domestic violence, the higher rates of calls to community support compared to government lines illustrates the role the agencies place. that is a partnership had t has to be with commune ity based work wg low enforcement to be successful. i'm in agreement dialogue with the as roma guy presented with the community coalition and those advocateed for behavioral health center i think is critical. i did meet with member thofz district attorneys office and others that are working on the proposal and think it makes sense but know there are concerns from critical resistance and others but my hope is there is dialogue on that issue. but i'm hopeful that san francisco is moving forward with the 6 reports to make major progress on really vulnerable populations, but communities being at the center of driving much of the change in partnership with our city agencies as well. thank you for calling the hearing. >> thank you supervisor mar. at this time i will motion to table this item so we can have a hearing on all the alternative without opposition. thank you for participating and look forward all working together on the issue we really clearly very care about to get to real solutions. thank you. mr. clerk can you call item number 2? >> item number tworks hearing on improving the cities safety monitoring of ocean beach. >> thank you chair kim. i will just begin through the chair. i called this hearing along with supervisor tang but we share the stretch of san francisco called ocean beach. thank you to many reps here today from a number of different governmental and safety agencies. this is a follow up hearing 6 months after we held may 12 hearing after the tragic deaths of two high school stud ents from vallejo, wane elsea and 16 year olds grishm duran. i also wanted to acknowledge that after that may 12 hearing, we continued to work with the national park service and the golden gate reriation area and san francisco department of emergency management and fire and police department marine unit and cost guard in addition to community based organization like the surf rider foundation and parent of teens to long time ocean beach residents and residential from the sunset and richmond that gave good suggestions as we move forward. i think this hearing we are presenting in some ways what i call a 4 prong plan that we already made improvements and there are longer term improvements underway and i think the key part to that for 4 pronged plan, one, improvement said with the signage object the beach from the national park service to others. number two, strengthen national park service to u.s. coast guard to local rec and park, fire department, police department, marine unit and others. number three, increased coordination for sunch and rescue effort. we learned a lot on the process and increased communication quicker time before information is shared between agencies really critical. 4, is the realm of education and social media and work wg community partners to raise awareness why ocean beach is so dangerous and how to be saif safe on the beach protecting our san francisco residents but many that come from all over the place to come there. following the hearing i organized a site visit with many agencies and really appreciate that time to go directly there to learn about what was happening and what solutions to come up with. i wanted to also acknowledge that two other deaths occurring in the last 6 mupths on august 14 jason jumbo drowned at ocean beach. 4 days later august 17 a senior older woman tam moy, 64 years old was rescued from ocean beach but taken to the hospital in critical condition where she died that is 4 deaths in ocean beach this yearment we are doing everything to make the beach more safe and there are long term efforts as well. i want to acknowledge the emergency coordination and work after the capsizing of a boat off pier 45 over the past week and with 30 people being capsized but wanted to thank the fire department marine units och the cost gourd and emergency manage. the marine unit couldn't be today but gave a presentation at the last hearing. i want to acknowledge too that ocean beach some say is-seems like a beautiful place to dip eurofoot in the water and to wade but it is a attractive nuisance with dangerous and possibly deadly repercussion. i think there are blame the victim messaging around the deaths that occurred and getting around blame the victim approaches and thinking about how we as institutions can respond on a formalized basis to make the beach safer is critical because also work with community based teerft raise awareness for sustained and effective action. the last point i would make before introducing howard levt from the national park service it is commonly or maybe not commonly mentioned that ocean beach to some is the most dangerous beach in the nation and i want to quote frances smith a former u.s. berkeley geaugury and rip current researching from the namsh park resrs said ocean beach is the most dangerous piece of shore line associate would a urban environment in the united states. i think it highlights why life guards are not a realistic response like in many other beaches because though surfs understand where the rip curts are, most swimmers dont have the skills and surfs and skilled swimmers know hypothermia sets in after several minute accord toog the coast guard so it is dangerous to think you can wade even though it seems on a warm day that may be the case but 50 degree water it is very different than in manhattan beach or redondo beach. the speakers we lined up and my hope is i know we have another agenda item after thais but hope peepical do their best to be bree. i want to invite golden gate [inaudible] retiring tomorrow but thank you so much for being here today. he is here with randy [inaudible] and deputy chief rageer chad marin working with san