Lamar williams, and mr. President and madam clerk, i would like the opportunity to share a few words on mr. Williams after supervisor walton did his in memoriam as he has deep ties to both district five and district 10. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. While i didnt have the honor of knowing tui, so many people that i care about cared so much about her, and i just wanted to express my condolences to her husband and family as well as to our colleague, sonny angulo. What a tremendous loss. In addition, im introducing a resolution today, urging Governor Newsom and the department of Public Health to prioritize californias Public School educators for phase one vaccine access. In the early stages of this pandemic, San Francisco and other communities across the state closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus across our community. Schools responded by instantly switching to Online Learning at levels that had never been seen before. The Ongoing School closures have substantially cut Student Learning time, limited the ability of educators to provide their usually levels of tremendous support, decreased times for students to develop social and other skills. The disproportionate effects of covid19 on black, african american, latino, and Pacific Islander families have only exacerbated the effects of the virus. Many School Districts i should say most Public School districts remain closed, with no clear timelines or commitments for reopening in the near future. If we do not act now to resolve this dangerous disruption to our Public Education system, the deep learning deficits caused by School Closures could have and will have lasting impacts on our students in the form of behavioral and academic challenges, grade repetition, and increased suspension and drop out rates over time. As we speak, california officials are developing a phased Distribution Plan in partnership be with the centers for Disease Control to determine which levels of the population will receive the vaccine first. Providing vaccines to all school site personnel, including teachers, paraprofessionals, janitors, and other support staff will be critical to our ability to reopen schools as soon as possible and get our families, our society, and our Community Back on track. This resolution urges Governor Newsom, the department of Public Health, and all others to prioritize our Public Health system by providing teachers and staff with vaccines after health officials. Education is a cornerstone of our democracy, and other countries, like france and england, they shutdown the entire society with only the exception of schools because that is the priority that those countries place on education. Here in the United States, weve done just the opposite, and at a time when our Democratic Institutions are under abeing at thttack, we ha obligation to protect the integrity of our Public Schools by ensuring that they are well equipped to overcome the hurdles presented by the Ongoing Health crisis. We owe this to students, we owe this to families, we owe this to San Francisco. Im working with legislators across the state to introduce similar resolutions across california, and hopefully, across the state, together, we request have an impact and get our Public Schools back open, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani submit. Clerk okay. Thank you. Submit . Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you so much, madam clerk. First, i want to offer my condolences to tui and her family, as well, and also to sonny, who i know is hurting deeply alone with the family. I do have two in memoriams today. The first is for martin roberto escobar, also known as cito. He was born in San Francisco on february 26, 1990. He enjoyed family, sports, and collecting comic books. He had a great love of music and was a big sports unanimous. He worked as a laborer in construction. The love of his life was his eightyearold daughter, scarlett. She was daddys little girl. Martin had a beautiful smile and a heart of gold. Sadly, he unexpectedly passed away on november 15, 2020. Cito will be missed by many. He was survived by his parents, martin and susanna escobar, beautiful daughter scarlett, maxine escobar, grandmother, yolanda avalos, many aunties, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I also offer an in memoriam for lamar Walter Williams. Lamar Walter Williams was born in San Francisco on september 1, 1982 to the proud parents of Francis Guidry and Walter Guidry williams. Lamar was raised in San Franciscos Western Addition neighborhood by his grandparents. Lamar was proudly known as chichi ali by his family members and a whole host of friends. He attended Benjamin Franklin for middle school, and graduated from Washington High School in 2001. Lamar was a stellar athlete. It was during lamars middle school years that his love for football began as he played for San Francisco seahawks. While attending washington high, williams held the position of running back for washingtons aeg will as player number 8. Lamars High School Football career was outstanding, going undefeated the entire four years, which included two years of undefeated j. C. Football in addition to two turkey day championships. Lamar went by the name cyberchi in high school, based on the ability lack of ability of his opponents to stop him. Lamar had a desire to be of service to others, and some even call it a calling upon his life. As a result, lamar decided to take on football from a different vantage point, this time, as a coach. Lamar landed his first coaching position as a coach for the seahawks, which was the very team that hed begun his football career with. Life had come full circle for lamar. He was now in a position where he could inspire and motivate younger generations. Lamar coached at several schools in San Francisco, including mission, galileo, and rutten high schools. Lamar took great pride in coaching. When it came to his career, lamar was the embodiment of what hard work and dedication looked like. He also served as a father figure to many of his players and young men in his greater community. He was lovingly referred to as coach chi by his players. Lamars ultimate dream was to be a College Football player. He also works at the grassroots levels for San Franciscos Crisis Response unit as well as San FranciscoUnified School District for a school aide. All of his positions were taken with the mind thought of being of service to others. Lamar was truly a selfless person. He welcomed his first two children in his early 20s. Lamar then went onto meet the love of his life and future wife, tanisha gibson. Together, they welcomed their daughter, leila, in 2012. The same level of dedication that lamar exemplified in his career is what he displayed when it came to fatherhood and being a husband. Lamar was known as a walking encyclopedia. He loved learning throughout his life. He maintained relationships with almost all of the people he grew up with in San Franciscos fillmore, more commonly and referred to by lamar and others alike as fillmo. The way he lived his life was one with a continual message of hope. He accomplished so many great things during his time on earth. Life for lamar was a christmas fair, as thats how he chose to live his life. He woke up each morning and ran the day, as he never let the day run him. He was a fighter, he was a conqueror, lamar was a sweet miracle. Lamar cherished his loving wife, daughters and sons, brothers, and is preceded in death by his older grandmother, his grandmother. Lamar further leaves behind his endearing cousins, uncles, aunts, and a host of other families. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. I know that supervisor preston asked to be rerefered after the in memoriam for mr. Williams, and mr. President , supervisor peskin also asked to be rerefered after supervisor preston, if thats okay with you. President yee yeah, absolutely. Supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, president yee and madam clerk. I want to thank supervisor walton for his beautiful words honoring lamar chichi williams, and we are all deeply heartbroken by the passing of mr. Williams. We heard from so many people in the community in our office who reached out upon learning of lamars passing to share stories, to share memories. There was a Community Gathering in the fillmore, a powerful vigil after the Community Learned of his passing, and theres a heartfelt for him over in Fillmore Park to remember his legacy. So i just want to add to supervisor waltons words and extend my condolences to lamars family, including his wife and children and his friends. Rest in peace, mr. Williams. Thank you. