Goldhammer. Mr. Clerk . I like to reminds you to silence phone and electronics. Documents provided me will be include part of the file as should be submitted to myself. Items are expect today appear on the supervisor agenda on october 31, 2023 unless otherwise stated. That completes my announcements. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1 Charter Amendment. To amend the charter of the city of an fran establish Staffing Levels sworn officers of the Police Department requiring a period of 5 years the mayor and the board of supervisors appropriate funds to meet Staffing Levels establishing a Police Full Staffing fun for a period of 5 years the purpose of facilitating minimum staffing and allowing a temporary froze on appropriations to the funds in the budget and economic emergency and election on march 5 of 2024. Thank you. Item one the Police Full StaffingCharter Amendment. We began working on last march. Some of you may recall i anouned this publicly last april after San Franciscos flag ship whole food in civic center in my district shuttered following a year in operation. Their reason for the closure was safety occurrence for employees and customers. It is high profile issues with retail theft. Drug behavioral issue and drug over doses unwelcome attention in National News reports. Sad low we know that the whole food system not alone among business in San Francisco. That site safety concerns for reasons that hay have closed. We know, tooshg safety has been a concern and few are conventions and diminishing tourisms hamstrings pest covid adequate recovery and employment outlook. Many businesses in the all of them struggle. After a year and a half on the board i can say what 90 of complaints i hear from boil down to a difficult proof we dont have enough Police Officers to address the occurrence we voice objections about. I have never believed more strong low than today this San Francisco can no long are afford not to have a fully staffed Police Department. And this gives voters the opportunity to accomplish this. San francisco has experienced police short falls never in our modern history our police under staffing crisis as serious as today. Well sdmus this hearing we have an updated recommended staffing level this is low are due to a drop in calls per service left year. The new staffing level is 2, sfoor full Duty Officers that will bring the cost of the measure down and i will prosecute pose amendments to reflect this update i will discuss short low. Important low that number is the product of a thoughtful process established over a few years under the leadership of formy supervisor and president norman yee. That was an excellent process this developed a work load independently recommended methodology that was guided by outside experts. It reflects a needed improvement over the prior staffing minimum in our charter there since 1994 up to 2020. 25 years froze the staffing level at 1971 full duty Police Officers. Unfortunately, San Francisco today is nowhere near our recommended staffing level. For that matter were not notoriety old minimum staffing before repealed in prop e or number of fuel duty sworn receives is just 1475 wore 600 fuel Duty Officers short. And near low 30 of the Police Department is in the there. More then and there 350 concern populars are eli didnt believe for retirement now. If we dont act bold low with i mandate from voters i believe we face a police fers this could be half strength. Had charter maam endeavoured prevent this. Here is how it works. For the reestablish a minimum staffing level of 2, 074 full duty in 5 years. Unlike the 94 Charter Amendment a static number tell enable adjustments to minimum staffing level in years to come. Second, give us full staff nothing a way that is doable over time. With graduateded targets over 5 years the amendments i will read in the record today lower those targets by 1 huh human officers making this approach more faredable and workable. Starting in july of 2024, if enacted the staffingly level would go from 1700 full duty Police Officers in yeesh one to 1800 in year 2. Then 1900 in year 3 and 2,000 in year 4 and final low a fully staffed sfpd 2, 074 in year 5. Would you like to pause. Let the people settle. [no audio] excuse me i would like to ask the room if you can be silent we near session if someone can translate that would be appreciated. Thank you, everybody. Are we opening over flow. Tell take a few minutes. There will be over flow seating im going to ask this everybody remember this is an open session if you could just be quiet down a bit and i dont know if we have a translator to translate we are in open session and over flow seating. Okay. You can use the microphone. Microphone okay. Thank you very much like to refinds sign holders you cannot have signs botch your head must be chest level or below we dont want to block the view of others and we will set up over flow and tick to you this recommend had it is set up. Thank you very much. Great. We are setting it up. Resume describing the Charter Amendment i appreciate everyone being quiet as we get ready for have over flow seating available. And i was describing that the way the charter will work minimal Staffing Levels grut in the year one from 1700 full Duty Officers to 1800 Police Officers in year 2. Many002,000 