Or even im still here. I hope more police and more safety, you know, in our community, all the community, we appreciate it. President hirsch thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is paula williams, and im homeless in San Francisco right now. Ive been homeless since december of 2018. Ive made Numerous Police reports. Ive been harmed numerous of times by staff in the shelters. The police have did me no justice. Ive went to the city attorney, ive went to the d. P. A. Its just plain corruption. Its five Police Officers that dont want to take a Police Report, made false statements in my Police Report. Didnt want me to file a Police Report and just was lying. I liked when miss taylor said they wanted to take a look at the shelters. Every morning, i walkthrough t. L. And encourage them, tell them to get up, all to its numerous of stuff that whatever hsoc and all of them is talking about, i just called the Police Yesterday in front of walgreens and had the police come up and pick a lady that was laying on the ground. Sometimes i just do field work all day and call 911, can you please get this person up, can you please so i dont know what they talking about. Every day, im in the tenderloin. Whatever salary they getting, they know me down there. They know me really well. So i think you guys should look up all my Police Reports, go to d. P. A. , and ask someone thats working in the shelters thats harming, it was a 26yearold girl that sprayed chemicals in a 66yearolds face this morning. President hirsch thank you. Any other Public Comment general Public Comment . My name is john jones. May my remarks please the commission. About two years ago, i was getting on a 14 mission bus at the corner of geneva and mission, and all of a sudden, i heard this scream, a woman scream. And i looked around, and there was a chinese woman in the back holding a very well cared for child, and three black teenagers were running off the bus. I came facetoface with one of the teenagers, and he was smiling. Apparentl apparently, one of them had just ripped a cell phone out of the womans hand. Now, the witness to that was five chinese men sitting in the back of the bus. My impression was that chai necessary have very tight families. I could run through the numbers, but my estimate is that 3,000 separate individuals heard a full recounting of that crime and the effect upon that woman. You cannot buy that kind of bad publicity. Its stupid. For a 25 cell phone, you alienate all those people . Thats one fact in all this crime that we talk about that doesnt get emphasized, the effect it has on others, particularly others of different races. Thank you. President hirsch thank you. Any other Public Comment . Id like to use the overhead again. Im trying to start it. Wait a minute. President hirsch we need you to talk into the mic, though. Im trying to start my video, so could you so wait a minute. Sorry. Just a second. I think its ready now. So oh, here we go. 12 years after his son was her son was shot and killed in San Francisco, tonight, shes still pleading for answers and hoping a huge reward will lead to an arrest. Our Crime Reporter has the story. Im here. This is the 12 year. Im back again. Its a sad summer ritual, paulette brown, pleading with San Francisco police after her only son was shot and killed back in 2006. I was told back when it happened, its going to get easier, but it doesnt. I can deal with it. Im functioning. I work i do everything that i need to do, but this pain never, never ends. On august 14, 2006, 17yearold aubrey aberkacen approached several gang members. Police say aubrey wasnt a gang member, but he yelled at his friends to run, and they shot him in the back for this. Like she does each year, she passes out fliers, hoping someone will be brave enough to come forward. San Francisco Police say a 250,000 reward remains in effect. I know its been 12 years, i know its been a long time, but if we can solve a case from the Golden State Killer that goes back for decades, we can solve one thats 12 years old. I cant believe hes been gone 12 years and nothings happened. Aubreys mother and the police say if you have any information, call police. So im saying august 14 of this month will be his anniversary, and im looking for you guys to come im having Media Coverage on grove and baker. Steve David Stevenson has already given me the flier to pass out to faithbased people. Im hoping that coming here for all these years that you guys would accompany me and stand with us concerning unsolved homicides and mothers and fathers who lost their children to homicide so maybe some way we can heal. President hirsch thank you. I would like to see you there. President hirsch the tip line is 4154755555. Any other Public Comment . Next item . [agenda item read]. President hirsch is there any Public Comment on us going into closed session . All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item. Clerk line item nine, vote on whether to hold item ten in closed session, including vote on whether to assert the attorneyclient privilege with regard to item 10a, San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10, action. President hirsch is there a motion . So moved. Second. President hirsch all in clerk commissioner hirsch, we are back on record in open session. You still have a quorum. Line item 11, vote to discuss any or all items held in closed session pursuant to section 57. 12 a. Move not to disclose. Second. All in favor . Clerk item 12, adjournm t adjournment. President hirsch is there a motion . Move to adjourn. Second. President hirsch all in favor . [gavel] all right. Good morning, everybody. Is this working . What a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. You know, if you go to city hall, it is so packed. Everybody is celebrating 88. Were here and going to be celebrating this new project. I am the director of public works here at the city of San Francisco. I want to thank you all for coming out our chief and mayor for coming to celebrate this milestone. This facility will be a facility that will serve our First Responders and we are very excited about it. Just last week around the corner we celebrated the new deployment facility and that is a project that will be completed in 2021. That project also is going really well. Then today we are celebrating another Capital Infrastructure project here in the bayview. This job is not only about serving our First Responders, but will also give a lot of people from the community jobs. It will be able to give a lot of our contractors an opportunity to participate in bringing supplies. Of course make our city more resilient. Its also been one of several projects that the southeast sector of our city has been benefitting from. Just in the last two years or so we finished the medical examiners building, the two shops for large and small vehicles are right around the corner. Coming up soon is the new Southeast Community center. So a lot of good opportunities here, and its great that the partnership that we have with all the contractors and all the city departments, that were all working together to really improve San Francisco. As you all know, today is very, very special because its the Traffic Company and Forensic Services division that will be in this site. The building itself is going to be over 100,000 square feet and 100,000 square feet is huge. Its two storeys as you can see. More than three quarters of this lot will be a building with a twostorey building. Were invited about that. Inside the building will be many labs that would be used to help solve crimes. Also our Motorcycle Police department, they will have