Transcripts For SFGTV Planning Commission 20240712

Item number 2 is approval of the minutes for the september 22nd Port Commission meeting. So moved. Clerk it looks like we may have lost the commissioner. Lets see if she can rejoin us. [no audio] commissioner, are you able to call in with audio . Commissioners, are you able to dial in using the phone number on the teams link . We have your video, just not your audio. Hi, i can barely hear you commissioner brandon. Oh, im sorry. Can we use indiscernible signal . Yes, if its visible. So people would need to indiscernible yes. Okay. So ill so, commissioner wuho is here. I got back into the own meeting, doreen. Right, right. Okay. Trying to give you hand signals. Great. Okay. Now we have a quorum. Can i have a second to approve the minutes . Second. All in favor . Oh, no roll call vote, please. Clerk sure. [roll call] thank you. Item number 3 is Public Comment on executive session. We will open up the phone lines to Public Comment. The members of the public joining us on the phone, jennifer will be our operator, and we will provide well provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. At this time well open up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comments on executive session. Please dial star, 3, if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star, 3, if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you, jennifer. Do we have anyone on the phone . President brandon, at this time there are no callers on the phone wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no callers on the phone, Public Comment is closed. Next item. Clerk number 4, executive session. Can i have a motion for executive session. So moved. A second . Second. Can we have a roll call vote. Clerk [roll call] the motion passes unanimously. We are now in closed we only have three commissioners today, so every commissioner counts. Am i on the screen . We cant see you, commissioner, it looks like you are on hold is what it says on my end. Im going so i have to go back to open session . Correct, yes. I can hear you guys. Can you second the motion to reconvene in open session. Second. Roll call. [roll call] we are now in open session. Commissioner, can i have a motion to not dispel what was in closed session. Second. Roll call vote, please. [ roll call vote ] item number 6 is the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Clerk item number 7 is announcements. A member of the public has three minutes on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter amount. The moderator willen instruct diein participants to use a touch tone phone to register their desire for Public Comment and ought yo prompts will signal to dial in participants when their audio input has beenen and dial in when the item you wish to comment on is announcement and please note if you are watching that meeting on sfgovptv theres a broadcasting delay. When the item is announce, dial 415 6550001 and enter access code 146 009 8501 and mute your volume and listen through the telephone which is live. When Public Comment you want to comment on is announced, dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment and then listen for the audio prompt to signal your turn to comment. Reminder for our meeting presenters and participants to mute your microphones and turn off your camera when you are not presenting. That brings us to item number 8 which is Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Thank you, carl. Well open the phone lines to take Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda for members the public for joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and provide instructions for anyone on the phone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mule until l their line is open. The queue is now open. Dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you, do we have anyone on the line . We have one caller on the line at the moment. Thank you. Opening the first line now. Caller hi, my name is alex and im a neighbor of the port i live in the india basin neighborhood. For the past 20 years, and im sure certainly longer, the rendering plant at the pier has been obnoxious nuisance for the neighborhood, especially during the summertime. Especially when the winds start growing off the bay. This past spring and summer the plant has been especially bad and having been stuck here at home, the problem is much more noticeable. I used to be i was on the southern Waterfront Advisory Committee many years ago when the rendering plant was being expanded and we were promised state of the art odor control, per a community hotline, and a better management from the port and all of that has gone by the wayside. Its really vital that the port get a hold of its and if the lessee cant correct their behavior they should shut it down. Thank you, we appreciate your call. Are there any other callers . At this time, there are no other callers on the phone wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no more callers on the phone, Public Comment is now closed. Next item, please. Item number 9a is the executive directors report. Good afternoon, president brandon, commissioners, members of the public. And port staff. Im elaine the executive director and first and foremost port staff will look into the prior callers comments about the rendering plant in the back lands. Thank you for calling in on Public Comment. My report will begin with an he equity update and the ports recovery in light of covid19 and new guidance from Health Experts as well as key project updates, hide street and harbor and i will have clarity along with michael par tin to offer reflexes on Waterfront Development in light of last weeks presentation on piers 30 and pier 32 and sea lot 330. The public is wellinformed on Waterfront Development generally and specifically the process for pier 30, 32 and seawall lot 330. We are in the final two weeks of our listening tour for phase 1 of the Racial Equity action plan. I want to acknowledge staff who have engage and offered ideas on ways the port can be a more equitable workplace. More diverse and inclusive. As on starringization. Our Racial Equity action plan is meant to be reflective of the ports collective voice and were working to do that. Im happy to announce the port has replaced Board Legislative Affairs manager as the ports rep ten to the lbe advisory subcommittee and they served on the lbe advisory subcommittee since 2016, he actually replaced me when i became port director and received an award for contribution from the Sub Commission on departure. Whether the current lbc program and related contracting processes have had the effect of reducing and reversing discrimination against black Indigenous People of color and womenowned businesses will be informing our efforts and advance equity. These finding will be important to the city and the port as we advance equity results across our systems and programs. The ertf released a report and policy recommendations at its final meeting following months of stakeholder convenings. It was task force carmen chiu, jojose, president of the chamber of commerce rodney fong and the Labor Council rudy gonzalez. Considerable collaboration and hard work went into this effort and i appreciated having a policy seat as Department Head on the effort along with other city Department Heads with missions that touched the economy. This process had thorough and i will press i have stakeholder and engagement and the port wishes to extend our appreciation to accesser 2 and all members of the ertf who took on this very important work. They have 41 policy recommendations that focus on longterm recovery and providing businesses more opportunities and flexibilities to operate and succeed in the short and midterm mayor breed has announced the first steps to support San Franciscos recovery including moving forward on a permanent shared streets Spaces Program and building on the success of the program that has been so helpful in the covid19 pandemic and and waving certain taxes and fees for businesses that remain closed. This is the begin to go get the city moving towards economic recovery and meeting the policies and goals of the task force. The port stands ready to support mayor breed in this important rebuilding effort that shes already gotten started and these first steps will have very positive impact on port tenants and equity. The port reopening. As we continue to settle into the new phase of living with covid19, the port submitted updates peer health and safety plans to our city and our plans and strategies were 80 back to reassumed duties and our Maintenance Division and the 20 are committed to delays Disaster Service workforce our main tin group through the end of 2020. I want to congratulate our employees who take care ex taking care of one another with real commitment to the Health Orders and guidelines. Into hide street harder and to continue to remove that petroleum. They have federal port for this incident under National Contingency plans to the epa from the coast guard to the epa and they are continuing to Work Together under an incident command structure and i want to command them for collaboration and activity on this effort and im going to cuts details of the operation for those in the public and our tenants and commissioners who are interested in those details and petroleum condition along work nine and at this time the area has expanded to 600 shoreline the current containment includes two 300foot long rings and and contaminate under the bridge to prevent sheen from flowing into the outer lagoon. Into the outer lagoon jay 10 area into the inner regime. The work is to rain inner and outer boom configuration. Its using pads and boom and recoverable petroleum is removed from the water once or twice a week wednesdays depending on accumulation rates and as needed each weekend. Its used to reduce africa in between weekday cleanings and today over 140 cal owns of oil and 300 personnel hours on hands on and craft and office space professionals to this regulatory support and approve of our plans and to help us in our approach of Site Management and or over all Response Strategy and. They are tzk and hats include and we have a fully executed lease disposition and Development Agreement and ldda for the projects. Current staff is working to finalize the construction plans as well as with the puc and public works to finalize on site and off site utility plans and to allowable time extensions not for the control of tzk. They have evoked one of our agreement time extensions and called force because of the profound impact that covid19 is having on the Hospitality Industry locally and across the country and its extreme as we all know and Hotel Occupancy is currently at record lows and Construction Financing may not be available in 18 to 24 months, however, there is a bright line here. Despite the economic downturn tzk is remained committed to this project and will continue to monitor the market and keep this project moving forward. Port staff will Keep Commission in informed and were hopeful the project receives. And finally, id like toned my directors report by turning it over so my martin and the Waterfront Development and with staff and we felt we could have done did more in communicating with the process and first and foremost, development always on our waterfront and always draws a great deal of attention so the process can be complex or confusing to some and we really do need to have a shared understanding of our approach to Development Projects and where we are in this moment in time with the development proposals. First, the Port Commission and the port is absolutely committed to open and Transparent Development and we cannot develop our property or meet Port Commission mission without such a process and now to piers 30, 32 and 330. We have several failed developments at this site so the port staff work with Community Partners to develop a set of Community Values to perform the request for proposals and the development of a open competitive process for the sites. We did this of course with the commissions review approval and direction. We articulated Community Values and were put into that request for proposals and it yielded several responses proposals for the Port Commission consideration. The process that we set up front put the evaluation and review of the project proposals, which includes the project approach, Team Strength and capacity and all into the hands of an impartial and experienced panel. The panel was advisory to the Port Commission. Port staff served as referees of a fair and competitive process. Upon the commissioner selection of a proposal for negotiations, port staff will begin then working with the winner of that process to refine, actually develop a project plan to perfect the selected project proposals. In these negotiations the project proposal will naturally evolve to incorporate solutions to concerns raised to the parties and the public. The project that is to be developed will change from the proposal that we all saw as part of the competition and again, these solutions will be crafted and will be consistent with our fee objectives and Community Values that we screen for and had a competition for in that rfp. We had a similar approach to our solicitation for Development Partners at pier 70 and this was approach and solicitation and and well close thank you for allowing lengthy directors report. Please take it away, mike. Michael martin, real estate and development. Can i have my first slide. I think director forbes very well summarized this first slide. The basically, the process that we filed for request for proposals on those two recent transactions at piers 38 and 40 being one and 332 and 330 being the other followed the recommendations update and we brought these recommendations back for februar specific guidar the past year as we geared up and issued those rfps and our plan is to continue to do so including to continue to follow these steps including with the item on todays agenda regarding to building 49 down at crane cove park. I wanted to walk through these when we wept on the prior rfps and were hopefully going to go. First, well come to you and we are coming to you today for a hearing to initiate the Rfp Development process. That is a hearing that we had for each of those prior rfps prior to issuing those rfps as well and its an opportunity to port staff to come thinking about why a project at this location of the coined that were proposing t would be beneficial to the port and beneficial to the city at large. They give feedback and staff will go off and start with step two which is an engagement relevant to that site its to develop some values and priors that with would bake into the rfp document that we establish this Community Dialogue that were saying to proposers, here is what weve established what we value from a project here and what you should prioritize in your project proposal. After that engage. , we come back to the Port Commission and provide more details on how an rfp would be structure including a scoring structure and a scoring Panel Process and the Port Commission would hopefully give feedback and direct staff to develop draft and release the rfp. So, after that process is over, staff develops and releases the rfp. That will go out into the world and we hopefully get a number of responses as we did for the most recent two rfps and port staff would convene the scoring panel called for through the dialogue with the Port Commission and described in great detail in the rfp document. And in this point in time where director forbes describes it, were the referee. Reshmi were not engaging and were walking through the process to make sure that these proposals are presented back to you and the Port Commission and along with the scores from the qualified members of the scoring committee that have been selected both from city staff and public stakeholders with expertise in relative areas to the rfp so after that scoring panel is complete we come back with our report on the scoring and you are able to ask questions including firms that show and they are requested to make a selection and move forward and to say we reject these selections and were going to go forward in a different direction. That action has been taken for two projects very recently. One being pier 38 and 40 so that is a Selection Process weve been through and we wanted to highlight they get a good project so first step is to adopt an annex conclusive negotiate agreement and it will set fourth a set of milestones and schedule for doing all the things that are needed to get to anna provable project. Thats a movement in time that were negotiating a document that will show a roadmap that looks like the slide with much more detail in terms of specifically how much time that project will take to do these steps and what these steps look like from a staff perspective. Port staff with work to continue negotiations and refine the financial transaction of the project as well as the project description so hearing some of