Poundin pound [pounding of the grasm] all right, good morning and welcome to the rules Committee Meeting of april 14th, twf im katy tang of this committee. To my left is malia cohen. Well be joined shortly by supervisor eric mar. Per his request. I with aant to announce first you have that oo hed like us to start with item 3. With that, mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Any documents part of the file should be commit smipted to clerk. Clerk. Thank you and id like to thank sfgovtv and our clerk derek evans. With that if we could call item three first. Item testimony 3 is a hearing to point wum member to the Shelter Monitoring Committee. There is one seat and one applicant. Is katrina hall here . Would you like to come up and make a quick presentation . Im katrina hall. My qualifications is im a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. I had been in a homeless shelter two years ago. If elected to the committee, there is a lot of things that i would like to accomplish that ive seen fall in the shelter seven and a half months. These things were like related to the program areas, such as the conditions, sometimes the areas didnt really promote, you know, a safe and decent environment. For Program Activities to be conducted. The children sometimes played, you know, on things that broken furniture, staff would watch or if the children were going to fall or get injured or something, no one said anything. Thats the main focus. Another area that i would like to see improve would be reporting deficiencies like if there was an incident they didnt report it if a child was injured. The staff wouldnt file a report. It would look like maybe the parents did something. They wouldnt say your child got injured on a chair or got a scratch. There was no kind of reports. Also, i would also like to see improvements in the Performance Indicators such as compliance for reservation levels. Vacancy rates. Ive been shelter rooms vacant and talked to people who say they were on a list for so long and i ask, why isnt anyone in there . No one says anything. The other areas would be, i would like to see the abate of program risk. That would be, for example, you know, program risk would be repairs, stoppedup toilets. Tubs that are that wont drain appropriately. You cant see it in the bathtub because the tubs are rusty or stopped up to the point where its no use to even try to get in there. Then if you can file a complaint that you know, they need to, you know unstop the tub, nothing gets down. Its like seven months in the shelter going thraw these kinds of things. There was nothing, that we could do as shelter residents but let the staff know. So these are some things that i would like to look out for. Also that they have toilet paper and food, you know, the environment is clean. Basic things like that. And also, another thing that was important to me was the identification of management problems. Ive seen Children Play where staff would it was inappropriately kind of roughhousing. Nothing wasnt said or doing and theyre all standing there watching like its a sport. So i felt that was a problem. All right, supervisor cohen. Good morning, everyone. Good morning miss hall. I have a couple of questions. How are you . Good. Thank you for your interest in serving. Where are you living now . Im in the aroundette watson apartments on eddie street. Okay. So p. What shelter were you at . Connecting point. I was a stiened to compass then hamilton. Because my child had asthma and i had asthma. They couldnt do a reasonable accommodation with the carpeting in hamilton so sent us to ccr. Where is that located . Crr is on market. Market street. What does ccr stand for . Civic center residents. We had to be to hamilton for mandatory mitings three times a week. We spent a lot of time there in the program area and intd acting with staff and other shelter residents. You also talked about the vacancy rate. And in shelters. As a user, tell me why you believe that there was a vacancy. Because there were rooms neck to me, there were no one was in them to so i wonder. I would talk to people who said they were on the list. So this was your observation. Yes. It was my observation and i would ask and they said we have to wait and see what happens. Oftentimes we have to leave shelter beds reserved for to the teen or different reservations to fill them. Thats why beds are sometimes left vacant. You also mentioned in your remarks management problems. Are you talking about the management problems at hamilton or ccr . Where in the process is it was all three locations. I would say that hamilton, it was, you know, Children Playing inappropriately. And management standing there and watching. Dont you think that the children are the responsibility of the parents and not management . Yes, well we told them, to stop, stop. And theyre like, you cant talk to your children that way or theyll call child protective services. And they want to take full control when theyre running their program. Theyre in control of everything. Sometimes a lot of times the furniture wasnt really in good repair and some kids fell or got hurt off a chair that wasnt that wasnt stable. Have you ever to a shelter monitoring Committee Meeting . Yes i have. I was before i put the application in last year. What did you observe . I just observed, you know, they were talking about the seitz see thes and how they do their observations. I guess if they got a good grade or a ad about grade. If they had violations. I assume because the meeting. I would assume they had a are quorum. Do you anywhere ems that they had attendance . No. No. Thank you for your time. Im glad youre interested. Maybe you can talk to me about your understanding of the what exactly your role would be on the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Um, my role would be to i guess go to the shelter and observe for standards to5t p