and year 52, 074 fully staffed Police Department. Tell include a mrekable set, side mandate commit the city it pay for every officer hired without funding needless low if we cant hire enough Police Officers to be new recruits. And to help with this the third per of the measure will credit a Police Full Staffing fund for 5 years. That will get us the resources to compete with other cities and recruit out of the crisis set at 75 thousand dollars per officer short of the minimum staffing a max of 400 positions this 75,000 nub reflects an prop taken by city cross the bay. Which is successful low solving the staffing problem with structured recruiting bonus 75 thousand dollars. This fund will prioritize diversity recruiting. Sfpd reform work is based upon. The fourth and final leadership of the amendment the budget emergency safe guard allow a temp refer froze in staffing and funding if our city projected deficit determined to exceed 250 Million Dollars. A fully staffed police force in San Francisco will improve Public Safety. Will enable San Francisco to effectively deter crime and prosecute void Better Police service it residents. Tellrous the need for cost low over time requires taxpayers to penned more money for less policing simple low to meet the basics of deploy am. Over time savings alone could pay for significant portion of the measure. As determined by the city controller analysis. I want to reiterate my gratitude to the city control exert his team. I am appreciative of the creativity brought to developing a flexible prop enables us to commit to fund positions if we hire them without looking up dollars if we cant that is i good approach i hope will be replicated in future set asides and grateful to cosponsors supervisors Joel Engardio and mandelman and city ahern daved chu and thank you to chief scott. Whos leadership on Police Reforms is under appreciated the expertise you and your team brought to this gives me confidence this prop we are proposing will work and make no make, Police Full Staffing will fulfill the promise of Police Reform thankful to mayor breed and her teams the support was helpful. We worked together for many weeks and we agreed on the plan i think will work and break the bank. Im grateful to the pro coalition of community sperpt here and the last mont we presented it dozens of communal associations across the city and westbound support from the groups focused on improving the city more then and there a thousand residence denial and organizations signed petition in support. And more are coming in each day. District 6 in downtown are behind this proposal as well from the business and Tourism Community to resident his welcome the support of organizations the hotel council, sf travel. And the golden gate restaurant association. Hoas and Management Association all of the cbds in my districts and residence denials and others im grateful to those i met with not supportive or reserving support for being willing to take part in the conversation which is important to our city. Im committed to say in that conversation and find agreement where we can on this Charter Amendment and other things that will come before us and months years to come and i want to express gratitude to my colleagues submit have spoken with and some i cant because of the brown act i will have a conversation today. And i will be working heard to earn your support for a michelle believe will deliver on the promise of a fully staffed Police Department that san ve san franciscans derby. Now if there are no questions or comments i will welcome chief of police scott to rules committee to present on this item. Chief scott, welcome. The floor is yours. Good morning. Thank you are chair dorsey and good morning walton and safai and to the public. To hear this matter. Of im bill scott the chief of police of San FranciscoPolice Department i have been invited to present on the current staffing and impacts and the staffing crisis we have here in the city. I will copresent with command are nicole jones and peter walsh and also director patrick lowon and director diana. Next slide. Of the so. Before i start i wanted to lay a fundation and context about the National Conversation about staffing and policing. In 2023 this. Is a National Conversation and all over the country row we see Police Departments in major cities that are facing Staffing Shortage and crisis. And basically that that does for all of us all different departments across the country is it makes for a competitive environment to recruit Police Officers. With this, competitiveness and the impacts of this we have to be one step ahead of everybody else to get the best candidate and get them not only recruited but recruited through back ground and higher beforure competitors. And the impact of this department having the best opportunity to do this will really cause us to be better competitive in terms of the market it is competitive. Next slide. I will talk about the last 5 years when we are seen in terms of impact with our sponse times on a, b and c calls the staffing decreased you see in 2018 our apriority calls a 7 minute on average Response Time now in 2023, that Response Time gone up to 9 minutes. For the average party calls. B, priority calls what was just urn 20 minutes now up to over 3 minutes. C priority