Transcripts For SFGTV Police 20240703

Commissioners. Chief scott and director hawkins. I am captain mahkota of the Major Crimes Unit , and im honored to be here tonight to present to you kevin, Sergeant Kevin. Quadro. Quadro of the robbery detail. Sergeant quadro is a 11 year veteran of San Francisco Police Department, having joined the department in 2012. Sergeant quadro is the grandson of retired sfpd Sergeant Elmer quadro, with whom sergeant quadro shares the same star number. Number 1253. Sergeant quadro began began his career at tenderloin station and then was assigned to the midmarket foot beat. Sergeant quadro was promoted to sergeant in 2018 and was assigned to patrol at mission station. Sergeant quadro transferred to the robbery detail and has been an outstanding member of the robbery detail since 2019. Sergeant quadro is a dedicated, hardworking investigator. The running joke in the robbery detail is that he spends as much time helping his coworkers on their cases as he spends working on his own cases. While not entirely true, it does show his dedication to helping his colleagues and the residents of San Francisco. Sergeant quadro has also fostered and maintained numerous relationships with fellow officers throughout the department and is constantly collaborating with fellow members of the department, both in the robbery detail and members assigned to other department units. Sergeant quadro also works well with Law Enforcement members from other jurisdictions as well as successfully collaborating with members of the district attorneys office. These relationships and collaboration are invaluable to the robbery detail, especially when the detail requests assistance from other units and conversely, when those other units request assistance from the robbery detail. Just as important, sergeant quadro treats all victims of crimes who hes committed to helping with empathy and compassion. As stated before, sergeant quadro is quick to offer his help to everyone of his coworkers and share his experience. When asked. Sergeant quadro is respected and eager to assist when called upon by his supervisors for specific tasks and is always quick to recognize obstacles and potential challenges that his supervisors may need to be made aware of. Sergeant quadro will always answer the call from his coworkers and supervisors on duty or off duty at and at any time of day or night. Sergeant quadro is very well respected and liked throughout the entire San Francisco Police Department and the community. Recent only sergeant quadro invested in an incident that occurred in april of this year where a straight a street robbery occurred and during the course of the robbery, the victim was shot by one of the suspects. As the victim was seriously injured. And has endured numerous surgeries. Sergeant quadro dedicated all of his energy to this case. A painstaking, five month long investigation by sergeant quadro led to the identification of the involved suspects and their locations as multiple arrest warrants and search warrants were obtained. Sergeant quadro coordinated with outside units and jurisdictions of the on the execution of the warrants, all of which occurred outside of San Francisco, including one that occurred in a differing state. All suspects involved in this violent robbery were arrested and the arrests and search warrants also led to additional, unrelated charges and additional evidence from the incident. That will be very useful in the successful prosecution of the suspects. Most importantly, i think, as you can see, sergeant quadro is a dedicated husband and father. To three young children. I present to you and im honored to present to you Sergeant Kevin quadro. Sergeant, thank you so much for your service and for your incredible work in that one case that was highlighted by captain cota. Absolutely no pressure, but i would invite you to say a few words if youre so moved. Sure obviously, i want to thank my family for coming out. It means a lot. Sorry its a little emotional. Next week, i want to remind this commission and the chief and everybody on the meeting of this commission on the 18th marks a six Year Anniversary for officer elliott tinkle. He was critically injured recently. He had some tough conversations with elliott. Hes still fighting. So i remind everybody that thats on our minds in the Police Department. And thank you again for the award. So. So the San Francisco Police Department recognizes the Sergeant Kevin quadro star number 1253 of the robbery unit as the officer of the week. Thanks. Thank you, sergeant quadro. You know, i was prepared to Say Something else, but i just want to point out that you know, this moment that was meant to be for you, you took the time to think about elliott, and that just says a lot about you as a person and you as a man. And i think your family, hopefully, theyre very proud of you because we are. So thank you very much. Thank you, chief. Appreciate it. Commissioner walker. Congratulation guys. Thank you so much for your service and for being here and for your compassion. Thanks. It says a lot out about you, about all our officers. Thats how thats how you approach your job. And how you show up. And i want to thank the family, too. Hello there. Thank you for being here with your papa. First public speaking. Yeah, shes probably better than i. Thank you very much for everything you do. Thank you, commissioner yee, one also thank you to Sergeant Coder for all you done for us in there in the city and the community. Thank the family. Thats one of the most important things for the officers that the families here to join your. Guess recognition for your certificate. So again, stay safe out there. Thank you again. For members of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium. Good afternoon. My name is doctor miller. Im a longtime resident of San Francisco and im here on behalf of the disabled community and many patients that ive had in regards to the ongoing ada violations on the city sidewalks. Im sorry, general Public Comment will be called next. This is just on line. Item one, the officer recognition. Oh, im so sorry. Im jumping the gun. Well, i want to also thank the recognition for the officer who did an excellent job. And i spent many years at San Francisco general helping helping you guys and gals out when you guys have been in crisis. So again, thank you to him. And ill come back and share my concerns in a minute. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank any other member would like to make Public Comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium and there is no Public Comment. Line item two general Public Comment at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonights agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Police Commission or under Police Commission. Rules of order during Public Comment. Neither police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. Alternatively you may also submit Public Comment in either of the following ways email the secretary of the Police Commission at sfpd commission at icgov. Org or written comments may be sent via Us Postal Service to the Public Safety building, located at 1245 third street, San Francisco, california. 94158. If you would like to make Public Comment, please approach the podium. Good evening, everybody. I uh, something a reminder. I think its for everybody. Its like the there is no possible all good issue for from lies. It just doesnt work. So thats the problem. We have to, uh, face the truth at some point because its going to come at us no matter what. So it might be very violent if we wait much longer. The other things i want to say, i really dont care if people dont like me. Its not the problem. And i think people dont like me. Thats exactly because im not supposed to be liked. Its just i want everybody to be happy. So there is no favoritism. So i really dont care. Just to let you know, uh, let thing i think maybe i said that last time. The key now to solve the problem because we have to bring solutions, right . Otherwise its remember to own yourself. You own yourself. So you dont take any crap anymore. Thats it. Including lies. Because it doesnt serve you. You know, your happiness. And thats the way were going to solve the problems. Because if you pass the word, everybody is going to own remember to own his or herself and you protect yourself. Its your private property. So after that, its respect to each other and it works automatically for the common good. Is that okay, andre. Hello again. I hope this is the appropriate time. Uh, my name is dr. Miller. As i mentioned earlier, im here on behalf of the disabled community and many patients who have disabilities. Unfortunately, there are many issues going on in San Francisco, and it has collateral effects on everyone. But of grave concern to me is the are the ongoing ada violations for passageway on city sidewalks. I understand ive been working on this for some time, that the police are also involved and theyre supposed to be a police response. Unfortunately, it seems to be in disarray. And i understand there are priorities which can lead to discrimination. I believe. However, i believe that we just dont have a clear response from the police, especially in the lower polk street area. And there are lots of reasons, but its not being attended to, whether its fleet week, whether theres a funeral, whether theres, you know, priority is, i believe, disabled people deserve the right to be on the sidewalk and if the police are involved, we need some clarification an immediately and assistance calls on the board remain open for weeks and are closed responses. When ive been there have been where we cant do anything. So theres not any communication coming from the top in terms of what can and cant be done. But my understanding by the ada and having spoken with the department of justice is if there is a sidewalk violation, there are no exceptions. 24 seven, there needs to be clearance on a sidewalk for feet for all people. It impairs peoples passageway. We request Police Assistance and the message is not getting relayed and the responses are not happening. So we appreciate whatever i can do to help to work with you. There are certain streets that are, especially myrtle, between polk and larkin. Its in grave concern. And the last thing i request is in the lower polk street area near the hospital there on van ness, there tends to be an increase in criminal activity. And i would really suggest that because its on the borderline between northern and tenderloin, a Police Outpost be stationed. I really appreciate that. I appreciate everyones support and im here in good faith. Thank you for listening. Hello. Hi. Good evening, everyone. Id like to use the overhead and im here about my son, aubrey abercastle, who was murdered, is not showing up. Okay. Could you start my time over then . I didnt see it. I was looking over there. Okay. First i want to. I want to thank Brooke Jenkins, the da, for finally getting my sons headstone. Its in the ground now. I have something i can go look at now. And stand there and talk to him. And its a beautiful marble headstone. And i thank Brooke Jenkins for that. And i texted her and told her thank you. She told me at my sons visual this will be the last year your son go without a headstone. I went 17 years without a headstone on because of the grief and the trauma that ive been going through and the money that i didnt have anymore because it cost a lot and didnt want to realize that my son was gone. But again, i thank Brooke Jenkins for what shes done. And i also am still asking, when is it going to be another investigator to come and investigate our childrens murders. To pay tipsters some kind of money to investigate their murders . My sons case is still unsolved. And even though i have this headstone and its somewhat of a victory, but its not a closure for me. So again, i want to thank her for that, for helping a mother out like myself and im still asking for help from everyone here about solving these unsolved homicides and hiring someone to come and pay tipsters some kind of money so that our cases can be solved. Thank you. Any members of the public that have any information regarding the murder of aubrey abacus, you can call the anonymous 24 7 tip line. At 415 a5754444. And there is no further Public Comment. Next item, please, sergeant, line item three consent calendar receive and file action family code 6228 incident report release Quarterly Report 2023. Quarter two sapd and dpas sb 1421 and sb 16 monthly report sir. Motion motion to receive and file. Second, any member of the public that would like to make Public Comment regarding line item three the consent calendar. Please approach the podium. And there is no Public Comment on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes mr. Walker is yes. Commissioner benedicto yes. Mr. Benedicto is yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Mr. Yanez is yes. Commissioner. Burn. Yes. Commissioner. Burn is yes. Commissioner yee yes. Commissioner yee is yes. And Vice President carter oberstar. Yes. Vice president stone is. Yes. You have six yeses line item for chiefs report discussion weekly crime trends and Public Safety concerns provide an overview of offenses, offenses, incidents or events occurring in San Francisco, having an impact on Public Safety Commission Discussion on planned events and activities achieved describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Chief scott. Thank you. Sergeant youngblood. Good evening. Vice president carter overstone commissioners acting executive director. Sarah so im sorry. Hawkins i know im reading. Henderson im sorry. Sarah executive director. Hawkins todays chief report. I will start with just overall crime trends and keep it, keep it very brief. Overall our violent crime, we are up 3 in that category. Homicides were up by 242 homicides compared to 40 this time last year. The good news is our total gun violence is down by 3. Thats about a difference of five crimes from this to five shootings from this time last year 162 compared to 167 property crimes is down overall 6. And with that, theres a 7 reduction in in in car breakins, which is quite significant. So we still have a lot of work to do in that regard. But definitely it decrease is better than an increase year to date burglaries are also down year to date in terms of our homicides, our clearance rate is 75. And in terms of our gun seizures, to help address the firearms related crimes, we are at 851 year to date compared to 814 this time last year. Ghost guns. Were starting to catch up with last year. Were at 158 compared to 160 this time last year. A couple of significant incidents for the week. We had a homicide that was reported in the 200 block of mission this was on october 7th at 1 57 a. M. Over night. The victim, along with several companions, were confronted by a group of subjects during the altercation. Shots were fired and the victim was struck at least once the victim was transported to San Francisco. General zuckerberg and unfortunate he passed away from his injuries. This is an active and ongoing investigation. No arrests at this time. There was one shooting for this reporting period that occurred at mission and cesar chavez on ten, 823 or october 8th at 8 p. M, the victim was walking when he heard a gunshot. Then felt pain. He was self transported to the hospital out of the city and the injuries are believed to be non life threatening. We had a couple of significant arrests. The first one i want to report is a aggravated assault on an 80 year old elderly victim. This occurred on october 5th at 7 50 a. M. At bay and lion street in the northern district. The victim, who was 80 years old, was walking his dog when an unknown subject approached him and hit him in the head with an unknown object. The victim fell and hit his head on the sidewalk and was transported for his injuries. Surveillance footage was located and the identity of the suspect was developed. The suspect was later located that day by northern officers and was taken into custody without further incident. So i just want to say, hats off to the northern officers for sticking with this and following through and that resulted in an arrest of a very callous suspect. There was a retail theft operation during this reporting period as a part of our retail theft efforts to reduce the number of retail thefts in our city. This is a part of our series of what we call the retail blitz operation. And this occurred in the San Francisco center with the assistance of the highway california highway patrol. Theyre organized Retail Crime Task force teams of uniformed and plainclothes officers, basically conducted operations at the retail establishments in the San Francisco center and observed nine individuals from various stores stealing property from inside the shopping mall. These individuals were swiftly arrested and all the stolen property was recovered. So that is a part of an ongoing effort. We will be doing more of these these types of efforts as we have obtained funding through the organized retail crime grant, 15. 