Committee occurring thursdayjennifer 21st 2016 will begin shortly. [gavel] i would like to thank sfgtv staff for their Service Broadcasting todays meeting. Phil jackson and jen hello, thank you for your service. Just a little housekeeping right now before we start. We are going to have items to and three first. They shouldnt take too long. The charter of moments we have already heard in committee a couple times already. So theres not a lot of discussion. Mostly making amendment and moving forward to the next meeting. Probably some Public Comment but they should not take long. At the most i think 20 min. Will get you through those items and the entire rest meeting on item number one on the alternative use of force. Then, i want to make sure people are aware Public Comment will be 2 min. That will be a time limit on Public Comment. Mr. Clark if you can call item number to speak to item number two is charter of the San Francisco to acquire an appropriation for the parks and recreation Openspace Fund based on city spending for park and recreation purposes fiscal year 20152016 and modifying the recreation and Park Department banning obligations to include Equity Analysis at an election to be held on june 7, 2016 before supervisor farrell get started i just want to say ive been working with him on this measure and ive actually from beginning when he introduced it i put my name not yet as a cosponsor but i want to make sure he had a pretty thorough process what they needed in this measure in amending in a way that the need to meet the needs across the circuit i think this issue was around equity and make sure there were measures in place that would give some accountability around equity and the parks and recreation the board of supervisors for approval. I know this was not the steps that a lot of people who were working urgently on this measure were hoping to do, but i do feel this actually broadens the appreciation of the measure and i do appreciate the flexibility and accepting these amendment especially supervisor mark farrell. Thank you. So ill keep my comments on the overall measure since we talked about quite a bit, im introducing three amendment today. I want to thank supervisor avalos for working together with this amendment to making this as tight as possible. I think its a testament to his leadership as well. I want my colleagues and my cosponsors as well for part of this and being part of the conversation as well as everyone involved in making the amendment and working on them together. So, there are three sets of amendments to the First Amendment the annual set aside on a baseline for 15 years. We talked about that topic for quite a while. I will guarantee significant funding for the department in year 1630 Going Forward compared to what we had before. The second set of amendment built on the equity limits we made at the last Committee Hearing and premise made to the department include strategies to mitigate deficiencies in the last set of amendment is to give additional oversight required [inaudible]. From my perspective these amendment represent over 15 amendment since introduction in the fall. I want to thank everyone whos been involved in this. Sincerely a road but i do think were in a good place right now. It certainly look forward to bringing in front of the voters. So colleagues, will open up to Public Comment. I certainly appreciate accepting these amendment ticket underwear to sit before we take it out of committee next week. But again i want to thank everyone involved supervisor avalos over the past few weeks. Thank you. I think we can open this item for republican member if you like to comment, more or less the order i read your names and anyone after that can come forward as well. [calling names]. Good morning. I then before you but how many times and i do want to reiterate what ive said before. At this point i want to thank you for keeping your eyes on the big prize and for the improvements made to this legislation. They do very much and lets go forward. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Matt ogrady. I want to echo phils comments before me. Little over two years ago the Parks Alliance adopted a really big strategic goal which is by 2020, we want to see the city put into place adequate and sustainable funding for our entire park system throughout San Francisco. The Charter Amendment including the memories you have proposed supervisor avalos, strengthens this overall measure and gets us a very long way towards achieving that goal. So we very strongly support this. We appreciate the animal amendment and the particularly the longer time frame of the extension of the Openspace Fund and the baseline that provides a much more stable longterm view for that apartment. So were very supportive of the amendment. I want to call out, can supervisor be farrell for his leadership in this effort throughout and all the supervisors signed on as cosponsors for the contributions in making it happen. Thank you very much. Good morning supervise. Kellyi want to add the thank you for all your hard work. Mr. Farrell mentioned 15 amendment to get all four of you have been key in bringing this. We appreciate you helping San Francisco parks. Commissioner norton, welcome thank you. Good morning. I want to add my thanks to my colleagues to the Parks Alliance. I spoke to all of you for all the work youve done. We feel good about it. We think that this is going to provide real flexibility for that apartment Going Forward and the extension of the Openspace Fund, thank you supervisors for finding a way to make that happen. Its going to add to that stability. So were pleased and looking forward to getting it on