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee, and let me affix my name and my condolences to lamars passing, and i i spoke briefly earlier, for tui would have wanted me to speak briefly, but i wanted to speak more extensively on the life of an extraordinary woman, a woman whose impact on the city really cannot be put into words. Tui Annemarie Nguyen passed away just after thanksgiving at ucsf, attended by my chief of staff, sonny angulo, and hats off to all of the staff who, from that hospital, cared for tui, and to her husband, sean, and to his mother and to her community. Tui was born in the southern part of our state, in newport beach, and raised in a tight knit community of costa mesa, or as we call it, costa misery. She worked hard and brought lessons for our communities. She always knew she wanted to work with kids and moved to the city after being accepted by u. S. F. In the masters program, and started a little venture where she wore multiple hats as a social worker and organizer and a tutor and a therapist and a life coach and advocated for girls. And she knew them from their earliest days through fourth grade. And even after they left, she stayed connected with these girls and made sure they had a cheerleader in their corner for years to come. So many have told me about this, and they come from all walks of life. At the same time, tui and sean founded the skate club, and they really grew the development and program that made kids thrive. And during the holidays, tui decorated every stocking for every kid who came through, and the skate club is really part of this history, and tui is part of this history, and id say a lot, lot, lot more, but tui, youre a buddha, and to the 1,000 families that you served, thank you, and may your memory be a blessing. The rest i will submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Mr. President . President yee yeah, id like to maybe have the in memoriam coming from the whole board for tui. I also know many of our Staff Members also knew her and respected her, so i think it would mean a lot for her family and not only us as supervisors but our staff, so so well close this meeting in her name from the whole board. Supervisor peskin thank you, mr. President. She was really a piece of light and beloved by so many people, and were all diminished by her passing. President yee supervisor ronen, is it okay if i be added to your reso . Supervisor ronen of course. Thank you so much. Oh, and i forget to mention that supervisor haney is cosponsoring, as well. Thank you so much, supervisor haney. President yee okay, great. You should get all the School Board Members former School Board Members to cosponsor. Supervisor ronen i probably will come around. President yee okay. I know you guys already heard this. Theres going to be a lot of overlap, because as i was saying, im trying to twist as much board as i can with Early Education stuff. Here we go. I mentioned before that i was going to introduce it, and now im going to really introduce it. This is the Early Childhood recovery act that were going to reform. So im introducing this plan to provide relief to child Care Education providers hardest hit by the pandemic. Early care and education providers can range from small family based child care homes to large centers. Across the board, we are hearing stories about how many are really on the brink of collapse. In fact, pat sullivan, whos the head of the San FranciscoFamily Child Care association, thinks that its almost close to 100 family licensed child care providers that closed down since the pandemic. So the Health Orders have severely restricted the number of children that can be served in limited space. Several factors are causing child care businesses to shutdown, and many more are on the verge of closing. These factors are including needing more space because of social distancing, increasing staff to serve the same number of children prepandemic, but having to adjust to cohort sizes because of Health Orders. No real ability to raise rates when families are struggling, and no control over capital casts or rents. And also, parents are choosing not to bring back their children to the programs, and many Staff Members are in that vulnerable age category, which makes them a little bit worried about actually going to workday to day. Child care centers face the choice of hiring more staff to serve the same number of children or serving fewer children. Theres already a child care shortage in San Francisco, and if these private providers close, it would soon worsen the crisis that we are already in. The San FranciscoEconomic Recovery Task force report recognized that the city cannot have a quick recovery economic recovery without a robust child care system in place. So we have a onetime opportunity to allocate funding to help not only save our child care system from collapsing but to also strengthen. San franciscans passed prop c earlier this month to unlock nearly 500 million of baby prop c dollars im sorry. That was San Francisco passed prop f earlier this month, and the reality is the entire system is bleeding out, and we need to keep providers afloat in order for these dollars to be most effective. With the office of early care and education, the office of early care and education will provide grants and zero interest loans for child care Providers Service zero to six years of age that are eligible, and those that are eligible would include all family licensed child care providers in San Francisco that serve at least four children at any given time prepandemic, all nonprofit child Care Organizations serving children zero to six years of age, all forprofit licensed Child Care Centers that were based in San Francisco that have no more than two sites in in the city. And the reason for that one is to prevent the National Chains from actually taking advantage of our local resources. All parent coops that serve at least six children with children zero to six. So what were trying to do with this is not just provide resources for those that are already within our system that serve lowincome families, but but all of our centers that are licensed, whether its Family Child Care or center based, because we know that if we start losing any of this, whether theyre nonprofit, forprofit, small, large, that it weakens our system. So the funding will come from the release of baby prop c dollars that the board will be deliberating on the on in the coming weeks. Were hoping that it will contribute 20 million in grants and loans. I want to thank mayor breed, supervisor ronen, supervisor mar, and i think supervisor safai for the early cosponsorship, and im sure many of you have been receiving emails from providers in your district about how much this help is needed. Once the doors closed to these child care programs, theres no theres really little hope to regain them, so we need to do whatever we can now. I hope i can count on this board and cosponsorship. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, thank you very much, madam clerk. Id like to be added as a cosponsor, president yee, and i also wanted to add my condolences about tui. She was lovely, and also to send a lot of love to sonny. I think her heart is breaking right now, and so i also want to just take a moment to wish my two aunts good health. Both of them have tested positive for covid, both of them are almost 90. Fact, my mothers twin sister, her identical twin turns 90 in two weeks, and i so i just wan to give them strength to fight this thing. They gave me a wonderful childhood, and i wish them well. The rest i submit. Clerk Strong Health to them, supervisor. Supervisor fewer thank you. Clerk and supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. Well, first, i want to wish well to your family, and i hope they heal well. I also want to share my condolences to the family and friends of the lives who were lost. I knew lamar, and i knew tui, like many of you, and they both were extraordinary human beings who touched the lives of so many people, especially young people in our city, so thank you to supervisors for your moving and powerful words, and we send our love to their family and friends, especially sonny angulo, who i know others have mentioned was close to tui. I have one piece of legislation, which supervisor preston spoke about, as well. I want to thank him and the other supervisor cosponsors, supervisor ronen and walton. Our staff in respective offices have been working hard on this the last two weeks since the committee of the whole where we heard about the closure of the shelter in place hotels, and i want to thank all of you for your questions and your comments. Since then, we went back, and i want to make it clear to the board, that we have yet to hear, not just us, but also the clients in the hotels, the hard working staff that run the hotels, we have yet to hear a convincing reason as to why we should dismantle this critical Public Health intervention in the middle of surge of the virus in the rainy season without a safety plan for thousands of Vulnerable People in the hotels now, as well as a commitment to bring people inside who are still on the streets. The announcement that supervisor preston spoke about, the closures has still, in many ways, been unchanged. Weve heard a 30day, essentially a pause, but it is still unclear that the department intends to close the seven hotels soon, and they have yet to offer a plan of placements for people, and to ensure that people wont go back out on the streets. Every day, we need to be identifying housing opportunities, helping people sign leases, and helping people move into their homes, we should take advantage of, but we also cannot rush to have a haphazard plan when we dont know how were going to ensure the adequate housing placements for everyone in hotels. So this legislation will ensure that these Hotels Remain open. Obviously, if we didnt get fema assistance or other considerations, there are measures built into the legislation, but for the time being, we need these tools to continue to be available for people to come off the streets and also make sure we exit people into longterm housing placements, not back to the streets. The rest i submit. President yee supervisor walton, you wanted to be rereferred. Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. First, one, i just want to make a request that we make the in memoriam for Lamar Williams from the entire board of supervisors, if thats okay, president yee. And then second, i just wanted to mention that martins mom used to work here on the janitorial staff here at city hall, and that was something i was remiss to mention earlier. Thank you for that. Clerk all right. Mr. President , there are no further names asked to be rereferred. That concludes the introduction of new business. President yee so okay. Thank you. Lets go to Public Comment. Clerk okay. At this time, the board welcomes the public to make Public Comment. If youve been watching this whole time, and youre already on your touch phone, you might have already pressed star, three. Just listen for the sound that you have been unmuted. For those of you have yet to call in, its 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Number is 1461121418. Press pound twice, and youll have joined the meeting as a listener. Lets see here. We have interpreters standing by. I will ask them, just very quickly, announce to the public that you are here, and jump in if you hear anyone needing any of your assistance. [speaking tagalog language] interpreter thank you. [speaking cantonese language] interpreter thank you. [speaking spanish language] clerk okay. First of all, i want to thank the three of you for rearranging your entire schedule today and starting much later than you normally do, so thank you for being with us through the end of Public Comment. Okay. Supervisors, i believe we have ten listeners and five speakers in the queue, ready to make their Public Comment. First caller, please. Youll have two minutes. Okay. Welcome, caller. Okay. Operations, you might be going to the next caller. Well try to circle back to you, just make sure youre listening to your phone, not the television. Welcome, caller. Hello. Thank you for the opportunity to address the board. Wow, this is i cant believe this is way past my bedtime. My name is john elliott. Im a resident of district one, and im calling to discuss the slow Streets Program and congratulate well, first, i want to thank supervisor mar for his leadership in closing the great highway, and i want to urge all of you to i want lets just talk specifically about the great highway. The slow Streets Program has been such a wonderful transformation of our public space, but i have been down on the great highway every day since it has been closed, and i have and if you havent spent enough time down there, please go down there. We have created an ocean front public park, arguably, the most beautiful two miles in our country is now a public park. I was just down there today, and there was these kids sledding down the sand dunes. And i know theres discussions of reopening, and i know theres concerns about the cars in the neighborhood, and i urge you to please do not cede that space back to cars. Cars dominate our entire city. We can take care of the infrastructure changes around there to calm the traffic, take care of the reckless, irresponsible drivers around there. We can address that, but those two miles, that twomile public park, its just its words fail. Its amazing down there, and its something that we should preserve for the next 100 years. Clerk thank you for your comments. Its a really, really special thing. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, can we hear from the next caller, please. Welcome, caller. Hello, can everyone hear me . Hello, welcome to you. Thank you [inaudible] for having me this evening. Once again, you guys have raised some historic stuff, but you guys are going after the main [inaudible], i understand. [inaudible] and i really appreciate supervisor stefani for standing up for the little guy [inaudible] freedom of the press, and the [inaudible] is the best example of the freedom of the press to date. [inaudible] than a Big Corporation trying to force their corporate agenda down or throats. And obviously, im thinking of some particular [inaudible] and join all who worked hard to save caltrain because caltrain rocks, and i especially want to thank [inaudible] supervisor stefani for calling out the n. R. A. I just cant say thank you enough for standing up to the n. R. A. The n. R. A. Is a bad group of people [inaudible] thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Welcome. Can you hear me . Yes, hi. President yee, madam clerk, thank you, supervisors. This is gilbert chriswall of district eight. Im here to talk about transit issues and the lack of transit. Okay. Where do i start . Well, i guess it was a bad day for journalists day. I say freedom of the press, go for it. And by the way, i have a cigarette listening to it. Ive been here all day, listening to the whole meeting. Muni is corrupt, muni is mismanaged. We have to have the City Attorney look into corruption at muni and the m. T. A. We need the District Attorney to lock these people up for cutting service. No subway, no f line, no bus service, buses go nowhere. Muni is supposed to go everywhere, and it goes nowhere. Where is the transparency with muni . None. What do you get from muni . You get fare hikes when muni should be free for everybody during a pandemic. You should have free muni for everyone. Munis financial problems, or the executive director says muni is on life support. Its financially on life support. Bad choice of words during a pandemic. What is going to save mupy . Well, youve got your penny cent tax for caltrain and muni, you tax the seniors and disabled people and poor people, now you need to fix muni. Get it running, up and running. You need to run the subway, you need to run the f line, you need to stop cutting services. You need transparency, you need a website that works. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. All right. So we have ten listeners and about five members of the public in the queue to provide Public Comment. Next caller, please. Hi, i judge ujust wanted to sure, can you hear me . Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Hi. Thank you for the time to listen to all of the publics concerns. I live in the district of matt haney, and [inaudible] among those residents who signed a high rent lease just before the pandemic began, but like many other San Francisco landlords have shared the burden of the pandemic, they sent [inaudible] these corporate policies prohibit negotiating with tenants stuck in far beyond market rates [inaudible] mandatory notice required by californias covid19 tenant relief act, and when we made efforts to collectively organize into a tenants council, brookfield took down our fliers and sent a letter to all tenants that their privacy policies prohibited these kinds of communications. [inaudible] left unprotected by s. F. S rent ordinance and then strongly consider taking action against Property Managers who take advantage of us during this crisis. Thank you all of you for your service to the city, and have a good night. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Hello, caller. Welcome. All right. If the line is quiet, then i know operations will move onto the next caller. Hello . Clerk hello, welcome. I guess that was me. I didnt hear i was muted until a moment ago. This is Peter Warfield are we ready . Am i on . Clerk mr. Warfield, ill begin your time. Okay. Thank you. This is Peter Warfield, executive director of Library Users association. We desperately need a library. You, supervisors, a little earlier were talking about the importance of the press, of good information, and the accessibility of good information on a different item, and thats absolutely correct, but for many people, the access to information, to access to the press, access to magazines and newspapers, is available through the library, and in some cases, only available through the library. I calculated what my daily purchase of chronicle and New York Times costs, since my local branch is not open, and none of the branches are providing newspapers. They only recently started providing magazines. 