Number of applicants coming forward obviously the volume and how much the volume will be the control valve of that volume is with the mayor and the board of supervisors. Well be mod lasted by success if no one is successful. I can say if i may comments what is the not clear in my mind is how will we begin to request at what time should be requesting the funds the administrative budget to provide for these processing of those applications we dont know how many when the drop date at which that demands should be made to anticipating the possibility regardless of what that is our krooutd efforts thus far the odds of finding someone to take this job will take 90 to one hundred days so this is necessary. This i mean, we and we havent hired our own replacement for her here. This position can possible but have to you know, i will have to work with h. R. But what is called the permitting it is a 3 year progressing position that has a shorter hiring process not Service Service so those detailed need to be worked and im starting to investigate i dont have that flushdz out for you the one thing the requirements that are going to be looked to this office and the commission are one is while the maximum amount of business so the business can receive for is Historic PreservationCommission Funds southbound that this is granted is 50,000 based on the number of employees not every better to be safe than sorry is going to have the same number of employees so this is going to need to be determinations each business other than property has to annually reapply to insure were providing some you Due Diligence about the city funding going to the entities in someone says 50 employees but actually 50 fulltime equivalent employees the business has i think for the Property Owners i dont know sorry i dont think that onerous is on us were not going to go out and become an agency that goes and verifies whether they have 50 employees e employees and look at it their books and make sure theyre there and count the cars in the parking lot were not going to do that this is not practical and not within our jurisdictions were not an adjudicative body if they be fraudulent there are legal remedies so again, i get to this weigh getting way ahead of ourselves the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office are the only ones that open the gates okay. So if they gets depends upon by that someone not on us but on them i think what well see wiener well get applications and you know what how will we know were looking at the application and is i know or know that business off they each got x number of employees everything is in order and do that and eventually run out of money the fact is if 50,000 applications well only sift 60 businesses weve run out of money and then what will happen and everyone says not more o more money on the potsz, you know, go what another buktd cycle lets see how those do and meets the 3 millions and next 89 or 9 months and talk about more money into the pot if there is good reluctance all im saying there will be three hundred and 6 hundreds and 9 hundreds businesses the money will not late if there are some that want to get there im aware of the businesses that are probably really good candidates for the fuel amount but beefrmd the full amount is inconsequential to a business with 50 employees they need one Million Dollars and so part of the champ here is going to be were going to be putting a drop in the ocean and guess what the business will not survivor the money evaporates and the success i remember now we can talk about it will be california. Seriously. I think for our selfif i thinks the ballot measure the commission and the other was sets up the program and provides we provide the information to the mire and the board of supervisors of which then it is their troblts determine how for this program is. Right. Rights so but the one thing that will be required by our office i know the Controllers Office well work with the Controllers Office so set a measurement in the application process of somebody says i have 38 employees there is something we need to set up some chief of a verification process to be determined but through are definitely has to be items that the business and the Property Owner has to submit by the ask for their submitting under penalty of perjury that information is credit correct bullet stake what that is. It could be a redacted payroll report from within the last 90 days or Something Like that you can redictate personal fox but i think it is they canty any type of investigative efforts on our part other than a piece of donate. It will be documents theyre required to submit you. I think there is one thing that everyone has document how many employees thats right the payroll if youre claiming our of more employees explain why more employees and submit 3 months of payroll but has to be within some limited window but i think that into this i know that we can set those things down super facility and i really i think we have to take a waited and see a group harassed to vet the first 20 in fact, want to know what is coming in starting to anticipate a pattern this is a definite yes and yes, yes, yes there is American People obvious glossoweigh figure out the nos and maybe so this has not been done no way to anticipate and the mourm of effort would be a water time i know or this we can mangle a fast assessment additional i imagine hot sfopt union square is a hot spot and its go back to be other plays experience some things so all of these businesses you know as of now im stating as of january one will be realized regardless of the Historic Preservation commission will be routed forcible this go Commission Agency part of getting on the recommendation reiterate process. First for the supervisors as the Mayors Office. It theyll have to be nominated nail fill occult the operation e application then to the Historic Preservation commission its just staff it looks at the application and uhhuh. And makes the determination whether they meet the requirements if they had they become eligible for the funding so i understand. No, no theres a misstep the Commission Gets to approve that we have the final say; right . The commissions do can we join you as staff in the these what i am not saying that i dont want to put undue burden on you the staff i will suggest that the commissioners be the staff help them and at least im protecting to one i want to see what they are im highly interested. I approve everyone mark you said i supportive commissioner dwight 100 percent tea youre saying everyone i want to say i agree with you the hot spot areas the one thing it is so key if someone succumbs to us with funds. Youll be. If somebody like gold coast and successful at Fishermans Wharf on powell street i will give you a chance but as banker to meet the funds ill with you. We have tbankers and i thik we have i want to look at the business in the mission that is forced out by gentrification a successful Business Needs to relocation those are the people we want to help this is what this ordnance is meant for. So again commissioners why i this is stressing we need to sort of begin to work on the rule making is that prioritization is not here on behalf of the appellant and we make the rules. This iowa we need to vet with the staffing to what degree can we provide to what degree can we put that go rule making and currently this is not to say securely right now in the in the ballot measure the commissioners have but the final particularly of the office we cant make that part of rule procedure the commission affirms the office represents as who is divisible or not eligible thats why you will need to provide me direction as to how detailed in the rule making around the prop a and saying business and or a Property Owner is eligible. Have some something. The rules are important they have to be detailed and indeed the City Attorney should rubber stamp that our president is right we have an allocation to ascertain every single piece of information in an application talking about a much bigger application valentines day and oust a protocol in documentation not. I think what happens well have to say okay. This meets the spirits of legislation we can all sit around and speculate as to whether this is successful venture