3 Million Department was granted. So that will give us more room to add capacity to these types of operations, which is a good thing. Theres an Armed Robbery series, a really good arrest here between the dates of september 26th and october 4th, three armed commercial robbery robberies occurred in and around the Mission District between midnight and Early Morning hours. The robberies involved taking over of businesses, forcing victims to the floor or into back rooms at gunpoint. In two of the robberies. The victims were pistol whipped. The loss in each robbery included currency and merchandise. And in two of the incidents, the business is atms were also taken during the robberies. Atm machines is during the course of the investigation, it was determined that these robberies were committed by the same suspects. One of the suspect was identified as a 32 year old San Francisco resident and the other suspect was identified as a 33 year old male. On october 4th, several units participated in an operation to take the suspects into custody. Both suspects were taken into custody without incident. Subsequent only a search warrant was was served at one of the suspects residence. Evidence was recovered, including two pistols and merchandise stolen in these robberies. All evidence was seized in both suspects were booked on several counts of robberies, kidnaping and assault with a deadly weapon. False imprisoned and two counts of use of a firearm during the commission of a felony. So this these two individuals were very dangerous individuals and good work by our team to take them into custody. One of the robberies also include included a robbery of a norms market. This was at 2200. Bryant two victims were inside of the norms market when two same two suspects with firearms entered and physically assaulted. Both victims. The suspect robbed one victim and left with the market safe with contents valued at 9,000. We did obtain good evidence and the suspects were booked. That was one of the robberies that they were booked on. Also report and really unfortunate incident on the 7th of october. This was during this past weekend during fleet week. There was a Rooftop Party where a bunch of individuals, bunch of people were were watching the blue angels and unfortunately, one of the ladies that was up there fell to her death into the street. Despite life saving efforts by the responding emergency personnel. She succumbed to her injuries. So no rooftop parties are a fairly common in San Francisco. My Public Safety message to anybody participating in rooftop parties is, number one, be careful. A lot of the roofs that these parties are being held on arent permitted to do that. Theres not railings or anything to keep people from tumbling off if they get too close to the edge. So please take caution if you do participate, our advice and our message is we ask you to refrain from participating in a Rooftop Party when theres theyre not designed for that because they are extremely dangerous. And this is not the first time that weve had people falling off roofs either to their deaths, deaths or serious injuries. So more more to follow on that in terms of public messaging, particularly around fleet week and some of our events where people have these types of parties. Lastly there was a swat incident which weve had a number of these. And for the public swatting calls are basically fake calls, emergency calls that are usually generated by either a computer or some type of hacker. And the purpose you see the target of the calls, the purpose is to get police and other Emergency Responders to show up at the persons location in either house business. And weve had many of them at schools in our city. So this is an ongoing issue and an ongoing problem. It uses a lot of Law Enforcement resources and oftentimes fire personnel as well, depending on the nature of the call and again, the Public Safety messages here is these are very serious incidents. And if we are able to investigate and find out the source of them, it is a serious crime and you will be held accountable. So we are discouraging these types of calls because weve gotten a number of them recently. Last thing i know, Vice President carter stone, you asked for ongoing reports for our drug market at this week. There were 44 arrests, actually, i dont have the breakdown of the number of sales versus use, so i would have to follow up with that. But we also this week recovered 21, 20, 100g of illegal narcotics. But i apologize for not having the breakdown. I will have that next week. And that concludes my report. Chief, thanks for. Oh, please. One other thing i forgot to mention. Sorry. Vice president carter stone, significant incident over the weekend. Officer involved shooting at the chinese consulate on geary street. We will be having a town hall for as of now. We will make this a formal announcement, but were planning to schedule it for next thursday. But we will make a formal announcement on that. If that changes. But we will have a town hall on this incident. I have nothing further to report at this time. We did put out a statement to the public on that and just the incident. A suspect drove a car into the consulate at that call, got called in as his emergency call with a person armed with a gun, actually. And officers respond and ois occurred. So we will we will make known what we can in the town hall of whats appropriate to release. But there will be a town hall on this incident. Great. Thanks, chief. Thanks for the report. Do you have any you said that weve had a recent uptick in swatting calls. Do you have any Additional Information you can share on that in terms of the number of these calls weve been getting not at hand, but i can definitely i can put something together. These theyre happening in the city, but theyre also happening regionally and nationally. And weve had a couple of incidents. I know this doesnt specifically answer your question where for instance, there was a trend of swatting calls at schools. There were bomb threats across the country on the same day at around the same time causes it wreaks havoc. You know, and working with some of our partners across the country, every time this has happened, weve been able to determine fairly quickly that it was a swatting call. But its still we have to respond. We have to take these things seriously until we really believe that its a swatting call. So ill see if i can do some research about how many. But there has been an uptick. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Last week, the president of the Police Officers association came here and spoke at Public Comment regarding the unauthored ized release of an officers name whos facing disciplinary charges. I did. I just did. Want to ask, is the Police Department investigating the data breach . Yes. Yes we are. Yes. And when did that investigation start it . Well, we started looking into it when we found out about the breach. But as far as a formal internal investigation, and that was last week. All right. And so you started investing, getting it when the newspaper article hit or. Yes, we started inquiring to figure out kind of what happened. Yes gotcha. And just last question on this. The document agent that was mistakenly released unredacted, and there were other were there was other information redacted in that document besides just the specific officer. Have individuals who may be affected by the breach. But whose names have not appeared in a newspaper article, been notified that that their personal confidential information may have been obtained. No, no, no, not at this time. All right. And do we is there any plan to do that at some point or is that not is that generally not . Well, we will see. One of the things were looking at is really kind of what the reach of this is. And what possibly is at stake in terms of any other information that might might be contingent to this. And one of the things i know, for example, has been given about a credit breach. I mean, i think this is somewhat different that there arent those type of issues at play, but we do want to know what the reach of this is. So people and then well make a decision. Okay, great. Thanks. Thats everything for me. Commissioner walker, thank you for the update that there was also a, i think a an action. Around street vending and actual sites actions around that is that our department or is that the mission a dpw folks im not clear who who takes care of that but if you could report on that yes and i can answer at least the question the enforcement component of street vending is the responsibility of public works. Its administrative public works. Can enforce on that. We do support those efforts because as there have been several occasions, a number of occasions where the public works, workers have been assaulted by some of the vendors when they try to enforce. So they have asked us to support that effort. So as much as possible, we can prevent that from happening. And so we do and will do that and continue to do that. Thank you. Thats ive heard that, too, from folks. Its really important. Ive heard from a lot of the businesses in the mission who really appreciate whatever you can do to we all can do as a city to help control that because its creating issues and to that point, just to follow up on some of the Public Comment we had about about the sidewalk blocking violations and the policy and what were doing around and that issue to clear sidewalks. Maybe if youre not prepared to do it. Now, i know we didnt ask before it might be something that we get a presentation on also with the other departments that are partners with us. I think it would be good to just get an update about that. Thank you. We can do that. Thank you. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Commissioner yee, thank you very much. There Vice President carter on. Chief, i just wanted to thank the Homicide Division for solving another, i guess i guess killing out there in the Richmond District where they apprehend the suspect that i, i guess, beat the shop owner. So i just want to acknowledge the department and the Investigative Team for doing their Due Diligence and outstanding work. Also so on regarding the shooting at the chinese consulate, i think its probably the first that you have now that theres an officer involved shooting in a foreign embassy. So is the procedure going to be the same . We have two ois, you know, investigation or will the state Department Come in and do their investigation before for San Francisco Police Department . Our our procedure for this is the same. But we did and well continue to consult with the state department as well as the Council General from china. And embassy is technically foreign soil. So we had to make sure that we had those conversations and got the cooperation of our consular office, which they did. Theyve been very gracious and the state department was on board from the very beginning in terms of consultation. And they actually had representatives that responded. But as far as the process, we have been granted, the. Authority to investigate it, like we normally investigate this, to follow up on their on the response team, how many officers were at the scene at the time of the shooting . You know, three they didnt all get there at the same time at three. Okay. Uh see, my last question would be in regards to the sfpd responding to homelessness and i guess the people that are 51, 50, possibly , how many officers or how many , i guess you would say response that our officers are responding to, meaning that in a days time you might have ten reports . Is that ten officers or or 30 officers. It varies depending on the day of the week. I mean, as far as the officers that are assigned to the healthy streets operation center, it is i think were down to 6 or 8 officers. It may be down to six, but i believe its eight. And a sergeant and a lieutenant and they respond in conjunction with the homeless and support of housing. Uh or their hot team, particularly when an encampment is going to be resolved or resolution. So everybody has a role. And again, some of what we are there for is a standby to make sure that theyre everything is peaceful and we have our Service Providers there, our navigators, if you will, there. But that varies. Some stations do have teams that are in place to address that issue. The Homeless Outreach officers, not every station has those teams, but some stations do. But just to kind of depends on whos working and what the what the issue of the day is. But the team is a dedicated group of officers. Thank you very much, chief commissioner benedicto. Thank you, chief. I just one question i had, and this is i know this has been a late breaking and developing story today. And so i think ill also ask for it to be agendized. But i wonder if you had any reaction to there was a story in the chronicle today about sfmtas parking tickets and the fact that thats not currently coordinated with with sfpds information on stolen vehicles and that, you know, its possible that there was greater coordination that that you could see that being a way to identify people, people stolen vehicles when theyre ticketed. So i just wanted to know first if you had any initial reactions to that that you want. Do you want to share if you had a chance to see that . Yeah, no, i have not seen the story, but i am aware of that situation. So there are a couple of things. There was an executive order that was issued today by our mayor. I saw that too, directing that mta and sfpd Work Together to resolve the information and the bureaucracies that prevent mta from obtaining the information they need to obtain so that was just today. So we will work through that and figure out a solution. Yeah, sometime around noon i saw the story and then when i checked later that afternoon, i saw there was an executive order issued. So its been a story with multiple developments today. I think ill ask that we agendize is how that work is going. Maybe for some time later this year or early next year because i think it seems like a bit of an easy win to get that coordination. It sounds like from the research that the reporters did in the article, some jurisdictions like san diego have a system with more robust information sharing. So i think itd be itd be great if we could do that coordination and provide that resource to the public. So ill, you know, recognizing that the executive order is about two hours old, i wont expect anything now, but i think its worth further review by this commission. Happy to do it. Happy to do it. Thank you. Thats all. Thanks great. Sergeant, could you take us to Public Comment for any member of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding line item for the chiefs report, please approach the podium. Good evening again. Im here for again about my son. Again, his case is unsolved. I was just talking about how how 0 have been paid out for nearly a decade for unsolved homicides. There has not been this article came out in the papers and still waiting for someone to be hired to solve these unsolved cases. As you have all the names of the perpetrators who murdered my son , you have. Hannibal, thomas, paris moffat, andrew badu, jason thompson, Thomas Anthony hunter, marcus carter. One of them is deceased. And so you have all the perpetrators who were there that murdered my son. This is at the homicide on the fifth floor. And your records where i saw the names and was allowed, not allowed, but i wrote them down here. This is what they left me with. A lifeless body of my son. No mother wants to go through this at all. I come here every wednesday day pleading for justice for my child and no mother wants to stand over a casket or even though it sounds redundant for me, but its not to you guys. It might sound that way, but to me it isnt. Not just standing for my son, but i stand for all unsolved homicides of all the young men that have been murdered in the fillmore, in the in the bayview district. So i know you hear me all the time. Some of you may be busy on your phones and doing what youre going to do over there on your phones. And youre tired of listening to me, but im talking to you these cases need to be solved. It needs to happen. And again, for any member that has any information regarding the murder of aubrey abacus, you can call the anonymous 24 7 tip line. At 415 a5754444. My name is yolanda williams. Im standing in front of you today as the Vice President of the San Francisco branch of the naacp. Dr. Brown could not be here, but he requested chief and commissioners that i bring this to your attention. He believes that he has received some credible information that the black churches are about to be targeted for crimes to occur on sundays when were having our Morning Worship Service is. I am asking, chief for you to set aside a time to meet with dr. Brown and some of the executive members of the naacp because as we do believe that this is very plausible and i think that it would be time for us to start thinking on sundays to have officers from the district stations at least visit during the course of their tour of duty during the daytime. Um, each of these churches make themselves known that theyre on duty so that the churches can feel that theyre more protected and we dont need to be part of the statistics and we are faithful people. We believe in god and we support our Police Department. But at the same time, we really think at this point in time, we need to look at this and consider our this serious and do what all we can to protect those who are trying to be faithful, good stewards on sunday mornings in the churches. So i ask that you will meet with us so that we can give some concern, turns and thoughts about what we can do to protect our parishioners. Thank you. That is the end of Public Comment. Line item five directors report discussion report on recent activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether the calendar, any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. Executive director hawkins. Thank you. Good evening. Commissioners chief scott, members of the community. I will start with our statistics. At