Folks with Mental Health and substance issues not ref the kind of see treatment that will view them as patients instead of prisoners 850 brilliant needs to come down but we need to tear down the map of incarceration it represents clapping. nfl and joe Jackson Morgan is the third center the plan before us in its senate reiteration is the era that San Francisco is trying to leave behind we need to focus more resources on humane effective Mental Health and on a system it xaeshths the crime and recidivism im certainly not opted to a new facility next to 850 bryant but strongly opposed to this jail it is too big it is too expensive, and it is good focused on incarcerating people which we know disprovrpt means category people of color. clapping. im not going to support another stand alone jail to lock up africanamerican and latinos in the city. clapping. im not going to support continuing it lock up people with millennials and need treatment not imprisonment and not lock that up people that have subsidies problems i want to see a greater than investment for those who survive under the systemic i can repeat incarceration but be combined with other city needs at the site like the b. 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In the court but most of all a Greater Entertainment for Mental Illness my brother had a drug problem needs treatment not to be locked up. clapping. this is an un realistic 8 years the city spent 50 million on the juvenile detention facility that is consistently less than half full a bad Financial Investment but its low occupancy is how our support promissory notes programs have been lets learn skip the bat development and moderate with the support program i want to thank bryan with the Capital ImprovementPlan Committee and the naomi kelly and everyone on the city staff theyve put a lot of hours into working on this i also want to thank the advocates and my unstoppable guide and for pushing the city to do better i know that speak folks think we need a new jail on 8 percent 50 brilliant and fiscally eir are not only but we need to involve in Health Treatment and not a jail i support that. clapping. and as president of the board of supervisors im optimistic that we can reach a consensus we can invest without sacrificing the state funding there will be much discussion and dont want to preexempt it but offer any suggests thank superviso who was independently work on the approach ill describe and happy to join with her and another colleagues first, it becomes the new City Attorneys Office a Mental Health facility arrest a courthouse we should jump at the opportunity to buy the land 850 about come down we need a replacement facility and most everyone in San Francisco know paving well land is not getting cheaper is even in the unlikely event we dont use those parcels they will be a good investment and second introducing a receives urging the director of Public Housing to plan for the closure of couldnt jails three and four and current retroactives that better serve at risk individuals the working group will include mlk providers and the City Attorneys OfficePublic Defenders Office the Police Department, e and did you want and pretrial diversion and the Controllers Office and the dpw and the prisoner vacancies advocates and contemplates inmates that benefited from Substance Abuse my hope that the chair will report back to the board with a plan that offers effect and humane have felt in Public Health and maintain over eligibility for state funding to build overseeing facilities ill reiterate not a new jail i want to thank supervisor kim, supervisor wiener came back commissioner campos and supervisor farrell for cosponsors that resolution with me in order to accomplish the prospect pretty much and time to be global for the estate finding im asking my claelgz colleagues to join me in giving the verbal direction to begin to have the characterization collision of the 3 properties i move we roach item 38 to be amend to roach references to previously promoted jail and 200 million in certificate of participation just to be clear removing the money that comments us to the jail and money to potentially purchase the property that comes before the board of supervisors so id like to propose we change the stated use for the property because under the cotter legislative were specifically the property is used for the jail we need to use this property for any other use the board will have the opportunity to accept or regret the purchase again supervisor jane kim amendments 36 to issue the certificates of participation just for the cost of the property im introducing amendments to item 37 to appropriate overseeing for the cost of the property and pass those amendments around and colleagues ask for your support ill move we table item 39 the 11. 