by the city we assume some fiduciary but dont have fiduciary responsibility we have an obligation i mean, we dont have any fiduciary responsibility other than a moral one but the city will give money to businesses. I want to believe oh, im sorry. Thats okay both we are saying that when they apply for the funds at the must be not seeing the money but weve give them a grant. A grant right. My thing like and what i see of that was for with that at the beginning we talked about this basically this was meant for you know companies that need to relocation and move not so much companies in trouble. Being forceout. Forced button i lymph gland and the business is a Healthy Business need to relocation and get assistance im okay with green house grants for that i want to make sure not probation officer prop someone up. It is difficult for operating experiences; right . If you said look the business is fine and you know timing we survived this long and keep on surviving as long as the rent explicit triple or double so from the ask is for rent relieve through giving the landlord you know some money so they dont push the attendant out or find a more Reasonable Rent and stay and status quo that is a legitimate well in good conscious say yeah im not here to speculate im not here to prove whether our making it is or not for all i know youre taking our inheritance i dont think i know about that. What we have were thinking here needs to be written down as well so. Yeah. Yeah. So otherwise we set the rules. We set the rules and so we need to make sure that. I think we can set down we call the rules heres some guidelines that generally speaking you know i think ill call them guidelines by way of it is all entirely substantive we cant do the level of research on the facts leading up to the request and anything beyond the request is what the venture implicit lifts do were not paid to speculate on the successful outcome. The within thing because of uh our sunshine and ethics and for the commission because you now are somewhat in it with this program and in the adjudicative position youre transitioning into a jafshth position we do actually have to have the rule making and procedures and even if there are guidelines like with the Planning Commission there are guidelines and dislocate codes to follow but areas of which they are able to make some interpretation i be you want to remember youll be making decisions on whether or not a business received or Property Owner receives money or not youre following a procedure that you backs you up in our decision and so are we making a recommendation because who ultimately writes the checks. Our office writes the checks were having this discussion right now our office on behalf of the city who writes the check so what i what well do well have the City Attorney at the next meeting it is a start to make sure that we understand the breathe and the scope of what is ahead of i to what degree if it is that we dont have the funding to funds every single applicant it come forward for a grants and the commission has an interest in vetting some sort of prioritization of the you know the applicants that received the grant process then what are the boundaries of which you can set those priorities. Okay. We can run i think great we should i dont know whether in is something i dont want to me spends time at our strategy session but maybe we can deal with putting together a proposal put intoerdz the first come first serve i dont want to get in any position where im allowing someone to move forward in the process and jump for anyone that has submitted their application but on a first come, first serve because we cant say have the supervisions joshing third year for other persons the applications will be evaluated as their submitted by the Historic Preservation commission to us and after theyve been vetted and i say our policy well take them as they come from the Historic Preservation commission or darted darted or to the Historic Preservation commission out of order. But what we will have we will have the data of which then the mayor or board of supervisors makes their official nomination thats the at a time date of the order. Does that necessarily mean the application is complete the mayor might say off in favor of an application and oh, wait a minute you put north america n a national applicable so youre application is not complete. So let me give it some thought again youre correct the noomths maybe made and soft the nominations made and the nomination for the acts makes a noopgs and submits the nomination along with the application so you can we might have to set criteria if a nominee or nomination made prior to the application the applicant has a number of days to complete that application they are you know its for using the nominations date as is arrested or offered of priority for the noomgsdz to be submitted ill i mean, were not finalizing anything of whats ahead but remember the Historic PreservationCommission None what ply for the Historic Preservation funding not that i recall their completed the registry so the Historic Preservation the routing throttles Historic Preservation commission is just to give some additional view around that the historical component of the business that is really for should they be on the registry the business that is predicament for the legacy business registry not whether theyll get funding down the road. But they cant get fund if not on the registry irreverent. Respect. Its a necessary step. I get it. It didnt qualify them for founding only as registry correct. You royals any in essence was stubble in that districts. Thats own knowledge were still a work in process. By want to focus on getting to a very sort of concise definition of the process and not hung up on the evaluation criteria i think the evaluation will be substantive we need to put in los angeles to doing everything we can to evaluate as they come in which the order they arrive yay or nay or a modification but and that you know we can only approve as many applications as the funding permits thats all there is to it and on the at the to decide we compassionate but the results will not play out. You get 50 grand it maybe years but at least requires some amount of time to see if this looks like it is a wise use of citys money. And some of this will be you know if i think to determine to on the enthusiasm on either the mayor or board of supervisors part never mind of how many people are applying for the preservation funding what were able to grant and whos on the registry we dont have the funding so we will need to think periodic updateed to track this data so we can be able to pull it up relatively quickly so. I mean, the good news the Supervisors Office i mean not like theyve got a lot of these staffing theyre the fir place to get to and back further the process of filling out the application so the Business Owner first through that and get nominate and that means some evaluation by the Supervisors Office we get a bunch of inner complete applications will push back and dont do that because we cant process those theyre not ready so up there is it will take momentum but momentum as the Supervisors Office understand what theyre getting into i i dont feel unifying comfortable because there is sufficient it requires selfregulated. Whats next for us. Whats next is i if there are questions that the commission has ill draft my list of questions ill ask the City Attorney to around the rule making in terms of the breath and scope of the i is not so much the breath and scope but can the commission you know doorstep some is criteria around the funding in terms of prioritization or i dont know how better to explain but so to what degree what can the Commission Set the registrations the administrative procedures i will im starting to draft what i think that you know might be some of the key points but have to work with the Controllers Office i want to work with the Controllers Office because they do this kind of thing in terms of of tentatively with helping the departments to set programs that are verifications the Controllers Office will eventually monitor how well, we are dealing with the Administrative Program but questions you would like to have the City Attorney address in terms of your role you know what to what decree to write into the administrative procedures around for i mean commissioner toursarkissian you and i have had conversations about the last weeks and still appropriate in terms of what we need to see to verify that a lease is signed and certain things are provided for that pertaining to receive the grant so there are some questions i will. 