the comments weve heard from the community, are there ways we can evolve the project to start addressing those comments at this early stage . Then theres a point in time where we go back for tort of an i am process approval of first of all the Port Commission approving the non gaining term sheet to look at the negotiations and the transaction and the financials to make sure this is something we still want to our our way towards and then also going to the board of supervisors for their approval under the citys fiscal feasibility ordinance which requires them to look at a project and say it is feasible and worthy of the typ time and resources it would be to do time and review. When it gets done, were into the meat of the transaction negotiations, which has, as you can see here, many different threads. The basic financial transaction negotiations of those documents. Theres environmental review, either on the state level with ceqa or the federal level. Theres regulatory review with our usual set of regulators at army score of engineers and the bay conservation and development commission, state Lands Commission and state Historic Preservation office and those are all things that will have started the conversation at that initial phase of term sheet and project description but will now continue on with those partners to understand what is needed for this project to be approve able and throughout t. Well have Additional Community engagement so that we can do more touch points and see there our proposed solutions and impacts and make sense and they all of which has a goal of bringing a set of approvals documents together and at the bo ready for approval at the Port Commission and the other relevant city agency thats would have approval and in the board of processes for this and refining and the project youve seen from this point forward and part of this is also to orient ourselves on todays agenda which you can ask questions where that is going in terms of the Rfp Development process. So, that is my summary. Hopefully building off of what the executive director describes. Im happy to answer any questions if you have them here otherwise im happy to hand them back to you to continue the meeting. Thank you, mike. I really appreciate the process. Well open the phone lines and take Public Comment on the executive directors report for members of the public who are joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for any anyone on the phone who would like on the executive report. Please style star 3 if you wish to make and others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limit today three minutes a person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Do we have anyone on the phone . Yes, president brandon, we have two callers on the line at the moment. Thank you. Please open the line for the first caller. Thank you. Opening the first line now. Caller hello, this is jay wallace. Hello commissioners. Tck broadway llc. I want to thank port staff for its excellent work, as always, on this project. Ricky and rebeca notwithstanding the difficulty they were facing. Theyve done a great job and moved the project along. I want to reiterate what the executive director said. We are fully committed to the project. We are doing what we should be doing. Financing possibilities are bleak at the moment as you know. That is not deterred us and were continuing to move forward owe. We expect that the markets may come back towards the end of next year and we rebound in the market if thats comes forward over the next few years and few months and hopefully not few years. We have one additional caller on the line. Please, open the line. Opening that line now. Caller commissioners, my name is francisco decosta. I was listening to you all very intently and when we have these Virtual Meetings it is pertinent the presentations shown on the green are clear to the presentation that is in blue, dark blue, couldnt be seen very clearly now its important that we, especially during this time of the pandemic, now i have to look at my tv screen to gather a very good idea of what is happening. So, one of the things i think that we can the public do not have a very clear idea is about the seawall. There was a lot of planning done and we can the public, need to get a very, very clear picture of the seawall. Now, the public should also had. There are no other callers on the line wishing to make public on the line. Commissioner gilman. Thank you for the mark and process and i had one question and s there will be others in the future. If we want to tweak or change the processes or staff would the opportunity be more globally to communicate that to you and staff or would that be on a casebycase basis. We talk about process case by case every time we put the rfps together we have long conversations some time about perfecting the process to get it just so because inclusion and equity fairness, transparency, fro dom from bias so important to the commission so we always talk deeply case by case. Theres nothing preventing us from having a policy based conversation about what we always do. If you wanted to schedule Something Like that we would be amenable to talk at a policy level or case by case basis as we do already. Thank you so much and thank you for the report. That concludes my questions. Its good directors report and its seawall lot 337 and essentially the process is you and mark martin does give the public a better selling there are continued avenues and openness to continue discussion and for the city of San Francisco in whatever we do end up how this rfp and ena eventually ends up. So i think we are do try to be transparent or why it was a key message today. About how we go about doing our business. So, i think thats another point that i just wanted to reiterate in terms of the takeaway that i took from the discussion and i think if theres any changes in the process i think that take those and and the last time it was a little bit maybe if there was more the information was they want to take it in stride and work on it and there are opportunities to go forward on that. I want to thank you for the update on teatro zonni and i appreciate that jay was on the phone giving us an update and i do hope that financing will be more favorable. I was a little concerned its a great project for the waterfront and city of San Francisco and for the whole arena of having more cultural and Arts Entertainment in the city and for the artists that they also have a place to perform and and i think it would be an important cultural addition. I just go back moved off of the property port and americas cup and he was very involved with that and a lot of times has passed and is we had an unexpected situation occur with the covid situation and it has put it back further. I hope that we dont see this derail for too long because i think its an important contribution to the ports, the waterfront and the city that this project gets done. Thank you. Thats all my comments. Thank you. Elaine, thank you so much. I really appreciate the update and the economic recovery and thank you for being a part of the task forced to bring us back after covid. Weve been really busy. I want to followup on the request with the seawall and the sediment and we do need to see what is going on more often so i think that we should have informational items, at least quarterly because its such a huge process and also if theres someway we can get a property of the slides or email him a copy of the slides that we show for the process so the rfp process which were great for providing clarity on where we are within that and you may have said this but you may have missed it but regarding how long is the extension and i understand were in covid and financing is hard but what does that really mean . Im going to ask mike martin to step in for me or someone from the Development Team because theyll have the details close at hand. Its rebeca and i can step in. So the lbda term is one year so we find it about a month ago and they can pay for attention alex tensions. The letter they sent is stating this one year term should not start yet because of the event and a pandemic and forced and so we need the respond to that ledder and state more clear about what is the time period the pandemic may be effecting continuing and were going to have the checking in on that and so its a little bit of a dance and a discussion about how long the event will occur and the typical term is one year to get procedure financing order anproo turnover the property until theyll ready to get going in terms of the construction. Were happy to keep providing updates and were monitoring sort of the broker reports on homes and looking at how many landings are coming no sfo so were monitoring this and happy to return as the how long this force event is likely to effect the market. So the one year will start when we come up with a date. It started in september. But theyve asked for us to delay it because of the forced measure event of the pandemic. So now we need to respond back to them in order to state, ok, well well extend it for i dont know what that answer is yet, three to six months and well check in again and see whether or not theres still an absolute freeze on financing. Ok. So i guess does that help . Yes it does. My request would be that what we make that decision and when we understand what the schedule or the amount moving forward that you give us an update. Surely. Great. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk that would be item 9b, the commissioners report. Commissioner report. Im looking to report this time. Thank you. So we can go to the next item. That would be item number 10 the content calender and theres one item, 10a, a 60 day extension of one memorandum of understanding with the San Francisco office of economic and Workforce Development for the use of pier 29 as a Central Location to accept deliveries of personal protective equipment and subsequent distribution to San Francisco non profits and two the deferral of rent for such use as it supports the covid19 crisis. This is resolution 2046. Thank you. Can i have a motion. So moved. Second. Lets open it up for Public Comment. We will open the phone lines to take Public Comment on the consent calender from members of the public for joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on the consent calender. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Do we have anyone on the phone. There are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no callers on the phone, Public Comment is closed. We have a motion and a second. Do we have a roll call vote. [ roll call vote ] next item please. Informational presentation on a competitive solicitation strategy of two historic structures, the nice building and in the pier 70 area generally along illinois between 18th and 19th streets. Good afternoon, commissioners, rebeca from real estate and development. I am here presenting on behalf of the team. Jamie hurley is actually the project manager for this rfp and was unable to be here today. I also want to acknowledge erika peterson, david beaupray, mike mark tin, dianne and. Its a discussion how to get investments into the two buildings that flank the beach at the park which is very fun to say. The mcneese building and building 49. I want to let you know about the plan tag is done around these buildings and then discuss an rf strategy and this is just informational and it feels apartment with the introduction and discussions that elaine and mike gave about rfps so i feel like im hitting the ground running with this presentation because you are all really thinking about this right now. Next slide, please. The two buildings that were discussing today from left to right, building 49 is on the left and it is a singlestorey building. You will see when i show the square footages and it looks so large and it has fewer on the right and it has both have been untentative and are in various conditions. It was important for me to show this aerial of the park to show how their inner face with the park is a huge asset to the building and how they can serve what weve already delivered with that major investment of that wonderful park. A little bit more detail. Building 49 is 8,000 square feet and they will include a public rest room to replacement current temporary restrooms that are on site. The building contracts is that were looking at now does not include a seismic upgrade. Theyre high occupancy uses with retail or cafes where you have members of the public coming in and out and they would really not be possible for people to go inside the building with that low occupancy. Other uses can go in though without that seismic upgrade. Its also listed on historic register until Historic Places so its already a listed rye source. Building 49 and they have not improvements for quite a long time and its been unoccupied for many years. Its deteriorating. As part of the pier 70 trust realignment and swap that occurred with the brookfield project, it was removed from the public trust as part of that trust exchange so the if it came into invest it would have to get it listed which we believe it could be listed which would then unlock tax credit for the building. Next slide, please. Just to talk a little bit about the big context of what sort of planning has gone on and what sorts of public expectations have started having for these buildings the major planning goes back to 2010 when we did the pier 740 master plan which eventually led to historic core, it resulted in those buildings being rehabilitated and rfp that resulted in brookfield taking over the waterfront site as our partner on that location and the next slide, built on to that process in 2013. Our planning and Environment Group developed a crane cove park plan. You can see here its very similar to what ultimately has been delivered on site which is very exciting. And the kneass building was not addressed with use it might serve. Building 49 was. Its in the center of the slide. We opened it would be used for water recreation and bicycle parking on site so were not sure if we need additional as well as a site and next slide. Please. There are eight goals that apply to the southern waterfront and weve pulled out throw in particular that we think really speaks to what might go i go ine buildings. Number two listed in the staff report has to do withens hancements water recreation and enhancement to the blue green way and doing something that enhances sort of the public experience and the various public locations they can visit and the southern waterfront and number throw was implementing pier 70 projects which includes the deliver row of parks and other public realm improvements that the public can enjoy and number eight was relating to Community Partnerships and Community Benefits for the southern waterfront and delivering more Community Benefits. Next slide, please. They set out the acceptable uses for each of the facilities. You can see here that building 49 was anticipated to have water recreational boating, to relate to the parks and open space to have accessory and other sorts of short interim uses and maritime industry, retail, general office, Community Facilities as well as interim uses. Thats the whole framework of what we have to work with in terms of previous Planning Efforts and our current draft waterfront plans. A successful rfp will support our Strategic Plan. Were evolving the waterfront anand engaging working with our Community Members to speak to their needs and we need to have projects that are equitable and accessible and attractive to a very Diverse Group of people who live, work, use, or visit our recreational assets. We need money to bring up with they can be used up and creating stability in the sport of our financial side and maintaining the harbor funds and ourselves as an organization. Next slide, please. So, were proposing to do an rfp on these sites. In order to do water recreation retail and food and beverage we need an rfp in order to do the competitive process required for retail leasing. Were proposing that we use the process thats in the waterfront plan. You may recall the general process is informational at at Port Commission to discuss the particular big values for this area and what are Community Values and minimum qualifications and what not that we want to see if an rfp and we go out to the community that those with them and come back to the Port Commission. So were proposing to use that same process which ill note in a subsequent slide in a little bit more detail. We do a process respond propose to one or both buildings and so both of the buildings and this is the just primarily theyre close to one another and we can do a and we think theres an opportunity that we may be able to get one tenant for both buildings and were very opening to having different tenants in the building and one is in a Poor Condition and it would require a lot of capital to bring it up to the useable condition. The other would needles capital potentially. Theres an opportunity to meet potential tenants in both of