their vehicles here but well also have offices for them so that they can do their administrative duties, which is highly essential because now theyre spread all over the place. This building will change that. This building will also be a hightech building. Our crews have been working very hard. As you see this pile of dirt behind us, right after this ground breaking, next week well be levelling it out. All that dirt actually is going to be on site here. This area is a little bit of a low land, so were going to be increasing it by 2 or 3 feet high. So were keeping the dirt. Were recycling. As you know, our city leads the nation in recycling. Were following a lot of the building technologies. With that said, the team that has been working on this, i would like to say a huge thanks to clark construction, our architects, h. O. K. And m. I. I. Have been on this contract. Some of our subcontractors, i just want to say thank you because this new facility will make San Francisco much safer and put us into the 21st century building. Isnt that a great opportunity . [ applause ]. I can theres a lot i can say because im excited about this building because i personally have worked in this area for over 30 years. The Public Works Department yard is just up the street. So every day we see these changes. Were very excited. In the capital plan the mayor is putting money for us to look at more opportunities to do more projects here. With that said, i would like to call her to say a few words and thank her for our leadership. Our city is changing in the right direction. Lets call mayor breed and give her a big hand. Mayor breed. [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you. Mohamed is really excited about this project, isnt he . Hes always excited about projects that move the city forward in the right direction. San francisco is in earthquake territory. And its not a matter of if but when the next big one will be prepared. So we have to be prepared. More importantly, we have to make sure that our Public Safety officials are in seismically safe facilities so that when theyre trying to help the citizens of San Francisco, they dont necessarily need help themselves. We know that the Traffic Division and the Forensic Services division are located in buildings that are not seismically safe. Especially with the Traffic Division and motorcycles and their need to get to people and help protect people throughout San Francisco, thats going to be critical. If we have a next earthquake and something happens, how are they going to get their motorcycles out . We have to start thinking about the future and ways to protect all of our citizens, especially making sure that our Public Safety officials from the police and the Fire Department and other departments can get out there on the streets and protect and save lives. This project, along with so many other amazing projects that weve done in this city, were headed in the right direction. The new Public Safety building that just opened in mission bay is absolutely incredible. The medical examiner building that just open not too far from here is amazing. Station 49, the firefighters are going to get a new stateoftheart building. We just cut the ribbon on station 5 and 21 for the Fire Department to make sure that our First Responders have seismically safe buildings that are just really outstanding and worthy of San Francisco. Now, moving forward in the capital plan finally, after the voters approved a 2014 ether bond, we are finalley here breaking ground, ready to get this building built, not only by 2021 but also on budget, right mohamed . On budget. I dont see many claps for on budget. So i just want to thank everyone whos here today with us to celebrate this milestone and just raise the profile of how significant it is to get these projects done. In fact, the voters have been really generous because through the work of the capital plan and under the leadership of our city administrator, weve been able to bring the bond for these projects forward to the voters in a responsible way, without raising property taxes. I know they usually love that. Which is why in march of next year, well be bringing forward another bond to continue the great work that were doing to make all of our buildings seismically safe throughout San Francisco. This is a great step in the right direction. I want to thank d. P. W. And the Capital Planning committee and all the contractors and people that are going to make sure that this is not only a beautiful building, but one of the most environmentally friendly buildings and it will be a safe, great place for so many people who serve our city day in and day out to work. Im looking forward to it. Im sure these guys behind me cant wait to use a nice bathroom for a change in a great facility. With that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce the supervisor for this district, supervisor walton. Thank you so much, madam mayor. First of all, good afternoon and welcome to district 10. Youre actually in a place that is going to be very well protected in the future in San Francisco. As the mayor mentioned, we have crime lab out here now in the district. Were going to have keep your fingers crossed everything goes according to plan our evidence facility. Naturally we have the Traffic Company and Forensic Division that is coming right here. Our district is going to be well protected, which is exciting for us. Any time we can have Brand New Community gems that are going to be in our district, we get excited about that. So i want to thank everyone for coming out here today. I want to thank the commitment from the voters. Thank the mayor for her commitment and dedication to district 10. I want to of course thank mohamed who is a constituent here in district 10 and who worked very hard to make sure that we have the opportunity to bring facilities like this here into the district. I want to thank the chief for his partnership on all the work and for looking at district 10 as a place where we can bring stateoftheart 21st century facilities to the district so our police and Law Enforcement can be a staple in the community. Were all excited that this will be here in 2021 and we look forward to all the seismically safe opportunities were providing here in district 10. Thank you all for coming to the district and thank you for being here this morning. [ applause ]. Okay. And now lets hear from the chief of police, bill scott. He is a big partner with public works every day, 24 7, all of the partnership we have with the Police Department, thank you for everything that you do to support public works. Thank you for everything you do for our city. Welcome, chief scott. Thank you, mohamed, and thank you for your partnership. First of all, i have a lot of people to thank here. Mayor breed, your leadership and commitment to this Police Department and city is just off the charts. This is a Long Time Coming and it took vision. It took commitment. I just want to thank everybody who made this happen, beginning with the mayor and the director, all the contractors that will take part in this. The officers that are standing here behind me and onto the sides, this is for them. These are the frontline people that do the work. They keep our city safe and they deserve seismically safe facilities and facilities that are stateoftheart as stated. We thank you for appreciating our work and your gratitude for voting to allow this to happen. This facility will not only move our department into the future, but through the advanced services that have been built into this project, we will be better able to serve our city. It will be seismically