please stand by for public safety and neighborhood services committee.

>> [gavel] >> this meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 25, 2024, regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood

services committee. to my right is engardio and to my left is supervisor dorsey. our clerk is monique, i would like to thank sf gov. tv for staffing this meeting. do you have any comments. >> clerk: public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda when your item of interest is called, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. first, you may email them to myself the public safety and neighborhood services clerk, or you may send your written comments via u.s. postal service to our office in city hall. room 244 san francisco

california, 941102. if you submit public comment in writing, it will be forded to supervisors part of the official file on which you're filing. finally, items on today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on may 7th, unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, will you please call the first item. >> clerk: yes, item number one is to hearing consider the issuance of type-90 on sale general music venue liquor license to endgames improve. >> thank you, and i believe we have a new officer, oh no, from sfpd, unit. >> if approved this would allow them to operate on the venue. there is one letter of protest, zero letters of support.

they're in plot 221 which is considered high crime. mission station has no opposition and we recommend approve with the conditions, one no noise should be audio within the area under the control of the licensee. also number 3, actually petition or should monitor the area in order to prevent the loitering of americans on any part of the property. next. >> thank you so much. thank you. are there anybody from the company? >> we have rented venues all over the city and performed comedy shows and shows. we required the building that we were in in 2018 and have

been operating since then. we have converted it to a theater by having a stage and seating. we have those thursday and friday, and saturday night. we operate on business and not on funding from crowds, we sell tickets and do corporate workshops. our mission is to create a comedy home for san francisco. we've seen a lot of venues, close down because of dwindling businesses. a license would keep us operating even longer. we feel we operate as a place for people to gather and make friendships and lasting relationships through learning and performing especially in

improv comedy, to use their skills to perform their performance at work, their ability to public speak and confidence. the biggest thing is helping people who want to be performers in this space, learn the skills that are fundamental and this would allow us to have a more stable business, a more long term operation and even better place to gather and be a part of a community. >> thank you so much. seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, would you please open the item for public comment. >> clerk: yes, all speakers will have two minutes to speak. okay, can the first speaker come forward.

>> speaker: hi my name is salvador, i started taking klasz with endgames since 2013, i have produced a few shows and performed ranging from funny to deeply weird, big part of the community that i identify with. when i got married at city mall, the oficient was from endgames and anything to keep them going to be huge. thank you. >> next speaker. >> speaker: yes, my name is darren bucin i've been taking class sxz performing at endgames since i moved to the city in 2021, and it's definitely my home away from home. most of the friends i've made

here have been from classes and these shows and i just want to, reiterate what sal said, it's like a, it's just a vibrant place in that part of the mission district. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> speaker: hello, thanks for having me. my name is irene melltesta i'm a san francisco resident and a homeowner to noe valley and i came to speak in support of endgames theater. i've been a resident and now in noey valley. i decided to raise my family here because of all the wonderful friends and community that i have in the city. i became aware of endgames nearly a decade ago when i first moved here and i attended an improve dom deshow and then a few years ago, i decided to

take klasz, now i'm at the theater to take classes and perform and socialize with the friends that i made. as a long time volunteer of the arts, i know how incredibly challenging it is to maintain. endgames provides an extraordinarily rare--positively in a neighborhood that is only mentioned for its crime and filth. so i hope that endgames request will be granted so they can bring joy to many more students and visitors and lovers of the art. thank you very much. >> do we have any additional speakers? madam chair, that completes our queue. >> thank you very much, public comment is now clodes. [gavel] any additional comments or questions? no, so i know that the district

9 supervisor, supervisor ronen is supportive. so i would like to move that the clerk prepare a resolution making a determination of issuance of type-9 to general liquor license to the applicant would serve the public convenience or necessity. may we take this motion without objection and send this to the bull ford with positive recommendation. >> clerk: yes, vice chair engardio. >> aye. >> clerk: member dorsey? >> aye. >> clerk: member dorsey aye. chair stefani? >> aye. >> clerk: i have three ayes. >> thank you, madam chair, please call the next item. >> clerk: item number 2, that the liquor license to let petite paris to do business as panama sf located at 523

broadway street will serve the public convenience or necessary in the city. >> can you state your name. >> my name is officer frainz. we have a pc n property for le petite to operate as paname. they have arrived for a type-90 license and would allow them to operate as a--there are zero letters of protest. zero letters of support, they're located on plot 132 which they're considered in high-crime area, high saturation area. central station has no opposition. the alu recommendation approval with the following conditions

except as provided in condition 2, no noise should be audio around the area under the license of licensee as well as the petitioners should monitor the area under their control in to prevent loitering as depicketed in abc 253. the petitioner should be responsible for maintaining free the area over which they have control as depicketed in abc253. and lastly at any time the premise is providing live entertainment, the petitionors should have two uniform security guards on the premise and shall maintain order there in to prevent any activity which would interfere with the quiet environment of surrounding security. the uniformed security guards must be licensed in the

department of consumer affairs. >> thank you, i see no questions from my colleagues. are there anybody questions? seeing none, madam clerk, will you please open up public comment. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item, should line along the wall. all speakers will have two minutes to speak. can the first speaker come forward. it appears we have no public comment. >> seeing none, public comment is now clodes. i know this is district 3, they're supportive and there are no issues with it, i would like to move that the clerk prepare a resolution making recommendation on general music venue would serve the public convenience or necessity. may we take this motion without objection and send this item to the full board with a positive recommendation.

>> clerk: on that motion, vice chair engardio. vice chair engardio, aye. member dorsey. member dorsey aye, chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: i have three ayes. >> thank you very much, would you please call item 3. >> clerk: yes, item 3 is a hearing to consider that a person to person transfer of a type 21 off sale general beer wine and llc doing business as buy right located at 2134-2140 polk street will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you, madam clerk, we'll turn it over to officer foreign. >> this pc n is to operate a buy-right store, 2134 to 2140 pole being here. if approved this will allow

them to operate off-sale general premise. there are zero letters of protest. zero letters of support. they're located on plot 538 which is considered a high-crime area. northern station has no opposition. the aolu has--recommends approval with the conditions as depicted on the cbc253. petition shall be responsible for maintain free of litter the premise over which they have control as depicted. >> thank you, officer do we have any representatives of the applicant present? great, why don't you come on up, please.