this time this year we have opened 617 cases, which is a slight increase from this point last year where we had opened 514. We have closed 574 cases, which is also slightly more than 565 at this time last year. We currently have 296 pending cases of those pending cases, 22 are past the 270 day mark. But of those 2219 are told for various other legal reasons. We have seven cases pending with the commission and 85 pending with the chief at this point this year we have mediated 31 cases and ill talk a little bit more about mediation in a moment. And thats double the amount we had mediated at this point last year. Im going to say we are doing all of this, which is more in every metric for this year compared to last year with less resources and less staff. So we are feeling the kind of budget implications as our sfpd and i know a lot of other city departments turning towards mediation on tuesday, october third, we hosted our First Community connect event, which focused on our mediation department. We had it inperson at the Google Community space. It was attended by members of the community as well as volunteer mediators and staff. We had about 25 attendees and had presentation sessions covering a day in the life of our investigators. A 101 and a panel. All of our mediators spoke about their experience with our program and with mediation in general, and our director of mediation, ali schultz, also presented an gave context about our program. We are looking forward to having another Community Event later this year, trying to get some inperson momentum and increased outreach. Now that we have a new outreach director on board, we have some photos on our social media pages. So were also using Community Feedback to plan our future events. The only other update i have at this point is that dpo, this is where when i write my own notes, things look bad for the agency i work for and f. T. F. O with sfpd have coordinated to provide all dpr investigators and attorneys with training using the Firearms Training system simulator. This training involves using a video simulation of a scenario that makes the person doing the training either choose levels of force or not use force as if they were an officer responding to calls for service. We always appreciate f. T. F. O and the Training Division, including dpr on trainings that officers receive. Its a really important part of not only our investigations but also policy recommendations and training recommendations that we make. So we enjoy that opportunity and well have all of our staff trained up on that over the next few months. And the other member of the dpr team whos here tonight is policy director janelle caywood. You can always find us on the website or call us at 415 a2417711. With any issues that you might have for us to address. Thank you. All right. Seeing no names in the queue, sergeant, could you take us to Public Comment for any members of the public that would like to make Public Comment regarding line item five, the directors report. Please approach the podium training for food pursuit two because you need to train the guys if you need to run. I was a track runner when i was younger. 800m. I was very good. So because if you have to run, you have to run. So you want to make sure to be in good health, too, right . So. And that is the end of Public Comment at line item Six Commission reports, discussion and possible action commissioner reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. Commission president s report commissioners reports and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting. Earlier this afternoon. Commissioner benedicto and i attended a closed door town hall meeting with about 25 officers to solicit feedback on the departments vehicle chase policy. We i guess a few months ago some commissioners, i think commissioner benedicto being one of them, called for the commission to take a hard look at the policy in light of some pursuits that resulted in injury and death to innocent bystanders as the town hall was incredibly productive of we got a lot of really great feedback and a lot of really great ideas, frankly, both in terms of amendments to the policy. Technological changes are improving agents, tactics that could be used to forestall the need for a chase in the first instance. So just want to thank all of the officers who came out and devoted a couple hours of their time, um, to that process to be clear, the commission, i dont believe, has officially decided to amend the policy, but this was just a first step to solicit feedback. And like i said, it was really helpful. Um, the other, the other thing ill just address is as i mentioned in, in , in my questions to the chief in his report last week, the president of the Police Officers association appeared before the commission to follow up on a letter that she wrote. The commission that essentially accused me of improper, really leaking confidence, official information to the press. And all i would say about that is just wanted to update the public that i did provide a response. I wrote a public letter and president elias also wrote a public letter. And the po also responded with another letter. All those letters are on the commissions website under the 30 day correspondence and i would just invite members of the public who are interested to read them. I think they speak for themselves and ill just leave it at that. Commissioner yee, thank you very much. Vice president carter. Uh, i guess ill start off with last friday in in the asian community. We had a celebration for or i guess a promotion of the asian command staff chief was there. I guess the community was in celebration mode for the new promotion and got, got to meet the new Central Station captain. His name is john. John han kim. So he was welcomed with open arms in our communities and also we want to thank the chief for the promotion. Also was on tend to the italian heritage festival parade. It was a long march, but i got my walks in. Great to see the community out in a festival mode in and i would say the fleet week was a was a very safe successful event. And i want to thank the San Francisco Police Department, including the chief. It looked like a Beautiful Day out there. San francisco. So that is my report. Thank you, commissioner walker. Thank you. Um i spent the this week has been somewhat slow for me, but i did do a follow up meeting with some of the folks who have been discussing the patrol specials ongoing discussion about the program and getting a better idea of how to address some of the issues of concern that have come up over the past around it. And theres a good group who have a lot of experience with the Program Going forward to really tighten up. Some recommend added changes to the program for a new sort of a new tool for the chief and the department to use. One of the steps that we would like to initiate is getting the attorneys together to tell us how to legislate the changes or to do the to take the legal steps necessary to partner with an outside, maybe group like the Business Improvement districts, especially for the Pilot Program to see you know, to get some kinks out and make recommendations back, get data to us. So thatll be one of the next steps that i hope to do with our attorney and the attorney for the Community Benefit district alliance. Just to recommend how we talk about those changes. And i want to thank the chief to its been really an enlightening discussion to happen. And i actually think that we need a lot of tools right now to help our city in a in a shortfall to do the things we all want the department to do and keep the streets safe. So i think moving towards that is really important. On the issue of the investigation into leaked information and the conversation , one of the things that came up for me is ive never been on a commission where individual commission owners can communicate on letterhead. So it was one of the issues that concerned me because we hadnt voted on the communication. And apparently the history of it is that individual commissioners can use our letterhead for city for Police Commission business and make it clear that its not necessarily from the entire commission, but from the individual. I just want to say that. Theres a lot of tension around the Police Commission at this point in the public eye and i want us to be really mindful of how we represent this is a judicious body. We dont prosecute, we dont defend. We actually are asked to look at it and especially as the press calls us for comments, if these are confidential things that happen, its best to find out ahead of time whats going on before we comment, because it challenges us in the job that were doing to remain fair. And id like to have us talk about that on the an agenda both sort of the rules and regulations about speaking for the commission as well as sort of how we need to deal with press when theyre asking about individual cases. Commissioner benedicto, thank you. Acting president carter obersten, as you said, we attended a closed door listening session with officers today about our pursuit policy. It was something that the Vice President and ive been asking about for a while, and it was as the Vice President said, really in credibly valuable to hear the candor and the input from officers and i know its something that ive talked to the Vice President about. Ive talked to commissioner walker about it, that i think were all wiser at each time we speak to line officers who are the end users of our policies, who are the ones who are subject to our jurisdiction for discipline and it was it was, i think, immensely valuable. So im very glad for that. Additionally following up on something that commissioner walker announced last week, we had the flier for the sfpd pink brunch, which our Commission Staff will post on the website if its not up already. This is a fundraiser hosted by sfpd in honor of Breast Cancer awareness month. We dont get those cool pink patches like the officers, but i did wear a pink tie in honor of Breast Cancer awareness month. And so thank you to commissioner walker for sharing that. I also did want to thank commissioner walker for her leadership on the patrol special issue. Its a fraught and long conversation. Theres a lot of complexities involved. Theres a long controllers report and theres a lot of hoops to jump through and i thank you for your leadership moving that forward on its long road. Thank you. Uh, commissioner yanez. Thank you. Vice president carter. Overstone chief and public at large. I want to make sure to wish everyone a happy belated indigen peoples day. There was a celebration this monday, and i know that you know we are on ohlone land. It is good to acknowledge the fact that we recognize the contributions that our indigenous communities have always made to our to our city. Um, i did receive an update from , um, the chief regarding a request previously for from the hill bomb investigation. Follow up regarding the Actual Expenditures on overtime. And i just wanted to make sure that everyone had that information and is my understanding that during the hill bomb event, there were actually 1293 hours of overtime reported at a cost of an average of 117 per hour, which resulted. In 151,281 of overtime accrued for that activity. City and i had requested Additional Information. Chief, im not sure if that is available as far as the regular staffing hours accrued during that operation. Not sure whether thats a part of the investigation into the an analysis of how the event kind of, you know, escalated and culminated in the incident that we all are aware of. And if you dont have the numbers, would you happen to have a timeline for when we can expect to see an update on either the cost of the operation or the analysis of some of those challenges that were experienced and im not sure if you want to respond to that. Im not there, obviously, so i cant see physically whether there is a response. But but maybe you if you have some comments on that, can respond after i complete my report. But i will promise to make a brief. In addition to that, i have there was a speaker during Public Comment last week that brought up an issue around the policing around just skateboarders in general and ive had various Community Members actually reach out to me and raise this issue. So i would like to, when there is the report back about the hill bomb at dolores park incident to also have a report about what our strategy is with regard to and Law Enforcement and skateboarding that is not taking place at parks. I know that that can be a contentious or has been a contentious, um, city situation for those people that , you know, use skateboards as their primary mode of transportation. And so i really feel that it merits some of our attention. And id like to agendize that for the day that we have the update on the hill bomb. Um, there there also, i forwarded the draft for the juvenile. 7. 01 to commissioner benedict, who actually is the lead on that dgo and since there has been a prolonged process, there apparently are some unresolved questions that i believe the commission would be to be very, uh, that we would need to, to chime in on in order to resolve and overcome, um, or remove or work through whatever obstacles are perceived in order for us to get that go, um, presented to us for authorization at and to be able to also inform how that will capture our efforts as we work towards establishing a prebooking program. They do not go hand in hand, but given that 701 actually oversees all interactions and interface with juveniles and minors, i think that it behooves us to have that conversation motion along the same time so that we could resolve any obstacles that we may encounter in. The future as we are prepare to launch our prebooking effort. Um id also ask that we agendize the Language Access dgo as a result of some conversations that ive had with various members of our community with regards to obtaining Language Access and the interface between our department and immigrant community communities, especially considering a lot of the rhetoric going on around the nation. And that impacts our immigrant communities here in San Francisco. So i would like to agendize that. Um, and my last comment update it is with regards to, uh, you know, the, the data leak and some of the ensuing, uh, conversations and letters that weve received from various is, um, constituents and stakeholders. And one particular for statement that was very, very of concern to me and i know that many other community, some of our other commissioners have a similar sentiment. Uh, the letter to our commission stated and im quoting here, how the commission handles this issue will directly affect the little trust our our members have in the commission and the president made that statement also, i believe in person when she had her Public Comment on monday. Um, and obviously our commissioners are, you know, we are all and im going to speak for myself, um, we, we need to get to the root of where that data leak came from. And im glad that there is an investigation taking place. We take our jobs seriously. We and we whether our speaking independent of the commission or responding to questions as commissioners, i think we all have the right to express our personal opinions on subjects, obviously respecting every form of confidentiality that is permitted. Um, but i also know that the which is not a union, its an association has made it really challenging for us to do our work, especially when they, at least the president has taken such a combative and oppositional approach to working with us. You know, some of the comments that were made last week and some of the back and forth could have happened in a formal setting upon request for a meeting. But that approach was not taken. I want to read a letter that was sent to us by a cola mission to end bias stops, which has repeatedly continually uyghur me for the last few months, been sending letters, emails and attending our meetings to be able to request that we have an update and that we advance 907 and im going to quote from this Coalition Letter which says the past association of San Francisco warned it warned in its january letter to the Commission Regarding the poas history of obstruction during the meet and confer process. The poa is exploiting negotiations to delay implementation of 907. This is no mere conjecture in an october 1st 2023 post to the website Union President Tracy Mcgrady made the posture of negotiating 907. Shockingly clear. Its going to be a downright fight with us as we will not roll over on any policy that jeopardizes our ability to get dangerous criminals off our streets, especially considering the level of gun violence weve experienced over the last three years. The letter goes on to say, the poa as actions should be seen for what they are a blatant attempt to thwart the will of the commission and leverage the meeting confer process as they, quote unquote Shadow Commission under threat of litigation. The po will pursue litigation to get what it wants. Even if you decide to let them drag out the process and delay implementing action by several years, it continues to behave as a bully, as evidenced by president mccrays attempts to belittle and intimidate sitting commissioner. As i read that letter, because i believe that this coalition and stakeholders throughout the city have encouraged, compelled and pleaded with us to implement the 907. Um, but we have been constrained in that process and i would i would echo the sentiment, um, that the letter is conveying the letter explicitly requests that we declare an impasse. Um, i am encouraging