francisco agency squz office to make ocean beach safer. thank you for all your years of work and being here a day before you restirement. >> thank you very mump. we are pleased to be back 6 months from the previous visit that came in against the back drop of loss of life from the two young boys from vallejo. it was a tragedy. i want to reiterate, nothing is more critical as a mission the national park service as protection of human life and take our role very seriously at ocean beach and throughout the park. organization beach is a dangerous beach. i don't know if i would call it an attractive nuisance. it is a beelf beach but dangerous. the secret to success is keep people out of the water. there are additional fatalities but not of the type that fits in the category of those young boys from vallejo and one instance it was a surf a tragic loss and any loss of life is tragic, this was a surf who suffered a head trauma. the other death and there were twoe others supervisor had to do with cliff falls and one was a potential sued suicide. the protection of ocean beach and element of protection we are focusing on has to do with informing the casual visitor not the well experienced surfer do the dangers of the water at ocean beach. as we met last session of the committee, that very day we had finished aploy to numerouss to the sea wall on the east and west facing side to help in emergency response and was pointed out as a common sense low hanging solution and was implemented. we also since then and will invite chad marron up to explain what our beach patrol is doing and all loss of life is tragage and not acceptable, but we have binl very successful since our last meeting in reaching and preventing the drownings from the casual visitors such as we had the boys from vallejo. i'll invide chad marron deputy rageer. we do have randy [inaudible] quhoo is chief raisker and a very experienced person arounds water safety as well. >> good afternoon. i'm prepared to speak to the efforts that the ocean beach public safety personnel have undergone since the last hearing. that team down there has spent over 47 rr houroffs beach patrol. during that period of time, they made-this is as of october 1, 10, 205 safety prevention contacts. safety prevention contact can be anything from a message and opportunity to educate a visitor about a rip current if they are in front of one and it can go as far as speaking to a family with small person at the waters edge and educate them about sneaker waves and being within arms reach of your children if you choose to walk at the surf zone at all times. they working group effected 32 rescues in the same time. an aquatic rescue is a intervention by beach patrol members out in the water for someone who is in a life threatening situation. without invention there is high likelihood of death or trauma. additional 12 acrotic assists and an aquatic assist is entering the water and helping out oof a dangerous situation such ozrip current or large waves back to shore. it is kind of a not necessarily a life saved but it is certainly aids in the prevention of tragedy. so, 16 out of those 44 rescues or assists were undergone by assistance of the rescue water craft that is stationed at ocean beach and that is a jet ski. besides the intercension in the water the beach patrol provided emergency medical care 18 times to minor medical incident and this someone not requires immediate transport via ambulance to definitive care, can be a . on 17 additional occasions they gairfb emergency medical serves transported by ambulance to care. on top of providing the ocean res koos component and emergency medical component, they conducted 18 search and rescue mission and they varied from land base effort, water base or high angle cliff based missions. in addition to all of that work, they proactively conducted 10 major beach clean up operations the summer and each major beach clean up removes either a significant safety hazard from the beach or a overall large amount of ref use from the beef. movaling to the partnership side of things, the ocean beach safety personnel were called 18 different times by our other departmentsal for help and assistance. that could be utilization of the jet ski in a search or assistance with technical rescue, high angle cliff rescue. after our last hearing, i went down to the ocean beach fire station on geary boulevard and forgive if i don't know the exact number the station, but met with [inaudible] and from that day to current there has been an increase in the communication that the ocean beef public safety personnel from the national parks service have with that san francisco fire department detachment on geary boulevard and great example thofz interoperability if there are dangerous surf conditions out there today the supervisor will meet from the fire department and brief the condition mpts if they have a bump in personnel on the beach or vice versa or defeshancy of personnel they communicate back and forth on a daily basis. we were also successful in gaining san francisco fire department radios for each of the beach patrol vehicles and that is very key maintain agpositive and continuous communication and vice versa. the fire department personnel also have our radio system capabilities that they can deploy and contact our beach patrol units on the nps radio system. >> can i just ask a question? i know the fire department has 236 rescue swimmers but the national park service staff it looks for your 4 by 4 beach patrol you have two trucks and looks like about 6 staff or can you tell us how - >> the staffic model for 2016 we had two beach patrol supervisors entered duty march 20 and work through november-sorry, november 12 is when the supervisors go on furlough. we have 4 seasonal personnel entered mid-may and work through october. the gap between the end of