q sure things are appropriately like there is toilet paper and there is, you know, just everything that is working meeting their mission, basically. Had how did you hear about this opportunity . I received an email. The email had came from, i think it was someone at city hall. Im not sure. I received an email, then i applied for. And i was invited for a meeting. Thank you miss hall for your interest. Even though i dont have shelters in our district. We have can done some work with the Shelter Monitoring Committee. I know one of the things they pointed occupants with the difficulty in filling this particular se seethes because a lot of times someone who is formerly homeless may not be living with their child under the age of 18 so theyre looking into a change to see if there was someone who previously lived with a child under 18. Having that experience is important but we want to make sure we get enough people to be part of this committee. So im glad you were able to if it that role. And also had been working with the Shelter Monitoring Committee on policies around Domestic Violence, especially if you are someone who is a victim, we wanted to make sure that you dont get kicked out of the shelter system because youre involved in a dd situation. That is something i hope to continue working on with the Shelter Monitoring Committee. Were able to reduce down the number of days that someone would not be able to be in a shelter from 30 to 15, but i feel like 15 is not okay. Again, if you are a victim of it. You need to be in shelter. So that is something i will ton working on. I dont know if supervisor mar has joined us now. Thank you miss hall. Well on up item three to Public Comment. Oitch a comment car from someone named lee. If you would like to come up or anybody else who would like to come up. I was here for the excuse me, im lee. I was from pier 80. Another failure. Same thing she mentioned. No one is in charge. I went to the hot team yesterday to get my stuff. They said they have no idea where it was. That pier. Pier 80 was a failure. Its a failure because no one knew, hot team was scared to go there. They were. Because they brought me there. Theyre wandering around seeing who was in charge. Nobody was in charge in pier 80. You visited there. You saw how bad it was. It was to bad, they had put dogs with people, miking i miking it up and they had no idea how though do that because they keep piling people in shelters without any supervision at all. Its i was there. Very recently and what i saw, for example there was one rottweiler with a disabled man and it was their pride and joy because it kept the three men safe. Because one man was disabled who had to make sure the rottweiler didnt eat all the other dogs cad because there were chihuahuas running around. They have no idea how to handle dogs. That was a complete failure. Im so glad you need to make sure children are safe. She would be perfect for that, but there are two other people that kneeled sheltering and pier 80 did not work. If you want to ask a question about any of it, i just lived there. Yesterday i tried to get my stuff back and they couldnt find it. Thank you. Any other members of the public who wishz. to comment on item three, please come on up. Im [inaudible] i did not come here it o comment on that. But a statement was made and i understand, so when you have parents who have children under the age of 18, when theyre in a shelter institution, or whatever it is. Parents have to walk on eggshells because of the rights the parents no longer have. So when we were younger, your parent could spank your behind because you got out of line and your neighbor could get on you as well. Parents do doesnt have the luxury now. A lot of shelter ive stayed in a shelter on my own. The hazards were very notorious. When you have a parent that is with a child in a shelter, they are walking on eggshells because of the pact they dont want cps not to take their child. The parents have to lessen on the activities as far as disciplining. Thats why i understand what she says about the staff stepping in. The staff has to take the role of being a parent because theyre licensed to do that. That way it takes the fear away from the parent of getting in trouble of disciplining a child whether its putting them on time out, spanking their butt or raising their voice and talking to them more harshly. Thats what we do in our own house. I want to make the statement of saying even though it is the parents responsibility in those situations, it falls a little more on the staff because of the rules and regulations that the government has put taken away from parents. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who wish to comment on item three . Seeing none Public Comments closed. Supervisor mar. I want to thank miss hall for her application. The shelters and families is critical. As she struggled to get her degrees in criminal justice, i think she would be a great addition to Shelter Monitoring Committee. I did visit pier 80. And i found it well staffed. With clear areas where dogs were and people and their belongings. I found it clean and where the showers and other places were a good Security System set up. There was an area in the outside of pier 80 where people could hang out so it didnt feel like you were locked into a big hangar where americas cups ships used to be kidd thought it was wellset up. I know there are areas for improvement. But that was my perspective, and imin sam dodge and his staff. Theyre doing their best but we need strong people on the Monitoring Committee like miss hall and ill support her. Im also going to vote for miss hall. I think its good when you have someone who has risen above difficult circumstances to be a champion to her children and family and a person who is willing to come back and serve. Thats why im going to support miss patrice hall. I too want to talk about pier 8 