>> speaker: hi thanks, i'm the founder and second generation owner of the buy-right businesses. bi-rite has been on our family for years, and this will be our third store and our 5th brick and marter store. we're happy to continue a history operation that has been in existence in that location for the last 45 years and allowing us to add the distilled spirits completes the product set forward for us. so it ensures that we have a complete shop for our guest so that our guests don't have to

go to multiple place to see do their job and make it more convenient for them. in the 26 years that i've been, actually i've had liquor licenses now for 33 years in san francisco, i've never had a violation against me, so i feel pretty confident that we'll do well. >> great thank you so much. seeing no one on the roster, madam clerk, will you please open up public comment. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item, should line up now along the side bit windows. all will have two minutes to speak. >> speaker: hello, good morning, i'm sunny i'm supervisor peskin's chief of right this bi-rite is in our district and we've been working with sam to expand their footprint so they're expanding into the space that used to be my hair stylist. there was a real-food that served the naibtd but that footprint was a little bit too

small with other corner neighborhood markets kiepd of struggling with larger stores near by, you know, this is going to give them the opportunity to expand their products as sam was mentioning. but hopefully also i hope that it helps them bring some of the programming that they've been known for and other neighborhoods like the mission to the area because i know a lot of our families and a lot, you know, the neighborhood folks would love to see some of the cooking demonstrations and you know, tasting and social justice programs and food programs that sam has really pioneered in the city. we're very excited to support it and thank you all for your consideration today. >> thank you, sonny. anyone else for public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] i'm excited about this, it's

right next to district 2 and i too am supportive. seeing no one on the roster, i ask that the clerk prepare a resolution off sale general beer wine and distilled liquor license to the applicant would serve the public convenience or necessity, may we take this motion without objection and send this to the full board with positive recommendation. >> clerk: yes, on the motion to send to the full board with positive recommendation. vice chair en gord i can't. member dorsey, chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: i have three ayes. >> thank you, madam clerk, would you please call item 4. >> clerk: item 4 is an ordinance amending to code to set minimum qualifications to suppliers from where the city pro cures firearms and am mission. >> thank you, madam clerk. this is actually an ordinance

that i introduced and i'm thrilled to finally present it to you. this ordinance is aimed at safeguarding our community safety and ensuring fiscal responsible. this ordinance will ensure that the city, that city funds designated for firearms procurement by our public safety agencies which includes the san francisco police department, sheriff's department and the d.a.'s office adhere to state and firearm laws. last year a report by brady aoun aouted against violence, shed light on concerning practices within lawful procurement across california including here in san francisco. the report disclosed that over 90 law enforcement agencies in the state, including ours, collectively spent upwards of 20 million dollars on firearms,

ammunition and related equipment from six federally firearm dealers with documented. and i'm seeing, this is a fact but it's also true that, this was most for the most part unwitnessingly knowingly not knowing that this was happening. we engaged with these vendors that had these histories without really knowing it. so this is not to call out our police department or law enforcement agencies for this. but these violations notably included failure to report sales involving multiple weapons so. we have these firearm spenders that are just not caring about the law and we know what happens when that happens, people end up dead because of it. also, a red flag for potential straw purchases and firearm

trafficking recognized bit bureau of alcohol tobacco and explosives in these bad acts and straw purchases are when you're not allowed to buy a gun but you get somebody to do it for you and they hand it over to you, that happens frequently and these firearm vendors are not really doing anything about it. and we continue, unwitingly continue to purchase firearms from these vendors. this revelation was deeply troubling to me, i think you know, that i am somebody that has been gun violence prevention advocate since columbine which was 25 years, and the state is just absolutely sickening. i was just reading the other day about a man who in oklahoma who shot his wife, three boys and his ten-year-old called

police to say his whole family was dead. this is not a rarity in this country, where families are wiped out and obviously, you know that gun violence is now the leading cause of death of children in our country. this is a series issue and i think it under scores the critical need for robust vetting procedures for firearms and related gear. as the city that prides itself in being a leader in gun safety it's incumbent upon us to ensure that our law agencies, san francisco and our law enforcement agencies to uphold the highest standards when it comes to sourcing firearms. and the evidence is clear, firearms that are recovered in criminal incidents trace back to vendors who have flouted

federal firearm laws. by instituting, we not only protect taxpayer dollars but also mitigate the risk of perpetuating the cycle of gun violence. i'm incredibly grateful for all the work and support, the office of administration and our city administrator david chu and rick bornstein who is in the audience today, a lawyer and activist with brady. i really can't thank them enough for working with us on this ordinance and i'm grateful for the san francisco police department for the many conversation that's we have and i understand their concerns, but ums we change the laws we're not going to change the situation. we need to use our purchasing power in a way that forces

these dealers to follow the law. i was incredibly mindful and sensitive to the concerns and included waiver provisions for emergency and in a rare for no member to comply. and also the idea if we're doing this in san francisco as we say, as go san francisco, so goes california and the rest of the nation. we need to set an example that when law enforcement are purchasing guns from vendors, vendors have to have the utmost law. it's incumbent upon us to do so. also, because you know, i worked incredibly well with the san francisco police department and i want to make sure that we're in a situation that actually is going to work. so to be further responsive to the concerns, i'm introducing amendments today that would

really, as we create the rules, allow the san francisco to work with oca in a way that addresses their concerns. i have passed, you should have the amendments today and i understand from the city attorney office that they're not substantiative. so we would strike subsection f from section 21-h.4 on page 5 and on page 5 under section 25h.5 i'm clarifying that the purchaser or designee will issue guidance with the sheriff department and other city departments as necessary. i understand that the police department was worried that even if there were any type of complaints about a vendor that that would prevent them from purchasing from that vendor but that will be clarified because of these amendments. let me know if you have any