about and running a strong campaign. Thank you. Before the next speaker ive to other cards. [calling names]. Thank you very much. My name is rosemary came and get him on the board of San FranciscoParks Alliance and one last time, i would like to thank supervisor farrell or is it incredible leadership in getting this Charter Amendment moving forward. We are extremely pleased with it as it is now finally being recommended. We also want to say how much we appreciate all the work that went into getting to this final proposal, including supervisor avalos is leadership in extending the Openspace Fund, which is a truly wonderful addition to the major. So, thank you all very much. We look forward to getting this out of the rules committee, finally, and onto the board of supervisors agenda and then onto the ballot in june. Thank you, get thank you very much. And the other members of the public like to comment . On todd david good im wearing my residence town square have. I just want to say the extension of the Openspace Fund is outstanding for all the communities out there that need openspace. So, i think weve done a good job of starting to tackle open space deficient areas and by extending it were going to tackle even more of those open space deficient areas. So, i love the extension to make sure well have the money for the communities that need the open space. So thank you very much. Thank you. Any other member of the public seeing none, will Public Comment is closed. [gavel] this item is a lie before us. Supervisors he felt Less Government i want to thank everyone involved. Thank for all the Public Comment. And most of all my colleagues. Its been a solid effort together and i think when a good place. I look forward to moving this for. Great. So doing the motion to accept the amendment . Moved and seconded. Would think that without objection. [gavel] we can move this automatically to the next was Committee Meeting. Do we need a motion on that yes. If we can get a date certain on motion we move into next thursday if we can get a date certain on motion we move into next thursday, january 28. Moved and seconded. [gavel] our next item please item number three, second draft of the Charter Amendment of the city and county of San Francisco to require that upon a letter told a special legend is a vacancy in the office of the mayor member of the board of supervisors was originally scheduled election be held within 180 days of the vacancy provided the present of the board of supervisors is an acting mayor until an election is held to fill the mayoral vacancy and provide the mayor shall appoint an interim supervisor to fill the supervisor will vacancy with the interim supervisor being ineligible to complete in that election at an election to be held on june 7, 2016 this is a much i bought four. Briefly, i want other amendment which i like to make today. And then move this item to next weeks was Committee Meeting to be heard. The amendment im making is actually two make this Charter Amendments excludes about filling vacancies on the board of supervisors. We will keep or amending this to keep the existing process we have for filling the vacancy in the mayors office. That would lead to a board vote to set in place an interim mayor. Piteously, we were to run this measure as it is. You would have the board president acting as the acting mayor and board president but i dont think it makes a lot of sense. Really, what my intention around this was to have some chance to consider different options because theres lots of ways we could grab this measure. Its never going to be exactly perfect. But to me more than anything in make some sense to have a process and separation between the executive branch and the legislative branch, and have us be able to elect the people who are going to be doing cpr on the board of supervisors rather than having them appointed, which to me is about our democratic process. So, i will make a motion to see we can accept the amendment and then move this item to next agenda. First, what Public Comment. Any member of the Public Comment would like to comment on this measure please come forward. My name isi do not quite understand john avalos about the mayor but am concerned about our current mayor was there to fill a vacancy and promised he would not run and then did run. I think someone in a position that can be manipulated by money influences, which i believe is what happens. It means we got a mayor that was promised he would not do it and started out with a lie about becoming a mayor in the first place. I find it very disturbing. So, maybe you could explain more exactly how the mayor part is because i do not get that. Thank you very much any other member of the Public Comment like to comment seeing none, we will close Public Comment is closed [gavel] i appreciate the question. Actually, i dont recall when i voted for edwards lee for interim mayor in january of 2011 that are requested that he make a promise not to run for may. Was in a condition that i thought was in place. I think you need that to some members of the board of supervisors, but it didnt seem to be a condition for us voting for him in part of our vote. So, to me it really wasnt about that. The changes we are making, the current process right now, the way we have it in place, but as a vacancy in the mayors office, the president of the board would serve as acting mayor until the board of supervisors were to select or vote do have a mayor elected. So, that process happened when mayor gavin newsom was elected to become Lieutenant Governor and he wasnt sworn in until around january 10 or so of 2011 good news a little bit of a gap betweenwell a month and a