Supervisors. Clearly we need to find other places to look to plant and care for those new trees. I think i think theres also, you know tree advocates have raised with me concerns about around, you know, sort of how the entirety of the city looks at looks at our tree canopy. Yes, some of it is what is happening on the sidewalks. I regret hi to step out for not that i wasnt looking forward to the d. P. W. Presentation. I actually really wanted to hear the rec and park and p. U. C. Conversation because i think Going Forward we really need to look at what other part of the city bureaucracy are doing to take care of our trees. I think thats an area where folks, including supervisor mar if youre interested in looking at that. I certainly am. They do fact work temperature shouldnt be that its taken five years to, you know, to get phase two. So i think we need to try and get phase two done. I think we need a framework within which folks from all of the departments not just d. P. W. Are prioritizing trees and prioritizing the growing and care of our canopies. I think theres a lot of interest in this on the board of supervisors. And i will continue partnering with supervisor mar and others to advance our trees needs, because theyre also our needs. So is it your desire to have this heard and filed . Yeah, filed. Okay. I will move that we file this hearing. And we can take that without objection. [gavel] thanks everyone for coming out for this. And then, mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us today . Clerk there is no further business. Then we are adjourned. Thank you. [gavel] still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place . Trees are widely planted in San Francisco. With good reason. They are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. We have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in San Francisco. We have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. This is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. You can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. You can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. In between you cant it is a lot of strong wood. They are attached so sharply together. This is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. This is what it looks like after the fi c. U. Resolution s limb ic another was another limb fails. We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of the the can canopy is on the street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision we really understand where they are coming from. I got into this job because i love trees. It just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. I have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. We have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. That is something we cant live with either. It is a challenging situation. We hate to lose mature trees but Public Safety has to always we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. 1951, 60 years ago our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center rec center. I was 10 years old at the time. I spent just about my whole life here. I came here to learn dancing. By we came we had a good time. Made a lot of friends here. Crisises part of the 2008 clean Neighborhood Park fund, and this is so important to our families. For many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. This is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. A reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center is because it is part of the history of San Francisco. They took off from Logan Airport and the call of duty was to alert American Airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. I would like to claim today the center and the naming of ait. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping pong so i accept your challenge. It is an amazing spot. It is a state of the art center. Is beautiful. Quarksrights i would like to come here and join them usf donates 100120 pounds of food a night. For the four semesters we have been running here usf has donated about 18,000 pounds of food to the Food Recovery Network. Im maggie. Im nick. Were coechairs of the national led organization. What food recovery does is recover and redistribute food that would go wasted and redistributing to people in the community. The moment that i became really engaged in the cause of fighting food waste was when i had just taken the food from the usf cafeteria and i saw four pans full size full of food perfectly fine to be eaten and made the day before and that would have gone into the trash that night if we didnt recover it the next day. I want to fight food waste because it hurts the economy, its one of the largest emitters of Greenhouse Gases in the world. If it was a nation it would be the Third Largest nation behind china and the United States. America wastes about 40 of the food we create every year 160 billion worth and thats made up in the higher cost of food for consumers. No matter where you view the line you should be engaged with the issue of food waste. Access edible food that we have throughout our Lunch Program in our center i go ahead and collect it and ill cool it down and every night i prep it up and the next day ill heat it and ready for delivery. Its really natural for me i love it im passionate about it and its just been great. I believe its such a blessing to have the opportunity to actually feed people every day. No food should go wasted. Theres someone who wants to eat we have food, its definitely hand in hand and it shouldnt be looked at as work or a task, were feeding people and it really means so much to me. I come to work and theyre like nora do you want this, do you want that . And its so great and everyone is truly involved. Every day, every night after every period of food breakfast lunch dinner i mean people just throw it away. They dont even think twice about it and i think as a whole as a community, as any community, if people just put a little effort, we could really help each other out. Thats how it should be. Thats what food is about basically. An organization that meets is the San Francisco knight ministry we work with tuesday and thursdays. By the power of your name i have faith to move mountains because i believe in jesus. I believe its helpful to offer food to people because as you know theres so much homelessness in San Francisco and california and the United States. I really believe that food is important as well as our faith. The San Francisco knight ministry has been around for 54 years. The core of the ministry a group of ordain ministers, we go out in the middle of the night every single night of the year so for 54 years we have never missed a night. I know its difficult to believe maybe in the United States but a lot of our people will say this is the first meal theyve had in two days. I really believe it is a time between life or death because i mean we could be here and have church but, you know i dont know how much we could feed or how many we could feed and this way over 100 people get fed every single thursday out here. Its not solely the food i tell you, believe me. Theyre extremely grateful. Its super awesome how welcoming they are. After one or two times theyre like i recognize you. How are you doing, how is school . I have never been in the city its overwhelming. You get to know people and through the music and the food, you get to know people. We never know what impact were going to have on folks. If you just practice love and kindness, its a labor of love and thats what the Food Recovery Network is and this is a huge i believe they salvage our mission. To me the most important part is its about food waste and feeding people. The Food Recovery NetworkNational Slogan is finding ways to feed people. Its property to bring the scientific and Human Element into the situation. 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. Whatwhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the ad with the enough and 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. I would like to take roll. [roll call] commissioner brookter is excused. You have a quorum. Also present are chief william swot and director Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. This is the november 13, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco police commission. We dont have an extensive agenda tonight. So well allow three minutes for Public Comment. And we are ready for the first item. Line item 1 consent calendar receive and file action. Sfpd dpa document protocol, quarter 13. Request the chief of police to accept a donation from the Police Association for use of the sfpd Wilderness Program accept a gift of 5,000 from the children of deceased officer blackwell for use of the gym equipment for the northern station. Thank you. Can i have a motion on those two items together . Is there a second . To watch a presentation regarding sergeant blackwell gift. All right. Lets see if theres a second yet. I do. Okay. Now we are ready for the presentation and well take Public Comment. Okay. Thank you. Should be on. Thank you commissioners chief scott. Im the commander officer the captain of the northern policization station. I want to thank you for police station. I want to thank you for allowing us to make this request. Blackwell was a sergeant at Northern Police station. He was taken from us far too son but he was wellrespected among men and women of Northern Police station. We were contacted by his daughter Kelly Blackwell garcia. She conveyed to us it was important to her and her siblings that they remember their daughter with a gift of gym equipment to northern station and i humbly thank you for considering the request. Thank you for the presentation. Any comments from commissioners . Okay. Any Public Comment on items 1 and 2 . Please step up. Hi. Before i start, dont start the clock. I want to make sure the im blanking on the word, the overhead projector is on. All right. And you are going