178 a month to get at the store two newspapers per day for a month. The Library Magazine service, which is only available at the branches that are providing socalled curb service or sfpl to go, i requested five magazines, and three of them were available only as items five months old june and two of them were available two months old. Completely not current. We desperately need the library for all of our citizens to have access to good information, good publications, and the library is not providing that. Theyre not providing current magazines, and the newspapers are not existent. Clerk thank you, mr. Warfield. Thanks very much. Clerk all right. Operations, next caller, please. I believe we have four members of the public in the queue and six listeners. If you want to become a speaker in the queue hello . Clerk press star, three. Good evening, supervisors. You know me as anonymous, and you have probably ignored many of my emails about sunshine and transparency. I requested messages from breed and scott at the beginning of this meeting. What you may not know is breeds office claims that she has no copies of these orders issued to scott by Text Messages produced none. Destruction or failure to maintain these records ethical or transparent. You have the ability to ask her. Her office testified that shea ellison destroys all his Text Messages every two weeks. Many of the topics i remember in those messages are in the complaint published by the department of justice against mr. Kelly that the p. U. C. Now refuses to disclose to the public. I have to say, i have no clue whether mr. Kelly is guilty or innocent of a crime, but theres no reason to suppress the kelly Text Messages. Supervisor peskin states, no one should be scared of transparency or information. This is going to take courage from you because change that is needed will also disclose your records. Theres a reason ill continue winning my cases against the city. I know what im doing here. You guys should disclose these records. Please reach out to me. Id rather work with you than against you. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Good evening. Im very glad that the interpreters are here with us this evening. I think that Language Access is very critical, especially in a multilingual city like ours, especially where we have many citizens who are not, you know, proficient in english, and so it its very disheartening to hear that the interpreters have left for the evening, and it makes one wonder why exactly are we paying for these interpreters . Like, you know, can someone who does not understand english call in and request live translation, do they provide live translation . Like, what are they doing for those hours beforehand when there is no Public Comment . But i am really glad that this evening that they are available for individuals who would like or require interpretation, and so, yeah, i would like to commence whomever was responsible for that, and i commend whomever was responsible for that, and i hope that continues in the future, that the interpreters are available for Public Comment for the evening, and i i also hope that perhaps the Interpretation Services might be expanded. I suppose usually there arent too many people requiring interpretation, but we do have a very Large Russian speaking community in San Francisco, and that theres basically theres never a russian language interpreter. Clerk thank you for your comments. Just a point of information, the interpreters have full time jobs for a completely different department, and are on loan to us for this meeting, so we very much appreciate their presence here and whatever assistance they can give to the community. All right. Thank you for your comments. Operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please . Good evening, supervisors. I live in district six, matt haneys district, and i am here on behalf of dozens of tenants at Bayside Village. We are being exploited by our landlords without any protection. They continue charging above market rates to our resident at Bayside Village. If a resident wishes to break their lease, landlords are imposing exorbitant penalty fees. The tenants have been reaching out to the city today, and we learned that there is only one person overseeing this for the entire program and the 1300 buildings involved in the program. How is there not more support to ensure that theyre more protected. In addition, our landlords have been unresponsive to our concerns about basic upkeep and safety, which we informed the board about back in september. Recently, tenants complained to management about overwhelming smells and odors. [inaudible] and discovered the source was the decomposing body of one of our neighbors who had been dead for at least five days, according to the police report. This is bad. At what point does the city step in and ask, what the fuck is going on at Bayside Village . Clerk all right. Thank you for your comments. Operations, i know we have another caller in the queue. I think we have two callers in the queue and six listening. Next caller, please. Okay. Callers that are on the line and their lines are silent, we do try to circle back, but if theres no one left, then theres no one left to circle back to. Operations, did you try both lines . Operator madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk okay. Thank you for trying. Mr. President , that concludes the Public Comment portion of the meeting. President yee okay. Then Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets go lets call the adoption without committee reference. Clerk clrk item 64 w clerk item 64 was introduc introduced for adoption without committee reference. Its a motion establishing a process for annual evaluation of the performance of the clerk of the board of supervisors. President yee first, i want to say i apologize to our madam clerk, angela calvillo, for not getting it done last year, in terms of a going through a real evaluation, and i want to thank her. We spent several months going back and forth and creating this evaluation tool, zp the process that we wanted to move forward with. As iyoull recall, i mentioned about 1. 5 years ago, i think it was supervisor peskin that pointed out that angela had not byeb been evaluated, and i realized that we did not have a process for that. So it took a little while to develop to itself, and then, we were all set to use it around the beginning of the year, and boom, like everything else, it went to the back burners, and i realized, again, im rushing a lot of things, i know, because i realize that we put a lot of work into this. I think this is solid, too, and that the what i want to urge all of you thats going to be continuing to be on the board of supervisors, whoever the president will be in the future, that the president and some of you will be involved with her evaluation process as soon as possible because i think, you know, its just a were really giving her a disservice not providing an evaluation from us to give her feedback. So this is what this is about, and if you dont have any questions, then, i will hope that, again, you remind yourselves right after the first meeting, you know, to start this process going, and to be truthful, if we if im going to do myse my selfevaluation or not selfevaluation, but if i had to review the madam clerk for the time we havent done this, you would just be exceptional in my eyes for what youve done. Clerk thank you. President yee okay. Roll call, please. Supervisor peskin mr. President . President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin that would be me. President yee okay. Go ahead. Supervisor peskin id like to affix my name as a cosponsor to this measure. This measure came about when i was a member of the post commission evaluating the head of the coast commission, that was about 2. 5 years ago, and its made its way through the paces, and mr. President , thank you for holding our clerk, the only person that this body actually appoints, to a process that we should go through, and i would like to be added as a cosponsor. President yee thank you. Thank you. Supervisor supervisor . Madam clerk, roll call. Clerk on item 64 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee the motion is approved. Clerk mr. President , you touched my heart. President yee you touch all of our hearts. Supervisor peskin we havent gone through the process yet. President yee oh, well, you know. Im going through it in my head. So, madam clerk, will you please read the in memoriams . Clerk yes. Todays meetings will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor preston, for the late mr. Dave grushell. On behalf of supervisor walton and supervisor preston, supervisor peskin, for the late Lamar Williams, known to his friends as chichi lee, and on behalf of supervisor preston, the president of the board, the entire staff and legislative aides, for tui Annemarie Nguyen. President yee okay. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further item on the agenda tonight . Clerk mr. Frepresident , t concludes our business for today. President yee okay, madam clerk. As there is no further business, we are adjourned. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the december 22,020th of the San Francisco food commission. Im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart for 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. Can you please call roll. [roll call] you are a quorum. We have chief will jump scott frowilliam scott. Thank you. As always, i will remind the presenters, the commissioners, to keep yourselves on mute unless you would like to be heard so to reduce background nice and same things for all of the callers, make sure all background devices are turned off and you are on mute unless speaking. The numbers to call the Public Comment is 415 6550001. Access code 146 348 0406. Sergeant. Let you finish there. For members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv and if you are interested in making Public Comment dial 415 6550001 and access code 146 348 0406. When Public Comment is announced for the line item or general line dial star 3 advising the moderator to add you to the queue. You have two minutes and this is your opportunity to provide Public Comment. When your two minutes have ended you will move out of the queue back to a participant unless i decide to disconnect. Members of the public may stay on the meeting line and in order to make Public Comment again by pressing star 3 to be added back into the queue. Thank you. Thank you, can you please call the first line item. Adoption of minutes. Action for the meeting of november 8th, 2020. Thank you, do i have a motion. So moved. My apologies, im going to ask to make a correction to the minutes. Ok. On page 2 of the minutes. It indicates that i requested that djo5. 03 be calenders on december 16th and a update on daunte king investigation and i requested to hear from mr. King directly so i would like to add that into my request. And then ill second commissioner davis motion. Can we get another motion with that amendment . So we have a clean record. Sure. So moved without amendment. Second. Second. All right. For members of the public that would like to make a Public Comment online item 1, you may press star 3 now or dial 415 6550001 and direct access 146 804 06 and this is again for line item 1. We have no Public Comment. Next item. Sorry. Please call roll for the vote. [roll call vote] clerk on the motion to accept the minutes with the amended. How do you vote [roll call vote] can i abstain since i wasnt present. Yes. You have five yeses. Great. Next line item. Line item 2, report to the commission discussion. 2a, weekly crime trends offenses occurring in San Francisco and major significant incidents. Provide a summary of planned activities and events. This will include a brief overview of unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety. Commissioner discussion on unplanned events and activities will be limited whether to calender for a future Commission Meeting. Status of Department Efforts to implement proposition Staffing Levels. Ok, good evening, chief. Can i ask everyone to mute themselves. Im getting feedback. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commission, and executive director henderson. Please, to let you know, im getting feedback so if you cant hear me let me know i was getting feedback when you were talking earlier. Things are ok for me now. Great. Thank you. Ill start this weeks chiefs report with an update on the status of our crime picture, over all we are down 25 in part one crime and compared to last week were down 26 and as i have stated in several Commission Meetings, we are seeing a rise in burglar hesied although were flat this week in several of our district stations which is good news. The Biggest Issue were seeing are our garage burglaries and typically bicycles and other small hand tools and things like that are the target of property and we have made some cigarses and that regard so hopefully that will put a little bit of a dent because we leave some of the folks that were arrested were serial offenders so well work on that and work with our surrounding jurisdictions and coordinate efforts in terms of identifying serial offenders who are in the city and county of San Francisco but surrounding cities as well. One such incident was a bug larry that occurred this week in the northern district. Video suspects was obtained for garage buggies that occurred on august 18th. This particular incident, the subjects had several objects from the garage and Officers Determined that some of the items stolen were found discarded in the 2,200 block of north point. On november 11th. Our northern stations Investigation Team forwarded images of the suspects to our burglary detail who quickly identified the suspects and also determined that they had been involved in several other cases. On november 25th, one of our suspects was arrested at a location. He actually was wearing an ankle monitor when he was arrested. And he was placed under arrest for his involvement in this burglary as well as others. He is a chronic offender and we hopefully his arrest will hopefully make a difference in slowing some of this down. I want to remind everybody that is watching, please have some basic safety tips and make sure you see cure your garages and if we have bicycles, even if theres secured in your garage, its a good idea to lock them and make it a little bit more difficult for people to take them. Scooters are the same. That has been hot property as well. Scooters, skate boards and the like. If you can, keep them secured in your residents if possible and not in your garage. We want to make it hard and make ourselves as resilient as possible. On the Violent Crime front. Our homicides are above where they were total year to date last year. Were at 45 homicides year to date and that is a 32 increase from where we were this time last year. We ended 2019 with 41 homicides, which was a low, almost a 50year low, however, this 45 numbers is alarming. Its on a larger scale, you all may be aware of this but its not only San Francisco that is experiencing this problem, this is most major cities in the country are seeing increases in homicides and shootings and most of them are significantly higher than us if thats any good news. But still, we have a problem here that we want to correct and turn around. This time last year, december was a pretty difficult month in regards to homicides. We had seven for the month of december last year so we hope we can turn that tide around and slow things down. 71 of our homicides what we have 71 clearance rate year to dade so hopefully we can get closure to some of these cases for the victims and their families. We have single side going from two to eight. Tenderloin has a 38 increase going from eight last year to 11 this year and bayview has a 30 increase they went from 10 this time last year and 13 this year and out of the district stations, northern actually has a decrease, they went from four this time last year to one year to date and they had two this time last year they have one year to date and near to date, zero to zero. And they went from nine last year and nine last year and to 20 this year and tenderloin from 11 to 22 and bayview from 36 to 47, mission from 10 to 16. Southern from eight to 10. There are, however, good news. Four district stations that are below where they were this time last year in shootings, thats central and it went from nine shooting incidents to three this year. They went from twotoone and one to three to two and actually theres three out of the seven that went down. Thats where we are on shootings. Again, hopefully we can have a good month in december. We are doing everything that we can in terms of the deployment and putting our officers in the areas that have been hot with shootings. We did have a killing a couple weeks ago and it was a night of our last weeks quick. The first one was at 38th avenue at gar reand a vehicle was traveling west on gary approaching 38 when his volkswagen made contact with pedestrians and 68yearold male. A victim was just crossing the street. The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and that investigation has currently undergoing. The male, the 68yearold male did not survive his injuries. At this point it does not appear to be a alcohol or under the influence related incident and as i said, the driver remains a scene and was cooperative with the investigation and its a really important event. Unfortunately the vehicle did not stay at the scene. The vehicle fled and persuade by witnesses to the Bayview District and the 900 block of kansas and that vehicle was abandoned and the vehicles fled on foot. Our investigators are following up and we have good needs including the vehicle so we hope to bring that specification to closure and a resolution. Sadly our victim did not survive his injuries and he was also pronounced deceased on that incident. It was a bad night yesterday in terms of fatal traffic collisions. Another update as many of you are probably aware our director of health, dr. Grand coal fax announced and due to a rise in covid in our city and county and throughout the state. The city moved into the most restrictive tier based on the state guidelines for reopening and as a result beginning on sunday, november 29th, which was this past sunday for any counties in the purple tier and this means indoor worship, indoor movie theaters, indoor gyms and Fitness Centers and indoor operations at