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June 21, 2024
Commissioner. This proposal the idea is to add a penalty for violations of the campaign refinance ordinance for those who are city contractors and so the proposal is to debarment it prohibits persons who might do business with the city and county of San Francisco from doing so or bidding on the contract for a certain determined period of time if they were to violate c from or proportions of c from i understand it on a similar provision that was impacted by the voters in los angeles and so this i...
June 21, 2024
There to some extent. So the only thing i would like to say about this process is at least an inclusion of some of this at least 50 percent being affordable for that project and it sounds like were going to discuss density and mass later. But i think its really appropriate for the site and the neighborhood so i welcome that aspect. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Yeah, i just wanted to add also that i think all rental units in the housing complex is important as well in that the neighborhood concerns...
June 21, 2024
Father, originally from the island of Saint Vincent who was himself an important leader in the Mission District for many years. He was also a nonprofit leader, an activist and a journalist and founded the first spanish newspaper in california. Xh is pretty incredible that he has followed in his fathers footsteps and it is an honor for me and beautiful for me to recognize these two generations of Mission Activism with ricardo and his father. On behalf of district nine, on behalf of the mission th...
June 21, 2024
Commissioner right down the hall. One of one of the true princes in the Police Department right there. Will you be available for questions later . We all have a lot of questions r for you. What was he like . He did tell me once if i got to be chief i would have gotten to play more. [laughter]. Important to know thank you both. Thank you. Anything further, chief. No thank you. Inspect tore please call the next line item. 5 bocc directors report discussion and review of recent activities and prese...
June 21, 2024
Justice should provide Technical Assistance and collect best practices and be prepared to help cities create this structure potentially with some matching funds and theres a detailed letter that was provided to the task force with several recommendations and were very pleased that the task force did include civilian oversight as a key recommendation in its report. Im now going to move away from that report into some recent activities that my staff and i have been involved in i recently participa...
June 21, 2024
The companion report. Good evening director hicks. Good evening president loftus and members of the commission chief and members of the audience. As you are aware the chief here has pointed out there is an interim report from the president s task force on 21 st Century Policing and president obama signed an executive order on december 18th, 2014, establishing this task force because of risks in the relationships between Certain Police departments and members of the communities that they served a...
June 21, 2024
I guess maybe this is more a question to the mayors budget office. You may not know but in terms of facilities and wifi we purportedly have it in this building and its horrible and just like the Market Street wifi is horrible and so many of the city provided Wifi Networks are in inadequate and at least we have it and it works sometimes and i guess more of a question for d tbut a broader question. I mean city facilities we should have free Wifi Everywhere but particularly in city facilities. If w...
June 21, 2024
Allegations comprise 8 of the cases we received. Unfounded 3 , no finding 4 and in the complaint choose to withdraw 4 of the cases. In terms our sustained allegations 50 of the sustained allegations were near neglect of duty. Another 35 for unwarranted action. Conduct 9 . Unnecessary force 3 of the sustained allegations that came from two cases. One involved one involve and the other case involved three officers. Discourtesy and sexual slur 1 . Some of our complainants made claims of bias in 201...
June 21, 2024
Of paused . We have not been funded to keep up with that plan but we do have commitments from the Mayors Office that for example we have asked to play catch up and asked for 50 million to get to where we need to get. There are standards that we should adhere to that the National Fire Protection Agency calls for. And we have rigs on the streets beyond what the guidelines say should be used as a front line apparatus. We were given 50 million and we were given the information and only 17 million is...
June 21, 2024
At the airport is there any way to transfer out to the other stations or is it budgeted for by the airport budget . Its budgeted by the airport and the allocation of sworn officers i i mean as part of our request for enhancements and the chief can have discussions with the mayor about civilian hires. The figure that were trying to get to to the 1971 figure i assume it was based on population so a proportion right . Yes thats correct. The ogs on the commission have spoken. I was wondering because...