3 million for the intern funds for the constructions of jail just to be clear to everyone were rejecting the planned jail my final motion. clapping. would be to send item 36 and 37 as amended back to committee with 38 and table 40 the acceptance of state fund and item 41 and 42 to 9 did not find Public Health so well hear them in the conclude of the yuch i dont want to cramp the discussion but people have to know where we stand a majority of this board opposed spend 300 million over and over on a design to imbritain people of color this board want to see greater investment in Mental Health treatment for those especially those living on our streets i think we have an obligation to the taxpayers we represent not simply reject state funding by try to reflect our volumes keeping those states funds free up the Capital Improvement and help to provide for more Mental Health job train and all the things that keep people out of jail and in a real home we can create a safer and humane city colleagues he hope youll take my comments and my comments and my amendments take into consideration this is was a really, really challenging issue i know for many of us but i know that is clear that many of the members of the board and many folks in the city and county of San Francisco dont want to see us waste money on a new stand alone jury trial facility it is exactly what i will not do thank you. clapping. ladies and gentlemen, i just want to brought to your attention a few housekeeping rules i hate to be the bear of bad news we prohibit the showings of support by applause as a alternative an opportunity to use your fingers if you hear something you like or disagreeable instead of that a thumbs down a powerful visual message well receive and want to remind we have a no signs in the chamber as well next person is supervisor kim followed by commissioner campos and supervisor yee and supervisor farrell supervisor kim. Thank you supervisor cowen i just the want to say im proud to be standing with supervisor breed that is an incredible difficult issue and i cant say i know of very many jurisdictions that talk about turning down 8 million to rebuild a job that is a courageous step we dont want the easy answer not the easy solution it is easy to sweep those that have the at least off the streets their homeless and because theyre sick because they if graduate from high school or addicted to drugs jail is the easy answer this board want to say address that issue and make that a healthy hvkt and stronger system we have the only county in the state of california that has built a jail since 2000 this is of concern for two reasons one nationally and in the state of california elected officials democrats and republicans and daze are stopping the massive categorization 25 years later were learning those policies are incredible expensive and burdensome but not achieving other goals weed hope for and San Francisco a vietnam veteran with post traffic was charged with arson of fire for a Rome Exchange he spent three hundred days in jail before the jury found him not guilty of arson he got the xnl as a form of theefrp for his post Traumatic Stress his jail cost us four to five thousand a day and the Mental Health for a year would have cost on 20,000 plus and h at 56 a day a father of a 6 yearold reduced to plead guilty and jailed for 3 months 3we6789 he was and i quilted he lost custody of his daughter and car and cost 13 thousand in public funds we know that nearly threequarters of women in state prison suffer or suffer from drugs on the local advocacy world talk about how jails with a refugee because we have a progressive Sheriffs Department and aggressive District Attorney and Public Defenders Office, in fact, when i worked added lawyer of community for civil rights we talked about how it was finally in jail people can assess shelter and bed and 3 meals a day and health care and Rehab Services and access to the ged programs and more a form inmate told me he saw the prison swell people attempted to create a crime to get a temporary sentence to get regional refuge from the cold one person in 4 spent time in jail and Mental Health issues and so we have to ask users cant there is another way to assess those serves not in jail jails are expensive to build we end up pagan for new jails for decades the city will be building proechd to build a facility for through issuing koupgsz that costs the citizens of San Francisco over 3 homicide Million Dollars in construction alone San Francisco voters have not yielded approved the construction of jails Construction Costs are 10 percent of total cost of a jail over a lifetime according to the association we know that were extremity been talking about reducing jail beds but i think at the time the state granted application we didnt have in the alternatives nofrd to make a fair decision today i think there is so much we can do in San Francisco two factors that determine the jail population the number of people booked into jail and the length of their stay the average length between booking and release has fallen by 13 percent since. off the record. were implementing many of the practices that left to right itself and states across the country are finally calling for over the last 5 years our average jail population declined by 8 percent a faster rate in the previous years in 2014 has been the lowest since 1982 corresponding to the Controllers Office report 2014 was the lowest and based on the impact of proposition 47 the strategy use of the methods of incarceration like electronic monitoring and the continuing advances by the supervision practices the decrease in the number of beds is not a surety if San Francisco a filing 50 percent of the jail beds today why do we need another jail were leadership in San Francisco that is reducing our jail population by half yet our city is incurring the is only capital opposite instead of closing we need to close the jail at 850 bryant not safe for the inmates and not for the men and women that serve in our Sheriffs Department to be working there as well we definitely need to close that facility and actually, i think we can do that now and as we continue incur what a new criminal Justice System and reimagine our criminal Justice System there are important questions first who are we holding in our jails who