o. It is a 180 p bed shelter. Owners of dogs are able to bring their animals with them to the shelter. That is critical. Its one after the tracting features. In other shelters across the city, animals are not allowed and permitted. As you see the Homeless Population on the streets of San Francisco. Many people have dogs. Its their only form of companionship. It could be cruel to take their dog away when people are very, very close to their animals. The shelter, i too have po gone through a few tours of pier 80 as it rests inside district 10. Ive taken a particular interest inside 80. They have coaches. Its clean and safe. Theyre watching d. V. D. S and playing dominoes. I dont want to say its club med. Theyre not living the life of riley. However, we have gone above and beyond the normal accoutrements that youd find in shelters because we recognize that people need a handup. And we need to be supporting them. There is security 24 7 and staff that is trained and social workers. There are spaces where people can bring their belongings and theyll be locked and retrieveable. Im not sure why he wasnt able is to get his belongings. Im happy to talk to you after committee, mr. Lee, about your belongings but i want to set the record straight and getting good information about there about what is going on and how this city is addressing homelessness. Thank you. Thank you very much. Concur with my colleagues and id be happy to support did supervisor mar make the motion is this and seconded by supervisor cohen. Well take that without objection. Congratulations miss hall. [applause] so now supervisor mar has joined us, mr. Clerk if you could call item one. Clerk a motion confirming the mayors nomination in appointing suzy loftus for a fouryear term an ending april 30th 2020. Ill like to call miss loftus up. Good morning, mayor tang. Supervisor cohen and mar. Thank you for the opportunity to res you today. Im seeking reappointment to this post for Police Commission for one reason. I believe we have an opportunity to make sustained and important change for this Police Department. Its not only going to make a dmirches San Francisco but a model of collaboration for a nation that is struggling with addressing the issues between police and community. Im here with Many Community members with me so tea we can make change together. If we collaborate, seek the truth, and always remember the power of respect. We can build a community of trust between the police and members of the community. That i dont believe has ever existed. There is indeed much to do. We must identify and irradicate both explicit and implicit bias and rid this department of anyone who holds racist, hop homophobic or sexist views. We must hire, train and promote officers who are viewed by the community as neutral in their policing. Me must continue our work with the United States department of justice to fundamentally reengineer use of force to keep everyone save safe and reduce leeptal shootings. We must improve our data on police stop ts and searches and support supervisor cohen efforts to make sure we investigate officerinvolved shootings. Im happy to talk in more detail on policies from vision zero to improving Language Access. What i want to say most is any change weve successfully made has one theme in common. Engagement and relationships. As much as we would like, no one will be able to impose or force a better and deeper relationship of trust between people when t people and the police. It will required sustained effort. Dedication, it will take all of us. It will take men look mike hail from the bayview who is currently in high school and wrote to you and said i am hopeful or bridging relationships between both police and community for the simple reason that when we as youth worked so diligently with Law Enforcement over the summer, some actually starpted to explore careers in it. It will take people like vinnie who after experiencing the unimaginable tragedy of losing his sister jasmine who while in crisis was killed by a los angeles sheriffs deputy in an incident that unfolded in minutes. People like vinnie who after suffering this unimaginable tragedy has chosen to devote his, heart and sphirt so sa spirit to San Franciscos Crisis Center program. Demanding with love that the department move to deescalation. Not as a boutique offering but every day practice. It will take people like nicole and janice from walk sf and p Bicycle Coalition when too many people are dying from traffic collisions sit together with me, members of command staff and crunch the numbers and partner together to save lives. There is indeed much work to do. And im asking for your support to continue the work ahead to build a Police Department we can all be proud of. Im happy to take your questions. Thank you for your presentation and service. I know that there are a lot of questions, im sure, from committee members. Maybe you can just spend more time talking detail about what the Police Commission has been doing around use of force and certain policy changes and your thoughts around that. Thank you madam chair, of course. The december second 2015 was the night that mario was shot in bayview. It was also the night the Police Commission voted on our bodyworn camera policies. We concluded a ixmonth effort to work with everyone from public defenders to aclu to develop a policy. We voted on that in full recognition that the Department Needs more transparency and there were issues of trust we felt body cameras would address. That night an incident happened that rocked, i would say the trust that in particular members ever the Africanamerican Community have in the Police Department. While there are current investigations going on into that incident, we wont go into detail, i said publicly that watching that incident unfold, demanded a series of questions. Someone who a member of the community in bayview said if that w