those categories. In terms of the minimum goals, what we are stating and were going to add on to that as we go through the process with you and the community, we think at the very least we need at least one food and beverage location. It could be very casual and want to serve the needs of park goers for sure. We also need to have one personal watercraft rental storage and sales facility and some sort of ann an aquatic cen. We want to see a Community Development or communityserving youth. A tenant that will provide a lot of co benefits for being on the park. Eyes on the park and bringing members of the community and into the facility and community the elsewhere and we this is the minimum goals of from the community and what other goals there should be. And the co benefits economic benefits so the desired economic and theyre seeking through this rfp process is First Investment in these buildings and the preliminary cost estimates of how much it would cost to rehab both of these buildings is 10 to 15 million and depending on the uses. Theres quite a range because theres the opportunity to add a seismic retro fit to building 49 which is on this slide and if one did that that would cost more money but would result in more occupancy in the building which you could dense fie uses inside of the building. To give you a little bit of perspective thats 500 to 700 per building square foot and its expensive and kneass is more of building 49 in terms of per square foot cost. The second key benefit wed like is a tenant who will be responsible for maintaining watch over the Public Restrooms in building 49 delivered by our engineering group. This is a really port arent maintenance responsibility that we think having tenant on site to do this would be a real benefit for us and would really help in operations of the park and the third goal is through participation at revenues or upside revenues, rental payments to the harbor fund. To pay for the use of those sites. So i talked earlier about what the draft waterfront plan anticipates in terms of an rfp process and what we did for the pier 48, 40 and 33 and 330. They were to come to the Port Commission with the beginning outlines of the rfp. We then went to the southern Advisory Committee and at that time the swag in order to directly ask those groups to advise on the Community Values and diversity equity and inclusion goals for the rfps, we want an additional step for these two buildings because they are situated in this very public location. This great new park weve just delivered and its getting a lot of use. So were also proposing to outreach to youth oriented groups, elder groups, other at risk populations and communityserving organizations who may wish to occupy the kneass building to enhance our understooding of what we can deliver through this rfp that would be welcome and valued by the community. Next slide, please. So thats the end of the presentation. Our anticipated schedule, if you all direct, is to take this sort of a presentation, focus on the subarea goals and trying to get input on Community Values for the two buildings. Two are southern Advisory Committee and we identify other groups so we can interface with virtually to also introduce them to the site and get their input in terms of Community Values. Were really excited to work on these buildings. Theyre small in comparison to the other rfps weve done but we think they can deliver that sort of other parts of the crane cove experience that people are now getting to enjoy as a park is open. Having those buildings provide more services we think will enhance the crane cove experience. I welcome your thoughts and questions and inputs. Thank you, rebeca. We will now open it to Public Comment. Jennica will be our operator and provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide Public Comment. Thank you, president brandon. We will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on item 11a. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comments. Thank you, jennica. Do we have anyone on the phone. At this time, there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no callers on the phone, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner gilman. Thank you, ra baek and everyone for the presentation and the thorough staff report. Im really eager to see this process moving forward. I had the pleasure about a week ago to tour the park with randy and david duepray and it was a sight to be seen. It was incredible. Im so impressed with this project and how much it has to over. The South East End of our waterfront inside highly recommended part of the process for bidders to get maybe a more diverse pool of applicants to activate these buildings in the neighborhood its that we offer a site tour with davids commentary about the history of the parks about how intentional we were on design from ship build to the history of the waterfront and also maybe include the promotional videos that i saw featuring supervisor walton on president brandon and mayor breed. I think those bring a richness to the experience that could be beneficial for anyone bidding on the project and to make sure we can have the usual suspect thats can activate these buildings so i wanted to offer those few thoughts and i look forward to you bringing back a more polished set, a recommendation after the Community Process for the rfp and im excited to get these buildings activated. Thank you. Thank you for the reports. I think it was well positioned and i think the sensitivities of the project have been outlined and i echo commissioner gilmans conversation. I will go next week and i was looking forward and would suggest that a tour of the building is much as you can see them from the outside be included and i think that it sounds like i should ask for david buepray was my tour guide. I look forward to seeing how it herbs witmeshes with the neighb. In addition to the aquatics and the retail, do we see any of the Building Space used for office at all . I know what you want to see, but what else could we see putting in these buildings and since one of the buildings doesnt have a lot of public trust restrictions, so if you could comment a little bit more on that. Definitely, thank you, commissioner. We anticipate there will likely need to be at least some ancillary office use. The kneass building that is already built out, just to make the project financially feasible we think we will need the kick of those revenues in order to get that building to cross the feasibility threshold. So we do anticipate that that one would have some office space but were definitely open to any financial receivable projects that needs that acceptable use table that i showed. I also want to mention in addition to retail and aquatics were looking for a communityserving entity to take over we anticipate parts of the kneass building or it could be a greater part of building 49 to kind of have members of the public come and use the building and then have that kind of spill over effect into using the park. I actually have not seen the interior of these building and i dont know what shape they are to be able to see them. It looked like they have high ceilings and so there could be some interesting uses if you think about it and given that were all sensitive about internal space and how much air and ventilation and open space areas give the environment that were living in today it could be some creativity applied to whoever looks at these buildings in terms of the uses of the buildings. In addition to what you are looking for. I dont know if im correct assuming they have high ceilings. Building 49 has high ceilings and the kneass building is twostoreys and i wouldnt say theyre particularly high. They can definitely have the ventilation through i guess terrier air flow. There is no restriction. They overlook the park, correct . Is there going to be any restrictions if they want to open up the walls to have bigger windows or open doors into the park space . Go ahead question. I was just thinking that when we talked about ventilation. Ill be sure to consult with mark and others to make sure this secretary standards are met on the buildings and how many openings they could create if there are no openings there now. I hope that in this case, that would be an amenity to whoever is in the building to have a view on the park and from the use that uche given off they have calls closed so if you want to know, you can open up some of the walls there and both for light, ventilation and as well as view. I think you should check that out before you set up the rfp so whoever sets it out, knows that information in advance if there are any restrictions if there is one is Historic Preservations and one is already listed and the other could be listed. Ok. So rebeca. Which called we have committed to doing designs that are consistent with secretary standards and the kneass building has roll up doors and are on east face of the building and either roll up or barn like doors that could be redesigned to engage with the park in a more active way. That would be a very attractive part of the building if they are able to leap right out into the park area its right when the spark in its final phase which is great and weve been working forward to a long time and hopefully whatever i can say is the building in the coming weeks. Great. This is the phenomenal job its just so beautiful he is so knowledgeable and informative about all the history at the park and it is just a beautiful park so thank you involved to the creation and then this solicitation is exciting. I think we have covered most of the points for i for inclusion. Im happy were going out on a listening tour to and i hope we put an emphasis on communityserving uses. Because its has to be anna traction for families to bring tears to Community Groups and for residents from dogpatch, bayview, the entire city and to make it a draw because its such a beautiful destination so, i hope whatever were looking for is really focusing on serving those Community Needs in the park. So thank you general i ca gener. Can you give us a brief presentation of your timeline . Thank you for the comment and the question. I agree going to the park is really making me so proud to work at the port. I bet a lot people felt like that. We wanted on the southern advisory agenda in november. Were working with mark to see whether or not we can catch them in november. And if were able to we would come back to you in november if its a little bit late we would have to go to the december meeting so the issuance so were opening we can issue this calender year is it regardless of whether or not we hit the november or december Commission Meeting and so we issue the rfp and it goes through couple months review period before we bring a selection to you all so well be clear on the next staff report what were proposing in terms of the Selection Process and very interested in speaking with you more if there are things we should write now with this rfp or different terms we should take at this point to make sure that process is really smooth. I was told there was a meeting on october 21st. With all the other groups that you are reaching out to, do you think you are going to be able to do that by december . We hope so. Were really focused on talking about the Community Values and were hoping we can have that targeted conversation and bring back along in terms of issuesance of the rfp and the site tour is a wonderful idea for introducing a respondents to the building. So it will be out for maybe two months typically we leave the rfps out for six, eight, 10 weeks. Ok. Im just hoping that we can get the most Community Input that we can prior to coming back to us with a solicitation propose a im hoping that the Advisory Committee we also meet with these other organizations and get as much input as possible so that when we do print out the rfp everyone is on the same team. Good point and good advice. Hopefully this will go out early to mid next year. We will take our time and make sure we do all that work. Ok. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk item 12a request approval of the operations agreement with dhl global forward granting dhh authority to operate its brisbane location drive site for a term of five years with one option to extend for four years and outlining conditions for the usage driven site this is resolution number 2047. Good afternoon, commissioners. Good afternoon, executive director forbes. Bran den from the maritime division. Here to request approval for a Foreign Trade zone operations agreement with dhl global forwarding. Next slide, please. I want to start with some background on the program. The relationship with the port of San Francisco as a grantee. Both pieces have interesting parts to it. So first the Foreign Trade zone program was established to the Foreign Trade zone act in 1934 as a tool to stimulate International Trade by providing incentives to u. S. Firms to keep jogs and economic activity, domestic here in the United States. A Foreign Trade zone or ftz, is a designated area that is considered to be outside of u. S. Commerce allowing for some benefits and cost savings around duties and tariffs for the private entities that get activation. Program is administered through the Foreign Trade zone board by grantees like the port of San Francisco. The ftz board and u. S. Customs are responsible for compliance and oversight of Foreign Trade zone operations which pa laws the grantees like the port to offer this public utility to all those that have been vet and approved by those two Government Agencies. Next slide, please. The port of San Francisco ha a long history of participation in the Foreign Trade zone program. The port was given grantee status as Foreign Trade zone number 3 in 1948 when it was the third essential tee to enter the program we only came after new york and new orleans. The Port Operations originated on port property within our very own historic finger pierce. Before it a apartment requestedd adapted to the changing times and it created when is known as the alternative site framework which allows for private companies to activate their own ftz sub zones on their own properties through the local grantee if theyre within the Grantee Service area. The port service area includes San Francisco and six additional bay area counties. The port currently has six ftz operators all of which are in one of the surrounding counties and thats one of the interesting pieces of the program is we have not six active Foreign Trade zones under the Foreign Trade zone number 3 but none of them are actually in San Francisco. Each operator pays the port an annual fee to cover the ports administrative costs. This fee is really meant to just cover administrative work done by the port as grantee and this public utility is accessible to all types of businesses. The port has no oversight responsibility on the actual Foreign Trade zone operations and is asked to treat it as a public utility. I would like to bring attention to the picture on this slide biff move forward. Which is an interesting glimpse of the past and present day. I have to give a photo credit to San Francisco pd marine unit who took this picture of pier 45 shed d from the water for me last week. For those who condition se canns a finger pier from the water and from the crop in large letters, its stated letters that state Foreign Trade zone number three and its an interesting piece of the history of Foreign Trade zone in San Francisco and if that with the live Foreign Trade zone and that was to participate in the Foreign Trade zone operations so nice piece of history on the water at one of our piers. Next slide, please. The applicant for Foreign Trade zone activate is dhl global 40. Which one of the words Largest Global companies with 380,000 employees across 220 countries. Interesting through this process, finding out that dhl founded in San Francisco in 1969. Dh will had a plied through the Foreign Trade zone number three grantee status to activate a brings bain warehouse location, brisbane, california, which is within our service area and they are very experienced Foreign Trade zone operator as an organization and they are 19 active Foreign Trade zone locations across the United States and it made the application process which started back in april very smooth from their end because theyre so experienced. And both the Foreign Trade zone board and u. S. Customs have approved for activation which is pending being approved by the Port Commission. Next slide, please. In closing the ports Foreign Trade zone is within the scope of the port Strategic Plan by sustained Economic Vitality in the region providing a public utility that supports local industry. Dhl brisbane location is within the port service area and they have received approval from the two bodies of oversight. Staff recommends approving the operation with the dhl allowing them to activate their facility as a Foreign Trade zone. Next slide. That concludes my presentation and im available for any questions. Commissioners, may i have a motion. So moved. Second. Now lets open it up for Public Comment. Well open up the phone to take Public Comment on item 12a from members of the public who are joining us on the phone. Jennica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment. Thank you president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on 12a. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limit today three minutes a person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. Do we have anyone on the phone there are no members of the public on the phone. Wishing to make Public Comment on this item. Thank you. Seeing no comments on the phone, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner wooho. We have discussed Foreign Trade zones in the past and im familiar with them and understand what it means for the port. I have no further questions, im supportive of the item. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner gilman. Thank you for the report. Im supportive of the item and have no questions. Thank you. Thank you so much for the report and thank you for all the history on the Foreign Trade zone and dhl. I learned something new. Can we please have our roll call vote . Certainly. President brandon. Yes. Commissioner gilman. Yes. Commissioner wooho. Motion passes unanimously resolution 2047 is adopted. Next item, please. That would be item 13 new business. I have reported that we will be providing quarterly reports on the seawall program. The resiliency program. Well provide updates to the tzk milestones and timeframe. Is there any other new business . Seeing no other new business, can i have a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Call roll call, please. President brandon. Yes. Commissioner gilman. Yes. And commissioner. Yes. The meeting is adjourned at 4 46 00 p. M. Thank you, everyone. Good night. I will ask everyone to place your hands on your heart to say the pledge of allegiance. Please unmute everyone. Okay. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please call roll. Clerk yes. Commissioner dejesus. Present. Commissioner hamasaki. Present. Commissioner elias. Here. Commissioner rickter . Present. And commissioner cohen is excused. Vice president taylor, you have a quorum. And we have director from the department of Police Accountability and the chief. Thank you. For members of the public, the number to call in to provide Public Comment is 4156650001. And access code 14664628. 26, i believe. And remind the members of the public to have any of your devices on mute and there is no background noise and same thing for the presenters and commissioners unless you are speaking. Try to reduce the background noise by having yourself muted. If you can please call the first line item, sergeant. Line item one, reports to the commission, discussion. 1a, chiefs report, weekly crime trends. Provide an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Major significant incidents and provide a summary of planned activities and events that will include a brief overview of unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities that the chief describes will be limited to determining whether the calendar if a future meeting. Presentation of the audit of electronic communication devices for bias Third Quarter 2020. Presentation of the earthquake safety and Emergency Response bond program 2020, police facilities. Good evening, chief. Thank you. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioner, executive director henderson. I will start off the report this week and i am going to start off this week with the most significant incident of the week was an officerinvolved shooting that happened saturday night just before midnight. And just going to stick to what we put out in terms of our information to the public and the media. And i will finish that by saying that we are planning a town hall this coming monday. It will be virtual as the last one was because of covid considerations, but it will be monday at 3 00 p. M. And are planning to release the video and the Body Worn Camera in that town hall as well. But the details unfortunately, the person involved in the incident lost his life. And on october 10 at approximately 11 26 p. M. , our officers responded to report of an attempted carjacking with a knife at Market Street and goal street. Officers located the suspect and pursued the suspect where they attempted to detain him. During the contact an officerinvolved shooting occurred which was captured and the officers Body Worn Camera. The suspect is identified as 21yearold caesar vargsa was struck by gun fire, and our officers immediately rendered aid and summoned medics to the scene. Mr. Vargas succumbed to the injuries and died at the scene officers located a knife. The incident is in the early stages of the investigation and is being investigated by the San Francisco District Attorneys Office who has the responsibility for the criminal investigation. Looking at whether the officer involved shooting was legal. The San Francisco Police Department internal Affairs Division and the department of Police Accountability all who were at the scene on saturday night. Additional information will be released as it becomes available and as i said, as our commitment to transparency and accountability, we have scheduled a town hall recording this incident that will be held this coming monday at 3 00 p. M. , and it will be virtual. So it will be on our website as well as on sfgov tv. Now i will go to our weekly crime trends. Starting with our overall crime trends for the week. For the week we are actually the part one crimes we are down in property crimes 17 . Year to date we are down in property crimes 24 . We are still having some significant challenges with residential burglary which are throughout the city, although we did a piece of encouraging news. We did make 11 arrest this is past month for residential particularry, so we hope that will make a difference in slowing this trend down. We continue to address the strategies by really honing in on some of the more chronic people that have been involved in burglaries. Really focussing on them, so that will continue. And control strategies in areas where we have seen spikes hopefully will make a difference as well. Were 42 up year to date which is im sorry, actually more than that. Hang on one second. I lost my place here. 44 up year to date, which is significant, so we will continue to work on that. Otherwise property crimes across the board are down other than burglary. We are continuing to address our strategies through key ways as we reopen our economy as you have seen in the news probably, many of the restaurants and shopping establishments are reopening. Were starting to have more people come back to the city which is good news. So we want to make sure that we dont have spike in car burglaries as people start to come back out and enjoy our city. So that will continue. On that note, we are 45 down compared to 2018 and 52 down in car burglaries compared to 2017. When you look at the comparison to the last year, 2019, we are 42 down in car burglaries. Our Violent Crime is up for the week by 18 unfortunately. Overall for the year our Violent Crime is down 21 . We are up in homicides as i explain to the public in the Commission Last week, and were still up in homicides, although we did not have any homicide this is week. We had two homicides in october, following a pretty bad month in september where we had five. Other 39 homicides year to date we have a 74 clearance rate and we are we made actually an arrest the other day on our last homicide, so that case is in progress and we will be presenting that to the District Attorneys Office. Looking at shootings, which is also up by 11 year to date, the breakdown is six of the 10 districts and the most significant increase in shooting year to date are bayview, 40 compared to 31. Engleside, 14 compared to 8, and tenderloin 18 compared to 8. And then mission 13 compared to 9. The northern district, central district, Southern District, and Richmond District are all down year to date, and the far district is up from zero shoot this time last year to one shooting. We are focussing our efforts on those districts that are the most violent, and hopefully we can turn this around heading into the last quarter of the year. The good news is we did not have a homicide over the past week. Other significant incidents this past week, as i said, no homicides, but we did have three shooting incident this is past week resulting in three victims being shot. On wednesday, october 7, at 10 36 officers found a victim who was bleeding from his leg and had an apparent gunshot wound. This happened in the parking lot of the safeway west on webster street in the northern district. The victim was transported to the hospital and is in stable condition. We are looking for information on that particular incident. If anyone had any information, please call our tip line 4155754444. Second incident on thursday, october 8, at 12 05 a. M. , the victim was walking home from a house party on the 200 block of texas and bayview in the petrero area. The victims girlfriend was inside her residence when she heard an argument outside followed by gunshot. She found the victim outside suffering from gunshot wounds to his lower body, and the victim was transported to the hospital where he understood went surgery. Where he underwent surgery. Just now before this meeting started i was just informed that today a couple of minutes ago made an arrest on that case and also recovered a gun, but that is an ongoing investigation. Actually, uncovered two guns and made two arrests. That is an ongoing investigation, but happy to report we did recover two guns and so we have arrested the suspects in that case. Third incident on friday, october 9, at 4 22 p. M. , the victim and an acquaintance were in the vehicle at the 1100 block in the Bayview District when an s. U. V. With four subjects pulled alongside them. One of the subjects asked the victims where he was from, which is the sign that this was gang related. And the victim feared for his life and tried to drive away but suffered gunshot wound and then he crashed his vehicle as he tried to flee. The victim did not suffer any life threatening injuries in this case, and again, we are looking for the publics help in solving this particular shooting. On 10 13, october 13 at 9 30 p. M. , this is the fourth incident in which a victim was actually shot so three of the incidents we had victims hit. The last one that i mentioned the victim was not shot, but he crashed his vehicle and was not injured from the actual shooting. The fourth incident which was last night at 9 30 p. M. , the victim was in the area of ghost street in Southern District and was actually at a candle light vigil memorializing the person who lost his life in the officerinvolved shooting. The victim felt a Burning Sensation and realized she had been shot. She was transported to the hospital and is in stable condition. That one is under investigation. We are also looking for witnesses in that. There was this was not a whole lot of evidence to go from. And the last shooting incident with the shots fired incident in allison jones, where a victim was this was today at 12 27 a. M. The victim was located and was transported in critical condition. The suspect was actually located and barricaded himself in an apartment and was later arrested in that particular case. So again, gun violence is a significant issue in our city that we will continue to focus on and continue to work with all of our parameter partners along with community and hopefully turn this around in the last quarter of this year. And that concludes this portion of my report. If there are any questions. Thank you, chief. I dont see any questions from the commissioners. I have a brief question. You mentioned the town hall for the ois is on monday at 3 00 p. M. Will you be playing the Body Worn Camera footage at that town hall . Yes. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioner elias if you have a question, put your name in the chat. Chief, will information to log onto the town hall, how will that be disseminated to the public and can we also put that information on our website so people will have access to that information so they can join in on the town hall . Yes, commissioner elias, they will. And if the public is also on sfgov tv and they are, like the last virtual, helping us put this on. It will be on sfgov tv and we will put it on the website as well as give that information to sergeant youngblood. And with the opening question. Chief, call the next item. Now we have a presentation of the Third Quarter Electronic Devices presented by commander Robert Osullivan. Thank you, chief. Sergeant youngblood k you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioner, chief scott, and director henderson. I am commander Robert Osullivan and i am here tonight to present the Third Quarter audit for the electronic communication devices for bias. I will start this evening as i always do with this presentation to provide some background for the commission as well as the viewing public. All members are aware the departments electronic communication devices and systems are audited and the members do not have an expectation of privacy. The following documents explain the departments policies concerning the use of communication devices and systems. Number one, department general order 10. 08, which is titled use of computers and peripheral equipment. Department bulletin 19051 titled sfpd members expectation of privacy, use of computers, peripheral equipment, and facilities. And finally, third, internal Affairs Bureau order 1802. It is important to know the auditor limited to devices that the department owns and not any member personal devices. The audits, however, do capture electronic messages that are transmitted from personal devices to department devices. Three systems are audited, and they are as follows. Number one, level two, which is California Law enforcement Telecommunications System and i will refer to that as clets. And email and Text Messages and all sworn Department Members are issued a department issued phone. A department owned phone. I will explain how each one of these audits and the systems are audited in the results of the Third Quarter 2020 audit. First, level two. The program was established which searches all entries made into the system using an established word list. And that word list has procter gamblesly 65 word on it and is passive in nature and runs continuously. If the member uses one of the identified words, the hit is generated and sent to personnel via the level two access portal. Each hit is printed, scanned, and saved to a file. Staff analyzes every hit throughout the week and those determined to be potentially biassed are investigated. The level two audit process has been fully operational since december of 2016, so coming coming up on four years now. Third Quarter Results from july 1 through september 30, there were 52 hits returned from the program, and after review by iad members, none of the 52 hits were determined to be potential any bias. Our second system, the Department Email. All emails sent and received through the departments server are audited using an established word list. It is passive in nature. If an email contains one of the identified words on the list, a hit is generated and sent to ied personnel via email address used exclusively for this audit process. Those emails are saved and maintained on the server. Staff, like with the clets hits analyzes every hit and those determine to be potentially biassed are investigated. From july 1 through september 30, there were 259 hits returned from the program. After review by ied members, none of the 259 hits was determined to be potentially bias oriented. Our third and final system, cellular phones. Audits of Text Messages sent and received via each department issued phone was conducted by, again, the internal Affairs Division. And investigators are trained to conduct active audits using a program developed by cellular provider at t in conjunction with the sfpd Information Technology division. Every 30 days a search is done of all text using the established word list. Additional terms can be searched as well. Staff analyzes every hit to determine then cotext in which the term was used. Those hits determine to be potentially biassed are investigate and all false positive hits are saved by at t. From july 1 through september 30, there were 511 hits returned from the program and after review by ied members, two of the 51 hits were determined to be potentially bias oriented. Administrative investigations have been initiated into both of those potentially bias circumstances. That concludes my presentation. And i am open for your questions or comments. Thank you. What, if anything, can you tell us about those two potentially biassed hits, and when will the substance and the conclusion of the investigations come before the commission . So i cant tell you what those words are. That is not for public disclosure. Obviously i cant do that in this forum. What i can tell you is that the administrative investigation will certainly be done within the statute of one year per 3304 of the government code. And in all likelihood these investigations, although i am not been given feedback to depth of them just yet. That will take a while because it is in the preliminary stages but if the investigations follow others that we have done, it will be a matter of a handful of months before we come to an investigative conclusion. In the event that there is a finding of a sustained violation of department policy, that will go through the Risk Management office up to and including the chief of police and based on the chiefs decision as to what the appropriate discipline should be, it would then be decided as to whether or not that particular case would be forwarded to the commission for your review. President im sorry . Im sorry, commissioner, i was going to add i know you know but for the public and if the recommended discipline exceeds 10 days, that particular case is then forwarded to your office. If its 10 days or less, that is discipline stays in the chief level. President i think you mentioned that the time period is july 1 through september 30. So then were october 14 right now. Am i right that the investigation would have been two weeks in whatever investigations have been pending . Trying to get a sense of how long it will take. The first hit occurred in the month of july. And the second hit occurred in august and the investigations have been open and pending since the hit . A they have been pending they have been initiated. But pending in the sense they havent been concluded, yes. Correct. Okay. In order, maybe i can answer or provide this feedback is that we dont wait until the conclusion of the quarter to start the investigation. Good. All right. The audit itself is done on a regular basis. President okay. Any questions . I dont see any questions from commissioners. All right. Next item. Thank you, commissioner. Next i will turn to deputy chief yee to introduce the other presenters. And this and this report is on project management and some of the facilities that we are in the process of upgrading and the status of those projects. So deputy chief yee . Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioner, chief scott, and the executive director henderson. Tonight mr. Charleser degeurse will present the emergency general Bond Obligation opportunities which will allow the city to structurally upgrade some and i will turn it over to mr. Harris. Thank you and good afternoon. My name is charles and i am the public works acting director for project management. In this role i am responsible for insuring the successful delivery of bond programs and the Capital Projects that result and to present the response 20 bond program. As you know the citys capital plan identifies the Funding Sources for the improvement of the city, facilities and infrastructure. In the case of the sefk and this source has been voter approved other than by again Obligation Bonds and look forward to a similar in 2027. Ache and we are impressive to bump the level of voter support and to which we have been enabled to improve First Responder facilities and infrastructure. The first bonds produced other 800 million in funding for projects. With regard to police, this funded the new Police Headquarters and and with the focused improvement at various stations. And the new traffic and the project currently under instruction and the et voer approved passage of the 2020 provides 121 million for police projects. How we arrived at which projects will be advanced with this and of the highest importance and to make sure that the dushrabilityf facilities is sufficient to protect those in the facilities and the public served. We have had a thoroughen and according to the citys own seismic hazard Rating System we find all by two facilities to be adequate for insuring life safety. And is satellite illustrates these two as indicated as shr4s or shr3s. It is important to know that the category provides for the occupants of the facilities to safely egress and not necessarily to allow to resume the normal operation. To achieve unambiguous immediate occupancy or shr1 would require substantial renovation or replacement of a facility. Currently the Public Safety building which is the Police Headquarter and just the only shr11 among all police facility. Next slide please. Another criterion of particular importance in deciding how to best engage and as you can expect, a facilities built anywhere from 60 to 100 years ago are not sized to respond to the modern era whether functionally or according to Building Code standards or as i have just described, the seismic worthy and we have revitalized the guidance with the assistance of expert architect consultants with deep experience among many Police Departments and working closely with the Police Command representatives. These guidelines and standards produce a steady report thats been applied to the 2020 projects that i will now present. Next slide please. The largest project is the replacement of the engleside location station in district 11. Built over 100, it is half of the area of an ideal modern facility. We believe the size of the replacement facility proposed, though less than the ideal area k provide the necessary functional integrity for the Police Operations at that elocation. Next slide please. The next largest project is the police range with the essential fact that drives this project as a priority project is on the verge of schurl collapse. The large span are open to the sky and you can see photographs of the trusses and have become severely comprised by the exterior exposure. And next slide. And the project is a surge or interim facility to house the engleside station while it is being replaced. This will be a Lease Modular buildings at a city appropriate, for example, at the zoo depicted here. Sorry, advance to next slide. Thank you. Or maybe at a lease facility large enough to accommodate the police need. Our citys Real Estate Department is currently working on available alternatives. Next slide please. The final project is at mission station and from the building defect and next slide please. And this concludes my presentation. Thank you for the opportunity and i am available for any questions you may have. I dont see any questions from commissioners. Thank you for your presentation. Next line item. I think we are supposed to have the commission here and i am not sure if there is any representative. I dont see anybody from the Youth Commission on. This might be a good time that item c will be d sorry 6b on the agenda will be continued to next week. And also many are wearing pink because it is pink patch month. And we will talk about this next week as well. Sergeant youngblood, i dont know if you are able to put the information on the screen for folks if they want to donate to get a patch. There is an email address and a number. That is information that will be up next week as well. This will be up next week to help support breast cancer. One last call for anyone in the Youth Commission. Lets tall the next line item. D. P. A. Directors report. It will be limited to a belief description of activities and announcement to calendar the issues raised for future Commission Meeting. You are muted. Sorry. Good evening, commissioners. I have just a brief presentation because i know that we have another presentation we will be making following this on the direct information and where we are and what we are working on so far. We have had a number of meetings just checking in with from the issues and to make sure that folks and many of the work is taking place remotely and see the numbers have continued to go up. We have continued to close the cases and stay on top of things. We are at 642 cases so far this year that have been open. That is up from this time last year which was 585 cases. In terps of cases that have been closed we have closed a record 704 cases and we have never that i am aware of so u will look into that and have a better answer for you next week. I am not aware where we have closed as many cases in this time frame. Last year we closed 498 cases. In term of pending cases we have 377 open and pending cases and this time last year we had 406. We have sustained 34 of the cases so far this time last year in terms of cases that have been under investigation longer than nine months and that is 29. This time last year we were at 39. We mediated 30 cases this year. Last year at this time we were at 27 cases. Currently there are 35 cases that are that are pending with the Police Commission. We have no cases that are in closed session tonight for d. P. A. Discussion and participation and with the outreach and training and a lot of the outreach is virtual. We participated in a Stakeholder Engagement series to focus on trance organization sharing Community Resources during the pandemic. Weve also participated in the engagement series and Stakeholder Engagement series specifically with the Youth Commission. We also have a scheduled know your rights presentation with the Youth Commission on the 19th to stay connected and we have had a number of trainings. And the chief of operations pretended and participated in this cmcr that is a mindset response training with the better understanding of what the training is to tie it to the policy recommendations and throughout the year on various topics. And next week i will have as a preview to agendaize or part of the presentation and the overview but i reached out to an independent agency to evaluate dba and make a comparison with the other oversight agencies in t state and the rest of the country. And i wanted to gauge in terms of sharing information, transparency and accountability what the numbers look like as compared to other agency. I think it will be more useful and help to feel the agencies that grew out of conversations that i was having with to the accountability agency. I should have more information as early as next week. I will stop there. I know we have a presentation on the direct share we will be presented from my office about ongoing issues in terms of sharing information with the department and with that i will conclude my report. To put them into contact and i appreciate it. And i wanted to commend you for your ability to really receive constructive criticism and feedback and take it and run with it. And it is telling to open yourself up to scrutiny and more transparency than you already are by having your numbers and your agency compared to other ones across the nation, so i will commend you on being brave enough to do that because some people arent willing to take that step. I think that that step is a huge step for your agency and is going to help you become even better and productive criticism and always asking for feedback and to use that to make the agency better. I can tell just by the conversations that we have had with the materials you have been presenting by your attorney, so thank you. Thank you for saying that. I dont know how well i receive it and to listen and incorporate it and with the Public Forums and often times the feedback and the criticism and comes fast and furious. Public comment is what it is. We are a Public Agency and this is a public process. And all of us expose ourselves to the ongoing work at the Police Commission in a public forum way that is exposed. So that is part of the job and sometimes its easier than others. Frequently especially when we are trying to do new things and trying to address reforms, it is all new. And that doesnt make it less mandatory or less important. At some point it is what it is and here is what the numbers are and here is what the facts are and if it is not well received, the pub lib has a right to know and the department has a right to know and the commissioners have a duty to know this information. And the pushback you get if and when you guys get pushback from me is coming from a place of difficulty with budgets and personnel, not from a lack of commitment to the vision and the mission. I dont know why i am making a speech. Sorry. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you. Its like you had that written out, paul. I got in tv mood. There were a lot of feelings in there. You know because sometimes its hard getting that feedback. And i am, like, mmm. Definitely roll with the punches. I got to give it to you. Its, like i said, it takes a strong person to be able to say, hey, come examine me and that is what you are doing, so i commend you. Lets wait until we look at it and then remember this when we get the results. Exactly. Exactly. Thank you. Next line item. Line item 1d. Commissioners reports. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future mission meeting. Commission president s report. Commissioners reports. Commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future Commission Meeting, action. I see no hands in the chat. Next line item. Next line item is Public Comment on line item one. At this time the public is welcome to make Public Comment on line item one. For those who would like to make Public Comment, call 4156550001, access code 146 646 2826 and press pound and pound again. For those online on webex, press star 3 to raise your hand. Sergeant, since the Youth Commission didnt happen tonight, lets go 3 minutes for Public Comment. Thank you. So far you have two on the phone. Okay. Hello, caller. You have three minutes. Good evening, caller. Caller, are you there . You have three minutes. Okay. We will go to the next. Good evening, caller. You have three minutes. Caller good evening, commissioners. Chief scott, and executive director henderson. I am deputy public defender brian cox. After reading the details of the audit electronic communication report, really question the reports utility. It hits in three areas. Clets, Department Email and Text Messages the out of 362 potential biassed items the audit uncovered the Department Found that just two were potentially buy biassed. That is only half a percent. While that sounds like a ringing endorsement, the facts on the ground are cutback and suggest that the tool doesnt capture the right data. Reviewing Electronic Communications is important but sfpd can and should devise better tools to accomplish the same objective. How can they do those reports and do they know the search terms and can it make recommendations or suggest reforms on the process and ask for regular status updates on the investigation of the two potentially biassed hits found in this report . The reports to provide accountability and transparency and boast both laudable and worthy goals and in practice they fall short because there is little transparency in the process or methodology and no visibility accountable as the commission plays a role and refuses a role. And because the Auditor Report does little work, they should push sfpd to make the audit something that matters or get rid of it and thank you. Thank you. Next caller. Caller this program doesnt this program also collects data from devices that arent on bias sfpd and say, somebody who isnt really related to spfd who sends a text message to an sfpd device and will monitor those Text Messages or emails. And so how does this program protect the privacy of those individuals who do not consent to be part of this . How are they ever notified that the communications are being monitored . I am very concerned about the implications of this. Thank you. Awe thank you. Anymore callers . No. All right. Next line item. Line item 2, status report regarding d. B. A. , sfpd information sharing agreement. Discussion. Hi, commissioners. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. I am sharon wu, the chief of operations at dpa. And i am here with assistant chief to talk about a status update on information sharing. As a way of background, i will tell you that historically there have been challenges in sharing information with the department. Most of that has been anecdotal and we have started to detail some of the areas that we would like to share bet we are the department. That was codified in a letter to the commission back on july 14. The department responded to that letter on august 10. On september 3 we started a series of meetings. And i think through the meetings we isolated the top four that we thought we could deal with earlier, quickly and be able to have Common Ground in terms of information sharing. And that is the status update and assistant chief mozer and i will be giving you today and knowing this is just a start to what i think will be a much fuller discussion. And something that we hope will be codified in a letter of agreement between the departments so that we can document and identify all of the deeds agreements that we have made. So there is a power point. Thank you, agent young blood. Next slide please. The four areas that we have identified have been through the intra net and hrms. A share point document which will track discipline and Body Worn Cameras. Chief . I am assistant chief bob mozer. As sharon had mentioned, we have been working on this since early september. And we have some good news to report. We were able to accomplish a number of dbas requests and did so working very collaboratively if i may say so and very quickly on this. So our first big area that we were able to make headway in is with power dms. Dba requested access to the department intra net. The intranet program is a very old program that the department is currently phasing out and replacing with power dms. What we were able to do was grant dpa access to power dms which gives them access to airport, general orders, all department bulletins, department general orders, all manuals and guides, all unit and bureau orders, and all Department Forms that they had also requested or posted on power dms. And as well all new policies that come out and all new department bulletins that come out are posted on power dms so the dpa will have access to all of those policies as the department does. Next slide please. The next major area where we were able to make quite a bit of headway is access to hmrs which is the Human Resource management system. Dpa had requested several areas to access hrms and dpa has access to job data, daily assignment, employee scheduling go back there thank you. Employee scheduling history, officer activity, and officer training histories. So that gives them the ability to look up in real time and future time officer assignments. They also were able to run reports. Those reports include reports of based on rank of all rosters, watch off calendar, monthly activity reports, Employee Work history, unit station seniority, and unit seniority as well. It can also run training summaries as well. I think thats updated. Another areas that they have access to is department a numbers which is a unique identifier assigned to each department employee. [please stand by] it will be we will be able to identify both case numbers when cases have been sent to the department, when the department has given hopefully a letter of intent to discipline. From that point we can track whether or not discipline is imposed, whether it was referred to the commission and any appellate process that goes through that as well. Well also be able to identify when potentially dpas recommendation was either agreed upon, because lower or higher than that. And i think that annual report will retract discipline, will be much more complete i think is a better word, and that there will be the ability for both the department and dta to add information and track those together. Hopefully im encouraging the commission to have another status with us so that we can report on the further progress that weve been making, and so im hoping in another couple of months well have this up and running and we can show you a finished product. Ask and you shall receive. Thank you very much, vicepresident taylor. Next slide . So there are areas that we havent been able to come to agreement with. And it isnt for want of trying. Bodyworn camera is one of them, and also put in there daes warehouse. Currently Police Accountability is not considered a Law Enforcement Agency Pursuant to the department of justice. There is inadvertent material that is criminal information that is regulated by doj that may show up on bodyworn camera. That is potentially showing the screen, the computer screen in the patrol vehicles. Viewable information from dispatch that would give criminal information that a Law Enforcement agency is not allowed to have through doj. And so we cant have direct access to evidence. Com. That has been the departments position. I dont have any reason to think that that is not true. From my experience in my former job at the das office, i know that the department has had some audits on d. O. J. , and because of some of the issues, the d. A. s office got their own license, and so i think that is true. We have talked about possible solutions. One of them, a huge solution would be identifying civilian oversight agencies with Law Enforcement agencies so that we could have this sort of inadvertent access to material. Thats a statewide solution, and nothing that we can deal with in the now, the current. Another area would be to contact d. O. J. To see whether or not this inadvertent access would not be a violation of the Police Department class license, and i have a call in to d. O. J. I have to say that i am not im not optimistic that that will be something that d. O. J. Will agree to, and so were trying to consider workarounds. One would be d. P. A. Getting their own evidence. Com license. That sharing but it would still require the department to get each one of our requests through the bode worn camera and redact and ensure that no information is on that bodyworn camera, and that really is the bigger delay. And there are also cost concerns about getting our own evidence. Com license. It is costly. Its expensive, and the storage that is necessary is also costly. So thats one of the things that we are working on, and again, which i would ask the commission to have us update them when we come back in a couple of months. Next slide, please. So i do want to say that, you know, the pandemic has had such incredible and horrific things happening with society, but one of the i dont even want to call it benefits, but one of the things that it forced us to do, like were having Virtual Meetings, it forced us to share in different ways, and i think the new way were sharing with the department has increased the efficiency and increased effectiveness in that sharing. One of them is that we have now a single point of contact with the department. We can send one person in the department our requests for records. That person then will disseminate those requests to other places in the department, whether its the district station or legal one area. One person being responsible, one person that we need to contact to ensure that we have sent it to the right place, one person who is responsible for getting us the information back as opposed to every district station, several people at every district station. I think this is much more efficient and effective. And then the second part is that we have now gone completely electronic with the department. We make our requests electronically. We receive our information electronically. We used to use the fax machine which i am you know, im astounded, it was so ineffective and so inefficient, and so i think that this use of electronically making our requests and electronically receiving the information is a huge upgrade in the way that we share and we receive information. And this will become a permanent way that we do things. Next slide, please. And then there are some no access to information, and we had asked for many our letter access to the estop data, and the department had told us, and we had seen it through some of the d. O. J. Materials, that they no longer use estop. And perhaps ac moesier can expand a little bit about that and the type of information that estop data used to have and where it goes now and how we would be able to access it. Estop thank you, sharon. Estop data was a precursor to our state claim requirement when we have the state reporting requirement, ripa, went into effect. We now transmit our data directly to the state so all data is stored at the state level, not the department level. And so for d. P. A. To access that material, we would have to ask d. O. J. , which we would intend to do should we need it. And then one of the last biggerticket items was the internal affairs remote cards, and those are only Available Upon request, but since our requesting procedure is much more efficient, we think we wont have issues receiving responses on the card requests. And i will report back in a couple of months if we have any issues at all. Next slide, please. And so really this is the end of our presentation. In the last six or eight weeks i think that we have come a long way in understanding and in sharing the information sharing thats necessary between the departments. I know that ac moser and i are going to work on a letter of agreement which would codify all of these agreements. I thank the commission tremendously for their help. Phil lowhouse has been part of all our discussions and hes kept us on track, and i think that was really important in this process. And if theres any questions or any comments at all, id love to hear them. Thank you. I have one question and then we will turn it over to other commissioners. I remember when i first joined this commission and i first learned that you guys didnt have clets access, which to me is just crazy, and its a little bit disappointing that, you know, d. O. J. Is part of the call for reform and pushing reforms and managing the reform process but at the same time denying d. P. A. Clets access to would help bring the reform process to fruition. So can you tell me more about what you plan to do if theres anything the commission can do . I think its just so much more difficult for you to do your job without access to clets information sna. You know, i would take any assistance the commission is willing to give us, and the weight of the commission, especially in speaking with d. O. J. In order to identify civilian agencies or Law Enforcement agencies wed have to change the statute because they have identified all the Law Enforcement agencies within the statute. So it would have to be something this would include d. P. A. , oversight agencies in general to be considered a Law Enforcement agency to be allowed the type of access that other Law Enforcement agencies have. I dont know exactly what it would take for d. O. J. To say sharing this inadvertent information would not be a violation of the clets agreements that the department has with d. O. J. To use all of these systems. It is part of an audit that they do regularly. They have to be able to identify whos using what to see if theres any improper use, so i understand that, but i will i will put on my thinking cap, vicepresident taylor, and i will work with ac moser to try to come up with some other solutions. I do think that one of our Biggest Challenges is the time that it takes to get vwc and to be reviewing that as well. I think access to criminal histories is less since most of our investigations, you know, are not geared toward criminal, obviously, investigations. So it really is bwc access and the inadvertent access to criminal history information. I will definitely were definitely working on it, and i will let the commission know how it can be helpful and hope that you will support us in our efforts to be able to get direct access. Thank you. Commissioner . I think director henderson had his hand up, so maybe he should speak first. Okay. Oh, yeah, he i was just taking you guys in order. Director henderson, feel free to go first. Youre muted. Sna sorry. I dont know how to wave my hand on this thing. I went through the whole thing trying to figure out, and then i was like, let me just put a question. I just wanted to follow up on a couple of things that were raised and just frame some of the context from the presentation, especially with the clets stuff. And asking around to my peers from other counties and seeing how they address this problem, they had a different approach from their city Attorneys Office who was the holder, who would meter out a lot of the information with their clets. But as ms. Woo said, we are looking at solutions that are internal and external, which would allow possible legislative solutions, either at a local or a state level as well. So thats part of where were going. And i just wanted to frame, you know, it looks like a lot is being done, but it really is so much more because a lot of the issues that were in that letter that was culminated from july 14 from my agency have been a long time coming, and these have been longstanding issues back and forth about having trying to get information from the department, and including updating the d. P. A. s own records. A lot of our own records, and this is part of the digitalization process. As you recall, much of our records, we were photocopying and sending things back and forth in the mail and on faxes 40 to 50 documents a day back and forth, and that was the cornerstone of the henderson report. And as we started digitalizing our process, the need to have that information from the department i think increased, but also was easier because information was available digitally and could have been shared more easily, and so my point is that there have been many years of leading up to this that led to the july 14, and a lot of work has been done in the past, in the past six to eight weeks to address many of the delayed investigations or blocked investigations because information, we either didnt have or werent sure of how to ask or who to ask it for. It wasnt that attempts werent being made, but this is attempting to solve all of these things all in one fell swoop, and so its groundbreaking that this is being done right now, but i would say that it is still somewhat incomplete, and i think both of the both of us have alluded to that, both myself and moser also say that theres still more work to be done. And so again, id like to come back and present again when we have a better l. O. A. And i can have an update on the clets stuff for all of you as well, and then well see just where we are, but i do want to keep this moving forward. A lot really has been done, but lets see how it works and plays out while we sort through things and then well just see in a couple i dont know how much time you guys want to give it. I would say i would think just knowing or having a better sense of what the issues are, both from the presentation and knowing what the requests have been in the past, that it would need at least one or two months, but im open to whatever the Commission Wants to hear. However the Commission Wants to hear it. Well come back whenever, but i would think that it needs at least two months, not just to set it up, but to give it time to see if its actually working, if information is being translaid, and if were able to get the information too. If we put it on the december 2 agenda, that enough time . Thats a month and a half. Either way youll have a substantive update, i believe, and ill let moser and woo answer that directly, but a lot so much has been done already in just these past few weeks, i cant imagine you wouldnt get helpful information. I just dont know if thats enough time for them to give a more substantive l. O. A. They can answer. Im sorry, vicepresident taylor. Im actually not going to be here on the 2nd, so i would appreciate it if we go a week later. Thats fine. Is that an answer . So the 9th it would be. I think, chief moser, does that work for you . Yeah. I think so. I think working on an l. O. A. Certainly on everything that we have agreed to and presented tonight, i think thats absolutely a possibility and it will give us time to see how everything has been working, how our sharing of information through our case sharing information is working. So i think well have a good idea by then. Thank you. Commissioner elias . Thank you. Im really happy to hear of all the progress thats been happening, and i also do want to join in on this thank you to phil because he has been an integral part of this and has really been trying to move things along. Im glad that we will be bringing this back for another update. One of the things that i wanted to also perhaps have you address at the next meeting is if these issues are not able to be worked out, what are the interim solutions . I know that youre working on the sharepoint. I know the bwc is an issue, but i still think that things like the bwc may be a longer process to resolve, so there should be measures in place in the interim to make sure that this information is being exchanged in a more expeditious manner. So i would like you also to just keep that in mind as well, and again, i appreciate the efforts on both sides to get this moving. Thank you. I dont see any other questions from commissioners, so unless the presenter has more, ill call the next line item, and thank you for your time and look forward for when you come back. Thank you. Good evening. Thank you. Next line item is Public Comment on line item two. At this time the public is now welcome to make Public Comment on line item two. Call 4156650001 access code 1466462826. Those already logged on, please press star 3 to raise your hand. You have one caller. Good evening, caller, you have three minutes. Oh, i wasnt in the queue, as far as i know. Im sorry. No problem. Okay. Next line item . Next line item, line item three, general Public Comment. At this time the public is now welcome address the commission for up to three minutes commissioner rodrigue clerk the time is 9 02. This is the remote meeting via video and teleconferencing. This meeting is being held by webex pursuant to the mayoral proclamation. City hall is closed, and meetings of the Fire Commission will convene remotely. You may watch this meeting at www. Sfgovtv. Org. Or you may participate by phone by dialing 14156550001, then using the access code 1466994 1466994326. Members of the public will be able to participate via Public Comment. Comments will be addressed in the order they are received. When the moderator announced that they are taking Public Comment, members of the public can comment by pressing star, three to enter the queue. When prompting, callers will have the standard three minutes to provide Public Comment. Ensure you are in a quiet location, speak clearly, and turnoff any t. V. S or radios around you. [inaudible] clerk item 1, roll call. [roll call] clerk item 2, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter in the commissions jurisdiction that does not appear on the agenda. Speakers must address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual comments or Department Personnel. The lack of a comment by commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute support of remarks made during Public Comment. President covington thank you, madam secretary. Is there any Public Comment . Any member of the public want to speak . Clerk there is nobody on the Public Comment line. President covington okay, thank you. I do need to change chief parks came in as an attendee, so im changing her to a panelist. President covington okay. Clerk okay. So there is no Public Comment. Item 3, approval of the minutes. Discussion and possible action to approve Meeting Minutes from september 23, 2020. President covington okay. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on this matter . Clerk i will check. There is nobody on the Public Comment line. President covington great. Fellow commissioners, the minutes of our last meeting . Commissioner cleaveland madam president , i move to approve. President covington thank you, commissioner cleaveland. Is there a second . Commissioner feinstein i will second. President covington thank you, Vice President feinstein. I also move roll call for t minutes. Clerk on the approval of the minutes [roll call] clerk the vote is unanimous. Item 4, chief of departments report. Report from chief of department, jeanine nicholson. Report on current issues, activities, and events within the Department Since the fire Commission Meeting on september 23, 2020, including budget, academies, special events, communications, and outreach to other Government Agencies and the public. Report from operations, deputy chief victor wyrsch. Report on overall field operations, including greater alarm fires, emergency medical services, bureau of Fire Prevention and investigation, Homeland Security, and airport division. President covington good morning, chief nicholson. [inaudible]. As we know last week, october 7, its hard to believe its been a week, we lost a brother, a member of our Fire Department, jason cortez. So apologies to you that i am not my usual upbeat self today, but it is a somber time for us, as you know, we are also the department is, you know, mourning, grieving, in disbelief, and we are in the midst of arranging a Funeral Service and Memorial Service for our brother, and we are also in the midst of reaching out and helping the family and reaching out to our members who are the most impacted by this. [inaudible] it was an accident, and theres still more a little more to be done in terms of investigatory stuff and follow up, but from our initial investigation, that is what we have found. You know, and im really proud of this department and of everyone in it who has just kept moving forward and showing up to work and doing their job because they understand the importance of their work. And i also, unfortunately, have seen you know, this isnt the job that make suggest. Ive been here for our command staff, as many people can attest to. Right now, loike i said, we ar figuring out all the details for the services in the midst of the covid restrictions and restrictions that we have with the current Health Orders in the city. So, you know, its going to look different, the services, than services have in the past, and its going to be much smaller. And were not sure how many folks from outside of the family will actually be able to attend, so were working on that with the families, and we are working on prioritizing people within the department who are most directly impacted, those who were there with him today, those who were there with jason on wednesday, and those who prepared him in the aftermath, as well as, you know, he was a member of station 49 for eight years, and so he has a lot of history there, as well as being in the suppression side for five years. You know, i can say that Everything Else in my report today can wait for another two weeks, as we are focused on jasons wife, patty, sons jackson and grayson, his feathr bill, and stepmother nellie, his brothers at station 49 and members of station 7 who jumped right in there to assist with the horrific accident. And i just want to give a shout out, as well, to everyone who has stepped up to help logistics wise. They have stepped up big time to really start organizing and working with the union and some other scity agencies to get stuff done, as well as some folks on the funeral committee. Pat rabbit, ian christian, and jim oconnell, as well as local 7 798. Floyd rollins went out and picked up the family that day without hesitation. Got patty and the kids, and i know were all grateful for that. So like i said, the rest of my report does not can wait. It just doesnt seem that you know, that necessary right now. And so im sorry to bring down the whole meeting, but this is reality for us right now, and were just pulling together to get through this. So with that, i will conclude my report for today. Thank you. President covington thank you very much, chief nicholson, and thank you for mentioning all of the people who are banding together to you know, to make sure that a member of the department and is given due respect and honor, and that everyone is taking care of the family. Ive also asked chief wyrsch to read the letter that was sent out from station 3. Chief wyrsch . May i just add one thing, president covington . Yes. Chief [inaudible] at the airport really stepped up and met the family met the family at the airport with the officers there, and he escorted them up to [inaudible] and literally escorted them all over town with the utmost respect. So thanks to him, and thanks to chief wong for handling all of the emotional plans at station 49. President covington yes. I also want to thank everybody everyone in the department who went to s. F. General right away to give a good salute on the way to the examiners office, so thank you, everybody, for being who you are. Chief wyrsch, are you deputy chief wyrsch madam president , id like to do that at the end of my report out of emotion, if thats okay. President covington that would be fine. Deputy chief wyrsch i have a slide that goes along with it. President covington thank you. You may proceed, sir. Deputy chief wyrsch were good to go with my presentation, then . Clerk yes, you have the ball. There you go. Deputy chief wyrsch all right. Good morning, president covington, Vice President feinstein, commissioners, chief nicholson, this is my Operations Report for the month of september. [inaudible] are you seeing the whole screen or parts of screen . President covington whole screen. All right. Wonderful. The fire we had was at 173 shipley. This was chief reubensteins fire. 100 wood structure. It was an exposed roof and threestory lot line. With heavy smoke and fire, 3 was called immediately. When chief reubenstein arrived, he called another alarm for another station, and we called another station eventually, as well. Very aggressive, very proud of all the companies working. We also had 16 [inaudible] alarms during the month of september. I want to give a shoutout to everybody involved in the mutual aid. I wont get into the details because i know that chief velo has been [inaudible] and my hats off to everybody who worked so hard to backfill in the city. We also had two day rescues and cliff rescues in the city. There was a rescue at 30 otis, and similar recommending several companies, several individuals for citation involving someone who was trapped on a 300 feet crane, skyscraper crane, and the amount of effort and safety that was done, again, the [inaudible] we all recognize this day. Weve been telling people about it. Weve had a lot of rescues with cars over cliffs during the month. Al also, we celebrated september 11, remembrance day, a little different, something that we hope will never happen again. The divisional chief, chief fong, is here if you have any questions of him. We did a mutual aid to st st. Helena hospital. Again, my hat kazz off to the the hats off to the division. [inaudible] e. M. S. Has been a priority and functioning with the highest of [inaudible] the p. I. O. Report, id just like to give a shout out to Jonathan Baxter. Lieutenant baxter has been doing an incredible amount of interviews, keeping the public informed, and i want to thank him for that. He also i know this has been a concern the past months, but the Coastal Safety outreach, weve had some events, but were handing out information there. Fire marshall decoscio, he did a report through the fire marshal program, but he and his team have been working extremely hard to get this city open to businesses, open by having street closures, slow streets, were trying to figure out parklets, even though its not under our jurisdiction, to make sure that any excess be granted [inaudible] be taken care of, so thank you, fire marshal decoscio. The airPort Commission, f. D. C. Johnson has been working very hard over there. Always good to see them supporting the o. E. S. Firefighters, future firefighters coming into s. F. O. , and wonderful, them helping the family. The third [inaudible] again, Homeland Security [inaudible] and stepping in some big shoes and doing a great job. And josh smith has been helping her. All of our friends Michael Cochran is in rehab, as you know, but the phone is never far from him. We send our prayers. Art cisneros as instrumental in the [inaudible] and continuing with the help of that transition. We have our two new search k9s, cassie and jack, send over from Homeland Security. Id like to read a letter that station 3 has written. Members of the sffd, we wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who have been there for us as we deal with the loss of our brother, jason cortez. Those of you that showed up at sfgh, lined the procession to the medical examiners office, stepping in to fill in for regular members so they could go home and process what happened that day, and local 798, who had been exceedingly supportive, all of the space stations who had volunteered to cook for free, down to all of the individual members who have reached out to the station, and to the three members individually, we thank you for your sentiments, support, and effort. As we all know, theres more to come, and patty, jackson, grayson, bill, nellie, sonia, and greg will need support from all of us going forward. So please keep jasons family in your thoughts and prayers, and we thank you all for being there for us in this incredible trying time. Sincerely, captain cordero. Id like to thank the station, as well. Every station is a family. Its amazing how close and tight they are, and [inaudible] every single day with reaching out to those involved, and staying together as a family, spending an incredible amount of time together. So my thanks to them. That is the end of my report. President covington thank you, chief wyrsch. Thank you very much for reading the letter. Its very important for everyone in the city to know how the members of the department pull together in times like this because it is a family. Deputy chief wyrsch absolutely. President covington so thank you. Are there any Public Comment [inaudible] when you do conduct these investigations, and we get the findings, are we, the commission, ever apprised of that or is there any accounting for the investigations that are done at different fires . Yes, once they finish the report, if theres any fire report that the commission is interested in or a company would like to see, we can forward that for you. Last time, i mentioned something about fires at homeless places, and i heard there was. Is there an increase when you decide theres arson going on or, yeah, is it intentional or is it an accident; if anything is changing . Deputy chief wyrsch so because of the encampment fires right now, we require the arson team to go out and inspect every single one, make sure it isnt foul play. A lot of the times, its cooking or those types of activities, so were extremely busy. Were trying to streamline report writing from them because any time they have to write an arson report, its extremely timeconsuming. Were trying to streamline that. That being said, in the past, we never reported that because they were uncommon. Now that we have one, an officer is called out with arson, as well. The fact that were tracking a whole lot better, but also, all of those are thoroughly investigated. Thank you. And then, i had other questions, but i guess they would be should i ask decoscio on it or later on . Deputy chief wyrsch sure, decoscio is on the line. On [inaudible] there was a reference to a speaker ordinance, and the line was blank. And then, there was that one, and i can ask you about the other two. Deputy chief wyrsch no, i know hes on here. No, i see him. Yes, good morning, chief. Can i ask where youre referencing . It was on page 25, where im looking at right now. Deputy chief wyrsch dan, that would be under your inspections completed in september 2020, three lines down, under sprinkler ordinance. Yes. What you have here is a list of all the inspections that we conduct, and theres a code for each inspection. When inspectors go out and conduct an inspection, they enter a code, and thats how we track the data. Sprinkler ordinance, its mostly to do with s. R. O. S. Its nothing new with the sprinkler ordinance. Yeah. It was back in 2000 or something. The other question i have is 2007, fire alarms open and closed. I probably should have asked this report, but there was in the report something about false fire alarms, something about how many times the Fire Department has to respond to them, alarms that are false, and obviously, in concerns with the budget and trying to address things like this, and then, it said open and closed, and what is that . Yes. Those are complaints that we receive, and if theres merit to it, we issue a violation on it until the condition is corrected. Theres a number of ways you can close its a complaint, and how we address the complaint. If its open, its ongoing, and if its closed, its been addressed. It can be a violation onsite or an administrative violation, which goes down to a hearing. So false aremalarms, what cs those . Most alarms dont issue and go into evacuation falsely where theyre not intended to. So most often, devices perform as they should, a Smoke Detector or heat detector, etc. It could be due to cooking, could be due to steam, etc. Its a false alarm that is not necessarily associated with a fire, but the fire alarm responded most of the time as it should, so i think we should clarify that. After three, if we have a system thats were repeatedly responding to our building, after the third one, we start charging the owner for that until we conduct a correct the condition. Sometimes, it may be new devices, etc. Theres a whole course of action that we can take, but after the third time, we start charging. Okay. And the last question, i have is all around the city, theres outdoor eating facilities all over the city, and after what happened in san jose, there was no eating permit. I assume every time you go to one of those to make sure that its up to whatever code it has to follow, thats because permits were taken out on those . Thats correct. So we work side by side with d. P. W. On this. They share the information on the permits they have issued, approximately 700 to date. We have the inspectors go out and inspect their commercial areas and take note of any items that need to be corrected. We have a running spreadsheet that we share with d. P. W. Twice a week, tuesdays and thursdays, with companies that we have inspected with violations that need to be corrected. So if there was a complaint, it would go i would lets say that someone went out there, and i lets say myself was saying, i wonder if they pulled the permit . Who would you check if there was a permit pulled out . So d. P. W. Is the lead agency on the permit, so they would have a list of all of the permits. I would like to add, when we do a survey, our district supervisors have intimate knowledge of our districts, so if we find one, we notify d. P. W. Okay. President covington thank you, commissioner gonzales. I think well go to commissioner cleaveland. Commissioner cleaveland thank you, president covington. I was very shocked and saddened by the loss of jason cortez. This tragedy brings to mind how important each of