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By all means and here at the meeting one of the meetings to describe and maybe best practices that have been you know vetted by oh, i can imagine the number of situations the at the is vaeflt funds and they say yeah, and no for Public Development and all that kind of stuff get advanced information. I think the Controllers Office can provide good assistance with so that is all that i just wanted to brought to your attention between now and the ends of february and we have one more important thing to get to. If you update us with the City Attorney and the treasury department. And if you have questions meet them. Have the questions ready to look at it and add to it or ask questions. All right. Public comment. Do we need. Are we done with the discussion any Public Comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed. On this item move on to the networks item item no. 7 is the election for an interim Vice President sing were without a Vice President. Do we have any discussion well need a nomination any discussion beforehand . I will nominate steve adams. I second that. Okay. We have a nominates and a second. And the procedure any other nominations. Any other nominees or nominates seeing none, lets have a vote. We have quorum and still a we have quorum so commissioner ada adams. Yes i love it laughter commissioner dwight i accept. Commissioner dooley is not here commissioner ortizcartagena commissioner yeeriley and commissioner toursarkissian. Yes. Okay. Thats unanimous is that gavel and have a anonymous vote for commissioner adams. So commissioners pause we may have another meeting coming in after this ill quickly touch base on a couple of items security is here. And all right. So i wanted to give you an update the tax and Treasurers Office is working to do credit cards for the taxes and water and nontax delinquent bills for the first time the jane and her team have been working with the tax offices not only in the rentcontrolled units user platform but working with them to develop a business first time Business Registration to be able to be done obama not an official launch date that is worked on and hopefully coming soon great that is great news we have so many businesses that will soon be able to register their businesses on line. Fantastic. A list of other things that i wanted to make sure provide you with monthly updates on things that is taking place on the business protocol i want to acknowledge that the business protocol received the Business Excellence in Customer Services with the National Government award. Fantastic. The Small BusinessAccelerator Team restaurant case manager this is the mayor i mean the mayor put this in his budget so have a case manager to assist in the restaurant and walk you through the imprisonment process from start to finish we had a meeting with the department of building inspection, Planning Department and department of Public Health and all the directors are on board if up to that point in time and so im working with todd to develop the program and will be providing both he and i will be providing oversights to the position in is existing and rudimentary from planning who knows. Well again, it is the traditional job applications but people in the city family interested in the position and. speaking spanish. week American Bank of america has agreed to come on as the spokesperson this year. Thats fantastic. At 60 thousand a good start for. speaking spanish. week and a meeting are Small Businesses owners the meekly initiated and not going into details but the key things are the homeless and housing code agenda and sam dodge will be replacing denver duffey in attendance and talked about his dowels and objectives and had preservations on the shop and dine and the Small Business saturday the biological campaigns and super bowl 50 i want to let you know weve been having merging office of Economic Workforce Development with the demon el nino for preparation for businesses what to begin to inform businesses will b and how to get out the information but i think that some of the key element well streets every business should make sure their phone is enabled to get texts so register for sf alert well be sending anti information and once that information is received then to follow any updates through the Public Utilities and the department of Emergency Services theyll be providing updates we know the big storm is succumbing in 3 days to make sure. 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Really want to encourage the businesses to download the 311 app and use the app for catch based on that are clogged or issues with the public rightofway that might effect the out flow of water and time to make sure that businesses are preparing for the flooding and leakages in the sub basement and sandbag can be where they can get free sandbags to make sure they have the proper insurance not just flowed insurance but the potential of Power Outages fire and that kind of thing and developing our own internal procedures for how we as staff will be responding jointly with wovm and if under those an intensive rain where d e m had a as command center for Small Businesses and theyve had it for the larger backdoor but for smaller businesses what plans to put in place to be prepared to provide ongoing support and also you know the post recovery were starting to make those plans i anticipate probably by the next emotionally well have it president ial in place with the depositcy are for. Org for for the portal for business sections and then other Office Updates so carl oil has been on leave and returning a week from today, im extinguisher with our department our d h. R. Trooifrg to work through the policy person that had speed up the hiring and then know that commissioner dwight wants to talk about the Planning Session on december 18 but have the agenda on december 2nd but big picture planning process im working on dpw a project list im working to have take the list and then also the department is now required to do a 5 Year Strategic Plan a profession for the director and department this will be working on the Planning Department i mean our Planning Department excuse me. The Planning Sessions will be working with commissioner dwight that is developed and added to the 5 year plausibleness december 18th. December 18th. I sent out invites but i dont know if you received them are get them i know that commissioner adams you relied yes and commissioner dwight you relied yes and i attended the chamber of commerce last thursday and congratulations to commissioner dwight and rachel as the finally it for the Small Business awards. We didnt win. Sf made won. And then a reminder this saturday is Small Business saturday well have the kickoff at the building as we do every year. So with that, that concludes any directors report. What time is the kickoff for Small Business saturday. Generally around 9 you will confirm that. Okay. Were getting ready for that. So unless you have questions well monarch to the next agenda item and thats me. So item number 9 is that concludes my report. Well, i guess all i have i attended the english i didnt see and what else i attended the kickoff dinner for Small Businesses week that was awesome not only a great restaurant american x press was gracious it was the first ever i got invited there is some again momentum this is interesting to see how the shop local and shop small messages mesh and shop and dine in the 4 did saying something that American Express owns subtitling and locally but good open everyone that worked on this a lot of effort the only thing about the Planning Session im hoping to phone call on how we can make this commission for resist and for the most part advocating for the consults the Small Business, and, secondly, helping the board of supervisors and city hall pass better legislation by weighing in on issues during the