Joined me as we cut the ribbon with mayor breed, but essentially designed to work with wonderful programs like Young Community developers and the lead agency out there in the intercity youth to attach and refer people to the opportunities, many of those actually in the Construction Industry and we have many of our brother exposbrothers and sistee carpenters unions and they have been a phenomenal partner in putting people to work in an industry and giving many people their first opportunity for longterm employment. So today after that, last year, many of you supported our citygrow program, which was designed to help expand apprenticeship into a new industry in the cannabis industry. And we authored that with the support of the unanimous support of this board as a way to work with preapprenticeship pathways to state. Approved apprenticeshp program and iowu workers and so we now are looking forward to working with employers and getting graduates of this apprenticeship connected. Bases on the successful city bill i referenced, that work, were looking forward to our first citygrow class being put to work. So today, im asking the City Attorney, in partnership with supervisor walton, to draft an ordinance to call our San Francisco apprenticeship ordinance to approve the workforce goals and local hiring goals beyond construction. I know supervisor walton has talked in the past about working to do a local hire in the Tech Industry and i know that mayor breed announced this week, i think yesterday, working on Apprenticeship Training work and this is to act as a complement to that but this is beyond the Construction Industry. Were looking to create partnerships with city departments, in particular the office of workforce and Economic Development and department of human resources, to work with community and labor partners in other areas, in training partnerships and working with employers to develop state certified pre apprenticeship pathways and meeting goals of state approved a tiesships. Weve been looking to people in new areas, hospitality, healthcare, commercial, driving, theater, all of these areas that have the potential for expansion and to work in partnership with organized labor. So i want the city, not only to promote apprenticeship as a workforce tool but to lead to lifelong change. So i ask the City Attorney to work with us on that and we will get started. Thank you. Supervisor. To the members, the president has asked we cut away from the introduction of new business to go to 2 30 commendations. Mr. President , there are three. Supervisor safyaye, memdleman and hainey. Please share your commendation. This is what emexemplifies of being a true San Franciscoan and we honour a true leader. Its sad because were losing that person but were happy and super happy for his next faz phe in his life, captain jack hart, transitioning as an instructor in the Police Academy. Our community and the desire district has had such a fortune to have captain hart as a captain. He touches on district 8, district 9, district 10 and parts of district 7 and he has one of the Largest Police districts in the city and has lead that with tremendous, tremendous appplaumb. No hour of the day hes not informing me of what is happening and all of us of what is happening in our district. His grandfather charles joined the Police Department after the first San Francisco earthquake. And sad to say, alemany boulevard is still the site of many, many fatalities and reckless driving and captain hart, before he transitioned out, was working with our office and we now have a plan. Captain hart honors his legacy and wars the star as his great grandfather. He joined the force after attending law school. He served in pa to troll patrols and as an attorney with the departments legal division. He has taught constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure and leadership courses to more than 50 Police Recruit classes, more than 50. As a sergeant, captain hart lead a street Crime Enforcement Team in the bayview district. As a lieutenant, he was the officer in charge of the candl Candlestick Park and lead 70,000 people. As a captain to the unit, he supervised the marine unit and lead the response to the 2017 north bay firearm storm at the Department Operation center. Captain hart is a Master Instructor in blue courage, a course taught throughout the nation. As police captain, he is always available, as ive said, to the public and ever present at Community Meetings, always lead with compassion, demonstrating the best of what Community Policing can be and, in fact, i dont think ive seen him get angry once in the two and a half years. He almost got angry at me one day but the closest it got, he tightened his lips saying next time if you can call me ten minutes earlier, that would be preciatated. Appreciated. [ laughter ] captain hart, its my profound honor to have you as my captain and many are here to honor you and on behalf of myself and colleagues, i want to present you with this commendation. I know some my colleagues want to say a few words but in recognition of the outstanding work in the Ingleside Police station and myself all my colleagues extend the highest commendation to you, captain hart. Our community was profounded impacted by your compassion, dedication and the empathy youve shown in the short time youve been there but it seems like a longer amount of time than two years. You will be extremely miss. We wish you the best of luck in your new role. I think our colleagues will say a few words. Let me have the other i will have the other supervisor