october and middle of november gives the supervisors time to decommission equipment and prepare for the wintser. >> i participated in a climate forward summer around the country today and tomorrow but my understanding with climate change and gobel warming more heat quaves and different times that are unusual that pull people to ocean beach, have you deployed your small number of staff more strategically during the warm weather spells and using technology to know when they may come up from radar sources and weather prediction sources? >> yes, when there is favorable beach weather predicted we have staff on over time for the beach. i don't have that exact stat today but in addition to thsupervisors are very in tune with the wethser and surf condition and if they anticipate it is a high surf day or visitation day they take the extraeffort to stage the rwc on there beach in a strategic location so it is immediate ly deployable if necessary. that was a key in that 16 additional times that that implement was utilized for rescues in the summer. >> i definitely see increase in visibility over the 6 months of the various patrols and interaction with the public, so thank you for those stats. >> excellent. in addition to partnership with san francisco fire who is the cloughest partner in the corridor the beach patrol units are continuing training with u.s. coast guard and in addition to that in august the beach patrol were able to deliver a psa via kiqi which is a spanish radio station in the city and they were able to deliver a beach safety talk and beach safety awareness message via that raidsio station to the listeners. lots of positive partnership since our last hearing. >> i just like to ask about the signage, the process for improved signage. my understanding is the numbers on the beach wall have been repainted much bigger and more visible and then there is the street side numbers so that people can identify somebody in distress a lot more quickly by the numbers on the beach wall. i wonder if you can talk about signage and the process for maybe clearer cultural and multilingual signs that alert people to potential dangers. >> as you know we have signage in place in multiple languages and think 5 our 6 pointing in graph recollect terms people have drowned, it has a graific of someone pulled out in a rip current. we are not slur that the issue is changing out that signage, but we will look at renew of signage up and down the corridor for a lot of reasons. beach safety is always good to take revisititation. we will have dog management system and gives a opportunity to take a fresh look. i think the-as i said before i will say it many times, the secret is keeping people out of the water. boots on the ground is very effective way. we look at work wg our san francisco rec and park department colleagues and national park service staff to enlist a codry of people who are public contactss on the e bump bump beautiful days on the beach unaware of the danger. the idea is keeping people out thf water; . >> the on maintenance effort i spoke with facility manager and there is a fall sea wall number refresh program we hope to complete before theened the year and if that is successful then the facility manager see biannual refesh the numbers prior to nice visitation and whether in the spring and again in the shoulder season in the fall. >> i just we have tomove on but want to say one of the long time district one residents john grimes who developed the coastal plan for urban planner recommended increasing beach patrol staffing. i strongly support that and also installing multilijual signs in the sand confronting beach goers at the bottom of the stair ways. i think the urging for signs that are really understandable and unavoidable in many ways to me are critical but know you have to go through your national process. i did attend a signs workshops with a number of people but my hope is stay involved as a resident of the richmond and encourage many chaijs changing and thank you for presenting. >> i want to thank you for bringing highlights to this. every death hits me personally and my staff. i also look at the fatalities that happen in the general public. i also have to weigh the injuries and potential fatalities of my work fop force. this helps me in this-this is a the smallest percentage of my work group, yet the highest injured. i want to highlight and meet on the level is the number-you spoke that san francisco has 200 and something rescue swimmers, and we do have small staff but want to bring focus to the small staff, they only job is do education and when it go wrong the rescue. i want to highlight that is their sole purpose to provide that education on the beach. our partners not taking anything away from them but that is collateral duty. this is meat and potatoes of what the rescuers do. i made a proposal to my supervisors to increase staffing whether it will be obligate dollars or working for other sources of funds to beef up our life guard program because it is scary the fatality numbers happening throughout the park and think this component if we are suck suckful can reduce the numbers. and >> thank you so much. congratulations on your retirement and many years of national park service leadership to howard levit. quickly we have department of emergency management and a presentation from the fire department, so i call up kristin hogan government afairs manager and carol buckington and suseal for being here i believe as well. >> good afternoon. 