percentage are heels and surviving u suffering from mlk and how many in jail they cant afford bail if we discover that thirtyers of our jail population are homeless lets build a different shelter like permanent Affordable Housing if we know that a percentage is impacted by mlk lets build a medical industry or center where it is possess appropriate to address what we see in the city in fact i get overwhelms we invest their taxpayers into mlk services there is an assumption they exist for the dangerous criminals this assumptions is supported by data and information about the population but this is what we know we know the negative impacts of yale human beings a short stay if jail can untie the lives of those who are did not on we know individuals that have been evicted because there were not available to make the impact income to pay rent of later their cases are dropped parents losses custody of their children and one case leading to a death of a common cold in chesterfield when the defendant was not affording the bail and his babies not if this how to take care of him the u. S. Leads the world in pretrial and an estimate half a Million People are in the jails on any given day cant make bail we there is still a lot more work to do we know that those calls of action are happening throughout the country i hope we are a model for how to make our communities safer i want to recognize supervisor breed for doing a tremendous amount of work and thank you to you and your staff and i have i didnt has been working on this issue over a year and the tremendous advocates percentage provides the issues ive that idle but most importantly recognize laura thrombins and others that provided a ton of policy support we really rethink what it means to build a better city here in San Francisco im proud of today. Thank you, supervisor kim. Commissioner campos. Thank you, madam chair i like to ask the members of the public to say a no to a new jail to stand if youre able . Thank you, thank you. I ask that was i think that the fact that most people in this room are standing tells us where San Francisco really is on this issue and i think that a clear message couldnt have been sent thank you very much you may sit if you like but i want to ask that because i want that i am going to stick with us as we move forward you you know time after time a number of us question whether or not a new jail is needed and staff to consider the option we held a meeting that supervisor kim chaired we asked about the alternatives and no alternatives that was seriously considered so from the request from the board to consider alternative of alternatives was not headed maybe the fact that most people in the room standing against the new jail about get through to our staff theyll consider going into a different direction and to the folks that are here he wanted to know there is a lot of procedural questions and maneuver that is happening the key question what were doing on item 40 40 specifically allows the sheriff it authorizes the Sheriffs Department to accept and expend 80 million for the purpose of rehabilitating and building a detention facility by tabling that item today along the lines of what supervisor president london breed and supervisor kim hsa have outlined were sending a clear message that any effort to build a new jail in San Francisco will not be moving forward out that this body and whether it hemispheres today or down in a month or year i dont see it board of supervisors in any way approving anything that allows with the expenditure of money to build would a new jail in the sfoivenlths is it is not what San Francisco wants that simple with that, i also want to leave us with this it is not enough that we do this today we need to not only rededicate ourselves thirty to this effort what roma and other have been fooiktd forgive coming up with alternatives but focus on sacramento parts of the problem is the misguided misappropriated priorities of santa monica the only thing that sacramento gives jurisdiction for San Francisco is for jails and by saying no, thank you governor jerry brown only thank you but, yes we need money for other things we need money for housing, we need money for education, we need money inform 40 for so many things our families in San Francisco are struggling to stay here and so not enough to shoot this down we need a to recommit ourselves to going to sacramento so the money is given to citys like San Francisco so address the niece of people of this city i hope that happens we know by voting to table not only am i voting to say no to a new jail but, yes to invest in the future of of our families thank you. clapping. thank you commissioner campos next will be supervisor yee. Thank you very much this has been a difficult discussion and i think was last week, we had the hearing that was shedding a lot of light and on any thinking and its been difficult discussion because it is like how do we turn a negative discussion into a positive how do we sit down and figure out what we really can do for people that are in situations where they might be incarcerated i think i want to say i appreciate supervisor breed and supervisor kim and everyone that is working on this to look at it how to have a positive discussion and the amendments that youve asks for and to start that dialogue with the working group is really the way to look at this as a positive discussion i think we should have this im glad you brought this up and to get us in that direction and by having this working group and investigating some time to have a di