speak first while theyre holding their kids. Sorry about that. Supervisor ronan. Thank you, president yi. Oh, captain hart, this is so bittersweet. I have to say i knew this call was coming eventually, because you are such a talent that i had no doubt that the chief wants you to serve in many different ways and if we could, you know, duplicate you, we all would. Because they just dont make them like you everyday. The care that you gave, youre just a model captain and officer and the fact that youre going to be teaching new officers that come in and be the first example and its bittersweet but i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Youre an extraordinary leader and you and your beautiful family, were so grateful to everything youve given to sanfrancisco. Thank you. Captain heart, i wont say its been a joy working with you because most of the time were talking to each other, something has gone wrong but i want to thank you for your tremendous service. You are a treasure and it is great to have you in the San FranciscoPolice Department. Although, im definitely going to miss you at ingleside. Although, we keep you in the district at the Police Academy and i expect well work together, maybe on more pleasant things, actually. Supervisor walton. Thank you, president yi. I want to say captain hart, congratulations and thank you for all of your work. I know weve only had the short part of most of this year, but just to see how responsive you are, particularly having to deal with several different supervisors. You know, you dont make excuses, we call you in. There are hard decisions to be made and you actually make it happen. One major example is being able to get us bilingual Police Officers at two different sites and visitation rallies to work with our constituents and being able to respond to that and making it happen, versus trying to give several excuses as to why its not possible, what the budget looks like, et cetera and you just made it happen. So your commitment to community and dedication to community is not unnoticed and i appreciate all of your hard work. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you. So before you speak, im sorry, you have to your arms got tired. [ laughter ] he always seems to get the last word. I also want to congratulate you in your next opportunity and youre one of those captains that the community really admires and appreciates because you go to so Many Community meetings. Every time im at a Community Meeting concerning safety or some issues with the Police Department, youre always there. So i really appreciate it and i really appreciate, also, when we talked about those property crime issues that we were having throughout San Francisco and that you and the captain over at taravel stepped up and lets try in our station to have, basically, your district or your station unit and im hoping your predecessor, captain mcfaddee effort you made. So now captain hart, its your turn. Thank you so much. I just wanted to thank all of you for taking time out of your hard day to acknowledge a Civil Servant like myself, but really, the credit is to be shared with a lot of people in this room, including the people that spoke up and big advocates wanting enhanced Public Safety and to collaborate on so many issues was great. So thank you to so many people over there in that corner. I want to acknowledge my mother, too. , for all of her love and support. I was a little pal cadet at 16 years old is came home after a shift at the tenderloin and said, look, mom, they like me. They bought a bulletproof vest and she took a gulp and continued to support me. It was her grandfather who was killed in the line of duty in 1931. He was hit and killed by a politicallyconnected person and it was in the middle of the depression. They were told you either take a couple hundred bucks it was 5 04 p. M. And he wasnt on duty. You can take this payoff or get nothing. My grandmother literally to the day she died cursed the city and the Police Department because she was 16 years old and wore her sweet 16 dress to her fathers funeral and just the way that her family was treated at the time and i was able when i told her, i was able to get her fathers star number, 586, she was appreciative and it reminds me of the gratitude in Public Safety and San Francisco, like the people on the board like you to create an enriched environment for us to be able to meet all of the needs and the demands of policing. Also i would like to thank, obviously, my wife, anonda, who has been tireless in support. Shes a criminal defense lawyer and we met over a pitchs motion. She was seeking Police Officers personnel files. She won. [ laughter ] but i think ive won in the longterm, as we continue to challenge each other intellectually and emotionally in discussing how the world works and what justice looks like and a special thanks to her love and support and her mother who is on the board at san quentin, who continues to challenge my thinking and what humanity looks like and how we can make the world more safe and just. I would like to thank my mentor, im nila. He told a story in 1978 how he had a chance meeting with a neuro scientist, saying a Police Officer who has all of the brain connections of a prisoner of war and that a prisoner of war is in this lockedup environment who doesnt have the warm, loving embrace and they dont sleep well or eat right and that the neuroscientist looked at him in 1978 and says if you love your life and your family, youll quit policing immediately. And then, i have family members in policing, tell me theres good