formation stage of legislation that effects Small Businesses and helping them sort out the ramifications of things their approaching over the last year or two substantive advise which caused Critical Thinking and changes in the primary rules when they get passed are thoughtful and especially things go to the ballot you know how hard that is to change it is our rule to be viewed as supervisors want to come to and their legislation in advance were not late and angry to the party and just how we can be more relevant in general we usually have empty seats here that didnt happen often in the plan is it just the in each of your role or doing more to get people out here it is that substantial we should be proactive in our constituents can come and be heard and feel like theyve weighed in an issue well in advance okay in the form of a law or a you know a proposition that is be perspective instead reactive. It is our role in condemn democracy to get people out. Vice president. Well mr. Vice president would you like. I have a couple of quick things approval a shout out to my neighborhood the castro tree Lieutenant Governor ceremony on monday and 6 oclock at 18 and castro a thirty feet tree and santa will be there and mced with an awesome santa clause we get our crowds get bigger and bigger last year over 5 hundred and is it a status state. I want to shout out to daniel whos watching tv the net awards are coming on january 27th here at city hall im lifting to sponsor and hope to prompt that the nominations are closed this week so today, youll shop and dine in the 49. Actually, it had to be postponed. Was it. Until next week. Oh, people watching this on tv shop in youre neighborhoods and spend money locally. All right. Commissioners. Item 11 commission reports. Nothing to report. Okay. No. Oh, come on you have something. All right. Any new business item 12 new bizarre following up with what i said earlier our is the only city with local laws on the paid second leave yet the state come out with someone else it is making life complicated i was wording in the future where we look at new legislation can we get the state laws so we dont have to sets i dont know it is a good idea the problem is that generally speaking not to be kin cancel their politically motivated someone want a notch open their you know their list of things theyve done you think it being a leader in San Francisco what happens i think we tend to rush those things and frankly you know, i think it is great idea to sort seek advice from the state but theyll be like okay. Lets see how this arithmetics in San Francisco and controversy this stirs up you mean all about politics it is the politicians that i have had to sponsor something at the state level as well as our level and city imagine how hard to get someone to sponsor something they Great Britain grab on like a screw sad. We can fry. I totally agree. This is the least from the board of supervisors. Maybe as we get better. Some of the legislation i mean theyve passed and sponsored at the city level so at the state level make sense to get them involved without to sets of rules. Our process when we are saying okay are we pga a good law and say have we considered what the state and federal government might be likely to do look at minimum wage every single subsequent is asking what they need to do on minimum wage and the feds will do something that will come back down on use it we dot right thing to do or the wrong thing so municipality will see with the government does on both sides of the issue we felt come fold take a leadership position and tried to bring in all the fellow communities make sure that city of oakland we wanted everyone else to hamper in itself not to put us at the disadvantage and lobby everyone this was a great case of no stopping it respect we were advising just to kind of try to mitigate the damage to Small Business in San Francisco how quickly getting infected and Small Businesses pushing for a long term we mediated the sort of only place to get we got to the middle and we spent some time talking about the state remember i did that graph where our numbers and Salvation Army anyway that is a great suggestion on youre part maybe that is part of the process like hey has anyone talked to the state give us this the thinking about this if the state is thinking that helps to delay legislation or maybe a little bit more discussion what did you think director. This is something in terms of that have this state stated federal is less easy easier but as part of making the commission relevant in that discussion with the planning discussion how we apply that at the state and federal life imprisonment there is somewhat of a procedure we have a state committee that is made up of represented of various departments that takes into account state and federal legislation and from the Department Needs advocacy to support or defend is or defeat it theres a properties of which you know we can work with that and then to then have the city weigh in the difficulty i think with like the state paid sick leave we have our represented one or 3 you know 3. Past one thousand arrest hundreds of other representatives or who have also their constituency politically pushing for their agenda so thats kind of the challenge i see as you can see who with this paid sick leave law i mean, why is that written the way it was was because of political advocacy and trying to sort of make those compromises it is a very go complicated law at the state level before the state law was in place whether we liked it or not but our local law way written simply and not difficult for businesses to follow the state has a complicated law and that is a result of the pilot advocacy im not sure you know how to what degree we tried to influence we also also have entities like Small Business california we can invite in and give presentations on some of the laws before the state and what Small Business california to advocate that the Small Businesses behalf and provide that commission and this nation as well but we can add did relevant the view of that commission and the resists and we might build in relevant when it gets to the board of supervisors and build in flexibility but when it ends up in the ballot box and nail the delays you have to specific whether you nail them right for the future you have to specific and it is hard to change them the level i think were hearing the legislation for the board of supervisors maybe advocating for you know lets allow for what from the state did xyz and going down this path a way to leave the door open for modifications in the future and give ourselves flexibility to harmonize because where we get do into difficulties were not harmonized and what trumps what you know i think it is a really good suggestion Going Forward and those are the kinds of things that make the commission a valuable resource. Any other new business . No okay. We have item number 13 adjournment i motion to adjourn. All in favor, say i. I. Done go see which will . Thank you and welcome ill deputy chief of staff like to introduce a few honored guests hold our applause until im encourage id like to start off with the honorable mayor ed lee and president of the Police Commission suvs and greg suhr and the command staff the Police Department deputy smith and Michael Redman and gary tom and deputy chief ali and robert mows and osullivan and tom nolan chaplain and ann maddox and commander thank you and thank you for being here clapping. distinguished guests and family members and friends im the chief of staff and greg suhr i welcome you to the promotional ceremony between january 17th and september 26, 2015, in thank you lieutenant oconnor will you rise for the posting of the colors. Please remain stand for the National Anthem present arms. Oh, say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . clapping. thank you chanel i dont think she needed a microphone if everyone will be seed correction stand fast while we present the thank you color guard please take your seats he invite pastor stacey current to say a few words. Good afternoon i woke up this morning with an overwhelm sensation of the joy of being alive if youre happy to be alive turn to our neighbor real quick and say it is good to be alive good to be