our members of the Fire Department are to each other as well as to the department at large, so i just wanted to personally express my condolences to his family and to the personnel involved in this horrific accident and wish them a speedy recovery from this tragedy as best i can. I had a quick question, a couple of quick questions for our fire marshal. You mentioned a junior fire marshal program, and i just wanted to get a little more detail on just what that meant and whos involved. And the arson report that commissioner rodriguez brought up, i, too, have brought this up in the past, and once theyre available, that they can be presented to the Fire Commission so we can keep track of human arson incidents are happening track of how many arson incidents are happening. We never know whats happening with these fires in terms of the final result, so id like these shared with the Fire Commission on a regular basis. And my last question is what are the fees for these parklets . Is it based upon each parking space, and if so, what is the amount that restaurants and others are charged to utilize those public spaces . Chief decoscio . Yes, commissioner. Just unmuting here. Ill do this in reverse order, and if i leave something out, let me know. The fees, we, the Fire Department do not collect fees. This is something thats issued by d. P. W. We do, however, track our time and keep a list of hours that we spend on shared space, slow streets, etc. , everything to do with the covid Emergency Response to cities in its handling, so we do track all of them, but we do not charge. Commissioner cleaveland do you charge that expense back to d. P. W. . We do not. We do not. Commissioner cleaveland do you have any idea do you have any idea excuse me . Do you have any idea, chief decoscio, what td. P. W. Is charging for these Parking Spaces . I do not. Commissioner cleaveland okay. Please continue. Okay. The next question was. Arson, oh, arson investigation. We cannot once the arson investigation is complete and the report is completed, thats public information, so anybody can request that information. We have not had active reports where we issue a report to the commission on our findings, but we can do that. We are very active on our submission. Sometimes, we run into challenges where its an open investigation and issues where it could compromise the investigation. So can we try not to do that a have it out in public where its an open investigation. Happy to have private conversations, though, on an open investigation that is not ripe for public consumption, and so whatever direction the commission would like to go, were fine with that. Commissioner cleaveland would there be an easy way for you to share public reports that are a matter of Public Record . Is there an easy way for you to share those final reports with the commission and an easy adjustable format that you wouldnt have to put a lot of time into . We could. We could. It depends on how much detail youre looking for in those reports. Commissioner cleaveland go ahead. No, go ahead. Commissioner cleaveland its just in those reports, id love to hear what the causes are. Are these arsons . Are these random acts . Are they coordinated arsons . So just whats the impact on us from a cost standpoint, and things of that nature, and is it a big issue or is it a little issue . So i guess thats what im really trying to establish here. So arson, definition of that for Fire Investigation is basically its a fire that is purposely lit in a place where you should not light a fire. So as far as what was your intent to destroy we determine was it lit in a place that should not have been lit, and that would be categorized as incendiary. There has been an increase in homeless fires. We used to track them. We used to track them in special offsite fires. We created a separate category to track them, and therefore, if you look at past reports to current reports, it shows a dramatic increase, but again, those used to be lumped in with special outside fires. Weve looked at the causes of those fires, and if you look at the percentage of, like, incendiary fires, weve had more fires, and the rate of those that can be identified ad incendiary has been relatively consistent. So i dont know if that helps you in any way, but we can provide more details if you like. Commissioner cleaveland well, i think its important that if you discover that a fires been deliberately said, i guess that information gets shared with the Police Department or with the District Attorneys Office, and so the people that are responsible, they can be identified or prosecuted. I understand that most of the homeless fires are probably totally unexpected or whatever, that they werent done on purpose. But in cases of where fires are deliberately set, if we can identify a person or persons who did that, they should be prosecuted. So my question is, how do you do that, and do you pass that onto the d. A. S office, etc. You are correct. We are part of the Police Department. If we find that fire to be incendiary, they open up their own investigation and present that to the d. A. They create as much information as possible, share it with the d. A. D. A. , its up to them to take the next step if it warrants further action. Commissioner cleaveland do you know if we have any current arson cases pending at the d. A. S office . I do not have those numbers. I do not. I know the numbers basically with the p. D. , what files they have open, what cases they have open, but actually, cases with the d. A. , i can look into that for you. Commissioner cleaveland appreciate that. And last thing was the junior fire marshals program. John baxter, our p. I. O. , is involved in that, so he can speak to more detail of that. Commissioner cleaveland so this is a program that goes outside of your program. Absolutely. Commissioner cleaveland it goes to the general public and its kind of how to get involved in your department with a fire marshal. It sounds like a great program, and it would be nice for you to share those details with us at a future date. Thank you so much. Commissioner cleaveland these are all my questions. President covington thank you, commissioner cleaveland. Chief of the department nicholson . Thank you, president covington. If i just may, commissioner cleaveland, mark corso, who is our money guru, does apply for 75 reimbursement of all covid activity that we perform. It doesnt mean that we get reimbursed, but we apply for that. And in terms of what our fire [inaudible] is thinking about with shared spaces and the like, you know, initially, when things shutdown, you know, the fire marshal had left sections to do, etc. , but now, their work has ramped up even more because of shared spaces and all these types of things. So he and his crew are working overtime to get this stuff done. Theyre working at 150 , and also, we need to be mindful that we all need to get to the city right now and support all businesses. The city is waiving some of those fees because Small Businesses are really hurting, and we want them to get back on their feet for the benefit of these folks, the community, the city, the general fund, and all of that. So the shared spaces, i believe, permits are free until december 31, and we are working, as fire marshal decoscio said, with the ones with the [inaudible]. That means that the Fire Department has to step up, as well, and do a little extra work. So thank you, president covington. President covington thank you, chief. Lets see. I will go to commissioner nakajo. Commissioner nakajo thank you, madam president. I, as well as the other commissioners, wanted to send my deepest condolences to jason cortez family, to the members of station three, and the membership of the department. [inaudible] i have a couple of questions for you, chief wyrsch, and then, i have a question for chief tong and, again, fire marshal decascio. First question, lieutenant baxter won an award. Can you share that with us and with the public . Deputy chief wyrsch unfortunately, i dont have that with me, but i will make sure that you get a copy. I apologize. I should have included that in there, as well. Hes doing phenomenal work nonstop, around the clock. I speak with him many times a day. Hes been working tirelessly to keep the public informed and still continues to work on the programs that hes involved in. I should have included that, but i will make sure that gets included in the next report. Commissioner nakajo thank you very much, chief wyrsch. I usually look for it in the materials when i am present pr but thats the [inaudible] administratively, as well. My question next is to chief tong on her report, referencing page 17. Chief tong, you on . Yes. Good morning, commissioners. Commissioner nakajo on page 17, in the action of challenges, it talks about finding appropriate spaces [inaudible] with cognitive impairment, psychiatric illness is becoming difficult. It talks about the fact that hearing progress has slowed for conservatorship. In many cases, theyre being continued until 2021. My concern is [inaudible] backlog and few openings for placement and admissions is reserved for only the most acute and highrisk client. My question is with this backlog and few openings, how does that affect our services out of e. M. S. 6 or our paramedic core in terms of trying to deal with clients and cases out there in the field . Thank you, commissioner nakajo. [inaudible] chief andy tong of e. M. S. Chief simon pang i think will be able to answer that better next month in his report of e. M. S. 6. But they continue to go out and deal with the clientele that they are aware of. They just have to work with them that much harder, try to get them with the kinds of services, whether its placement in a safe site, you know, so that they can be better watched, you know, or if they refuse, then they just have to make additional contacts with them as much as they can. I think its been a challenge for, you know, just not only during covid, but also because those sites that people can, you know, be at or in terms of them being able to access the right kinds of Services Makes it much more difficult for them, and they just have to have more contact with these folks to make sure that they stay safe and they are getting the services that they can provide. Commissioner nakajo okay. Thank you very much, chief tong. My second question is [inaudible] at the bottom of the page, it talks about transports to, and i just wanted to get a verification of information that sometimes, according to this chart [inaudible] its 96 . [inaudible] bernal campus at 12. 72 , and the third was 8. 72. Is there a reason for st. Francis memorial to have that high of a commitment is there a reason for that to be so high to st. Francis and then to Mission Bernal . Generally, its the location of the patient. A lot of the more frequent users tend to be in the tenderloin area or the mission, so thats generally where theyll go if they dont have a hospital preference. They aju theyll just go to the closest facility. Commissioner nakajo okay. And is that the same in Bernal Heights or the mission . Thats correct. Commissioner nakajo okay. I didnt want to assume anything in the mission, with st. Francis being the closest facility. Thank you, chief tong. My next question would be for chief decascio. Thank you, chief, for all of your work. Part of this was answered by chief nicholson [inaudible] when it comes to parklets or shared space that the permits have to come out of d. P. W. And theres a whole set of regulations with that. Chief nicholson gave the answers that i thought there was a limitation to the certificates or permit, and the permits are currently being run until december 31. And then, theres a 25 ability of restaurants to take in some clients. Theres been some talk, even in my community, that those who build the parklets or shared space are talking about maintaining it through the winter, which is a whole different set of problems because of the Winter Weather and the rain. Some folks now are concerned with putting more money in the shared space parklet because of the longer period of time, and theyre talking about maintaining those parklets and outside shared space as they try to maintain their volume in the restaurant. I just want a comment from you, chief fire marshal, that have you heard the same things in terms of these shared space parklets going beyond the Expiration Date of december 31 and going farther beyond that . How does that affect our department . I know were in a shared state with the city. I know theres a wish that they want to maintain these park lets [inaudibl parklets. Could you give me a number of that, chief . I dont want to speculate. Yes, commissioner nakajo, thank you for that question. So the numbers that weve received from d. P. W. , the lead agency, and just so were all on the same page on this, d. P. W. Is the lead agency because these structures are out in the public rightofway. If it was on private property, d. P. W. Would not be the lead agency. So typically, on the sidewalk, its d. P. W. Anything in the middle of the street would be up to the parking spots. Its m. T. A. So we have identified approximately 700 permits issued by d. P. W. As far as this program evolving to more of a permanent status, i think well, two things. Number one, we have to ensure that we will have reasonable access to the building, to the structures, and a lot of these the ones were having problems with that we have identified ad urgent are those where its questionable where were going to have fees of access to ground ladder operations. So that is our focus right now. As far as this program evolving, i think the biggest concern would be are they expanding the structures . Are they putting roofs on them . Whats the height of them . Are they stringing them side by side the whole length of a block . These are things we havent really seen yet, and wed like to see you know, meet with d. P. W. And better understand, f if theyre going to expand the program, what kind of things looking forward as theyre building up these parking lots to a greater extent. Originally, the shared Spaces Program was intended for barricades, chairs, tables, and its evolved to platforms and vertical, and as you know, the winter is coming upon us. Thats all aour radar. Were having discussions, and our concern is Fire Department access. We will not compromise in our opinion or be allowed to sit by where we dont have access. It is on the radar with the expect of if the program is expanded, what does that look like and how [inaudible] does this program get, but right now, i dont have that. Commissioner nakajo thank you very much for that information, fire marshal. Again, ive seen varieties. Ive seen folks i dont know where they get them, but theyve used the Police Barricades barricade metals as a separation. They dont look very attract ti ti attractive, but some folks have done that. And then, i know in my area of town, japantown, the bureaucratic system is very tough. Ive seen folks use loading dock platforms, wood platforms, that theyve conducted and created and painted, but ive seen more fancy parklet shared space, now with their creations, and now, ive seen heater lamps, as well. And again, my question was i know we all want to support Small Businesses, but i want to make sure that [inaudible] thank you very much, fire marshal, chief decascio, and president covington. Zb. Commissioner nakajo, i can answer that. [inaudible] in social media, so ill read a short brief. Lieutenant Jonathan Baxter has served as Communication Affairs and Media Relations officer since 2016 and grew his position to a renowned facility [inaudible] he created surf and tsunami education Warning Program for the citys popular beaches. Baxter developed a Law Enforcement response to fires when he started the [inaudible] and in 2019, outreach efforts [inaudible]. Commissioner nakajo thank you very much, chief wyrsch, for the acknowledgement of lieutenant baxter. Very well deserved, as well. President covington thank you, commissioner nakajo. All right. Lets see oh, we need to go to Vice President feinstein. Commissioner feinstein there we go. Good morning, all, and thank you, madam president. I just wanted to take one moment, and i know we all feel the same way to different degrees, but just to express my personal heartfelt condolences to the cortez family. Its got to be the Worst Nightmare that any family can possibly imagine or deal with. Their lives will never be the same. I know those close to him will never be the same, and the department will never be the same. And, you know, i appreciate all the effort that is going in to honor him for his service and commemorate him in the appropriate and safeway, so just extend my deepest sympathies. I sort of feel a little bit, as you expressed, chief nicholson, i have my packet of material with its red tabs on it. And i do hate to let chief wyrsch offline [inaudible] maybe youll know the answer. Maybe you wont. Well see. Itll be a test, but i wanted to really, i thank commissioner nakajo. Im trying to find you on m