news. The neuroscientist perked right up and said, well, there is something called an enriched environment, when the prisoner of war goes home, surrounding by the loving embrace of family and friends drinking a cold beer, flipping burgers on a beautiful sunday sunny afternoon, your brain has an ability to regenerate itself. This idea of neuro plasticity, that the prisoner of war becomes whole because the toxic environment is now over. So long in policing, we find our only ability to create a rich environment is when we leave this profession. We cant wait for retirement to create this enriched environment. When i heard that story, i said, what if we could create an enriched environment now, within our own walls of the profession, amongst neighbors and Community Members, that perhaps there is a way to overcome this cultural ptsd that we have based on legacy and generations of strife and turmoil and ive taken that to heart, to try to create an enriched environment for Police Officers so that they go out to certainly all neighborhoods in a more just way. I appreciate all of your support to create a more just world as we go along. Im super sad to leave ingleside. I would like to thank assistant chief redman for transferring me. [ laughter ] no, i would like to thank him for giving me this for the two years. But we have a chance at the Police Academy to impact the next 50 to 75 years of the Police Department and so i look forward to, hopefully, amplifying any of the good that youve seen in the ingleside, to amplify that across the department and entire organization. So im grateful for all of you and thank you so much. [cheers and applause] can i have my rebuttal . [ laughter ] so supervisor safaye, thank you and supervisors for your kind words. Obviously, these are tough decisions we make. I know the community is not happy and i grew up in the ingleside myself so even my father is calling me about this transfer. But if you hear jack talk, you see why we want him at the Police Academy and hes going to bring his heart and mind to all of the new recruits, but also in our advanced Officers Training to the officers that are currently employed, hes bringing his work ethic to the academy and were excited for that assignment. And obviously, like he mentioned, his family. So none of us get to the ranks we are without the support of our families. I know he worked 24 7 with the supervisors. Its not an easy job but he has a lot of tasks to accomplish at the academy and were excited. So congratulations to jack. I think this ive worked with jack in every rank in this Police Department. He is not going to stop at this rank. Hes one of the foremost leaders in in department and look forward to rest of his career to see what he accomplishes. So congratulations to jack. [cheers and applause] next, i would like invite our supervisor from district 8, supervisor mamdleman to please offer your commendation. Thank you. Eric guther, come on up. So today, colleagues, i would like for us to recognise and honour eric gutherts. He has served as the principal of mission high. In june, he left to start a new mission for the districts Transformative Mission where he supports leadership for principals and assistant principals. I did not allow his accomplishments during his tenure there to slip by unacknowledged in this chamber. After earning his bachelors degree in English Literature and a masters in education from university of california at los angelos, eric began his teaching career more than 30 years ago as an eighth grade english teacher in east los angelos. He then returned to his native bay area created and directed the bill Wilson School in l. A. , a school for homeless and run away teaches in the l. A. Area. Nearly 20 years ago, he began teaching english where he would serve as the English Department chair and the reform facilitators and principal before becoming principal. Eric has earned an impressive list of honours and awards, completing the stamfords program and was a recipient of the dreamcatcher award for the arts education. In 2014, eric received the principal of the year award and in 2015, he was awarded the Association Region 5 principal of the year. And in 2016, edg eric received e aimhigh award and was in the missions high and the teachers who made a triumph and receive the meredith inspiration award and named one of peers resources 40 changemakers for 40 years. So a lot of awards. [ laughter ] and a lot of great work. Erics mentor and predecessor who was mission highs principal from 2001 to 2008, described erics legacy at merc mission as transformative. When kevin left his post to accept a new position in the school district, central office, he was reluctant to leave mission in the middle of Ongoing Professional Development work he had been leading on antiracist teaching. I know he will be greatly missed. Eric, thank you for all youve done to transform the lives of Mission Students and families and i would want to invite you to say a few words. He is fabulous. Hes amazing and its a school thats been transformed and also teachers have the ability to be selfreflective and he allows that space to be selfreflective with each other and also, i have to say, eric, i went to a lot, a lot of high schools and spoke to a lot of High School Students and i had not heard one complaint from a student. I hear it from all of these other high schools, but the students at Mission High School, i did not hear one complaint and they loved their experience at Mission High School and i want to thank you, thank you, for your service and all of the thousands and