the community and this commission to, to, to work to resolve whatever conflicts, um, or whatever perceive differences of opinion are come across our paths in a professional manner. And if and whenever possible, in a confidential space. This Commission Hearing is a space to be able to come and raise issues. But think confronting commissioners in the manner that the president did with baseless accusations and baseless allegations, um, that have been described in writing by the standard article, is not the most productive use of our time. Thank you, sergeant. Could you please take us to Public Comment . Any member of the public that would like to make Public Comment regarding line item Six Commission reports, please approach the podium. First of all. Now im standing in front of you as yolanda williams, president of the officers for justice. The officers for justice fought for change in this department, and we worked tirelessly with the doj to ensure disparity in treatment of officers. Was addressed. Biased traffic stops, reform and transparency. It is imperative that we address the issues of the fraudulent data entries that were made by the officers or an officer as it is simply unacceptable. Additional its equally unacceptable for any officer, whether they are president of an association or representing themselves to come into the Police Commission and challenge a commissioner, undermining the authority and the integrity of this system. This information, accuracy is crucial in the president , as i see it, bullied and challenged the city official. Its unacceptable. And i see it as a violation of due to. 01. And i think she should be brought up on charges for it. In addition, we need to be addressing the issue. Its crucial that we implement these reforms and prioritize transparent. Nc. I see it as whether it was a leak or not. It happened and we need to address that problem. Um, why did a sergeant, a lieutenant or some other supervisor find it troubling that the information came out consistently with just one specific race by particular officers . This is fictitious information, and its equally important that the public know about it. Transparency is essential in maintaining accountability and public trust. And this information must be reliable. Furthermore there needs to be better oversight. So that fraudulent data is not put into our systems overall. While its vital that we prioritize these, our data entries and strengthen the oversight to prevent fraud of this kind and to maintain the integrity of the Police Department. Thank you. Yes, i want to bring up about the Digital Homicide posters thats supposed to have been that field pod. The chief, scott, were all worked on the Digital Homicide posters. I just recently been going to the ten police stations that you put the Digital Homicide posters and the televisions arent on. So how is the cases are going to be solved . Why would you spend all this money to put these televisions at all . These to ten district stations . And then i walk in and there as a mother with her sons picture up there and the television. The thing is not on. So and all they can tell me is their their technician and all of this. So ive been walking ashley Richmond District station where kaiser where i go pick up my medication and that television is on and ive been in that station like several times asking about it. So what do we do . Why spend all that money to put these things at all of the stations and theyre not on. Theres a few thats on, but i look stupid asking them, wheres your wheres the captain here . Im asking that. And no ones responding. So i said, im going to bring it to the Police Commission and bring it up here that these Digital Screens be put on cut back on or have your technician go in there and fix them again. Why would we have them . And no ones doing any. Why . No why would we have these these things and implemented the Digital Homicide televisions and theyre not on at mostly probably none of the stations, but i know its on in the fillmore because im always there. But i go other places and theyre not on. Please get them back on call those district stations and get them back on. Thank you. That is the end of Public Comment line item seven discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 5. 25ft pursuits for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law. Discussion and possible action. Good evening. Im captain sean perdomo from the San Francisco Police Academy , and i brought with me lieutenant meehan and sergeant bugarin from my force field tactics and force options unit here to talk about 5. 25ft pursuits. Lieutenant meehan, would you like to say a few words . Yeah. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Chief scott asked members of our unit that field tactics force options unit to assist in the development of a foot pursuit policy for our department. We worked in conjunction with members of the and with chief scott to develop this proposed policy, and we approached it from the aspect of providing guidelines and direction to consider what officers to consider when engaging in a foot pursuit as opposed to having a number of restrictions in a policy that would prevent officers from continuing to do Good Police Work and apprehending suspects. The policy our officers have been are trained to the standards that are in this policy as it is in it is in line with the California Police officer standards and training guidelines when it comes to foot pursuit procedures and principles. And much of the language that is in the policy is taken directly from learning domain 21, which is which is a patrol tactics and methodologies that the officers are taught in the academy. Yeah thats it, sergeant or captain. Okay with that in mind, ill take you through the policy itself. So the policy is mainly geared as an officer safety policy and it takes into consideration something that i wish i would have had when i was younger officer myself. So if we skipped a page three, i think these are the things that the wish list that i would have had from maybe a Field Training officer, maybe a more experienced officer, and those are the responsibilities of the officer initiating the foot pursuit. So something that you learn as you become a more senior officer is weighing the costs and benefits of chasing after somebody. And these things are all delineated here in page three, and it continues on to page four. And id the primary purpose of the policy is just to provide guidance to the officer engaging in a foot pursuit. The balance is Public Safety as well as the safety of the officer. Does the commission have any particular questions regarding the policy itself . Sure yeah. Sergeant, did you want to say a few words before i go . Sure okay. And we have sergeant guerin here from the office who would like to say a few words. Sure. Just layering on to what . The captain perdomo looked at me and said the very purposeful, objective of this course is officer safety. And with all the changes we have been conducting with the San Francisco Police Department the past five years, this is the next layer to that. Its continuing to build on the principles that were doing and hopefully going to continue the great work that the Police Officers in the field are already doing. Thank you. Thanks and if i could just give you some background on this from dpas perspective and chief hawkins, you were around at the beginning of this, so if i misstate something, please feel free to jump in. But in 2018 and 2019, we had disciplinary cases that raised concerns about foot pursuits. The Police Department was concerned and was concerned as well. And we have monthly meetings with the Training Division and the field tactics force options unit to make sure that they address any kind of disciplinary trends that dpr is seeing in our complaints. And at that time we talked about developing a foot pursuit policy for the officer in charge and dpr agreed that instead of developing a policy right away, that the officers would have a period of time to train to the policy so that when there was a policy enacted, theyd already it wouldnt be a surprise. They were already implementing the tactics that were described. So for several years the unit has done an incredible job. They made a training video on foot pursuits. And so mid 20, 22, i approached them and lieutenant nevin to ask about the timing of a foot pursuit policy. And he told me a year a little bit too late. Chief scotts already commissioned this unit to write a policy, i think in february of 2022, chief scott had asked for a draft. They provided that to dpr and we provided some recommendations on that draft it and it was a really great collaboration on and the officers who wrote this draft, lieutenant meehan, whos the officer in charge of unit now, he was in charge of the swat team for many years. Sergeant bulgarin just won a post award as the outstanding instructor in the entire state. So these are the best and the brightest of sfpd who are writing this policy. Foot pursuit policies are best practices. The main goal is to protect officer safety. If the threat is real, not speculative. If you turn to the California Commission on peace officer standards and trainings learning domain 21, the introduction states foot pursuits are one of the most dangerous and unpredictable situations for officers. All foot pursuits must be considered high risk. They then go down to delineate it a number of problems that foot pursuits cause for officers and how to address them. This is what the sfpd pd team put into the policy. We also looked to the International Association of chief of police as they had guidelines for departments developing foot pursuit policies that they last updated in 2019. So we all reviewed that and made sure that the issues were addressed in this policy. Weve had extensive meetings on this topic with the unit. We learned that when officers are given a list of what they cannot do, they tend to freeze in these rapidly evolving encounters. So we agreed that it would be best for officers just to give them guidance on what they can do and should do and give them tactical instructions on how to conclude foot pursuits as safely as possible for everyone involved. And so this foot pursuit policy, i think is the most permissive one in the country. It gives officers ultimate discretion. It doesnt ban foot pursuit policies under any circumstance. Its the only criteria is that they they be reasonable, which officers are required to act reasonably when they use force in every aspect of policing. So this is no different foot pursuit policies also protect the communities. Officers who are involved in chases get tired. They develop tunnel vision. If they have to discharge a firearm, it grows inaccurate. They can be highly charged emotionally as well. So its important to have theres a lot of research that our interns presented back in september of 2022, that foot pursuits, foot pursuits that are unbridled and not guided by good tactics lead to an increased use of force. And two officer involved shootings. So we addressed those issues in this policy to make sure that whenever feasible, officers who are pursuing on foot are not the same officers that are involved in the arrest team. So we took that research into consideration to develop a smart policy. A theres nothing controversial or anti policing about adopting a foot pursuit policy around 2013, foot pursuit policies began emerging as best practices around the country. Even the chief of police, even the chiefs of police suggested that i wanted to provide to this commission. Dpas binder of best practices research. It has 37 foot pursuits, policies from around the country. It will show that ours is the best, but its also the most permissive for officers. Theres a lot of these policies prohibit foot pursuits for misdemeanors or infractions. We do none of that. We really focus on tactics. So theres 37 policies in here and 350 pages. This is not complete by any stretch. It was just the ones i could download in a day in 2022. And i will note that dallas Police Department has had a foot pursuit policy since 2012. So were ten years behind Dallas Austin pd, baltimore. Chicago dallas. Detroit fresno. Houston. Las vegas. Los angeles. Sheriffs. So foot pursuit policies are definitely sweeping the nation. We need to adopt one to our officers deserve it. And in developing this process, we also looked at real data from sfpd to see that officers were going out on injuries from foot pursuits, and we dont want that to happen. So we also like to thank these guys. There have been incredible. Theyve weve spent hours talking about this with them. They exemplify 21st Century Policing principles. They are collaborative. They field our phone calls all the time. And they are just wonderful people and wonderful Police Officers. And were very proud of the work that weve done together. But this policy came from them and they should be appreciated for it. So thank you. Great. Thank you, everyone, for that. Im sorry, captain, do you have anything else to add . No, no, thank you. Okay. No, thank you. Everyone for. For their respective presentations. I did want to, you know, recognize chief for taking the initiative and asking the department to draft this policy. This was not commissioned, initiated, as ms. Caywood pointed out. And i appreciate the chiefs proactive ness on this issue, and i appreciate the hard work that that this whole team up here did together. I think we all heard that this is evidence based and weve had the benefit of observing how other jurisdictions respective policies have have panned out and been able to adopt the best parts of those. I also just wanted to recognize the interns from last. Was it last year who who also made a number of proposals for a foot pursuit policy . So just just wanted to give a shout out to them wherever they are all across the country now. And for to thompson for supervising that program. And that is all for me. Commissioner benedicto, thank you so much, mr. Vice president. Thank you for that presentation. Just a couple of questions that ill pass around. I mean, first, ill echo what the Vice President said and thank the chief for commissioning and driving this policy and asking for that, seeing the final product. Now chief, are you are you comfortable and any reaction as to how the policy turned out . Yeah, my i know we worked hard on this policy. My only issue and this is really for later but im glad you asked the question is its more of a 3. 01 question really. I believe for tactic issues. I would much rather see another format to get these policies done rather than a dgo. And there are several reasons for that. Sometimes tactics need to be changed and pretty quickly. And the other thing is, you know, tactics are really about guidelines. Theyre not theyre prescriptive. But but in in the policing world, there are so many variables that can happen. Tactics are really about guidelines. So i do think theres probably a more efficient venue to do these types of policies. We dont have a whole lot of tactical policies in our dgo and i dont think its a best practice to have tactical policies in dgos. I think there are other ways to do it in many departments do it in other ways, like training notices, training bulletins, tactical bulletins. I mean, there are a variety of ways to get it, get to it, but really thats really why we put f. T. F. O on the map to give that type of guidance. And i really would like to see more of as we work through 3. 01, a venue to actually have a carve out for tactics that arent egos. Got it. That makes sense. And i know theres been a lot of discussion with this commission on ways in which 3. 01 our policy making dgo can be streamlined. But as to the substance of this that you led, youre happy with the work . Yeah, i mean, this is whats what we have to work with right now. But this is something that i voiced in the past, and i just want to say that for the record. Okay, great. Um, one thing that i really appreciated hearing from director caywood is that what we have here is already consistent with what we have from post training. So sergeant bergeron, can you confirm that this is really consistent with what we already have for the post training . Yes yes, commissioner, this is consistent with the eld. Again, same principle base that were continuing to build on. Perfect. That was a trap. I also just wanted to recognize your state wide recognition from post. So youre hearing that from an Award Winning post instructor as well. Yes we will have to recognize that at the commission level. I know that some commissioners i know commissioner yee sometimes raised the concern about the burden of training to these egos. And so i was really relieved to hear that the principles of this have already been in our training for years, so this wont be this wont shouldnt be disruptive. So that was that was good to hear as well. And then confirming what you said, director caywood, that this is consistent or even you think the best policy when looking at other jurisdictions in dpas opinion, i do. And i invite the commission to peruse this binder full of foot pursuit policies that do contain tactics. Sometimes the dividing line between tactics and policy is a blurry one. But i invite the commissioner. Ill leave it right here. How can that possibly be electronically provided to the commission . Yeah, of course. Of course. So you can peruse it and take a look and see what you think yourself. Absolutely. I mean, i think. Yeah. Yeah different preferences. Ill leave this for you, commissioner walker, and then well. That was a relief to hear as well, to see that, you know, there are times as in 5. 