alive. repeated. yeah. Good to be alive and it is good to be here and to celebrate so as we begin this time of celebration of the promotion let us begin with a word of prayer lets pray together giver of life and sustaining god we come to you with gratitude in our hearts for all the gifts you give us each year each day family and friends and loved ones and laughter and the gift of being alive help is to receive those gifts with thanksgiving and may our hearts be stirred to remember all the blessing but today, we good faith to recognize pub those he men and women may we meaningful that have the wisdom for problems theyll, enfrustrated with a higher position of responsible rocket and leadership we call them peacemakers shaped by experience and prepared for the new task. So we ask our blessing that on if day a day of joy and deep gratitude we remember for years to come may all gods children thankfully for this day say amen amen thank you pastor current my please to introduce the honorable mayor of San Francisco mooed mooe thank you deputy and thank you pastor current for perhaps it is appropriate for me to say it is good to be politically alive laughter im overjoyed to join you greg suhr and commission and also staff and all the officers that are part of this wonderful department family, friends, and especially those who are about to be promoted he congratulate you as well its been very interesting last four and a half years i want to say im here because i know a few of the individuals also but here as part of the support team for our Police Department and as the 403 mayor of this wonderful city we have a lot of work that weve already done to have been a successful city has we are i wont be the first one to say our city cant say you been successful unless were a safe city and all of you on the front lines are making our city save but im also had the pleasure of being the mayor in 3 world series celebrations one nabbing celebration and americas cup on the eave of hosting the incredible 50th shakespeare and get to enjoy it is finite Police Department it is to say that under the leadership of this commission with the chief weve had all the successes and continue to be a successful city as long as we also are a safe city and being a safe city i also will be the first to say that is not just on the shoulders of our police men and women their have their responsibilities youll all have our responsibilities do the Great Community policing weve engaged in but forthcoming we have challenges and we have challenges that were going to meet in the very heartfelt way because our citizens require us to be more transparent and have the body cameras that challenge us i think the public finds out more that happens on the streets than sometimes recorded we will also have the challenge of having more success a growing population but im excited for every Single Community corridor that will support and have our more officers on the beats as well as officers working Computer Systems and greats technology we have as well as officers and all of our different areas in the city that will do great work seen and unseen at the same time and complimenting the additional officers and he had a chance with the chief the other day to welcome in the new recruits in the academy what wonderful recruits we all right. Have that will have some 4 hundred more Additional Police officers that join us along with the 200 firefighters and 50 pharmacies and including some additional 35911 callers this is an incredible time for our city but we know that we cant just dont think the officers that we hire the Public Safety is a variety of things we have to do a city i want you to recognize the city will do its part as well that means not only the hiring but means a Good Environment for the people to work in a city that is successful a city that looks to the future and says lets resurrect that Police Academy program and make sure that the youth we want that they want to have a safe city also see potential crazy they can enjoy in the Police Department or at least be exposed that that to the Cadet Program to be eligible to go to the academy a city that vests in a program that reaches youth that are already in trouble reaches into their lives and suggested to go them we can interrupt the patterns of activities if drawings them into challenging lives and pull them into job saving lives with career paths i pathways lives they, see better education were all increasing those opportunities from kindergarten to college well be supporting our youth all of our youth and particularly emphasis on the youth in poverty strictly community i get to do that as the 43 mayor and begin in Public Housing that people have a way forward for themselves and their family through all the programs in education and interrupt those patterns activities that might suggest otherwise well support through our families and children and Youth Programs programs and the passage of prop c last year an incredible investment in all our families to see an unprecedented investment for our youth from the family prospective we have rebuilding every single one of our Public Housing sites so they become integrated policies sites for all of the families that are there as well as the new families that will be welcomed there people will not live in isolated poverty housing under this administration giving me a chance to move forward all the things in concert with increasing our hiring of our Police Officers but also promoting promotions is a good day this means theres movement and hiring and activity in this department the same can be said in the Fire Department in our 911 and all our dispatchers by the desire city would it be fair to say congratulations to all of you that are will be receiving pins today when i have the opportunity to pin the 3 that had a chance to work with me there might be screens of pichz i have to pay them back for the rough lives theyve given me outside of that weve had an incredible time i want to say the incredible success on every single one of youre crazy well be a successful city and whether it is issues around retirement, or the environment you work in or the people you even though again work with well do our best in support because you mean that the people on the first line that is a i will sacrifice for the other safety i want to say congratulations and health felt thank you from our 43rd mayor to our success and safety and success of you and our families i congratulate all of you today thank you clapping. thank you, mr. Mayor it is my honor to welcome the president of the Police Commission president suzy loftus clapping. thank you, thank you greg suhr mayor ed lee and the staff and director hicks and family and friends can you raise your hand if our mom or dad is getting promoted today raise your hand if youre mom reasonable person dad is getting promoted two hands over there that is a big deal big deal your can do is getting promoted i know you this is a big deal guys ill speak to the kids this is a big ceremony with the command staff what the mayor this is a tough profession your mom and dad are distinguished leaders were here to recognize and one thing i know for sure in working with in Law Enforcement with as prosecutor and in the police Commission None did it alone with all of you, your family and your kids i know you guys are proud of them so this is a legal term but a really big deal today is a really big deal so obviously congratulations to you guys i want to say two things talk about what i think youve accomplished and what it means to the Department Today is acknowledging the hard work i mentioned that i sat for the California Bar examine im not stranger of hard tests but the tested you have to study for practice with our fell officer is not a samuel Small Matters your chosen to be a leader of this department and youve put in a lot of work now what it means for the department the mayor talked about the significant momentums well have a number of things going on but i want to say this ceremony is special the academy congratulations theyre excited and start their career cant wait to get out there this is a different moment a moment youve done that chief youve distinguished yourselves as leaders to be recognized this is your moment and you get to make choices and