questions, we toent have anybody presenting because we've done the work. i don't have any questions, i'm happy to turn it over to public comment or if anyone from the san francisco police department wants to say anything. diane? >> speaker: i can be very brief but first of all, my name is dia na i'm the director of public affairs for the san francisco police department. i just want to thank supervisor stefani because she has worked with us tremendously to figure out where we can deal with the limited amount of vendors. in the spirit of this ordinance, i want to be clear that the police department wants to figure out a way where we're responsible with vendor that we work very closely with the office of contract management and also contract agreements in general so we end up individuals that are coming in into our city contracting process that are responsible

and do not have any substantiative violations. it's important just like the supervisors describes, there is a lot of tracing, sometimes ammunition and firearms that come into our city that provide a real risk to the street and the issues around homicide and gun violence. i do want to clarify while i appreciate the nuances of the language, the department absolutely supports the superintendent in the spirit of this ordinance. and we do appreciate the substantiative that allows us to work with oca, thank you supervisor and we appreciate work with youing and continue to work with you with this item. >> thank you and when you say there are a limited amount of vend thaerz are not breaking the law in a way that would make it problematic for us, there are not a limited amount of gun dealers.

in 202 2, there were nearly 78 licensed gun dealers in the united states that's more than all m*ikds, burger king and subway and wendy's combined. so we have plenty of gun dealers, we just have too many gun dealers that don't think they need to follow the law. and we have a gun violence that is not getting better or going away. i'm happy that they're working with this and i know that after talk to go chief scott, also this law will actually, you know, protect not only our communities but also our police officers who are shot at when they're just trying to a pren hend somebody who is just stealing a catalytic converter. i know the amendments are going to solve the problems that you

brought to mia tension, so thank you. seeing no one on the roster, i think we can open it up on for public comment. >> clerk: yes, those wanting to speak should line along the wall, all speakers will have two minutes to speak. >> speaker: i'm here on maf of brady united against gun violence. thank you for everything that you said, there is little to add except my appreciation to the committee and supporting it as well. to the police department, to the city attorney's office to oca, i know this is been a tough slog but it's meaningful and i'm hopeful that this will not only stop taxpayers dollars that are going to dealers not doing things the right way, it will incentivize them to do

better. i look forward for this being enacted not too long from now. >> thank you ruth for all of your work squ all of your help. >> clerk: next speaker. >> speaker: good morning, madam chair and committee. i'm alec bash and i plan to speak to this, to say thank you supervisor stefani, i and other people who care about national issues in this country applaud what you are doing here today. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> clerk: do we have any additional speakers? madam chair, that completes our queue. >> thank you, madam clerk. seeing none p public comment is now clodes. i would like to entertain a motion to accept the amendment sxz pass this item out of committee with positive recommendation as amended.

>> clerk: on the motion to amend and for to the full board as amend withed a positive recommendation, vice chair engardio. vice chair aye. member dorsey. member dorsey aye. chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: chair stefani, aye, i have three ayes. motion passes. >> can you please call item 5. >> clerk: to amend the date of the family violence council to may 1, 2027. >> thank you, madam clerk, colleagues again this is my item and i'm pleased that my legislation to reauthorize the san francisco family council is before us today. since 2007, our council has included representatives of the

superior court, the mayor, the board of supervisors, our law enforcement agencies, public defender, child services agencies, elder abuse prevention agencies, domestic prevention agencies and more, it will be more grateful to them for participating in this important work. at the council has consistently worked towards three main goals. first to coordinate services and improve communication between violence and elder abuse and communities. second to analyze trends and data related to family violence in san francisco, state wide and across the united states and third to advise the board of supervisors, the mayor's office and the courts about these trends and related issues. the family violence issues an annual report that touches on each of these reports on both the council and the city as a whole. it's been my privilege to serve as the board of supervisors representative to the family

violence council. in a period when stories against women is nearly daily headlines both city departments and nonprofit organizations in address the crisis family violence. as of today, the family violence council is said to expire on may first, 2024, this would extend the sunset date to may first, 2027. the work of the family violence touches all of our communities. especially communities of color in san francisco and it is more important than ever that the body is responsive to the needs. would i like to extend thanks to ellis and status of women, tri chairs of the family council beverly upton, executive director of the domestic violence consortion.

thank you again colleagues for your consideration. i'm happy to answer any questions. seeing no names on the roster, we can go straight to public comment. >> clerk: yes, members of the public wanting to speak on this item, should line along the wall, all speakers will have two minutes to speak. >> speaker: good morning, supervisors, good morning, chair stefani. family violence council works. in this day and age when we find something that works, we better hold onto it. family violence has reduced, pain and suffering and death in san francisco in an i am measurable fashion. domestic violence deaths are

down close to 90% from when we started all of this. is this the only reason? no, but it is a place for san francisco to come together, elder abuse, child abuse and domestic violence, i thank catherine stefani so much, family council works. we are working to end domestic violence, child abuse and elder abuse in san francisco, it is the noble work of the family council. we need a home, it will not be the department on the status of women in the future as most of us know. we need a department that dedicates itself to these issues. i want to thank supervisor stefani for her leadership and her heart. thank you for this legislation, we support it wholehearted low. >> thank you, bev for all of your work. >> speaker: good morning, supervisors my name is jenny i'm with safe and sound and i'm one of the tri chairs of the

family council. like my colleague, i'm in whole support of this legislation to extend the sunset time and ordinance for the family violence council as well as supporting the modification to see allow the mayor to determine which department city department is the best department to support this important council. this council is tasked with coordinating family violence with educating the public with gother data, with moving forward essential policy reforms. we know that family violence impacts people at different stages and that the long term impacts affect the individual, the family, the community and society and contribute to many of the issues that san francisco is facing now, homelessness. drug and alcohol addiction, long term mental health issues,