museums, aquariums and zoos are to close. Retail stores have to limit their capacity to 25 and outdoor dinning will continue in our city and county. For anyone interested in a complete list of Operational Impact and Health Orders they can be found on the Citys Department of publichealth website and in addition to the roll back that will take place in our city, San Francisco will implement, as i stated, the state at home order that requires non essential businesses to close and prohibits members of different households to gather indoors or outdoors between 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. And this will be in effect until december 21st. And many of us ask what is the role of the Police Department in this and city has done a really good job of being very prudent about enforcement efforts. Many other city entities involved in the educational process and including warnings when warnings are appropriate for those incidents that are malicious or grossly the ordinance and the Health Orders, then the Police Department may be asked to step in and enforce and weve been prudent about that and as you all know, i regularly reported on our enforcement efforts back in the spring when we first started going on the cold Covid Response and well take that City Partners and education is still the key as these orders change wash your hands and be informed with these changes. It is on the publichealth website. The last issue in my report, i just want to give an update on the november 18th Commission Meeting, the commission asked for an update on the proposition e proposal that was passed and amended city charter section 4. 1 to 7. And this was we were asked to provide an update on our role in this and if there are questions about their clarity. At this time, i just want to give you background on what went into this and our staffing and deployment in improving our menthol gees and our ability to have systems in place to really be accurate and timely and our staffing and deployment has been a process thats been going on for really about three years and 2018, we introduced a staffing and deployment unit. We created a brand new unit which is centralized and was responsible to be basically the staffing and deployment tracking and the personnel assignments of tracking throughout the department. With this unit, we included sworn in and non sworn members including an analyst who we were very fortunate to have join our department from the Controllers Office and this unit has completely automated our personnel tracking system and created a current and historical record of employees, the positions they work within in the department so its very helpful and having that Historical Context in order to make future predictions about our staffing needs. With this new process in place, we also decided that the unit would be tasks with overseeing the development of the tools needed to determine adequate Staffing Levels which in this case, unit staff will be delayed on to metrics consulting who gave a presentation in front of the commission about their staffing analysis of the San FranciscoPolice Department and i guess as a further reminder, matrix was a Consulting Group that was with the rp process to conduct a staffing analysis and this was an Initiative Led by board of supervisors president norman yee, it came before the commission several years ago and it did get Commission Support and the Department Support so that led to a Staffing Task force. To really drill down on our staffing needs and give us a comprehensive staffing analysis. What is important to note here, is out of this process, matrix will help develop an interactive tool that will enable us, the Police Department, to comprehensively determine our staffing needs to every position and within the department on a dynamic and on going basis and thats the information based on that tool that will be brought before the Police Commission on the odd number of years and in terms of our staffing recommendations. So, theres still work to be done in terms of that staffing analysis tool and we hope to have that work completed during the First Quarter hopefully in 2021 and i think were on task and scheduled to do that and then we will have the ability to do a lot of the staffing analysis on an ongoing basis from this point forward or from that point forward. So, that is really the update for proposition e and if theres any questions on this part of my report or any other part of my report, im happy to answer them. Chief, earlier you mentioned an uptick in you used the term hot prowl. Can you explain what tha explais for the members of the public. Hot prowl burglaries are burglaries committed when the resident is inside the structure of the house so if you are in your bed sleeping, even if its your garage, you are in the dwelling while the burglary is taking place. And they are more dangerous because they can lead to confrontations and the like and violence and so those we take very seriously. So those have suffered an increase and its something that were very concerned with. Hopefully we can identify some of the more prolific offenders and get them and solve some of these cases and we hope it slows us down some. Commissioner cohen. All right. Good evening, everyone. Can you hear me . Chief, thank you very much for your report. I have a couple questions, really, im interested in knowing, i see what the data is telling me as it relates to shooting year to date by month. Comparing 2019 to 2020. I was wondering if you could add some if you could quantify it but maybe you can qualify it. I guess i making asking you to speculate but could you add some context why these numbers are increasing . Is there a connection to the pandemic . Is there a connection to sheltering in place. I just want to understand a little bit more about, for example, the month of october and i want to understand those numbers on a deeper level. Thank you, commissioner cohen. Its a really good question and im glad you asked it. One thing we can say for sure. I will get to the speculation of the pandemic. Theres some speculation from, well, this part is not speculation. A lot of the Mental Health professionals as cross the country including here think that theres been psychological impacts regarding the pandemic. And those have led to depression and weve seen we havent really seen the uptick in Domestic Violence that we were anticipating and thats a good thing. There have been definitely psychological impacts. Now how that impacted shootings and aggravated and assaults and those type of issues, i cannot make that connection i can only say that we know from our experts, our psychologists and psychiatrists and people who do this for a living, theyve been impacted on the mind based on the pandemic. Now theres a lot of speculation across the country including here. Whether thats adding to this increase of violence crimes because many cities are experiencing this and many cities to a much worse degree than us. One thing i can say, with our shootings, is that in some areas of the city, they have been group involved in games or groups and bayview, inkel tied e and we know theyre tied to previous homicides or homicides that happen in other cities and this is a phase of retaliation sometimes that retaliation has been laid and that is not uncommon. An incident may happen and you may have a retaliation a year later. Thats not uncommon at all. The other thing, in certain districts like in the tenderlo tenderloin, the degree of our shootings are by narcotics activity. Weve had narcotics related robberies go bad that results in shootings and the like and even some of the once outside of the tenderloin, we know for just based on investigations that that is narcotic related activity. Also, we know that very few of these shootings are just random. We have disputes and an argument that gets out of control and someone ends it with bringing out a gun. That number is not as large as the other two areas than the group involved and i say group because its not a game. It could be this neighbourhood versus that neighbourhood or that type of thing. We do know that the percentage of our shootings are related to that and the do you track any other types of violence in the city . When you talked about arson on the presentation, shooting victims, do you also deal with sexual assaults . Sexual assaults, yes, we do. Those numbers are much smaller in scope than what were talking about the shootings and we do track them. The majority of those are people that know each other and we get very few stranger, true stranger sexual assaults which is a good thing. The reason why i asked is because, one of the things that we were concerned about, at the beginning of this pandemic, was an increase in Domestic Violence, right. If you have a shelter in place, you have to stay at home. Many women are sheltering with their potential abusers. When you report these, you dont report these numbers. And im curious to know if theres an increase or a trend. An increasing interpreted. I mentioned this earlier that we thought we might anticipate when the pandemic first resulted in a