decisions about the rest of our career those ceremony is amazing at the end of it it two minutes where someone faubz u talks about your career im moved by sometimes, the chief or captain will rattled off your mrishtsd but nevertheless, the two minutes spent talking about the kind of leader and how you treated our officers and how you had their backs and managed tough situations and a team leader and helped others now it is the moment in our career youve gotten the acknowledgment the mayor mentioned body cameras i want to say one thing as leader of this department the success or failure of this program is depending on you your leadership as our officers to what you do will make the program a success or failure many people involved commissioners and city officials at the end of the day you as leaders of the department have the technology and learn from it and help us make the policy better and continue to lead the way for the San FranciscoPolice Department so that is my hinge r request of you, you an acknowledgment of everything help us embrace the future and continue to be the incredible leaders youve been and congratulations think everything youve done and thank you for being a leader at a critical time youre up to it thank you. clapping . Commissioner president loftus now greg suhr. clapping . So youve had to brave two speeches suffer through one more to emotional what commissioner president loftus said as you look at people around you take a lot of pictures people in this room nobody is going to be any younger nobody will have any more hair and sadly in the matter how much you tell you yourselves it will be thinner and the kids not younger so lots of pictures a big deal it is good to welcome you did not members and family and friends to this ceremony weve honored today to have the newly reelected mayor of San Francisco ed lee clapping. our president of the Police Commission suzy loftus clapping. someone who never misses one of those ceremonies im so honored he is with us every single time former excessive of police mr. Sandra right there clapping. and then we have a late arrive our occ director joyce hicks clapping. but most important here were privileged to be among the sworn officers to the rank of sergeant and commander and deputy chief over the last year the future leadership of the San FranciscoPolice Department no small deal in all endeavors leadership it critical to success but as we move into the last part of this year leadership is not as critical to the San FranciscoPolice Department we recently peace officer served through the you toughest recession in our lifetime we never said we cant do more with less we did that with less and good in San Francisco thanks to the mayor and the full support of the board of supervisors were under one of the biggest hiring pushlz all the new cops needs the leadership if theyre required of the San FranciscoPolice Officers to be the smallest thoughtful cops in the country this department to the challenges that lay before us across the country and in some community in San Francisco folks are questioning over intentions and action as we perform with the new video painting the Law Enforcement in an unfavorable light every year as fbi director spoke you can turn up the music on the radio or choose to have an open and honest discussion about the relationship today what it should and could be and needs to be if we took more time to understand one allocate across the country serious a debates how Law Enforcement will relate to the community about the appropriate use of force and the bias within an outside Law Enforcement we need to have this conversations similar conversation are being had within every Police Department as well or should be these kinetics is bumping and uncomfortable help us to understand and better serve San Francisco of course, those are only conversations and the true sense of the word only willing to talk not only but listen someone said you have to understand and be understood true words again quoting let us begin that difficult conversation by being honest to acknowledge that most of our Law Enforcement history in the country is not pretty at many points in American History before the members were borne are Law Enforcement enforced with status quo a status quo that was brooultd unfair to the labor groups and unfair to two many people a century ago the issuing my mom was issuing knew how well, the drills and the patty woolen is not named patty wug because its padded we need to be able to explain why we do what we do every time we do if we cant rethink what were doing and to do it definitely there is a renewed on a procedural justice toy decade ourselves to not allow the bias that exists in all of us not judge cope to do our job fairly and objectively to do this today more than ever requires strong leadership it is with that in mind all the men and women are promoted were selected for the Department Leaders of tomorrow the best ladders are functional intelligence and demonstrate things the right way everyone on this stage actually not on the stamp they dont it, too as evidence by the performance under the exams and experience the ability to do this im grateful to our family and france for the character awesome possess and how you cultivated our influences to be here today each of you demonstrated the ability to think on your feet ill confident you already have i ask you to demonstrate our earring in essence but more importantly challenge you to lead by x if 0 doing do the right thing and serve as a reminder to the officers why they became cops in the first time we help especially children as you sit here remember to be a successful it is not cbo you youll need other people and let other money need you no matter how smart not smart enough ive spoken about leadership what is leadership so lets look at was it isnt i spoke when he met at the Academy Management so not leadership management deals with routine not to take anything away from Good Management and youll have to dwo do a lot more management but Management Management is not leadership there is no leadership need it is a distofrtd that leadership is require in a Law Enforcement around the country is a distortion and will take our leadership to get us to a better place but the leaders dont manage people they monitor them leaders dont follow the rules as they are without question and set out to make better rules when needed leaders are looking for the replacements the future of the San FranciscoPolice Department is on you it is not about what a leader can do himself or herself but accomplish with our violation and support whether you make sure that when people do a job get the credit it is about the balance of others replacement the golden rule do onto others as onto you this is echoes throughout the ages in every language and cultivate it is a philosophy to support others and you yourselves will be supporting and reaching our potential and chief the goals and be where we want to be back to today you have much to be proud of we look at freezing this moment shortly will come as a relief im almost finished that was fun laughter . Anyway mid block said after climbing the great hill one finds many more hillside to climb we make take rests but foreclosure the moment we must cock e walk together not ended when you come across a mountain it takes more than one person to move a mountain there will be more times than not an uphill battle and sometimes, youll fail in one attempt or many find another way find another way a path forward a path forward and whether emily murase he son you want to respect intelligent people and the affiliation of children you left the world better and after all assessorrecorder it is easily because of your effort and helped to get there you were a good leader my parents i get choked up my parents engraved the word building on the first star i was giggle i have the same engratifying on all my stars the two o that you will make a difference in the lives of on the words of Teddy Roosevelt not the critical man that pouts points but but the doer of deeds do them better the credit to those in the arena whos face is marked by blood and those in the end have the achievement and if we fail we fail by doing better god bless and be safe clapping. thank you, chief. I now