traumatic experiences and those have an economic impact on the city. we just fin ushd a report showing that in california, 19.5 million dollars is the impact of khoild abuse right now in california. so we support this new legislation and very grateful to supervisor stefani and her team. thank you. >> thank you, jenny and thank you for all of your incredible work as well. >> clerk: do we have any additional speakers? madam chair, that completes our queue. >> seeing no other public comment, public comment is now closed. and i want to reiterate what beverly upston, the family council works and it's important and we will have a home, there is no doubt about that. i want to thank every one for your consideration and seeing no one on the roster, i would like to move this item to the full board with positive

recommendations. >> clerk: and on the motion to forward this item to the full board with positive recommendation, vice chair. >> aye. member dorsey. >> clerk: member dorsey aye. chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: i have three ayes. >> will you please call the next item jao. yes, item number 6 is traffic enforcement and safety in san francisco. >> thank you and we are joined today by superintendent rafael mandelman this is his hearing, very important hearing i will turn it over to him to hear the hearing. thank you for being here. >> thanks chair stefani, thank you for making time for this hearing. this is not a new conversation, it is actually, as i noted in prior hearings, this is a conversation for me it goes back to the first year that i

was on the board when supervisor fewer and i were inquiring to the troubling traffic staffing. we'll hear more on that today. at any rate, the decline in traffic has been extraordinary and alarming has been roteder on and discussed here and to sort of catch us, well before i catch us up, you know, i think we see the affects of that every single day. those of us who are out on the street walking, cycling or driving, we see the speeding of a lot of drivers. we see folks treat iting red lights as stop signs which is a new phenomenon, we see

pedestrians being cut off in sidewalks and driving in you know, in the red lines and doing things that range from super annoying and destructive and actually incredibly dangerous. and i do think that the failure to achieve the kind of progress towards vision zero that we would have liked to achieve over the last two years, notwithstanding having made some valuable and important investment in infrastructure is that we have not matched those investments and infrastructure with even a holding steady of enforcement, not to mention increased enforcement of what we were doing ten years ago. we're so far from that. now, to catch us up, the most resent conversations, back in 202 2, prompted by steven and luke and some reporting by

heather knight, we reengaged around the issue of traffic enforcement in san francisco had a hearing with commander peter walsh who explained some of the challenges that the department was facing in terms of the traffic enforcement. and we asked for more enforcement, the decline increased. and last may, i sent a letter of inquiry making a little more formal, my request that the department figured out a way and my request was to get back to 2024 levels of enforcement with the focus on the five. focus on those most dangerous driving moving violations. went further towards

complaining the challenges not just around staffing but local level that have taken a traffic stop that might, you know, ten years ago have been a five or ten minute and turning it into a 20 or 25 minute job. as well of course around the staffing and within traffic company. and then it was back in september that jones was brought into her new role and we talked a little bit about the imperative the necessity of trying to reverse these numbers. and commander jones asked for a little bit of time, said that she would work to enforcement increase and and that the next

time we worked together, she would give us a plan so we could start measure continued improvements on traffic enforcements. now you'll describe what you're seeing, we did in my office, thank you calvin ho, compare, you know, year over year and it looks like if you go back to december, in each month, december 23 against december 24, january 22 against february 2022. it looks like there is an improve more citation measurable, quite a lot, 146 percent, in those months, we're still way way way way way way way way way beneath where we were ten years ago, but it looks like the numbers are

finally moving in the right direction. so i want to thank you for that and i'm looking forward to your presentation. i want to also thank, the folks, the advocates who have been rallying around this issue. of course walk sf and then steven and brooke hymer for their work on that. so with that, wind up, commander jones, give us your presentation. >> thank you, supervisor mandelman and good mornings. i'm jones of special bureau traffic division. and i'm here to discuss sfpds and day view our enforcement plan. i would like to first start by

reviewing the current state of affairs. overall traffic citation numbers have declined tremendously over the last decade with the lowest number of citations being issued in 2022 at 406 citations total. in the last year, we discussed some of the whies for that including increased administer, whys for that. and increase of 27 percent over the previous year and in the first quarter of 2024, we have issued 2879 citations already so we're trending in the right direction and on track to out pace last year's numbers. i think it's important to note again as i did in the last hearing that these citations counts are not inclusive red light violations which added an additional 2272 citations in 2023.

56.5 of the citations issued in 2023 were for the focus which include speeding red light violations, stop sign violations, failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to yield while making a left or u turn. they're en grained in vision zero. at the last hearing, a few questions were posed whether and would i like to take a moment to discuss that now. we believe citations are and will continue to be an important metric. we should continue to track them and use them as a way to measure success but only if we're analyzing all traffic stops including our warnings and advisement which we consider educational enforcement. none of these metrics should stand alone without the other. should only be deemed a measure of success in serious injury

and fatal crashes. we are not achieving the outcomes we desire which is enhanced safety. these will be discussed in more depth later on. additionally as it results to citation, it was asked at the last hearing if we determined citation to be the useful measures which we have and that we discussed that in more detail. societiations usually take about 20 minutes. some people are quicker but the lower estimate is about 20 minutes each. this varies on land depending on complexity but the back end task remain the regardless. this includes benchmark entry and that's the new database which is required by the state and body foot camera which is tagging. advisements can be a bit

quicker as a bit of paperwork don't need to be sold out as it relate to the ticket itself, but the still that remains as it requires for all the stop. whether a traffic results insightation or advisement is up to the dis cretion of the officer--and at the end of the day, we're trying to change behavior and obtain come employ ans with traffic law to keep our streets safe and there is more than one way to do that. also on the last year, we were asked about the new prohibitions on the left turn, we have done multiple on va lens a street when the new changes were focused on education and multiple stops were consulted that result inside warnings, we issued approximately 30 citations on valencia street and it was a focus for the company back in

march. the non compliance with the term prohibition are extremely low which is good news it means we're going in the right direction. next vieed please. also for context, there were total, 20 fatalities. most occur in the network where pedestrians were the most prolifically affected. with peaks being in 2022 with 37. again we were down to 29 last year and 2023 year to date and 2024, we have had 13 traffic fatalities. again the trend continues with the pedestrians being the most affected. and as a result speed and pedestrian safety will be focus on our plan.