01 where San Francisco has been the first jurisdiction that has ended up moving. And there are times like this where were not, but we have the luxury of seeing what other jurisdictions and what the standards are. And i think that that has really led to this being a strong policy as well. I appreciate the clarification of the broader background. I think a lot of what this policy does is allowing for officer discretion. Its short. Its probably on the shorter shows weve gotten before us in a while, which is always is always great and that its that its seeing things that are already enshrined in training. I did want to note, i think its worth saying that there has been a lot of misinformation about this proposed general order and hearing from from captain perdomo, from lieutenant meehan, from sergeant bergeron, from the chief and from director caywood about how this had come about, about the collaborative process, i think really should put to rest any of that misinformation that this is really a proactive policy consistent with training that we already have short, straightforward, allowing for officer discretion and should be. And were excited to have that before the commission. If i could be heard one more time, i understand theres a lot of disinformation about this policy out there, and there were a number of letters submitted to the commission. I would really just encourage the public to engage with the Public Comment process. 99 of the egos are largely written by sfpd with input from dpr and if you input a Public Comment about what you like about the policy, what you dont like, if you want to see something changed, youll get an individualized response from the smes on why they agree with you or dont agree with you that ill review as well and that could dispel some of the disinfo nation. And we only got eight Public Comments and we all sat down together and answered them. We think they were mostly Police Officers, but it would have been helpful if some of the people that are writing into the commission now had written in earlier and gained a better understanding of the process. Guess what was happening and what was not happening. So we really encourage the public to Pay Attention to the sfpd social media when egos are posted for Public Comment and engage. And you will get an individualized response. Thank you, director caywood. And i also want to echo what the Vice President said in commending the dpr interns. I doubt that any of that. The 2022 interns are still watching now. But if it would be great if dpr could send them an email with this update because it really is , they should be talking about that for when they help to shape policy for this department for years to come, concluded their presentation in the binder along with the citation to all of the Research Supporting foot pursuit policies in case the commission is interested. Thats it was a tremendously well researched presentation that they prepared as well with that i would make a motion to approve the general order 5. 25 for use in meet and confer, subject to our labor negotiations. Resolution 23 dash 30. Could i actually one clarifying question, given that weve already been training to this, will the department be requesting any delay or its going to mean for. Okay, gotcha. Sorry, i jumped the gun. Okay commissioner burn, thank you. Vice president carter over stone. Im just im just curious, i guess from a practical point of view, when we do discipline cases, is there a violation of a particular go and in this particular one, other than the documentation and the supervisors required payments, how does an individual officer actually violate this . I just curious. So the one thing that i noticed reading this is theres a lot of shoulds which i think is great because our officers need guidance rather than strict policy and procedures that need to be strictly adhered to because as we all know, these incidents evolve very rapidly and the officer needs to have a lot of discretion. So going through the dga itself, youll see that the word shall is used on page two to and its also used on page four, right . I particularly noticed page four and page four made sense to me, but like under, say, page two, safety concerns. I mean, its the should and its a list of things that the officer should consider and whether to initiate a foot chase. And at least from a practical point of view, at least i was trying to think like there isnt a way that an officer could violate that. If i you know, if, as you said, its more of a guidance than a sort of requirement, correct . Yeah. So for the safety concerns, these are mainly things that would affect the officer and theyre not necessarily things that would affect the public. So these are safety concerns that the officer should take into account when theyre deciding to initiate a foot pursuit. So, for example, like i said at the very beginning of this whole thing, theres a lot of things that you dont realize until youve been a Police Officer for several years and may be engaging in sorts of Police Conduct like foot pursuits for example. And one of the things that we want to solidify in the policy that should be made clear to the officer are the dangers and those are, for example, if youre acting by yourself and you get into a foot chase at 3 00 in the morning, thats something you should take into consideration. Its not very safe for you. You should balance that out. Also the potential for violence, those are all things that need to be drawn out so that the officer can make a proper Risk Assessment when they decide to initiate the pursuit for their own safety concerns. So in terms of a policy and how that would be violated and result in a disciplinary case, i guess the harm would be to the officer themselves. Is it more like warnings for the officer . So you agree with me there is other than the supervisor and the documentation requirement, there really isnt a way that an officer can be disciplined for on this. Dgo well, no, thats not necessarily true, because on page two at the top and doesnt really need to be put into a policy, but it says the officer shall act reasonably. But but thats thats all over the place in other dgos and it could be but a potentially could could lead to discipline if its violated. If an officer acts unreasonably disciplined under other dgos for failing to act reasonably well, yes, but its not codified in such a way as it is here, where its explicit. I understand. Im sorry. Im a lawyer. Thank you. Its okay. No worries. All right. Any other questions . No, thank you. Commissioner walker. Thank you. Thank you for this. And i. I tend to agree that with the chief on this, about general orders being separate from manual of how to achieve that or suggestions or training. And i dont know. I mean, i think its just sort of generic and i dont know that theres any solution for this at this point. I want to applaud everybody for working together on this. I think that ultimately our goal here is to have things that we can train our officers with, but also look at when we have cases before us. So to the point that that commissioner byrne was making, its. It sort of underlines the importance of having a general order here and then maybe a separate manual that includes all the training and tactics because its easier and more efficient and flexible. I, i obviously thats more sort of pie in the sky kind of thing, but i appreciate that the brevity of this one. And i also its really clear that the folks who are weighing in on this just have a general response to all general orders that were doing at this point. So dont let it hinder our our efforts. But you know, the public is weighing in and paying attention, at least even if its not to the details. So thank you. I do want to ask a question about the especially the general orders that are already in that binder for the 37. Is that what you said . Yeah is there any data back on the how it affects the injuries and the success of these pursuits or is it too early . Im not sure. Okay. It would be good to have a follow up on that. I think its probably too soon because all of these dgos are in recent years. Okay. I would just like to follow up on whether this the content should be in a dgo. Weve been discussing this for two years and ive never heard anyone say that this should be anything but a dgo and weve had multiple discussions with the command staff. So at least i havent heard that. So we could have done it in a bulletin, but would have been helpful to hear about that at an earlier point of time. No other. A few departments do it in bulletins, but most do it in general orders. So we did the best we could with the im not its not a its kind of a generic criticism because i think all our egos are pretty full of things that could be separated out. Its just my opinion. But. Okay, great. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioner yee thank you very much, sir. Vice president carter over for this foot pursuit policy. I you know, i just come away with this. It makes a lot of sense. You know, i talked to a few officers before and they they brought up these similar scenarios. You know, what happened. You split up. You go to a to a second floor, both side on each side. What happens . Suspects in the middle. Which way do you shoot . There are some policies probably that need to be looked at and, um, you know, theres probably incidents that did happen where this policy would have helped to in pursuit of, you know, your loan officer chasing one suspect and then, you know, right behind the door, you dont know whats whats going to happen. So i thank the committee for or the Group Working Group for bringing it forward. And thank you, chief. Um my, you know, thought is, is regard regarding the communications on a live maybe on a live radio where you Clear Channel and you Start Talking you know your Body Worn Cameras probably is activated right then and there when its happening on the pursuit. I just wondering if you can do it live, sending it back to the command center. So then if you have going back to the command center and probably having a maybe a supervisor, captain on, you know, on there and saying youre on a live pursuit and it says and then the command center can see the visual and we cant see the visual that way because its bouncing up and down, wondering if that device can do what you call active bait or where this focus in. And then you have a real time feed that can handle and say, stop the pursuit officer or stop the pursuit and wait for backup. You know, this is some of these thoughts thats coming up. So i just wondering whats your response would be, captain, that would be excellent. If axon could develop a product like that, im pretty sure wed buy it. But but unfortunately, i dont think they have such a product just yet. But we can do. And whats been suggested by axon is that we review the Body Worn Camera footage after the incident and then with the f. T. F. O office has been doing really well, is debriefing the incident. So after the incident happens, we can take all of the involved parties. We can then dissect what happened and we can go through the list of factors that have been codified here for the officer safety, bullet points and then to your point about the supervisor responsibility, which i think is what youre trying to get at, can we have somebody thats on scene making decisions as this is happening . The best that we can do right now is have the officer or the supervisor respond after the fact. And thats on page four of four. And these are things like this policy. I like it a lot because its very common sense stuff that should be occurring anyway, but its now written down. And what happens here in subsection e is if your officers injured, you should show up to the scene. Now its made explicit here. If the suspect enters a residence building or a structure or even a defined terrain objective, and thats consistent with some of our other dgos where we start. If expanding the time and distance and the deescalation criteria, this speaks to that. So we have that in there. If theres a reportable use of force thats already covered under 501, its kind of duplicative that we have it here. But the sergeant or the sergeant is supposed to respond to that. And of course, if the persons armed with a weapon, its already in our policy is that you have an incident like that. The sergeant is going to respond. So i wish we had the technology, but we dont have it just yet. I think we do. Its called facetime. Im on apple. Oh, man. No, no, no. Its serious. And hold, hold on. Here its just that our department or the Police Department doesnt have it. Whats to say that. That we cant get it . And you know, ask ask the company to work on the technology. Oh, that sounds like an excellent idea. I mean, we do have you know, we have smartphones and thats definitely something well explore for the future and well talk about that when we get back to the office. Okay thank you. All right. Chief of staff hawkins. Thank you. I wanted to respond to three points regarding discipline. So having been reviewing many of the cases and kind of at the beginning when we realized or when i realized there was a need for a foot pursuit policy, i actually think this is a really nice balance of being able to discipline, but not overusing the word shall. So we in a lot of conversations we have about policy, get criticized on the side for too many shells and not enough understanding of flexibility in implementation and there were a couple of cases in involving an officer involved shooting where this sort of policy would have been very helpful in assessing the case. And i think in potential for a different outcome. Also captain perdomo is a lawyer, which i found out when i was a da and he was being crossexamined in a prelim that we did together. So im sure he was also mindful of word choice as he was being a proponent of this particular dgo. So from a dpa perspective of i would be happy to have this policy when we were examining a case or a foot pursuit was at issue in determining whether or not it was within policy and the reasonableness standard is one that we have worked with in other context. S in terms of dgo versus manual, it is an ongoing conversation that were having. And 3. 01 i think is a clunky process in some ways, but also is a very thoughtful process and we are having discussions at multiple levels of that process. Yes, i think there are different policy vehicles that we can use. I think this was always conceptualized as a dgo for a couple of reasons. One, the other vehicles that we have department notices, department bulletins, the hope is that eventually they are dgos, because that is kind of the i dont want to call it the highest because its not necessarily hierarchical, but that is what the most definitive guidelines are. And when were looking at discipline, of course, we look at training and we look at all of those manuals as well. But the dgo is the policy itself. And so our position is that this should have been a dgo and was started in development as a dgo and happy to have those conversations further always. But that was how it was always conceptualized and were feels it is appropriate. Lee and i think thats all of my three points. Chief scott yeah, so ill just not to belabor the point. So i just want to clarify a few things because i was here from the beginning of this conversation, at least from the department standpoint. And i dont think that anybody was involved in this at that point. When we first started this process from the department standpoint, we actually envisioned a series of tactical bulletins, if you will, that would be his own carve out, not just a bulletins or b bulletins or c bulletins at and this was, i believe, in 2018. And the issue with that was that we didnt feel that the bulletin necessarily the way they were structured at the time would be the best venue. Some departments have tactical guidelines that are not dgos, that are not in the departments, whatever their manuals are, but they are tactical guidelines. A series of them, and they rescind them. When they become outdated. They update them when tactics change. For instance, there are a number of tactics that we teach that arent necessarily in a building. Searches active attacker tactics, things like that, that we need to codify. But they dont necessarily belong in the dco because they change and sometimes they change based on an officer get killed or whatever. So that was the original idea. The issue was we didnt feel like the current structure and even after 3. 