shelter in place, a stay at home. That was a big deal. We took the measures including the text 911 text to really put some measures in place to get some people who are experiencing Domestic Violence, opportunities to call and they cant get to a telephone and that type of thing. We havent seen the increase we thought but i didnt break it out for this report. I could come back to the commission with a breakdown of Domestic Violence and its how tracked pre pandemic and so he have more clarity and i can get more clarity on that. Thank you, and my final question really has to go wit with the staff are our professional Standards Bureau who are responsible for coordinating and really spearheading this work and you know that comes at a need but theres a cost to that when we pull officers out of our stations and investigations or whatever their assignments are. We really dont have a lot of cushion to make those types of moves that we had to by necessity and again its worth while but it comes at a cost. The other thing to this is a lot of the reforms that have been put in place, ill give you one example and not be too long winded are practise time and distance and taking your time. From the fires and and it gives a lot of home that its going to alleviate some of those calls coming to the Police Department and well see how it pans out and it may be annie efficiency that will allow it to have more room and flexibility on some of our deployment. We hope its going to thank you, this is my last question and chief, you really did touch on this because the Mayors Office launched this special Pilot Programme that i guess rams Department Health threaders to respond to those members that are having these mental breaks. I would like you to start to track, in some way, i hope to see a decrease and sfpd interaction in this level of in this type of, i dont know what the word is, engagement, if we can continue to move forward just to be able to quantify the success of the programme and dph will have their numbers and its important to sfpd and it tracks this and keep up with their numbers as well. And im hopeful that well have a positive response that this Pilot Programme will be successful. We absolutely with track it from the beginning and keep the commission informed and im hopeful too. We all are hopeful this would be a good thing. And its successful. Successful alternative. Ok. Thank you, thank you colleagues, madam Vice President. Thank you, commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. Chief, when you are discussing prop e and the staffing, i saw this article in the news, i think it was either yesterday or today, about some sort of agreement that was reached between the poa and i saw your name on it. It relates to i couldnt figure out quite what it is because it doesnt seem to have any clear parameters for what actually it does. And its related to staffing or is more specifically what this letter is. With this letter is a part of this on going conversation commissioner cohen just talked about what we cannot have the Police Respond to. This is part of the mayors, one of her four initiatives of not having the Police Respond to none criminal type of calls when theres no criminal activity at foot and what this letter was was an offshoot of the department has been working with Mayors Office and other city departments on including the department of Emergency Management to identify those calls, those types of calls that fit in that criteria being calls that maybe another department can handle not the Police Department so there were fires and things like that. Some of the Parking Enforcement calls. Some traffic collisions that the p. O. A. Has agreed that yes, we will work with the department to make this happen. Theres still a lot of process that has to go into this and as you stated, if its going to be strength and policy changes its going to have a commission but what were doing right now is really digging into the assessment fees and assess those types of calls and and the poa has agreed to work and the other departments are involved because of and the discussions with those departments and those respective collective bargain unions but this process is just getting underway and this was really a part of the mayors objective to not have us respond to these types of calls. It goes in line with the Police Commission resolution on us responding to those homeless related calls and it goes to the Mental Health response that a lot of people can be better and so that is not doing anything other than that its really an agreement to Work Together and identify those calls and shift away from a Police Response. A lot of that goes to whether we have the capacity of the city to do that. Yeah, i guess, maybe this is my lawyer brain trying to read it but, does this commit anybody to doing anything other than just saying identifying these areas. That is the conversation with all those different players is on going. Why is that the poas decision about what type of calls that they respond to. Its not their decision. Its their decision eventually there are collective bargaining issues that will come to play because its work that they respond to that if theyre going to give up, that could have impact within a scope of legally within the scope of collective bargaining so, they will have to be in this conversation. What theyre saying is, we want to expedite this and this is my interpretation of what theyre saying, were telling you that, were willing to do this and here are the calls and the department identified the calls. The poa has been involved in this conversation and theyre willing partner in terms of shifting these calls away from policing which is what many are asking for and they have a non Police Response to these calls where you dont need an officer with a gun and all the weight of Law Enforcement to handle these calls. I guess to me, it kind of came out of its strange this was released on the same day that the p. O. A. Obtained the 6 raises of people working together. It does not bind them to anything at this point. That actually the reason that came out the way it did if you followed the Board Hearing was part of that was a request by the board to understand what it is that we were working on and that realm so that was part of the reason that letter was requested by the president of the board. And i hadnt seen the news article on it so i dont know what was written about the news articles but it does not bind anybody to anything because theres a whole lot of other work that has to be done. Like i said, really, theres all these other departments and entities that have to agree to this as well and. Its a press release to give people discover for signing off on to a large raise for the police union when the city is facing a massive deficit. I was hoping that it actually bound them to some concrete actions but that does not not seem to be the case. Did you in any point, consider consulting with the commission on this because i would think there would be some areas that perhaps we might want to weigh in on if theres areas that are going to be part of negotiations regarding calls for service. This will have to come to the commission. This effort is being led by and coordinatessed by the Mayors Office and we were asked to participate in it and parts of this conversation were happening before all the calls were reformed because of the george floyd incident. That really can put this to a new level of urgency with all the calls for change and reform and what Police Officers should be responding to and they shouldnt. Theres a lot of coordination that goes to that and being coordinated except theres multiple departments that are involved in these conversations. The commission eventually, to answer your question, has to be involved if theres any policy shift and policy changes. To identify all the groundwork it takes to do that, this is being coordinated by the Mayors Office and at this point, i think its more of identifying those types of calls based on the analysis from d. E. M. And the Police Department of publichealth and the Fire Department of what sits in that and what sits into the categories that we can have a discussion about. Thats what weve done. Ultimately, this is going to have to come back to questions of policy as you just stated. So, moving forward with this process, i think it would be great if you can loop the commission in. When i first saw it in the newspaper, i was a little shocked. I thought there was a agreement to change all of these responses for calls for services and i read it close and i thought this is actually not saying anything substantive other than just kind of like hey, this is what we might do. So, i do think this is an area where the commission should not be involved and weve always had issues or we raised issues of when we were told about things after the fact and decided a contentious discussion and so im glad we learned about it from the media, but i would have loved to learn abou learned abom the department. Heard and understood. Thank you, chief. Thank you. Will you, chief, i was hoping that you could also let