calls these other priority calls well is still a need for Police Service but not an immediate emergency. Not a crime in progress or just occurred. These are responding to take a burglar report had the person is gone or suspect is gone. This Response Time gone from under 65 minutes to 80 minutes it is 78 minutes. This is i direct impact of staffing and the electric thereof. The staffing crisis we face in the San FranciscoPolice Department. And the only way we will turn that is next our Staffing Levels to match the calls for service and the other needs this department faces. As you see 20 ton to now year to date statistics the actual cause of service dropped i bit. 3 where are 5 total calls in 2021 and down to 215,000. In this year to date. Now people may ask how can calls of service. Sorry. I like to remind the audience to silence all cell phones. Thank you. Sorry. How can calls it service determine in our pregnancy times ~esque lit and go up. Policing changed the last 5 years and chair dorsey in your opening this department has embraced a Reform Initiative first with theus department of just now the California Department of justice and changed the way we police for the bert. With this come more demands. Body cameras and administrative demands. Our factics the time and distance taking times on calls these extend the times wont spend on the call special we because of that we had good out come. With the changes in policing. Takes more people to dot same w we did 510 years ago. With that the impact on not investigate visible officers make its harder to dot things we worked put in place. We will do it but we have to change the narrative in terms of staffing even with calls going down we see the bottom chart our crisis intervention type of calls these are people who are in some type of crisis med we respond to. And our department has really put effort and train nothing to responding to those call in a way that really yielded better out come when you look at the numbers we are at 25,000 of those types of calls and will exceed 30,000 calls the time this year it done even though we put a lot of the city we put infrastructure in place like the Fire DepartmentCrisis Response team. We had Public Health practical. The calls are i part of where we are going with policing in the city and even though our models will hopefully lessen the need for Police Officers with some calls we are to respond with criminal activity and violence even though the priority is there we have to be there with them or without them depending how height level violence. The point being, the calls will in the go, way and gwen points to staffing. We need the staff to handle the calls. I will lay context i talked about statistics today, the reality of the Public Safety picture in San Francisco is also very much dependant upon how people feel about safety in the staechlil show you video that paint a picture you will see the conversation about how people feel about safety. And the reason this is so important is because we are measured by Crime Statistics homicides, car break in. Burglars. Thefts. All very important and it does paint a picture in terms of what has been report period what we measure up. Year to year and monthly and daily. However statistic give little solice how people feel they feel the way they feel based on their lived experiences or experience of others who share those experience. Not only with people but these experiences oftentimes end up on social media and they paint an image of our city this we have t turn around. Policing is a part of turning around. Organized retail theft we made good arrests until we have a way the public feels safe we have much work to do. And time and again one thing that turns this around is having enough Police Officers on the streets in the patrol cars. In the foot beat on the motorcycle units. On the bicycles. Those other type of things that will turn the narrative around. And when you seat videos and the couple minutes of vos it paints the picture of the other challenges we are dole with we will start with the first video. You can see the city is impacted by crime and regardless of had the statistics say and there are statistics this are positive in our crime picture. Burglars are down and car breakins down. Shootings are down. But that you see here is how people feel a million vows on the occur break in video has to be turn exclude we are really Good Strategies to deal we dont have enough receives to do the strategies and scale. And the impact of puting Police Department in a more Competitive Position in my mind is very important to turning narrative around. We change this it will take the Police Department along with the public and along with our officials to do this. With that im going to turn the presentation over to command are jones and deputy chief for the next part of the presentation. Thank you. Good morning. Ooem command are nicole jones here to talk about sfpd staffing analysis efforts and you we determined had the right number was for staffing. I spent the left 6 wherever working on staffing related issues on behalf of the Department Im familiar with the recent history here. I was involved in the work in 2017 with controller on staffing work load analysis for sector patrol. In 2018 i was tasked with establishing sfpd first staffin