01 got rewritten, really had a place for us to park those types of documents. We still need to codify building searches and things like that. We have lesson plans, we have training modules, but i think we can do better because that is out there. There are departments that do that. So there was a conversation about this by the time you all got on board. Yeah we agreed that the dco was probably the best place to put this, given what we had to work with. With all that said, there was a lot of good work by everybody in this room and some of the people who are no longer in the fte unit. They retired and dpa to come to a sensible policy. So i just want to clarify how this thing evolved because yes, it did start with lets not put this in the video. Lets start a series of tactical bulletins or notices or whatever. We didnt have notices at the time that would fit, but thats how the conversation started. By the time it got to your your seat, it was dgo. So thats probably all you heard. But it went through concurrence with the approval of you and the command staff. In the last two years, we havent heard anything about you. Just hear me clearly. Im not saying anything about that. The policy is not good guidance. What im saying is the vision is i hope we have a venue to deal with tactical issues in another way. And i think this is one that belongs in that other way rather than a dgo, because there are a lot of tactics that we rely upon that we need to codify and put it in a better format. Its that simple. You know, building searches, like i mentioned, some of the things that we do on a day in and day out, you wont find that in a dgo youll find it in probably a powerpoint or training module somewhere, but you wont find it in dgo. And i dont think that should be in a dgo honestly. So its not just this, its a bigger issue than this is all im saying. But the guidance i agree is very good. And yes, i did agree to it because its good guidance. As the captain mentioned. All right. Seeing no other names in the queue, i will second the motion made by commissioner benedicto for members of the public that would like to make Public Comment regarding line item seven, please approach the podium. There is no Public Comment on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes, mr. Walker is yes. Commissioner benedicto yes. Mr. Benedicto is yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Mr. Yanez is yes. Commissioner burn. Yes. Commissioner burn is yes. Commissioner yee yes. Commissioner yee is yes. And Vice President carter overstone yes. Vice president carter overstone is yes. You have six yeses. Line item eight Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item ten below closed session, including Public Comment on item nine vote whether to hold item ten in closed session. If youd like to make Public Comment regarding closed session, please approach the podium and there is no Public Comment. Line item nine vote on whether to hold item ten inches closed session. San francisco administrative code section 67. 10 action. I move to go into closed session. Second on the motion, commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes, mr. Walker is yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Mr. Benedicto is yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Mr. Yanez is. Yes. Commissioner burn. Yes. Commissioner burns. Yes. Commissioner yee. Yes. Commissioner yee is yes. Vice president carter overstone yes. Vice president Carter Wilson is. Yes. You have six yeses. We will go into closed session vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item ten held in closed session. San francisco administrative code section 67. 12. A action. A motion to not disclose closed session with the exception of factual updates from our labor negotiator, which will be disclosed in the minutes. Second, for any member of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding line item 11, please approach the podium. Seeing none. Commissioner walker , how do you vote on the motion . Yes. Commissioner walker is yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto is yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes mr. Yanez is yes. Commissioner byrne. Yes commissioner byrne is yes. Commissioner yee yes. Commissioner yee is yes. Vice president carter oberstar. Yes. Vice president carter overstone is yes. You have six yeses line item 12 adjournment. I came here to San Francisco the day after september 11. 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Rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didnt come in and didnt feel better from knowing something about the city. Its a true experience youll remember. I hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in San Francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. Its the heartbeat of San Francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in San Francisco. We would lose part of its heart and soul. It wouldnt be San Francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] thank you, everybody. I just want to thank everyone for coming today. This is truly one of the most proud that ive ever been at Mission Housing and on behalf of us, to you, thank you for coming. Kapuso at the upper yard is a true product of whats possible when Community Works together. Youd have to go all the way back to 2008 for when Community Groups and organizers really started focusing to work on this, which is well over a decade. It was the community who came together to ensure that this piece of land would one day become the landmark that it is today. This development is many communities, many cultures and ethnicities, many heartbeats acting as one. It is from this unified heart that we derive the name kapuso at the upper yard, taken from the tagalog word for heart. We added a car in front of it to show the unification of many things into one. At its core. Kapuso at the upper yard is all of us, its community, its developers, its politicians, its allies of Affordable Housing coming together to form one heart. And we hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Thank you. Now id like to ask Ann Silverberg to step up. Thank you. I am Ann Silverberg. Im ceo for norcal affordable at related and we three are sharing the welcome. So im going to do my part and say welcome to everyone. Thank you so much for coming here today. I know some of you have traveled very far, but it is a Beautiful Day in the city and we are really, really happy that you are here celebrating with us. Youve heard a little of this development. Youll hear so much more over the course of the program here. But this development really is a perfect example. All of what we can do when we all Work Together toward the same end goal, thats what we try to do all the time. But that really, really happened here. As youll hear throughout the program about the partnership between so many critical players, the community, the city, the developers, the, the state, the transit agencies, the funding partners, the architect, the contractor. Everybody worked together. Everyone really brought their a team, their best, best players, really, truly excellent folks coming together and really feeling very passionately about making sure that this got done and got done well. And i think if you kind of take it in, if you go to the ground floor and the retail spaces and the Community Spaces and take in the public art, which is so gorgeous. And i hope you all come this way and look at the mural as well and the connection to transit and the plaza and all of the attention to details and the Beautiful Homes that were created here. I hope you feel as i do that this is not just an ordinary building. This is an extraordinary building. This is really an amazing place to be. And i think it is really the passion, the collaboration, the partnership, everyone coming together to make this happen. And its really the heart and the unity that sam was talking about, that the community, the concept that the Community Created so many years ago, its a continuation through the development process. And we really hope it continues for all of the residents who have decided to make kapuso their home. All right. So today, may we have a number of very, very distinguished guests to help us celebrate this grand opening. Im very, very excited about this all star team here. We have treasurer fiona ma, we have senator scott wiener. We will soon have mayor london breed and supervisor asha safai. We also have Vanessa Rodriguez from wells fargo, janet lee from bart tilly chang from the San Francisco county transport authority. Terrence valin from the Filipino Community center. Juan moya, thank you. Okay, good. I did it. One of our wonderful kapuso residents, unfortunately, secretary Castro Ramirez and director Gustavo Velasquez were not able to make it today, but they send their regrets and we are very, very appreciative of their support. I would like to also say we would not be at this point today without the San Francisco Mayors Office of housing and ed eric shaw, lydia ely, sarah amaral, jennifer collins. The newest addition to the team. Mara blitzer. Robin wang and brendan dwyer. Thank you all very much. Also, the partnership and coordinated efforts with bart janis lee, bevan dufty, abby, abby thorne, lyman, who recently left bart but worked very hard on this project. Carly paine, tim chan, Nicole Franklin and many others. And our wells fargo partners provided an incredible amount of capital. Vanessa rodriguez, terrance cordero, eric limbach, tim mccann, john coe and lorenzo cordova. And i last want to mention our fabulous, fabulous development partner, Mission Housing. I cant say enough about them as a partner or about this partnership when it works well. It really works well. And both partners brought their strengths and supported each other. We worked really, really well all the way through the process, so im very grateful to sam moss, marsha contreas, kevin kitchenham, wade reynolds, julio lara and scott falcone. So thank you very much. And also to the caritas management company. Thank you, sam. Thank you. Thank you. Okay more from me. We have someone whos not here yet, so were changing the program a bit. All right. So i know you all know this already, but developments like this require layers and layers and layers of funding and id like to acknowledge the very critical capital from the California Department of housing and Community Development, as well as the strategic growth council. And we have money through the program as well as the iig program. The Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, wells fargo bank, and our permanent lender, the California Community Reinvestment Corporation mission. All right. So im going to introduce our first speaker. We are thrilled to have california state treasurer fiona ma with us today as californias 34th state treasurer. She was elected in 2018 with more votes than any other candidate for treasurer in the history of the state of california. Thats amazing. Her office provides funding for schools, roads, recycling and waste management, hospitals, public facilities, crucial Infrastructure Projects , and most importantly, to many of us, housing. And she does all of that to better the lives of california residents. In december of 2020, she approved 47 million of tax credits and 60 million in tax exempt bonds. For this development, please help me welcome treasurer fiona ma. Thank you very much, anne and sam. And to everyone it definitely takes a village and this project is probably one of the hardest ones that have come through my office since i got elected as state treasurer in 2018. I served on the San Francisco board of supervisors representing the sunset district from 2002 to 2006, and some of these projects are still working its way through the system. This was one of the more difficult ones and i just want to let you know that your mayor london breed your supervisor, asha sapphire, were on the phone with me a lot saying, hey, we need more of this. We need more time, we need this, we please wait and, you know, put us back in line. But everything did work out. And over the last four years, we have really focused on new construction for very low and extremely low individuals. And this example is for amis of 30 to 80 of ami for working families, which is sorely needed. And of course, the transit is right here. So this is clearly one of the Transit Oriented Development projects, one of the stars. But it kind of wasnt ranking that high, believe it or not. I mean, we should have given it extra points, but maybe it would have been built faster. But thats how the system works as your state treasurer last year, 3. 7 trillion went through my office. I invest the states excess funds as well as issue all the bonds, even through the pandemic. And we never missed one round here at cid or tcac. We got two rounds of federal 9 federal tax credits, which went to help some of the fire devastated regions and just working together with all of my partners and all of you, we are continuing to see movement in this Affordable Housing crisis. So kudos for this amazing project. Thank you, bill witty. And thank you to our partners at the state and at our transportation levels. As well. So thank you. Thank you, treasurer ma. So id like to introduce our next speaker. We are very, very happy to have with us today mark caswell, Program Manager for the Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities Program at the strategic growth council. Mark, there was a there was an illness i think in your stepping in, he promises hes trained in improv. Im so impressed that he is doing this. So thank you very much was a very important part of the Capital Stack for this development provided very important funds for the housing. But also paid for the plaza. If you could see behind us the whole bart plaza was paid for by asic and so its very, very important funding and we appreciate your being here today. Mark. Right. Thank you, anne, and thank you everybody for being here. Mark caswell Program Manager. Affordable housing Sustainable Communities Program, which is in the strategic growth council, which is in the Governors Office of planning and research, and our director, sam assefa, sends his regrets for being unable to attend today, the program really brings makes sure that were funding not only Affordable Housing, but also bringing together other components that will help benefit Community Members and the surrounding community. So not only did we fund 20 million worth of housing funds, but were complementing that with the 9. 5 million investment. Thats to build transportation and other public goods. Were building a bikeway on. Were funding the building of bikeway. The sfmta is building the bikeway on 19th Street Mission avenue, which is actually under construction right now. Theres also pedestrian bulbouts throughout the area to improve pedestrian safety, and we widened sidewalks as well. And then we also have a Great Partnership with bart, with the developers are able to Work Together with bart to purchase three new bart cars to reduce Greenhouse Gases and really help make sure this this program meets its goals and the state is able to reduce Greenhouse Gases while also building more Affordable Housing. So were really combating both the Climate Crisis as well as the Housing Affordability crisis. And this program and this project is such a great example of our Work Together there and our commitments at the state. So i just want to thank everybody for being here. Thank you. Well done. And thank you, mark. Thank you. Um, so our next speaker, vanessa, Vanessa Rodriguez is the managing director and the head of Community Lending and investment at wells fargo bank, one of the top, top lenders and investors in Affordable Housing in the united states. Vanessa manages a team of 170 associates, a nationwide with debt and equity portfolio totaling 24 billion in commitments. Her Team Provides various Financial Solutions to support Community Development needs, including debt and equity for neighborhood revitalize nation through tax credit equity for Affordable Housing and projects like this. She and her team played a key role in financing this development with a construction loan of over 80 million in tax credit equity as well. We are incredibly grateful for the partnership. Thank you. Please help me welcome Vanessa Rodriguez. Thank you, anne. And thank you so much for inviting me to speak today on behalf of wells. Guess i just want to start off with saying that wells believes that everyone should have a quality place to call home Affordable Housing is a top priority of the bank, and over the last five years weve provided about 21 billion of capital, all for the development and rehab of Affordable Housing throughout the us. We have a number of other initiatives around housing that include flexible down payment Financing Options for our homebuyers. Weve. Provided 450 million of flexible capital for Community Development, Financial Institutions and nonprofit Housing Developers nationally. And weve donated over 500 million to help address this housing affordable quality and stability in both Single Family and multifamily rental space. So it is a top priority of the firm and i hope those numbers tell that story. In terms of San Francisco proper, where weve done about 1,000,000,003 of capital through construct finance and tech Equity Investment over the last ten years, since 2012, as well as another 230 million of permanent finance through the gses during that time frame. This represents development and preserves a nation of approximately 3200 units in San Francisco. And these figures do include the 138 million of capital that we provided to kapuso at the upper yard. My colleague terrance schooled me on the term, the terminology here kapuso a tagalog word. So thank you, terrance, for bringing me up to speed. The translation hearts coming together for or of the same heart, which i think is really beautiful. Its a testament to the Larger Community here, you know, coming together, moving together, looking towards a common goal of affordable, quality housing. Were thankful to be a part of it. Were thankful to be part of this collective vision, to take a city owned parking lot and turn it into this high quality, Affordable Housing adjacent to bart and really make a place here, you know, pedestrian friendly, public oriented and this beautiful plaza behind us. So this project hits like a lot of levers for us is affordability, right . Targeting low and moderate income families and individuals, sustainable will be a big priority at wells as well. And we think a critical aspect to providing safe and stable homes for families. So