President cohen Sergeant Youngblood is staffing this meeting today. I want to recognize my vice chair, miss cindy elias, and we have a full complement of commissioners here today. Sergeant youngblood, could you please call the roll. Clerk yes, president. [roll call] clerk and president cohen, you have a quorum. Also here with us tonight is chief William Scott of the San Francisco Police Department and the director. President cohen all right. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president cohen all right. Sergeant youngblood, please call the next item. Clerk item one, general Public Comment. The public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d. P. A. Personnel. Under Police Commission rules of order during Public Com
Clerk all members are present. So, colleagues, we passed either orders resolution to acknowledge the peoples land that we sit on and the original people and at the beginning at the meeting, we the president would acknowledge or read it off. Because this is actually the first time weve done this on the board of supervisors. I would like to have all of you, if you want to, join me in making this acknowledgingment. If yoakment. Acknowledgment. If yh me, or maybe with me. Lets do it together as a group. And ill just at a count of three, we will begin with the San Francisco in the san torontn francisco board. 1, 2 no one is unmuting. Are you going to recite it with me. 1, 2, 3 the San Francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on inaudible fiscal homeland original aboriginal of the San Francisco peninsula and stewards of this land and the core groups. The pressure long nor class will provide their responsibilities and care takers of this place. As well as for the people that ro
What are the guardrails see a situation where a donor would fund something more specific than that, right, outreach to a Certain Community or voting and certain neighborhoods, right and one can easily see concerning situations and im just curious in terms of the scope of these grants. What are the guardrails and im just concerned, were seeing this after post election but im wondering in the review process and looking at what those conditions of these grant grant, how we ensure theyre not used in anyway from a large donor that might be trying to influence election results. Well, these sorts of grants are rare. This is the first time ive experienced this and we had a grant from outside of the Government Entity to Fund Anything election related. But then, the first test would be the department itself. Whatever we would do as far as receiving funds and expending them would be for the over all elections process. The retro activity on this, weve not spent these funds yet. Weve identified cos
And the items that are not on todays agenda but are within the board subject matter jurisdiction, all other items on the agenda today are not eligible for your public testimony as each have had a dually noticed public hearing fulfilled at committee. And i will urge you to go to sfbos. Org, thats the boards website where you can review the Committee Agendas and maybe determine if you would like to provide Public Comment on those items. And each of those items and those Board Committees are where the Public Comment on items must occur and before a matter is forded to the board of supervisors as a whole and that falls directly from the charter section 2. 105. And so its not to leave anyone out of these proceedings, least of all any individuals who might speak other languages and in a special participation with the office of civic engagement, we have interpret terse today who will be with us until 7 00 p. M. Assisting speakers with language interpretation and i would like to ask them to in
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