911 dispatch with department of emergency manage. our role in public safety is answer 911 and provide the emergency communication of emergency responders that respond to emergencies. as with any emergency situation it is the location that is the most important think that we actually try to get at the very first call. that is quhie why i'm thankful to park service that the signage on the sea walls are completed because all of that is incorporated in the cad system. our cad system allows us to enter everything into the computer so when a call taker takes the call and enters the information and sends up the call it was drop to the dispatch and they will have all the information right there. it is very quick process really. it takes about a minute or less than a minute for a emergency to go from a call taker to the dispatch position. with that the dispatch level we have created what we call, super codes. it means we have this code that provides us to dispatch multiple agencies at the same time. that cuts down on amtry of the call itself to dispatch the emergency response right away. two of those codes are bay pd which is pd as well as fire department and then we also have what we call the surf. that is when there is response on the ocean and that allows us to let pd also know there is response going on in case they are anywhere in the area. we also notify coast guard and they are very much part of the calling notification and then park police, they are notified right away. in fact, the two surf rescues or calls that came up as surf in the last 6 months tfs the beach patrol that made contact with the individuals that needed emergency response. we are trying to get more-we have a paging system that allows us to page law enforcement or fire response or any response that needs to gee out right away and cordflation with them we set up the paging systemt that allows them to know in real-time when there is a response out sthr so i will make contact with pd as well as cost guard and national park service and park fleece to see if there is interest doing that. thank you. >> thank you. good to know when the public calls in a emergency that it go tooz multiple agencies and it sounds like it is instantaneous. thank you and thank you to kristin hogan and department of emergency management. last presentation is olivia scanlen communication and government liozon from fire department and jonathan baxter from community affairs. thank you for being so responsive. >> thank you supervisor mar and supervisors for holding the hearing. the san francisco fire department is very committed to building awareness in the community and other agencies as relating to ocean beach being a non swimming beach. with that we have fire fighter and paramedic jonathan baxter quhoo has been the pio since beginning of january has done an amazing job thinking outside the box and trying to make the community and other agencies aware of what we need to do to avoid another tragedy happening at ocean beach. the fire department is committed to all the superizhave supervisors and supervisor mar committed to working with the next supervisor and walking through the process to whatever way we can help. mr. baxter will let you know what we are doing to raise aware synchronize. and, jonathan baxter the publicners r information office for san francisco fire department. i will stick to bullet point. what have we done since the beginning of this 6 months ago. if you have any questions please ask me during the bullet pointss to address them. there is no open shore line in the city and county of san francisco that promotes swimming. we do not promote swimming our beaches are dairns and promote individuals who want to swim at the ocean go to stenseen beach which is the closest beach to the county with a swimmer-air quu with life guards. our rescue swimmers for san francisco we are around 250 now. we had a surf rescue class. those rescue swimmers are not onch duty every day. the 250. we have rescue swimmers on duty always staffing our coastal units and those numbers range between 10 to 30 rescue swimmers on duty for our response. i wanted to make that clear that we don't have 2 50 every day but the rescue swimming stations fully staffed and make sure they are staffed with rescue swimmer on a daily basis. the san francisco fire department two coastal rekoos units responded to 83 calls for services on the coast line. 28 of which have been surf rescues. the other from cliff rescue to medical aid to service calls. in regards to what we have done since the last meeting, first of all, as you look behind me we have national park and coast guard. we have done an amazing job collaboratively making sure the coast line and citizen jz visitors safe. between the san francisco fire department and narlsh park service we know have integrative communication to enhance our ability to communicate with each other during active ins dwnts dns. we have a working relationship between the pio between san francisco fire department and national park and coast guardment guard and also have integrated communication with united states coast guard allowingtuse s to communicate. we have a working relationship with the pio's, public information officer for each of the these agencies. why is that important? public service announcement put out collectively. we put a number of announcements ths weir, 3 areclubative effort in front of cameras before the media. we have oorkt public service media event october 27 between the national park and fire department. we are moving forward. on hot days which you mentioned, what do we do as a the fire department and collectively with the agencies? for the fire department we put on the social media sites and encourage anybody who is watching this today including our board of sfr supervisors to follow your fire deparlt apartment twitter at sfpdeio on ocean beach ocean safety measures specifically among other public safety announcements we put out. additionally, with that service we let people know if it is hot out you need to be aware our water is cold and aware of all the daerjs our beaches have. we reach out to members the media and this is something that we can't control. we can reach