safe. Our employees will be able to respond to major emergencies quickly and efficiently. And as supervisor walton said this part of the city is excited to have us here, and we really appreciate that. Our crime lab will be fully modernized to accommodate evolving technologies and employ sound scientific principles to process data. At the end of the day this is about keeping our community safe. We thank everybody for making this happen. Our elected leader, the voters, the architect, the engineers, the consultants. Finally, we thank you, the people of our city again for allowing us to be here and making this happen. Thank you. [ applause ]. Okay. Were going to go over to where the shovels are and we will throw a little dirt and then these contractors can get back to work. Right . All right. [ ] my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field interview Police Officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in Law Enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. Growing up in San Francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and its still that bubble that its okay to be whatever you want to. You can let your free flag fry he fly here. As an adult with autism, im here to challenge peoples idea of what autism is. My journey is not everyones journey because every autistic child is different, but theres hope. My background has heavy roots in the bay area. I was born in san diego and adopted out to San Francisco when i was about 17 years old. I bounced around a little bit here in high school, but ive always been here in the bay. We are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. We dont turn anyone away. We take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. The most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you dont seem like you have autism. You seem so normal. Yeah. Thats 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. I was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. They split up when i was about four. One of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. Very queer family. Growing up in the 90s with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. I was bullied relatively infrequently. But i never really felt isolated or alone. I have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. The school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. One of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what its about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. When i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. I was a weird kid. I had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. When we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when im looking away from the camera, its for my own comfort. Faces are confusing. Its a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. At its core, autism is a social disorder, its a neurological disorder that people are born with, and its a big, big spectrum. It wasnt until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. I was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. I didnt like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. I was very difficult to be around. But the friends that i have are very close. I click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. In experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. I remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldnt cope. I grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal developmental psychology from all sides. I recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybodys in a position to have a family thats as supportive, but theres also a community thats incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. It was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what . Im just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. I have a twoyearold. The person who im now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasnt sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so theres no way you can be pregnant. I found out i was pregnant at 6. 5 months. My whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. I think ive finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. I think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. We have a place where children can be children, but its very confusing. I always out myself as an adult with autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love growing up here. I love what San Francisco represents. The idea of leaving has never occurred to me. But its a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. What ive done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that were still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a Resource Center, and this Resource Center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. I would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. So many things that i would love to do that are all about changing peoples minds about certain chunts, like the Transgender Community or the autistic community. I would like my daughter to know theres no wrong way to go through life. Everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. Together we can support your children. Its been my dream to start is a Valley School since i was a little girl. Im having a lot of fun with it clapping the biggest thing we really want the kids to have fun. A lot of times parents say that Valley Schools have a lot of problems but we want them to follow directions but we want them to have a wonderful time and be an affordable time so the kids will go to school here. We hold the classes to no longer 12 and theres 23 teachers. I go around and i watch each class and theres certain children i watched from babies and its exciting to see them after today. The children learn how to follow directions and it ends up helping them in their regular schooling. They get selfconfidents and today, we had a residual and a lot of time go on stage and i hope they get the bug and want to dance for the rest of their clapping. the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine were at San Francisco inspirational airport to discover the awardwinning concession that conspiracies us around the world. Sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry theres many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe thats right even the airport is a diane designation. So tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special well, we have a we have food and Beverage Program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of San Francisco for our passengers. I like this its is inaudible i thank my parents for bringing me here. This the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. I have a double knees burger with bacon. I realize im on a diet but im hoping this will be good. It total is San Francisco experience because theres so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. Are repioneering or is this a model. Were definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. The food option in San Francisco airport are phenomenal thats if it a lot of the airports yeah. You dont have the choice. Some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. We definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. Wow. Have you taken up anything unique or odd here. Ive picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. Com peace, peace, and welcome. We are glad you are here. This is the regular meeting of the board of education of the San Francisco unified school district. Today is august 27th, 2019, roll call, please. Thank you. [roll call]