okay, so injury collisions have been variable though we're seeing lower numbers. both of those need to be examined. we want people to be alive but also to be free from harm. also still relevant to the conversation is sfpd staffing, we have a deficit from 500 officers as described by the 2023 proposition staffing report. the decline in sfpd staffing has impacted the traffic efforts. currently we have 29 motor officers assigned to the company. 24 are supervisors all the way up to the rank of captain, it made it usually for our efforts

to be as strategic as possible particularly as it results to the traffic company itself and that's what we aim to achieve in our traffic plan. so without further ado, the following sites outline sfpd2024 traffic enforcement plan. so through this traffic enforcement plan, ultimate goal is to increase traffic enforcement to improve road and sidewalk safety and reduce traffic crashes and overall traffic violations, this is in line with the vision zero that she issued back in march calling for targeted enforcement at our most dangerous enforcement. we plan to safety high visibility enforcement. it's a universal traffic approach designed to change unlawful traffic behaviors. law enforcement efforts are combined with visibility

element to educate and promote voluntary tare' come--come employ ans with the law. compliance with the law. we'll be using direct enforcement. ways, inter greated enforcement and education. we have a variety of strategies in place as part of this plan to ensure that traffic enforcement continues despite ebbs and flow those most notably trafg. enforcement that the is internally directed to occur. just directed enforcement is aimed to addressing a specific problem and location and targets are decided in several ways. we look at on going prevalent issues, pedestrians, last year, 19 of our 29 are on foot.

and through information passed along representing the views. data annalis is key and information from crashes including serious injury and fatality will provide guidance as well as sfmta vision. meant to be incredibly strategic and we're focusing on areas of concern and those by noted issues as informed by the

data. so the concept of ways is even more strategic enforcement. the wave concept is based on research provided by national--in nashville tennessee which hypothesize that ways can have a dosage. optimal dosage is two days a week for two hours each day every three weeks. in times of staffing shortages we have to find the sweet spot where we can maximize outcome with the limited resources to these waves are going to allow us to cover more grounds. the wave enforcement is quantity not quality. following too closely and alike, not the total number of staffing tickets. so we have done data analysis

but also the top ten inter sections for each district station. we continue to partner with sfmt a and plan to collaborative test this wave model in the near future. next slide. saturation patrols another strategy that we will use and increase enforcement and targeted areas to deter, we will flood an area with officers to conduct high visibility enforcement to stop unlawful behavior. the hope is that they will increase and cause voluntary enforcement. a good strj deis dui which we do regularly on regular basis. with grant money operations on an overtime basis. we have received 176 to fund these efforts and the grant funds or dui saturation and

other operations like these. next slide. integrated enforcement to continue to be encouraged of course is the traffic enforcement that occurs in the officer's day. this is the strategy to be used when dedicated enforcement is not feasible. and last but not least, education. educational enforcement is an enforcement strategy we need to change the narrative that it can only be increased by citation, also serve to correct unsafe traffic behavior. in 2023, sfpd issued--but did additional traffic stops that resulted in a warn withing no ticket. warnings and efforts to educate the community raggeder traffic safety. in addition to traffic stops we're working to improve our social media and we're also spon supporting our own host of

safety classes, we have several motor vehicle safety classes this summer that we are offering to the public. so in 2024, as fpd focus above all else will be speed. speed is often the factor that makes a crash a fatality. and on the focus, every one is in agreement that speed should be prioritized. this in no way means that we will not be enforcing anything else it just means that we're making an effort to slow the streets down. our focus on speed on the plan will mriment the cameras that are slated to debut. that was another topic that came up at the hearing. 33 of those locations chosen for the initial program. all of these location right side on the high injury network

and areas with concentrations of high speed crashes. they will mriment the 50-ish areas that will not have a camera. publicity is also important, the public will not always be around, so we need to use publicity to make people aware. we will use sustained messages, these are the edge casing messages to remind people of the traffic laws, the importance of wearing a seat belt and the cost of citation which is very hefty for some of them right now. we hope to be messaging something different lately. the hope is to alert the moving public for the risk of being caught and these messages will

go out as needed in conjunction with the operation. we're measuring as well as overall social media plat forms to get these messages out. additionally, we'll continue to do press releases. we will also be collaborating with sfm a s a four campaigns. the last is the visibility itself and it needs to be high. the goal of the enforcement, when the cer received risk of getting caught, the likelihood that people's favor about ip crease. we plan to follow the following strategy, make ing the traffic. utilizing failures that cash to

remind of traffic and traffic principles and the wearing of special marked vest in certain services. we would like to explore expanding the work that they're doing now. training and professional development will be a key to this plan. we're testing laser and another piet. the department has 182 trainers rained in 182 radar and 113 are either at a district station or at the traffic company, we need to grow this number number safety. we plan to accepted the members to the rain the traiting

session so we can ex paped this. we hope to spanned some of the spops team. essential lea, to expand our capacity for strategic traffic enforcement efforts. sfpd also needs to participate in more summits and conversations that will exposure moving forward if something to continue to main. so anyone that should exist in this arena should be looked at carefully. technology and ipt graduation, we have a few technical enforcements foreplay. red light cameras as an enforcement method and benchmark for data collection and processing tz a*z it relates to traffic stops. however others are on the

horizon such as speed cameras taz relates to feed en to high speed pursuits by deploying gps projectiles. we are also looking to get radars for each motorcycle, for our solo motor vehicles avenues this will help examine at a tix thed location. and last but not least. drones. drones can be a very useful tool when, oakland is using them for this purpose. we plan to use drones for stunt driving events. as mentioned, our traffic enforcement efforts will be key in our future to increase safety. it's important to note that

while technology can be a foedser multiplier --okay, we have made some staffing enhancement to help manage and monitor this plan and efforts. they're working with us to help with the areas most in need. we're appointing a media and messaging need. we are pointing a direct enforcement manager who will be responsible for collecting data on our efforts. we are create a speed enforcement team that will focus on speed related operations and coordinate efforts with the district station. and last but not least, we're team, theme who received motor vehicle training and certification but not currently assigned to the traffic company.