the Energy Efficient designs here are the addition of adjacent to bart and the addition of the plaza where the community can come together for events and everything. I think, hits all the hits, all the buckets for us at and you know, the support from hcd and the city and county of San Francisco for the development and the transportation infrastructure improvements. Its really just a win win. All around. I certainly would be remiss if we didnt acknowledge the great sponsorship here, which in our view is certainly top notch. The related companies is a huge client of ours. The relationship spans 25 plus years. I dont know if you have this count, but i think weve done over 65 projects together nationwide and four projects in San Francisco through 2020 2022. Thats about 335 million. In those three four projects excuse me. And about 580 units here in San Francisco. So and we just recently partnered with them again on the revitalization of the sunnydale community, specifically blocks three a and three b, so were really excited about that one as well. And were delighted to continue the relationship with Mission Housing, one of the Top Community based Affordable Housing developers and operators in San Francisco. This isnt our first project. Weve done a few with them already, creating over 200 Affordable Housing units. So you know, were extremely happy to be here. Were so excited about this project and watching it come to fruition. Thank you to my team for always doing a great job of taking care of the clients in the community as we thank everyone for their partnership and congratulations to everyone. Thank you. Cheers. Either im growing or the mic is a little low. Thank you, vanessa and thank you to wells fargo. Wonderful partners of both. Both of both developers sitting here today. It is important for us to recognize our community. Like we said before, it takes a village. We could not get here and we probably would have never gotten here if it wasnt for community. So it is my honor to really recognize the work that the community and its organizers here in district 11 did for more than a decade. The organizing work of the Communities United for health and justice were super here was really vital. I cant even stress that enough. Vital in ensuring that this piece of land here where were standing and were celebrating now got to this to this place and this far welcome supervisor and today we just want to make sure that we acknowledge them and express that not only was the work done, but also they did it with their heart, just like the name, right, that weve been talking about. Kapuso and their meaning, but also the unity it took all all of them, plus the work that the Community Came together to do. Theyre really inspired not only for us to name this building kapuso, but also be able to be to build this 131 unit developed here that is housing thats going to house so many families. So it is my great honor to basically introduce terrence valin, and he is the founding organizational director of the Filipino Community center here in district 11. He is responsible for their Strategic Planning and resource development. So please help me welcome terrence to the podium and he will share a little bit of his thoughts. To everyone. Its great to be here today. This is kind of surreal to be here. Folks mentioned this is more than a decade of work. This this wouldnt be here. Actually, this work started with the community. And so the fcc started almost 20 years ago. Next year is our 20th anniversary. We were there on the backside of the ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church on san juan avenue. Their neighborhood house. We had meetings there to gather the community, as sam mentioned, Communities United for health and justice. My colleagues here, elaine, marybeth, reyna, ted, oscar, antonio, weve worked together over the years as fcc, the Filipino Community center poder coleman advocates also worked with chinese for affirmative action and Bernal Heights neighborhood center. Over the years, we gathered Community Folks who are not at the planning table. These are young people, you know, children, grandparents, seniors, recent immigrants, nonenglish speakers , the fcc. And so the name is very appropriate. Kapuso because when we were building the fcc 20 years ago, we knew our community is very much connected to the diverse immigrant communities of this neighborhood, in particular, the working class returning immigrant communities. And we know what we need. We know we had a vision for what we wanted, and we also helped to put the resources in place to make sure we can build more Affordable Housing here in San Francisco. So we had meetings at the fcc at balboas high schools green room at the new excelsior work center, and we hope to have meetings here as well moving forward because we still have a lot of work to do to stay connected to the Community Like like the name says kapuso. Sam explained it well. Kapuso in tagalog or filipino connected hearts, the ka is kind of being connected and puso means heart. Dont hear that word very often, but i wanted to share. This is what the its indigenous script. So the ka is like a symbol that has sometimes they talk about the earth and the sky connected by this line here and our communities have always and continue to be need to be connected. The work of the sam mentioned it at the groundbreaking that this is a new standard for Community Collaboration with city, state and other government officials and other developers to make these things happen. We are literally it was legos on a map , a desk map with fernando martin, an asian neighborhood design, and others who are visiting. How do we do this on a triangular space next to the freeway . So these are Community Members who are never at the planning table, who are talking with bart mta bay area air Quality Management district, the Planning Department and others. And we said that we can make this happen. Its possible. And we have this vision and you need to help us to get there so that People Powered Community Planning process that we did in 2011 and then finished and published a report in 2012. Were invited. Rest in peace. Former mayor ed lee to come. And we gave him valentines on february 13th, 2012. So here is our report out. This is what we need and we would love for you at the event called home is where the heart is on that ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church space that we had 100 people gathered. We had hundreds of Community Members out there doing surveys, making sure we knew what we wanted, what we needed, and what the city needed to do to step forward and get this housing for us. So were very happy. 130 units of housing are here. Theres a lot more work we need to do. Some of our community got displaced, but we have we lost some of our Community Members. Theyre still in our hearts. Mayor ed lee tatay Arthur Castro was a Filipino Community member who made every single meeting to make sure that this gets built and other Affordable Housing projects in the neighborhood get built 100 Affordable Housing for the most vulnerable and the lowest income folks. Now, we need to continue to do that. So i hope kapuso remains an institution or proud. Its named in a filipino name connected to the filipino Cultural Heritage district in south of market. But were proud that this is here. Theres a lot more work we need to do to strengthen the filipino and all of the communities of excelsior, district 11. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, terry. And now it is my honor to introduce supervisor asha sapphire. Supervisor sapphire became supervisor in San Franciscos district 11, in 2016. And i can absolutely say that he championed this development from day one. In fact, he summoned bill and i into his office on the first day to talk about it. I mean, he invited us. It was great. Supervisor sapphire is proven time and time again that its his passion for Community Based developments like this that really help him fight for high quality, Affordable Housing throughout his district. And as people have repeatedly said today, were excited that he was part of what we hope becomes the standard moving forward. And so, without further ado, supervisor. Thank you. Mission housing. Thank you, sam. Thank you, marsha. Thank you so much for all the tremendous work that you all have done to get us to this point. I mean, we were sitting in the room over there, balboa high school, started off some contention, but it was just as terry said, it was very Community Driven from the beginning. One of the things i love about representing this part of town and i tell people this and i dare and challenge anyone fun to challenge me on this point. This is the most diverse neighborhood and community in the entire united states. And i can tell you because i have knocked on almost every single door in this community. Thats how i got elected. And thousands and thousands of doors. And you go to one home, african american, you go to the next home, filipino, you go to the next home, latino, you go to the next home. Italian next home, chinese. And it just keeps repeating over and over and over again, sexual orientation, asian age. This is one of the this is the bedrock of San Francisco. The folks that live here are second, third, fourth and fifth generation san franciscans. And so this project today, this development is a manifestation of all of the great things that this community represents. And theres so many people that participated in this to make sure that this was a reality. See, this is the gateway to the oh, my lake view, right . So i want to i want to i want to shout out to lakeview and all the folks that have been here for generations and what that means. Also want to recognize is as as terry said, this is the largest concentration of filipino households and filipinos in the entire city and county of San Francisco. We have the highest number of people aging in place. We are predominantly immigrant. We are predominantly folks, working families. So theres so many Amazing Things about this. I want to call out a few people. I want to thank the mayor. And she came in early, made a commitment to this project. We needed some additional money. Theres always gaps, right. Bill whitty and related. Thank you for all your tremendous work. But the person that really brought it home in the end and i say this with no joke, we would still be in the phase waiting for the money is straight is state treasurer fiona ma because she made the decision to reallocate tax credit dollars that were going to some high speed rail projects that werent being utilized at the time. She made the decision to come in with the additional dollars that closed the final gap. And when youre talking about Affordable Housing financing, its all layers. Its like layers of a cake. You have one group thats doing a grant, and i recognize the mayor and the work that she came in with that money. Then you have private financing, then you have state financing and the icing on the cake and the big piece that we would not have been able to get done with. State treasurer fiona ma. So without her we might still be waiting for those dollars. But i want to thank sam and his team. I want to thank the community. We also want to recognize that this project is unique in the sense that it represents Affordable Housing for different different scales. You have extremely low income, you have moderate, and its an expansion of that definition because we also want to be able to take care of the teachers, the nurses, the firefighters, those that grew up in this community, that are also to being displaced. And we had some uncomfortable conversations, right, sam . But in the end, i think we made the right decision for this community because its representative of this community. So thank you. Thank you for all your tremendous work. Thank you for the community that did all the initial groundwork and laying. And one more thing, and i dont want to miss him without sb 35. I guarantee t you and scott wiener i guarantee you this project would have been appealed. But there was no appeal and because of that work and i think at the time i was the only man on the board that supported that in concept. Oh no, that was sb 50. Sorry. You have so many, but it was all about streamlining and making it and there was some opposition to that too. And so thank you, senator wiener, for increasing the ability for us to put Affordable Housing in this community and increasing the time that we got this done in record time. So thank you, Mission Housing, and thank you for the opportunity to say anything and thank you to all the community that participated in making this a reality. And i have to say it is surreal to be standing here where at one point we had safe parking for those living in their vehicles, and now were sitting in a building thats going to house families that can Stay Grounded in this community. Thank you. Thank you so much, supervisor sapphire, for your words right now, we want to also acknowledge, just like we were talking a little bit about who are we housing here at kapuso. Well we started our lease up already, so we want to recognize also some of our residents have already moved in. So it is my great pleasure today to really introduce someone thats already living here. But i want to share with you a little bit more about who he is so he is not only a father of, you know, of three little ones, but also he is a community volunteer. He has lived in San Francisco for the last 15 years. But most importantly, what really caught my attention was what he did during the pandemic. We all knew the pandemic was a hard time for everyone in must have been for him to. However, he decided that during the pandemic he wanted to use his time as a volunteer, and he also provided some of his savings to be able to share some of the food and boxes that were needed in this community. And he himself was actually taking those boxes and delivering them to families. So isnt that wonderful to see someone that does thats done so much work for his community here . Be able to move in at a building that, you know, is within the community that he was serving. So with that being said, i like to introduce this to you and i, i can say it correctly. I hope im saying it correctly. Juan, your to the to the podium and. So let me just explain Something Real quick. He will be speaking in spanish in spanish, and i will hopefully be doing some translation. So please bear with us. Buenas tardes, ingles. Muy bueno. Good afternoon. Mi nombre is juan moya feliz de estar aqui hoy. My name is juan and i am very happy to be here with you today. La vivienda para nosotros a sido un gran desafio housing has been a tremendous challenge for us. El aqui kapuso knows cambiado la vida totalmente living here at kapuso has changed our life drastically. We. Especial lo. El aqui en kapuso nos ha cambiado la vida totalmente especial. Mente ahorita viene el frio has changed my life tremendously, especially now that the cold weather is arriving. Don de vivir ver calefaction un frio los viejos where we used to live, there was actually no Heating Capacity in his apartment and the coldness really got even through his bones is how he felt. Recupera la salud de mis hijos. He was worried about his familys health. Aqui nos sentimos seguros e mis hijos estan felices en este ambiente accuweather. And now that they live here at kapuso, his family feels safe. And they are happy that they are living in a cozy environment. Quiero darle gracias a dios por vivir aqui en kapuso y tener una Vivienda Digna y saludable para mi familia. First of all, i want to say thank you to god for allowing me to live here in kapuso and have a dignified housing that is safe for my entire family. Agradecer a las personas trabajan aqui ellos siempre tienen una sonrisa conferta el corazon. I want to thank the folks that work here at kapuso. They always have a smile that really comforts my heart. Thank you so i muchas familia siento aqui in San Francisco. There are many families that are not living. They dont have a home in San Francisco. I it kapuso les the welbeck la esperanza a esas familia kapuso brings hope for those families. A Las Comunidades pertenece hemos brings hope to the communities in which they they have grown. Mija genesis un suprema no sufrido en esta vida con no arbol de dolor nunca un hablo de dolore just like my daughter. Genesis states in her poem somos un that has not suffered in life really can talk about pain. Someone that has not experience este pain really they cant really talk about that. It Las Comunidades gracias a todos por estar aqui and communities deserve better. So thank you so much for everyone thats here today. Feliz mas de la espanha dios bendiga kapuso. Happy latin heritage month, which is very appropriate. Well be celebrating today, mayor and hes just basically basically saying blessing to everybody here at kapuso. Thank you. That was that was fantastic. Thank you so much. Um, i have the pleasure of introducing our next speaker elect covid in 2016 and representing district 11 senator scott wiener authored and championed sb 35, a historic bill that allows for simplified and expedited approval process. Heard a little bit about this already from some of the speakers, including supervisor safai. This development, kapuso was heading down a path of conventional entitlements when sb 35 passed. It was made law. We very quickly pivoted and used the legislation to receive land use approvals in a few months, months instead of years. Ordinarily, this would take many , many years. We submitted in july and were cleared in october for the