us know how this transition by allowing those calls to be diverted to the Police Department to other individuals. How that is going to effect programmes like hsoc and the officers at each district station that respond to homeless issues and other Mental Health issues. Because i think it ties to the staffing issues that would you also raise and since those calls are now going to be diverted, then that frees up officers and rather than increasing Staffing Levels, maybe its more of a reorganization or re adjustment the officers to areas that are needed since the calls pertaining to Mental Health and homelessness or homeless issues are now being diverted. Because work within that budget. So, i think that would be an interesting presentation and. Only a small group of calls have been averted at this point and thats those calls that are handled by ems6 and it amount to about eight calls per day on average. The Police Department is still handling everything else. The plan is that as we go through each of these categories, the problems that i discussed earlier that we come to an agreement that another department or another entity can handle them and then create a capacity to do that so that is a process thats going to take some time i want to make sure its clear theres only a small group of calls right now that are actually being averted and in a very small area. Its being piloted in the tenderloin and its that area. So its a very small pilot. I think its promising and to your point, it will hopefully allow us and make some reassessments on staffing needs because we already know, based on the current analysis, that were 200 plus officers short. So maybe that will give us some relief there and to not have to hire 200 more officers and maybe that will get some there. We want to make sure that we work hard and we work expediently as possible to put this together and it can be done to put it together and well keep the information for chem and we want to push this forward. Row imagine policing is how its been going and we are there and. Before the last Commission Meeting it was very informative because some of the specialized units, we found that its more beneficial to not have certain specialized units and have them out patrolling. I think theres good stuff and. The number of calls are eight per day and sf can be handling all the and its a sense of what that means all the rest. How much of what kind of volume is sfpd still handling and how long do you think it will take to transition more off sfpds plate at this point . Eight on average is not a hard number. This unit is planning the ems6 will be expanded to six ems6 units in the spring of next year. So, it will expand. To give you an idea of this group, as identified that theres probably about 20,000, 20 to 22,000 calls a year that will fall in this category that were talking about so its volumes of if he with dont have the capacity with these group, someone has to respond to these calls so we have to build a capacity. Hopefully this pilot we can workout the kinks and all that. The Fire Department has been great and publichealth has been great. Theres a lot of details in the the devil is in the details in how we make this transition. [please stand by] i have couple of updates. Currently were at 725 cases that have been open at this point in the year. This time last year, we were at 686 cases in terms of cases that be have closed, we closed 808 cases this time last year we closed 600 cases. Depending on number of cases cas that we have open now are 355 cases today. This time last year, we had 403 open cases. Weve sustained 39 case so far this year. This time last year we sustained 35 cases. We had 34 cases that have been open longer than nine months. This time last year, we were at 23 cases that have been open longer than nine months. Of those 34 cases, 18 of them are told and remain 16 have not been told. We remediated 32 cases this year. At this time last year we remediated 27 cases. We have 32 cases that are pending with the chief right now waiting hearings or decisions. We have 13 cases that are pending with the commission. In terms of the outreach since our last Commission Meeting, we participated in rate Equity Leadership group discussing city wide projects. We also participated and hosted mediationbased Discussion Panel with three volunteers from the d. P. A. And on november 20th, we hosted a virtual d. P. A. 101 informational session for chalk. Chalk is community in harmony acting for learning and kids organization. Were gong a lot with the Youth Commission and may taking meetings with them on their behalf with agencies they identified to learn more as well as know your rights brochure stuff that we helped develop. Upcome, we have couple of events that would be of interest to the commission. We can talk about the them at a later time, i want to Say Something about changes in the election as the chief presented just on some of the oversight reforms taking place in the state just so that Everybody Knows whats going on in the state since the election. We can talk about that at a later time. I want to talk about what the current state of things are as well as where d. P. A. Is in context to these things. I know we have something scheduled in the next few weeks if not months about the local Progress Report that started addressing some of those issues. Lot of those things have changed now in the election. I want to make sure that the public as well as the commissioners are updated where d. P. A. Fits in context with other agencies doing this work. Thats all i have for now. Ill have an overview all of the policy recommendations and all of the policy work in the staff report. Thank you. Thats a great idea about presenting the presentation director henderson. I have two question. The first question is the 39 sustained cases versus 75 from last year. If you can explain the difference. It seemin seem like not past 40. 34 open cases that are older than nine months regarding missing deadlines, i wanted to know why there are so many cases even though 18 are told. I think thats still kind of a high number. Thank you for your question. Im not sure what those numbers are. If ask me to guess, i hate to guess without knowing the specific number. I would guess the numbers were higher than last year. Last year we were sustaining lot of cases with bodyworn camera violations. Lot of them i didnt turn the camera on and i forgot in the training. I dont know if thats the reason. I would guess that had a large part to do or play in the disparities in the numbers from last year versus this year with the new technology being introduced. Remember, we ramped it up. There was a 6month period where we didnt hold the department accountable through the discipline process. We just made record of those transgressions that they occurred. When we started Holding Department accountable with filing, the numbers shot up. I dont know for sure thats the reason. I would guess that was the reason because it took a little bit of time for the department to catch up with their training and the actual practice for those numbers to level back down to what the numbers youre seeing now. Thats what i would guess why we have that spike. In terms of the cases pass the 707 da207 day. Since i took over that position in july 2017, we have never missed one deadline. The deadline is never beyond nine months. I will continue so we dont miss any deadlines since we have not under my leadership. That said, for the numbers that have come in, i go through these numbers and the cases regularly, especially before the meetings. Were talking about 16 cases out of the 34 cases because those are the ones that have been told. Of those, 10 of them came right before the shelterinplace took effect. Those cases are in there and those investigations are taking a little bit longer because of pandemic implications. I will look into i dont have the an answer for the other six i will look into them and let you know. Without you asking the question, that really make sense what all of the numbers means. Thank you for the question. I appreciate it. I will note that you have very diligent about the deadlines. I wanted to raise it, it does seem like a high number and thats one of the greatest fears and the commission as well. Not on my watch. There has been a spike because of the pandemic. Even in my notes here, of those numbers, those came in right before the stayathome and the investigation themselves have been affected by the pandemic. They identified them in case this question came up. Thank you. We all appreciate the incredibly hard work that your has done and continue to do. If you have those numbers next time, that will be really helpful. Were always impressed by the work that you do. Does director henderson submit his report prior to the Commission Meeting. Im not seeing it. Im confused. I dont have the numbers. You should have the numbers. They are normally in the packet. Thank you, i must be overlooking. Thank you. Thats it, thank you. Next item. 2c, commission reports. Commission report will be limit to brief description of activity and announcement