it will also consist with a host of new teem and will do so with our hope is that they will expand their xas ilt. the last time we had a motor vehicle class for full members was in 2023, was a question that came up at the last year. in 2023, six individuals participated in the training and two pass thed. prior to that, the last class was in 2019 and six of ten passed. and our resent fwraoup reached and three new men's have will traffic with respect but at with anticipate having another class in the #sing few months. and all of our efforts will be for not if we can't track our

progress examine impact. currently reproduce the following citation statistics. on a monthly basis which includes the type of ticketed violation as well as the company. we continue to con mer. we are in the process of replicating the statistics for advisement and warnings. sfpd replaced benchmark as i mentioned before and our standard team is looking to en cannes hans the report. we're additionally integrating into our internal bi. we slaoum is going to be and be accessible sometime this summer. we continue to collaborate with dp a and enforce where our efforts should be focused.

we no longer have lux'--giving lower staffing numbers the strategy is key and we need to get the most bang for our buck in the yayseder where we can save the most lives and where we can keep most people free from inquiry. i mentioned that they've done a deep dive this slide show where the most crashes have occured over the last two years. this data tells us where to go and what to do. and the associated association, we have also produced data on which are the most prolific, district specific. the example is from engel side district. this is being did i sim natured

to help with their efforts. to be successful. traffic company itself is collaborating with the district station to help with the traffic enforcement efforts specifically. pro inviting information harding complaints and enforcement asks. we're coordinating closely with patterns. concerns and ask and communicated to us regularly in scheduled monthly meeting. additionally to understand what they're seeing and hearing so we can address those issues as well.

and how we will measure ourself and how we report back our results. we would like to see an increase, such efforts are geared towards changing unsafe behaviors. we would also like to see an increase in vehicle seizures. such seizures come with vehicle tows. if we sees enough cars, we hope the word gets out that such activity is not acceptable and true consequences. last year, we seized 57 cars for wreckless driving and in the first quarter of this year, we have already seized 25 vehicles. we also want to see a decrease

in the number of traffic fatalities and a decrease in a number of crashes resulting in a injury and a de crease in the number of complaints that we're receiving overall. driving to achieve these goals should help us understand whether our efforts are working. if we review these metrics an actually, we'll have to change the plan for the following next. internal accountability is another focus. we have implemented another system to hold ourselves accountable. every officer is filling out a sheet to tell how their time is being spent. this is a key tool for truly understanding productability and where we fall short where we're taking internal to ensure expectation right side being

met. we also hold ourselves internal by logging all of our active tiff its and the results of those activities in a database. i show the monthly citation back, a few slides back and we're keeping a close on the ebbs and flow. we use that sheet to compare to previous months efforts to see if progress has been made and if not, why not. those staff are used to discussions where all come together to discuss the state of affairs and district including the traffic enforcement effort. we use this to as statistics and zoom to be statistic, the challenge people are facing and possible solutions. lastly all of our traffic data is now housed in a new data called benchmark. we have mentioned benchmark a couple of times already.

but this will allow us to access the stop information in much more detail. we also know that there is some adjustments that need to be made in terms of the fields that should be added. but the hope is that the information we need could be at our fingertips. all of that accountability needs to be reported out, both internal low and externally. currently rereport our monthly traffic citation totals, these staff are published in the department website, submitted to the police commission and can be found on their website. this shows citation totals both focus on the fiber and otherwise and discussed crashes particularly those that result in fatalities with the advisement statistics using the same format and the goal is to

public those statistics as well. a new video dashboard is being worked on. it will also show crash related information and interactive format that can be manipulated by the user. and we will also be making the traffic enforcement plan an annual endeavor. each november we will review the plan that is currently in place for that year squ really evaluate what worked and what didn't. priorities will also be evaluated and a new plan that will take affect in january of the next year. how do we tie everything together that we just laid out, how do we execute this plan. i know i've been very long so give me a nod if you want ne to

keep going. >> sure. >> okay, let's do t.day leet traffic company will have to do at least one direct accident--if there is a planned event or unforeseen circumstance but our goal is to have directed enforcement everyday. that will be submitted for each work shift on a daily base, they will utilize enforcement and due traffic enforcement as violations are seen. as we talked about this, this will be done twice a day for twice a week for two hours a day every three weeks at the hotspots.

additionally the enforcement team will do at least one operation a week at least one. and the list of proposed camera location has put together. our traffic speed trailers and our electronic message will also be rotated weekly. we will also condition our saturation control. each month, we will also take a good look at the data to inform our upcoming efforts.

we will meet monthly and also do accountability check in to evaluate progress and troubleshoot challenges. we hope to send a new group of members as well as host a solo response training. and yearly we will review to understand their progress or lack there of. deep dive analysis and this data will--i mentioned before this that plan should be updated before the begin of each calendar year but having a plan in place this plan and future plans will be instrumental in guiding sfpd traffic guidance efforts to

keep our streets and sidewalk safe. next slide please and that is the conclusion and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> well, thank you, thank you madam chair. thank you, commander jones. i do think that, i feel better about this hearing than i have about our prior hearings. and i feel good cautiously good i guess, about the plan that you presented in which there was a plan that we have been waiting for. and i think can it gives us a starting point.

i'm seeing increased evidence and i'm appreciative of that. and i do think that it is important. i do think that, i do think that we have a few questions. i wanted to, i think i'm seeing directed enforcement happening and i'm glad about that. i'm also glad that you're crunching data about what is dangerous, because it strikes me that directed enforcement could become a formula for a whole lot of enforcement in parts of the city where people are used to making themselves heard and direct a response. and that other parts of the city that may be more dangerous in terms of crashes may get short drift in an environment where we're not enforcing all the time. can you talk about how you're

going to avoid, i want all the enforcement in my district but how are you going to avoid just responding to the loudest neighborhood? >> i think it's a balance. i sort of outlined all the data metrics that we will look at. we need to look at the crashes, the locations, the violations, so we are going to get complaints in areas, i can tell you we worked together when i was a captain at engel sideside station and i would get smraints from person in an area where zero crashes ever occur. so i think there is a violence. there is violation that's matter to people, we need to focus primarily on the ones that are causing trashes and causes where people are getting hurt and crashes where people are dying. we will respond to as many of the complaints as we get.