quick entitlements that propelled the project forward, allowing us to Start Construction and eventually open the doors to residents in the time it would typically take to just entitle the project. So we have people literally moving in today. In fact, there was a moving truck out front like literally moving in today in, you know, years ahead of schedule. This would never have been possible without sb 35. We are proud to be one of or perhaps the First Development to use sb 35 in San Francisco. And we will be eternally grateful to senator scott wiener for championing championing this legislation and its extension. Sb 433 sen. Scott wiener has is not just a champion for housing, though he also has authored many other bills centered around transportation, civil rights, criminal justice reform, clean energy, alleviating poverty. It is my true pleasure and honor to welcome senator scott wiener. All right. Thank you. An this is super exciting. It was. It was great. I took bart here today and it was just so great to be able to get off the train and like two minutes later, here i am. And this is exactly what we want to have. Affordable housing, a range of incomes, so all sorts of people from different backgrounds and income levels can live together as a community, right . Buy a bath station. By the way, as an aside , we need to make sure that we save bart and that bart continues to serve the community. So a big project for next year. And so this is this project is ive been hearing about it from, from from supervisor safai and others for, for years now. And this project is really just it makes me smile and i think it should make a lot of people smile. And im you know, i also just want to say that we for a long time we viewed creating more housing as something we get around to it. When we get around to it, not a priority. Take our time. No sense of urgency and by doing that, for many, many, many years here, not just here in San Francisco, but throughout the state, we have driven the car into the ditch. It didnt just randomly happen that rents got as high as they are with so many people have been pushed out of the city, whether by eviction or even more common, just not being able to afford to stay here. It didnt just happen that that we moved away from the old school notion that if you have to move for the million people, go for the million reasons that people have to move, you just find another apartment. Thats how human beings historically have like lived. If you need to find a new home, you find a new home. But in San Francisco, thats not how it works. The number of people over the last 26 years that ive lived here who have said to me, if i lose my apartment and i have to either be homeless or leave San Francisco, that is not normal. That is not healthy, and that is not something we should ever accept in San Francisco. And so the work that we have been doing at the state level and im proud to have authored sb 35, im proud that sb 423 its extending an is on the governors desk. Im proud that this law has entitled about 3000 homes in San Francisco, overwhelmingly below market rate. Im very proud of that. But we have we passed a series of state laws along these lines. And these laws is a basic theme that you set up the rules ahead of time. What the height, what the density is, what the Design Standards are. You set up those rules and then if someone comes forward and says, i want to build to your rules, you give them the permit in months, not years. Thats also known as good government. And so. And we have a lot more work to do. We as i mentioned, we have the extension of sb 35 on the governors desk. But i also just want to say that one of the Biggest Challenges that Affordable Housing nonprofit builders have is getting land and having to compete for land that is often very expensive. And we have another bill on the governors desk, senate bill four, that will open up as much as 170,000 acres of land statewide and only for 100 Affordable Housing and churches, synagogues, mosques, nonprofit colleges. And so we are working very, very hard at the state level. And i want to thank the mayor and the board of supervisors and everyone in the community who works hard locally to actually deliver the projects. This is a partnership, a state, local partnership. One of these days, well get the federal Government Back into the business of housing. And we know what we need to do. And i think we are finally heading down a better path. So congratulations to everyone in the district 11 community who worked so, so hard on this project. This is a very, very good day. Thank you. Excuse me while i. I think. In both directions. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much, senator. Thank you so much. I would like to introduce our next speaker since the inception of this project, kapuso and throughout the construction period, our team has worked very closely alongside bart. And i agree we need to save bart. Janice lee was the first elected, was first elected to the bart board of directors in 2018 and reelected in 2022. So she is the bart board president and a huge supporter of this development. We really appreciate the work that bart has done to make all of this possible. And we appreciate janice lee. Where is janice . Oh, there you are. Thank you, janice lee, please welcome. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is janice lee. Im your bart board president. Proudly, actually representing the station right here at balboa park. I know my fellow San Francisco board directors, bev and dufty and lateefah simon. Regret they arent here celebrating with us. But unfortunately, we. We actually have a bart Board Meeting going right now. So they are there for but really is in credible that we are here today. And for me housing will always be personal. When i first ran for the bart board at age 31, i was just another young person who was just scraping by in the city. I didnt know how long i was going to be able to afford living in my district and serving in this role. And even five years later, now, i still worry that im going to get priced out before i get voted out. So i know how urgent it is to build housing in San Francisco that keeps people here, keeps people like me, that keeps families, that keeps us. And keeps our communities here. I especially say this as a queer person, an immigrant from hong kong, but San Francisco is truly an amazing place to live, an amazing city. And we have to make it. We have to stop making it so darn hard to afford to live here and stay here. So to make that happen, we all have to be part of the solution. And thats why i feel a special pride to be standing here alongside such an amazing array of housing leaders in particular, i want to thank our state senator, scott wiener, who i would say drank the Transit Oriented Development koolaid before many of us ever did. And look at the tod bandwagon now. And of course, i also want to thank mayor london breed for always making housing a priority for san franciscans. So thank you. I just have a yeah, lets give it up for pro housing people. So just a couple of things i want to say as bart here. So first, this is when we get it right. This is what happens when we have community making demands. Elected leaders who listen staff are various agencies who go above and beyond to make it all happen alongside a developer and funding partners. But kapuso this should not be rare and bart will continue to be at the table to figure out how we can continue to build housing at a near transit stations with urgency. Im proud that our light and air easements are helping build an additional 30 units of Affordable Housing here. Which gets me to my last point, which is that a project like this makes sure that Everybody Wins by building Affordable Housing right here on a bart station. Were able to pull more funding together for Housing Production and transit improvements. So i do want to shout out the states Affordable Housing and sustainability Sustainable Communities Program just mentioned that this is helping fund some new bart cars. This actually has helped us get to a point where just a couple weeks ago we now have only new bart cars in regular service. Its funding and its actually projects like this that help us get there and that is being coupled with other critical voter approved measures like bart measure rr, prop one, b, and especially prop k, so a special thanks goes out to sfcta. Director tilly chang and board chair Rafael Mandelman for the funding support to make these transit and plaza improvements possible. Building housing here makes balboa park station a vibrant Community Space for everyone having places for the community gathered to have Youth Arts Exchange and poder del pueblo on the ground floor for people you know these spaces for people to enjoy themselves. These are the kind of places that make our community safe. And so when we move out to the plaza for the Ribbon Cutting shortly, please take in the brand new design, the ada accessible path, a new passenger drop off area, and more Community Gathering space is personally my favorite addition is going to be the new real time display. So, you know just how fast you have to run to catch your next train. So thank you, everyone on the bar team. I just want to shout out in particular, Nicole Franklin, tim chan, molly burke, mike wong, giovanni nebty and hongmei. I know we have a whole team of folks here as well. Im honestly just the one who gets to swoop in at the end of all the work and maybe hold some big scissors in a moment and cut some ribbons. But so many of you have been with this project through its years long journey, believed in the project, and always believed we could do more and do better. So thank you. Thank you so much. In the city of San Francisco, there is no greater advocate for Affordable Housing than our mayor. London breed. During her administration. She has prioritized policies and programs to address some of the most crucial issues facing San Francisco include workforce development, transportation and, of course, Affordable Housing. Please welcome and help me welcome 45th mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. Mayor london breed. Thank you, marsha. Its so great to be here. Finally at this project which every one has said everything that needed to be said. And so im just the closer to the food. Thank you all so much for being here. And let me just say that housing is finally, finally, finally take taking off in our city. It is taking off of significant proportion because we have courageous leaders like state senator scott wiener, who is putting himself on the line every single day with the kinds of housing policies that honestly should be happening here locally. Housing policies like sb 35 housing policies like sb 432 for three to will be a game changer for San Francisco as it relates to housing. Why is this so important . Well ill give you a perfect example. Projects like park merced was approved even before i was on the board of supervisor powers and is still not moving forward. San francisco has over 50,000 units in the pipeline line to be built, and many of those have not even Broken Ground and its why people are so happy to be here today to celebrate something that would have been delayed, delayed, delayed, especially if it went through our normal processes here in San Francisco. It would have been delayed, but it was not denied. And i am so excited that we have 131 units of housing where families are moving in and are living here and will be able to have a safe and affordable place to call home. This is how we should be doing every project in San Francisco when we have these Great Partnerships with the bart and with the state and other financing from the state. Thank you so much, fiona mar, for being here and the work that you provided in terms of tax credits and other relief, because cause we know that it does take a village, it does take us putting all the resources together to get to this point. We wish we could make this happen here locally without state intervention, but alas, that has not been the case. And so what will be happening in the future here with the Housing Element of 82,000 units that are required for San Francisco to build in the next eight years, and with my housing plan, my hope is that the board of supervisors will stop playing games with housing policies and pass very important legislation that are small steps towards getting us to the right direction with Housing Production, we cant just show up to Ribbon Cuttings and make declarations and claim that these projects are important without out making the hard decision to pass the kinds of policies necessary to get us here. Peoples lives are depending on it. Folks who are struggling on our streets depend on it. People who need housing in this city are depending on it. And im looking forward to doing more than projects like this to deliver for San Francisco. We have the makings to do it. We have the strong support from the state to do it. We have the exciting moment and the momentum and we have extra ordinary, extraordinary Party Leaders like Mission Housing and related who are willing to work with community to deliver what the Community Wants to see in their neighborhood. And i want to take us back to neighborhood preference. Im so proud of the work that i did to get neighborhood preference passed in San Francisco when i served on the board of supervisors making sure that when we build housing, that the people who live in the Community City have right of first refusal to get access to that housing. This is housing ing done right. This is housing of the future for San Francisco. And this is why im so excited to be here to celebrate this extraordinary milestone. And not to mention access to public transport nation in this way where you can just walk, get on the bus, get on bart, get on whatever, and get anywhere in San Francisco building housing, close to transit corridors is also critically important to ensuring the success of housing and transportation and our Networks Overall in our city. So im excited to be here. Im grateful and looking forward to seeing more families move into this project. And im looking forward to seeing San Francisco doing projects like this, uh, on a regular basis with not only the financial resources, but the political will to change the policies, to be courageous and to get things going. The momentum is on our side for housing. Finally, in San Francisco. And this is a great example of that. Thank you all so much. For starting with my five, four, three, two, one. Yeah. Im alice king this is my husband shawn kim and we other ordinance of joes ice cream in San Francisco. Joes ice cream in rich mondistrict since 1959 and we are proud to be registered a San Francisco legacy business since 2017. And we offer more than 50 flavors of homemade ice cream. And delicious home style burgers, sandwiches, hot dog, salad and more. We have a lot of different ice cream flavors both classic, long forgotten but classic and asian flavor inspired flavor like 3 red bean and black and now we also brought the korean im from korea. Korean coffee krooem. We mix our traditional and trendy flavors all together. Shawn and i are the first generation of the immigrants here in San Francisco. So as immigrants, we have a special connection to this diverse community, San Francisco Richmond District. So we made this place our home. That is where we are trying to build our business as a place where everybody can feel welcome like we felt when we first came here what really makes fisher or joes ice cream we have been growing together with our community. So we support our local schools throughout the fundraiser. We provide job opportunity for high school, i hire them every year. Built a beautiful parklet outside funded by donations from over 200 neighbors and friends and i think this really shows how joes ice cream and our Community Like lives together. So you see our mission is to serve as a Fun Community hub in San Francisco and Richmond District. So, i hope that we can stay this way for many years. So im linda im part owner and manager of the paper tree in jeopardy an town. Paper tree opened by my parent in 1968. So we other second oldest business in jap an town. At 55 years this year. We have beautiful papers from japan, thailand, italy, korea and the biggest selection of orgami. I do it because of my grand father and he wrote to the first english in it in the early 50s. He had an import business to import japanese goods and of course we had our line of paper. To go with the books he produced. It is something i have been doing since i was 5 and im happy to say im a designer now and of course having paper tree. It is grit. During the pandemic i wanted do something to make a statement to help combat the asian hate that was prevalent at that time. And so i put a call out to have a thousand hearts. This is a spin on the tradition of holding 1,000 cranes when you have a wish. Well, a thousand cranes does not make a statement enough why not change it and a call for a thousand hearts . I created a website dedicated to the project. A video and fold heart instructions. People sent them in the first mont was 1,000 hearts. They kept coming in. And the next goal was 7, 698, which was the total number of case of reported hate by the ap i website. Those were the reported case of hate. There are more not reported. That became the new goal. We achieved 2 months later. The hearts were coming in it it is a big project, we have it part of our store. Anyone can come and fold an easy heart. Keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is pretty special. Its great