ask you administer the other of office to all personnel. Relax its the same oath i didnt add anything to it can i get everybody to please stand. Im sorry, i meant of those who are going to take the oath laughter you know it to as a help it is good to stands even once in a while laughter . Thats supposed to be a comedy we have a tradition in the San FranciscoPolice Department imagine in the room that has taken an oath that would like to reaffirm that oath especially someone in Law Enforcement whether sworn or not sworn we have prosecutors in the room feel free to stand at this time and take the oath with preplease raise your right hand i i. Do solemnly swear. repeated. repeated. the constitution of the united states. repeated. and the constitution of the state of california. And the codes policies and charter. repeated. of the city and county of san francis francisco. repeated. repeated. foreign and domestic. And that i will bear true faith and allegiance. repeated. to the constitution of the united states. repeated. and to the constitution of the state of california. Dooi z dooildz. repeated. without any mental reservation. repeated. that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. repeated. and during such time as i hold office. Congratulations we are approving as many parks as we can, you have a value garden and not too many can claim that and you have an Historic Building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor pingpong table and you have got the Art Commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. And so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class. It is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. It is kind of nice. All of the people that are here. Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for being here. San francisco is thrilled to be hosting super bowl 50. When we found out we were hosting super bowl 50 we were planning right away. Weve been planning last spring with many exercises and pulling together our regional partners and local and federal partners to make sure that super bowl 50 is a safe, fun, experience for everyone who comes here. Its the golden anniversary of the super bowl. Thats something to really celebrate and we are thrilled that San Francisco was chosen for this honor to be the super bowl 50 host. Today, we have what we are calling a super bowl scrimmage. We have the second of three exercises that test our assumptions, refined our plans and actively engage our players in planning and response. Each one of these we learn new things. We alter our plans and define them an deconflict them and as we move forward we are speaking with one voice and we know what other agencies are doing and what assumptions are in place. Our goal is to work through all of these challenges together. So, again, super bowl 50 is a wonderful fun family event thats going to be 9 days long here in San Francisco. We want people all over the region, all over the world to come and celebrate with us. We think that unfortunately our own team will not be part of this. But, other than that, its like it is the perfect event for San Francisco and the bay area. We want to encourage efrj everyone in San Francisco and sf to be alerted. It will be an important way to get messaged about with such information as what streets to avoid or what areas to avoid. So please encourage your residents neighbors to sign up for alert sf. Im going to introduce my good friend. Police chief suhr who is going to come up. There you are, chief. Hes going to give us a few words of wisdom. Thank you, ann. I will preface my comments as a lifetime 9er faithful, im not ruling out that we are in the game. Dont give up. Anyway. We are so excited to be hosting the 50th anniversary of the super bowl. Again, the planning has started in ernest pretty much as soon as we won the bid for our chance to show case San Francisco and as police chief of what i believe is the finest Police Department in the country, we want it to be as safe as it can be. Weve been to the new york fan fest where the super bowl played in new jersey, weve been down to arizona, where the super bowl was played in glendale and went to the phoenix Police Department to see what they do and it got us that much more excited to be able to host this event over a 9day period event in San Francisco. One thing San Francisco is good at is planning. Its what we do. No matter what eventuality that happens, our Fire Department and with the leadership with the Mayors Office, we plan as if that event happens here. Pretty much for every eventuality all the way up to and including typhoons and or anyway, tidal waves. So, or tsunamis, which we hope never happens. That said, well be planning and it will be a great event where we plan and get to know each other. Everybody has each others cell phones and we work with our state and federal partners on what may come and i cant say enough how much preparation is going into this effort to make sure that it is safest. I know with events going on overseas is leaving people right now anxious. Again, its just one more variable that we are training to. We are in regular contact with the fbi. Again, there are no known threats to the united states, no known threats to San Francisco and certainly no known threats to the super bowl. That communication will remain open regular and we will absolutely make sure that every precaution is taken to make sure the whole world can come to the super bowl in late january and february and have hopefully what is going to be the best super bowl and best fan fest ever here or nfl experience. I would just say as police chief here in San Francisco, you are all invited. Thank you, chief. Now i would like to introduce our very own fire chief chief hayes white. Good morning, everyone. Like the two previous speakers, San Francisco is very enthusiastic about hosting super bowl 50. Although we wont be in shoulder pads and cleats. The people behind me gathered around the city are like a team. We are the team preparing, planning and communicating about whats going to happen end of january, beginning of february. We are very well prepared and thats what you see today with the men and women of San Francisco county and state and regional partners. What i want to advocate to those visiting San Francisco is we will do our utmost to keep everyone safe. We operate at a high level in San Francisco. We know there will be additional challenges but we are up to the challenges and as a team we are practicing and per perfecting and we are going to assure everyone that we are going to respond to emergencies outside of the super bowl as well as those coming to the super bowl. Chief suhr wanted me to pass along what he always talked about and not just from Law Enforcement but Fire Department perspective. If you see something, make sure you say something. Its important to utilize 911. If its not an emergency you can use 311. If you have some ideas related to preparedness and transit, make a good plan and utilize all the citys resources many we want you to understand that from the San FranciscoFire Department that we have 15 more paramedics that will be available. We have private providers as well. We anticipate we will have a high call volume during the period of time, but we are prepared and ready and look forward to hosting everyone here in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, chief. Im going to call chief suhr back up real quickly. So my partner at the Fire Department shouldnt have to say what chief suhr said with chief suhr standing here. Anyway, with all of our devices we are never going to be as safe as we can be with the millions of people in San Francisco looking out for one another. Whoever comes to the nfl experience during those 9 days. Especially right now with everybody anxious in San Francisco and around the country. Please, if you see something, anything remotely out of the ordinary. Please call. 911 is on alert to expedite calls. That will be the case in the nfl experience as with other major events with our three world series championships and runs with super bowls in the past and other major events in San Francisco. We need to remain vigilant as a city as a whole when it comes to taking care of one another and looking after one another. Thats