out to the media and ask the media to put out a public safety announcement and dependent on the schedule they put it out or not but we make the effort to make the call squz ask them to do that. we received a very good showing and support from our local media partners on camera and on radio doing these efforts so far. we reached out oen spanish radio and done announcement from had japanese media firm this summer interested in the effort. our efforts on social media have been looked at by the community as [inaudible] so much that this month forbes magazine highlighted our erftsd as positive specifically to ocean safety public safety measures and announcements. we hope to even improve that and move forward. currently, we are looking forward to work wg our partners at the national paurk service and united states coast guard moving forward on a snb of ideas we have come to inhansh visibility between our crews on hot days and high surf days as well as training efforts together as well as our rescue efforts and think that we made amazing and rapid improvements in the last 6 months and hopeful and sure we will continue that effort moving forward. let me close with reminding everybody again that we do not have life guards in the city and county of san francisco. national park u.s. coast gourd, our beaches are dairjss, it is well documented how dangerous our rip currents are strong and speak sneak aways strong. the common person coming to the beach doesn't know that so how do we dpet those common people to understand it is dangerous if we are not there? we made an effort and have crews go out as well as national park to talk to local surfs and resident who walk dog squz kids and take the eebening walks and asked them if you see something say something. if uthink it is somebody in distress give us a call and we'll make a determination if the person require as rescue or not. to date we had 5 calls where the individual specifically stated that they were not sure that they heard from the fire department that if they were not sure to give us a call so that is 5 that we know of were relate today our outreach. four of those were rescues, one was a person that was swimming, we'll take those steps. we pulled 4 people out who wouldn't have had a phone call if it wasn't for alert people. thank you to the local surfers and residents and thank you for having me here. >> thank you to jonathan baxer and olivia scanlen. i went to twitter sffdpio and responsiveness responding to peoples tweets immediately is pretty clear and very useful but thank you and the integrateed communication with the other agencies i appreciate that. i know we had discussed also the geo fencing and other technology improvalments to get the word out and how thar the air alert to amber alert are done but guess that will be future discussion how to use technology to get the word out but thank you for being resourceful and helping educate people . any questions colleagues? thank you so much for being here. the last agency i want to acknowledge is commander matthew thompson and other leaders from the u.s. coast guard are here. commander thompson did you want to address issues we talked about? >> yes, supervisor thank you and i want to just start out by saying public safety, pub lic security is our main focus in the coast guard. you heard about the close coordination with agencies. ocean beach remains a very dangerous place . water temperature between fiveg 0 to 60 degrees, rough wave and wind curntd. by the time the coast guard gets involved the situation could be bleak already. that said, we work close lee lae with our partners and aggressively to get our search and rescue tiply boats and hel captors out and searching and have sophisticated computer modeling program tooz make sure we are cerning in the right place jz it is mentioned the joint training and communications improvements made. just lastly i like to applaud the efforts of all the agencies represented here today. with our overall goal prevention and preventing the situation where we have to do a extensive search in the water which at ocean beach doesn't usually have a positive result. >> thank you for being here. i see no questions. i want to acknowledge fair station 34 and 18 and men and women that staff them are wonderful to work with and wanted to give the shout to the fire fighters in the stations that respond so quickly and effectively i believe at ocean beach. lastly, the community aspect of safety at ocean beach, the surf rider foundation max [inaudible] and other leaders i believe couldn't be here today but that is a ongoing dialogue and encouragement that community agencies surfers and community organizations play a key role working with partners from federal to local government to make ocean beach safe. with can we open for public comment? anyone that would like to speak on this issue? thank you. then chair kim i like to ask if we can close public comment and have a motion to file this hearing, but they think everyone for being here. >> thank you supervisor mar and i know you are cosponsor supervisor tang. this is the second hearing on ocean beach safety monitoring so appreciate all the work making this happen. we have the motion and we can do that without objection. thank you supervisor mar and thank you for your patience. we have our final item, mr. clerk. thank you. we have two more items. >> can we call item number 3. >> iletm number 3,hering on family violence council report on family violence in san francisco for fy 13-14. >> thank you mr. clerk and want to thank the presenters for waiter. it is 5 o'clock. also a very important issue which is report on family violence. i know that the supervisor because orphthe time cannot be here today so i see her legislative staff member who will speak. what is suggested is we do the report and continue to the november