i believe that it's important for people to be heard and acknowledged. and there is some quaul at this qualitative data, right now we just don't have the luxury, this has to be very strategic with the amount of staffing that we have available. so we plan on the efforts on the data driven issues. you can see you doing more where people know there is a high likelihood of getting pulled off. --over. >> i think we have to try.

making sure that enforcement is visible. when you see somebody there on a regular basis, you know that's a location where there is going to be somebody moving forward in the future and that's the wave operation and, but i think that we have to try. we have to try. >> now when that officer does that, is that how the officer is decide to go spend, what are the, how is the decision about flopping yourself down by a stop sign and issuing tickets some of is is knowing how to

spend your afternoon if you're an officer. >> yes, and it matters where you work. so in the traffic company that's a district conversation than at a district station. so the alt of time that the officer has varies. but there are some officers that are very passionate about traffic. and i think when there is a luxury to devote your extra you've got to traffic enforcement, you know, but there are things that they can devote it to too. we're really trying to balance what we have and it's very different and we're talking about integrated enforcement where an after elects to do something.

we're trying to shift that more towards directed enforcement of here is the problem and this is where the area we want to you focus on. and if they're going to elect spending time doing that to spend do* that in the place that is going to matter the most. >> do you, i would imagine that there would be a connection between enforcement like speed law and bad driver and potential interruption of other kind of crime? how are those things at all connected? >> yeah, so, through this system that we have, we have to log all the stops that we do. and that will tell you what the outcome is, the department issued a report on a quaertly basis, detailing what the results are.

and it does look at authority where the department is trying to focus traffic enforcement efforts on traffic related safety issues and not so much as a means to do other invest of investigation. there is a time and a place for that. if there is probability, probably cause or reasonable discussion, you know, yes, that would be they can use do a traffic stop to further those investigative methods. >> but once the stop has happened, you're not enforcing for randomly getting other people, you're targeting speeding and pull somebody that is speeding. presume ally, you full the door. >> yes it would. i think the answer to my next question is yes, we have seen this increase over three months

year over year. i don't think it's, it is not close to enough to get us to what i set as a goal, enforcement even if we count the red light cameras. >> correct. we should see an increase this year and the thing that is not, when i look at your sort of goals document, where is it? we have performance metrics, arrow up and arrow down, and i would like to be up on the things. actual goal, although it's

early to be setting you know, given the what we're in, more is good. if you would like to do that, left over. what i would love when we have, i mean there will be another annual report next spring, i would like to have you in sooner than that, say in a six-month check in i would love to hear your thoughts on where you think we may be realistically able to get to in terms of goals going forward? >> agreed. and i think having a plan in place is going to really allow us to take a closer look at what those goals can be. i think for, for the last couple of years, things have been on a decline, we are slowly going up towards but with a plan in place and direction given, i think at the conclusion of 2024 when we take

a look back at how they went and what goals we have achieved, we can start setting those goals, as you speak of, to go way up, cause that's what we're talking about, we need to go way up. >> and i assume to go way up, you need something you're either going to need some additional resources in terms of people or you may need relief from some of the rules that have changed over the last ten years? i can see lots of way to see solve the people problem. we get more people in the

traffic company. another is we use more over time for this activity. for people to do traffic enforcement. how much overtime does the san francisco department get from our general fund. >> it's close to 46 million. 46 million a year. >> yeah. so in terms of like, i'm going to throw out there that the city of san francisco has not made traffic enforcement. like the level of enforcement we're getting reflects what we're saying is important in terms of overtime. we're not showing that necessarily in what we're

prioritizing overtime for. there is a way to get it even with the officers you got. in terms of the rules, state versus local, i mean, i don't think we really, well, i would be curious for your perspective. i think there is value to some of the rules locally and the value that the data that the state is requiring to us get and this is our policing less biases and less abusive. but it's also, add, making our

policing quite inefficient relative to what it was ten years ago. are there changes that you can imagine either in local rules or in state law that would try to strike a balance between the need and not return to the wild west but also trying to make these activity more efficient? did they talk about that? is there a thought about trying to revisit some of the stuff? so we would have the flexibility. the problem is at the end of the day, there are still a lost questions that need to be

answered t.doubles the rest of the time that a traffic stop makes. --takes. we have a severe staffing shortage so it's less people available, there is just less time available. >> yeah, if you're tripling or quad rupling how long something gets done it was required bit state. >> well if we can figure out a principal middle ground or way to provide some relief but also, you know, continue to discourage bad behavior and collect some data to indicate behavior is getting worse or better, there may be something

what feels pretty consuming process here and now. >> we used to have a data entry system that was a mask that you would go into your cat system and you still had to fill out information but it was a lot less. so there have been different editations of this. everybody will want to continue to collect this data. are there efficiencies, we should look into it and see what we can do. >> okay, i would encourage you to think as you're watching this play out, there is a balancing here and there are we're saving lives because of the reform but we also save lives when we interrupt criminal behavior including criminal driver.