when we are going to be safest and you will get the most Rapid Response you can possibly get to checkout any possible potential concern. Er on the side of the caution, if its nothing, no problem. You would be remiss what i always call a predictable surprise where you saw something and didnt say anything and something went on. Just call us. Thank you, chief. Now i would like to introduce our director of sf mta, ed reiskin. Thank you, good morning, everyone. I would like to thank ann and the team for her leadership and what the team referenced. To put on a big event like this does take a lot of coordination and planning and is really preparing us for anything that might happen and that planning is essential to making for a great event. It will be a great event as everybody else has said. I think this is a great opportunity for San Francisco whether you like football or not, whether you are planning to participate in these activities or not. The super bowl being hosted here is going to bring a lot of people, a lot of excitement and a lot of goodwill to our city which is a good thing. From a transportation point of view, our task is really straight forward. We want to make sure that people can safely and readily access the event and from and to the event and everybody else in San Francisco can go where they need to go whether its work or school or just trying to make their way across town. We have been planning with the rest of the city planning but also with the rest of the regional transportation agencies and particularly Law Enforcement and Homeland Security, particularly the Transportation Security Administration to make sure we can have a safe and secure event and from secure transit agencies. We want to encourage everybody to take transit because of the transportation we have developed is very much reliant on people taking transit. But for people taking transit, we want people to report anything that looks suspicious or worry some. Like the chief said, call 911 and let them do their job. To support Emergency Services in particular, part of our effort is mapping out the security routes, the Emergency Vehicle access routes to and from all of the various events in the area to make sure that without being impeded, they can do their work. And then in terms of the Transportation Service itself, weve been working with all the providers and particularly with muni which is going to do a lot of the heavily lifting for this event to make sure that where we can work around and with the street closures to make sure that everybody who wants to take transit from and to the events can and everybody else who uses transit on a regular bases can get to where they need to be going. Weve been able to figure out routes to the buses and figure out where the taxi stands will be and the Emergency Vehicle access will be. This is something we do for many large special events. We did it for americas cup and for other large parades and other large celebrations. We are very confident in our ability to ensure people get to where they want to go whether they are participating or not safely and efficiently. We will be encouraging folks to use transit and just to address an issue thats been out there. There has been a lot of talk about the impact that sites down at the foot of embarcadero on muni might have overhead wires. Weve been working hand in hand with the community over many months as they are refining their plans. The issue with the wires if you get close to the wires, thats not a safe situation and we need to move the wires. As weve been communicating with them, they have been able to redesign their structures for the village so it will not require the removal of overhead wires. The removal of overhead wires would have brought some cost but brought disruption because it would have made the removal period long. Without the need to remove wires, that wont be an issue. Well be able to keep that window closure as soon as possible and get folks to and from the event and around the event as well as possible and well continue to work with the other Transportation Providers to make sure its great for everybody whether they are participating or not. Thanks. Thank you, ed. Its now my pleasure to introduce keith bruce who is the ceo of the super bowl 50 Host Committee. Keith . Thank you, ann. Good morning, everybody. Regardless of who is playing in the super bowl, it is 80 days from today. And more importantly 70 days to the opening of the super bowl city and the official celebrations that will mark this great event coming to the bay area. Safety and secures has been our no. 1 priority from the very first day that the Host Committee was formed. We have been working with the nfl, with city officials and with public agencies to ensure a safe and secure environment for super bowl 50. The nfl, the one beautiful thing about the super bowl is its an annual event and you are able to learn from past super bowls around Public Safety and security and apply those to future events and with this fantastic team behind me is truly a coalition, its about a team coming together to provide a strong safe and secure environment for not just the super bowl itself but the activities and events happening around super bowl week in the area. With the exercises yesterday and yesterday with the fbis efforts that we saw at levi stadium, we are clearly on a path to make sure all the safety protocols are in place that are required. In super bowl city, that is one of our crown jewel events for super bowl 50. Its a nine day9day of events and for guest and around the world who will come to the bay area for super bowl 50 and its our job to make sure they have a fantastic time and to know what bay area is known for. Chief suhr and chief white, the department of Homeland Security and the federal agencies involved in supporting our efforts, its a fantastic coalition of support that we enjoy as a Host Committee. Its our job to make sure they have the resources and information that they need to be able to do their jobs as effectively as they can so everyone enjoys this spectacular event. I would like to thank the Mayors Office and tony and martha for being so supportive of our efforts and mayor lee of our entire process of this game. We have 80 days to go to the game and 70 days to the opening of our events and we are going to be working very hard on that effort. I would like to reiterate to our partners of the mta and to partners over the past several months in safe and Reliable Transportation and solutions for not only the guest of super bowl 50, but for the residents and the bay area commuters who work here and live here. We are conscious of all of that as a Host Committee. As we are looking at plans for super bowl city and finalizing that final foot print and working hard with mta to come up with a plan, a reconfigured plan to work with the city that all of our stakeholders are expecting but still not have an impact on the muni wires and keep them in place. We will not be removing those overhead wires at any point in time during the super bowl celebration. Its important that we recognize that this event will be a great event for everybody involved, not just those who are visiting but for the bay area residents as well. Well continue to finalize our plans for super bowl city and well be announcing more details on that in the coming weeks and we want to thank our partners at the mta and all the Public Safety officials who are here to support a great super bowl 50. Thank you very much. Thank you, keith. Before i conclude, i wanted to just acknowledge some of our other partners who did not speak today. We have the Mayors Office, martha cohen here who has been doing special events for a number of mayors. But we are very lucky to have her as part of our team. We also have jody travisero, from oef, whoohoo. Kad em king from department of Homeland Security. And from dod , and john from thank you for sticking around. Well do one on one for anyone interested in that. Thank you for coming. [ applause ] [gavel] welcome ladies and gentlemen to the regular november 23, 2015 meeting of the San Francisco ethics commission. I will first take wool and i will say that ms. Hayon unfortunately is not going to be able to attend due to illness and shes been excused. Mr. Ans