so we have adequate time to give to also a very important issue and don't want to rush it because it is the evening and make sure you get the time you get as well so thank you so much. >> thank you supervisor kim and campos. this is a very important topic and here to welcome the family violence council and department of stating of women. we would like to present a quick summary the report. they have done such a great job and will cover 2014 and 15 and have a lot of data they like to ask to continue to december after they present the summary. i yield the floor to them but spl visor tangs office would like to thank all the organizations that are part of the great council and the work they do on the important issue. >> great. thank you so much and will continue this to december. thank you so much for being here and waiting because where i know you were here at least since 2:30. >> it is okay to present a quick summary? >> yeah. absolutely. >> if we could have the powerpoint up, please. good afternoon, [inaudible] the womens policy direct thorf department of stating of wem squn staff the family violence council which husband 3 chairs thatprint with me. katie allgroit broit beckterly upton and seana reaves from institute on aging. i also want to agnocwe representers from 4 city department said here earlier so just want to recognize captainuna bailee from special victims from police department, jill nielsen from adult protective service and [inaudible] maria from district attorneys office. if we have to pick-i also want to thank supervisor tang for araging the hearing. if we had to pick a slide to show we thought this summary would be a snap shot of the main tren. it shows the pyramid of response to child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse. the community crisis line from child abuse and domestic violence and note equivalent from elder abuse get 3 times calls as government hotline. child abuse hot line gets 3 times as many calls as cps. domestic community hot lines 3 times as many calls as 91 1 and see the numbers decrease at the very bottom you see the number of convictions for child abuse, domestic violence or elder abuse which are very very small fraction of the number of cases so it highlights the importance of our community service providers providing a network of service and also shows given how few of the cases are resolved we need to make sure all of the system that respond to child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse are robust because we know the criminal justice system isn't the appropriate vehicle or the vehicle that will be the response for many cases. i will let me trichairs give a few comments and haphy to take any questions. >> that you thank you so much. such a pleasure to be here this afternoon and really appreciate you being able to shine a light on the work. i want to thank my trichairs from elder abuse and domestic violence as well as the department on status of women. incredible champions and leaders in the work and dare say the city would not be able to focus on family violence without their leadership. three things i want to highlight about the report and one is, the importance of prevention. i think so murch about the hearing today and work and the support of folks in the community who are mentally ill and if we start early, we know that we can prevent those long term mental and physical health aspect and why i think the report is so important to bring a light. the other it is important to understand the interconnection between child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse. we are one if thot the only community in california that brought together fmly violence and looked at it hol istically. finally what the council does well is represent the private partnership in the city from prevention to response sw really focus on family needs and family issues. i know we look forward to presenting more in december on this but those are highlights as you read through the report and suggest you take away fwraum it. thank you again so much for your leader shp. >> thank thank you. >> thank you supervisors. we kis cussed the issues many times over many year jz it is honor to stand with cochairs and department on status of women to help family violence council forward and you will see what katie talked about and really speaking to what supervisor mar mentioned that the majority of families want to have their family violence issues especially before they become acute dealt with in the community. they want somebody that they trust that speaks their language and understanding their culture and as we worked together over so many years now, we are doing our best to do that. you'll hear more about all the statistics clearly the work starts in the community, but the most acute cases do end up in the criminal justice system mpt we have to make sure every system has robust response and you will hear all lot of very very hopeful statistics about prevention, intervention and community involvement so excited to come back in december. >> thank you mrs. upton. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisors. thanks for having us. i'm struck by the slides because we have no community line for elder abuse. that is striking and it is not unique. i can't think of a county in california that has similar to what the demu est violence advocates and child abuse have but looking at this and agreeing with what my trichairerize saying and saying we have a way it go on this. a few bright spots, we have seen increase in the number of investigations of elder financial abuse this year and that was in response to us pointing out that the numbers were quite low in 2014. three new inspectors were assigned saw all no, sir 200 percent increase in elder financial abruce. the trnd is the largest type of the abuse, the largest growing abuse for elders so that is a bright spot. looking at the community issue here and as i like to echo beverly and say elders too like to have issues resolved they are reticent for [inaudible] adult protective services . we have some non-profit that will do ancillary elder abuse work, maybe the suicide hot line or case management but don't have a place for elders to go in the community now. i look forward speaking in december and highlighting more of what is in the report and thank you so much. >> thank you mrs. reaves i'm startled there isn't a single county with a hot line for elder abuse but we should regardless. supervisor mar. >> no. >> supervisor campos? >> i just want to thank you for wrait{gland we are continuing this because as i was going the 116 or whatever page report we want to make sure we do it justice. i don't know where this fits in this but i have been impacted in the last few weeks going through the encampments and the hardest thing when you see a family with kids homeless and don't know where that fits in this report, but anyway, i look forward to hearing your presentation and thank you for again patience and this is really important so look forward to hearing that. >> thank you supervisor campos. again, it shows the breath of the work the city addresses from mental health crisis on the street to family violence. i was struck by seeing? of the data that actually street homicides and murders go up in neighborhoods where there are increase in family in-home violence so there is a total link inside and outside. there are so many reason tooz care about the issues and linkage between inside the home and outside the home and neighborhoods as well. will make sure in december there is a dedicated time and pull in the beginning of the agenda to make sure the report gets the full hear tg deserves so thank you for waiting patiently for 3 hours. at this time we open for public comment. seeing no public comment but sure there will be in december we close public comment on the item and take a motion to continue this to the december public safety meeting and do that without opjigz. thank you again. thank you again for all our ladies. mr. clerk, can we please call the final item? >> item 7 rfx resolution recognizeinizing the por tolla neighborhood as san francisco's garden district and supporting the implementation of the por toll a green plan. >> supervisor campos-this is the altogetherer author of the item. >> thank you very much madam chair and will be very quick. i'm excited to bridge bring the resolution which i introduced a while ago before the committee today to recognize the port ludistrict as the garden dirsricate in the city and county of san francisco. i want to thank the community in the porto law leaders and stakeholders working closely with my office to make this possible. thank you to the port lugarden tour, the [inaudible] neighborhood group, the neighborhood association, help mclaren park, port luurban greening committee, sfb cause, the green house projects, the port lubranch library and all the 62als in the neighbor that worked together on greening projects over the years. i also want to thank supervisor avalos who is cosponsoring the resolution and just to be scler, clear, the port luwas once a primary source of cut flower frz the city and county of san francisco and widely known as the san francisco garden. flow ers that were grown in open fields in the neighborhood and more strikingly and actually grown in many family owned commercial green houses spread throughout the neighborhood. some the green housing still remain in the neighborhood on 770 [inaudible] street. they are historic treasure frz the city and we in our office together with the port lustakeholders i mentioned are collaborating with the department of recreation and parks to insure our city can transform these treasures into to urban agriculture space enjoyed by the public at large. i want to thank hillary roanen who started working on this and as you can see in the resolution this community has been devoteed to maintaining the urban agriculture identity of the nairnd neighborhood. you heard at the board meeting when i introduce thd presentation from folks from the neighborhood so and you to recognize this neighborhood as the garden district by sending the resolution with positive recommendation to the full board and want to thank staff, [inaudible] and others who have been working on this. thank you. >> thank you supervisor campos. at this time we open up for public comment on this item. by the way, we had robust public comment at full board and excited this is before us today. >> i just wanted to echo what you were saying and also provide great deal of thanks for all the work that our supervisors office has been putting forth to formally recognizing the neighborhood and i'm sorry that everyone who came during introduction couldn't make it today, but there is a very strong support in really excited to move forward. >> thank you for being here today and thank you for waiting. it is on the record that many members of the community came to speak to full board so spoke to all 11 so we all understand the importance and also know the history of the neighborhood so that was fine for me. >> thank you. >> at this time we close public comment. supervisor campos. and, i like to make a motion to move forward with positive recommendsation and resident watching thank you for making this happen and this will go to board shortly and look forward to celebration and make sure we invite you supervisor. >> i would love to be there. thank you for bringing this forward. i second the motion and do that without opposition. mr. clerk any other items before us? >> that compollutes completes the agenda today. >> thank you mr. clerk, meeting is adjourned. [meetd [meeting adjourned]

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