half that we knew he was guilty leaving office and we had the actual boat and interim mayor in place. The board of supervisors elected an interim mayor. In that time, there was a lot of process we went through to determine how these vote would happen. We had not had a process put forth to us in decades. So we actually create a process for how that vote would go for. It was actually a board process showed us that in order to follow our charter, to extended out into the vote if any member of the board of supervisors was going to get elected without the required eight loads but you cannot vote for yourself to become elected interim mayor. So, we actually went on through another process where we just need to find someone outside the board to become a mayor about a month or about a month was spent looking at different candidates for mayor that we finally made the vote around january 4 of 2011. We actually didnt get to an actual vote are generally forth but postponed it for a couple days. To me, that process seems a bit tainted by the process that we were electing someone who actually wasnt in the country, who had indicated to every member of the board he was interested in becoming mayor of San Francisco. That to me was a false in our process. Not that the mayor had made a condition that he was going to not run for mayor. He was elected interim mayor. So, i want to go back. I feel that process is fine, to go back to having a person who is acting mayor and mayor at the same time or and board president at the same time. I dont think it really is good for that person or good for the city to have that person in the legislative branch and executive branch of that object thats a very thorough response to your question. I appreciate the question. So, im going to motion that we accept the amendment is such good essentially, were taken out references to the Selection Process for the interim mayor, and moving forward, exclusively with having the board vacancies filled by a person who the mayor will appoint as an interim supervisor will not be eligible to run, it will be turned out once election is certified and will move forward instead with an election that would be in the voters hands to fill this vacancy on the board of supervisors. To the chair, i made a number of comments last week. Im not going to stay cozier no sure will continue those discussion but todays purposes all make a motion to amend your Charter Amendment incentive for to the next was Committee Meeting. I generate 28 on january 20 will take that without objection. [gavel] okay. Please item number one item number one hearing alternatives to use of force in policing and reevaluating San Francisco please the government general orders 2. 07, 5101 and 5. 02 and requesting the Police Department to report. Supervisor cohen good morning everyone. Thank you for being here during this important conversation. First, i want to start the hearing off them with a moment of silence as we begin to remember those and acknowledge those not here with us today. Deeply those lost to violence. [moment of silence] thank you. I also want to take a moment to express condolences but just to the mother of when the woods of every mother that could hear my voice is lost a child. I can only imagine in my heart aches for your unimaginable loss. But there are some key things i want this conversation to focus on. One of which is the policies that we have in place when it comes to officer involved shooting and it use of force. Since 27 thereve been 37 officer involved shootings in San Francisco and each of them have been deemed justified. After investigation by local investigating agency. I noticed this a very difficult piece of information to accept without being questioned. Which is why we are here today. The use of Excessive Force against the mentally ill African Americans and other minority communities is actually not a new issue. The difference now is that we have readily Available Technology that are capturing irrefutable data and evidence to bring voice to many of the folks that claim to be victims. Thats why we are here. Not only to disclose i did not only to discuss the Police Departments use of force policy, which to date has not been revised since 1995, but also begin to open the conversation of a transparent discussion about policy and more partly because of changes that need to happen across this entire country and how we begin to bring some of that change right here in our own department. Im interested in proven best practices we began to blend the tools here. Its clear the vast majority of the people across the entire country that seen the unfortunate as well as incredibly graphic video of the shooting of mr. Woods, that there is some nonlegal technical method of able to subdue folks when the situation arises. I believe we need to begin to hold ourselves accountable for our successes as well as certainly are failures and leaving this case we failed our residents and we failed mario revealed mrs. Woods we responsibly to fix a broken and failed system. If were going to change what broken we got to come together and identify and address and i know thats a difficult realization for many people that have been on the front line protecting and serving. There is certainly a crisis in confidence. We talked about it all the time. Thats what brought us here to the chamber today. Eight crisis in confidence in lawenforcement in the entire country not specifically here in San Francisco but today talking about here in the city. Were not exempt from this deficit and lack of confidence and trust. An overwhelming majority of our officers are very hardworking men and women that do put their lives online