i just want if there are opportunities. i would like to encourage you to let us know. >> will do. thinking about thinking saying something. >> i'm happy to continue that conversation. but one of the areas is our technology enhancement. so we have to figure out how technology serves a tool for us to report. something more tangible that is coming to a town near by in the next couple of months, is really looking at the process and how we support technology. looking at various equipment but the other piece of this is really looking at our functioning cameras and really looking at today what is

connected to reporting so it does not take the time that it does. not just for traffic stops but other stops. the other thing i will mention it's important that we look at the way that the state has legislative how we collect disparity information. not because we want to back pedal on police reform, i want to be clear or we want to dismiss some of the issues at hand that create more modern policing or more affective policing. racial ip justice is actually happening and whether or not some of the fields and actual researcher somebody that is studying right now, very intimately organization and leadership, you have to constantly be looking at evaluating, what you're requiring an agent to collect

and does it really look at solving the problem. so i just encourage again, being very clear, we had at better policing but definitely in a critical way are we collecting the information at racial interactions in a way where it calls out whether or not a police interaction has committed some sort of fall or not. that needs to be closely looked at. >> good, well i'm glad the department is thinking about it and i think you have some open ears here and. >> supervisor if you were going to ask me today, like what could i use. in technology equipment, we currently do not have radar installed in our motorcycles. i brought that up, that is something that would tremendously impact the speed

enforcement that we're doing. instead of being stopped at a location, shooting radar, as cars are whipping by our vehicles, they were able to have speed and take action. >> how much does that cost? >> let me find out but i will absolutely tell you. and in terms with equipment with enforcement, we're going to need more and more motorcycles if we're able to to get our response teams members trained. because they can use that through the station. of course for advertisement and media, bus shelter campaigns, the sign boards, the messaging boards, the traffic trailers, the report to speed more positive devices for our dui enforcement. if you were to ask me what equipment that would improve things now, that's what i would say. >> well this is not the budget

committee but i am on the budget committee but i guess when we see the mayor's budget at the beginning of june for this department, i'm hopeful that we'll see some evidence that there is a greater priority for traffic enforcement in that budget. that's what i got but i believe supervisor dorsey. >> yes, i was going to ask a couple of questions and then turn it over to supervisor engardio and dorsey. i was at the northern station for one of my leadership meetings and we had an officer there, he said what would be a fully staff unit look like, he said we use today have 90 to 100, so what is a fully staffed unit look like? >> well in 2024, but, yes they did. they had about 1100. the beginning of vision zero,

it was about 80 and now, and that was in 2014, now in 2024, we're down to 43, not all of them are motorcycle riders, we have other functions, commercial vehicle investigations, we have other people who work in the traffic company but yes, 100 would be from decades ago. actually my friend, tried and i think he's already a police officer and was not successful and ended up breaking his leg or something. i happen to know how hard this really is. i'm wondering in terms of recruitment, are we looking at other officers that we're trying to recruit here that already know how to ride this bikes? and i say that because we just

passed a incredible contract that they fought in terms for increase in pay. i think that be need to take out ads and really trying to recruit our officers that already know how to ride these bikes. i don't know what the results are if you looked at it at all. >> i'll tell you one of the most successful things that happened to us was apec, we brought them to san francisco to help us. these are bay area pier cities who are coming in to help us. from that, people applied. we had one motorcycle officer, said i want to work for you guys. we consider that a huge success. we're wanting to continue to

keep up these programs, this is captain shield from the company he's been instrumental in getting that off the ground and sustaining it. these people like what we do and how we operate? can we put more of an effort into that? yes, i do want to qualify it, the way that you get into the traffic company is through a union negotiated system. this after knew that we were not going to pick you up and put you in the company and ride, much like your specialist, they're assigned to district station or otherwise and then, our called out as

needed. so there is some work but absolutely recruitment tool. >> thank you i didn't know that piece of it. we need to focus on that. and you mentioned also the chp, how are you coordinating with the california highway patrol, obviously they're responsible for monitoring some of our streets, lombard in my district which is a high injury corridor state highway, how are we coordinating with them on the enforcement here? >> most of us is related to the initiative in the tenderloin but we have coordinated with them in the past. we do have different jurisdictions so we do share information on things like stunt driving events and the like. but in terms of traffic enforcement, we do do our own things. >> thank you.

supervisor dorsey. >> thank you, i was going to ask on that. i hope we make progress, i appreciate that answer and that was supervisor stefani answered it. it occurs to me as that we get ready to implement speed enforcement safety cameras which is something that we've been advocating for. altering or removing license plates is going to be a issue. we tauktd about the 5, it's going to be 6 now, that this is going to be that important for these to work and i think, i'm hopeful that we do everything that we can as we deploy these to be ready ready to go to make sure that they make a difference. are there any, sfpd policies or local ordinance that's we need

to be looking at in advance to make sure that thz as affective that it can be? >> i can step into that response. at this time, we were working in the past under 19 b and looking closely sort of quaint process and the board, that's part is connected to that. what i will say is the clock did move forward that supported us to the key issue that you're describing and flock really is a full compass at a full vehicle. and for the reason, it's an incredible tool to us, and it's a policy that was passed by the supervisor that actually supports us to move forward. aside from that, we're still despite prop en, the direction

that we're going with prop e, there is still a requirement to continue to pilot and develop a policy that we use for the department. we have the ability to move forward with deployment much more. >> i didn't follow much, i was aware some of the ushz on pretext stops what i want to make sure if somebody is driving without a license plate in san francisco, or we have somebody to believe that somebody altered license plate, do we have the certainly knowing that they're going to be pulled over? >> it's various suspicious to pull over a vehicle if they've been commissioned as part of a crime. that does exist, if you're

department general order and the way that it stands, the current policy in itself, does allow us to look at any sort of areas around reasonable suspicious and probable cause so. there is a discretion piece that the officers will also use to make that determination. so there is a policy enforcement. >> it appears to me that could be speeding any dangerous behavior on our streets. the way to evade this is to alter or remove one's license plate, if this is, i would rather that this be something if we're aware of it, it's something that the officer is required to make a stop. >> the spops to the department and i'll turnover to commander

jones to continue. what we'll say, currently right now we have the tools that are in place and we have the policies that the department orders that are looking to make sure that this does not end up being an issue for the officer, the department is able to move forward with the equipment piece which is the most important the tool to be able to determine if the fact is a vehicle there is commissioned. there is enough right now at the department level where we can move forward with what you described. there may be other technology to deal with the issues that you mentioned at the time, we're depending on flock, we'll see how much we're producing

with the installation and the implementation in place. it's early on that we need to wait a little bit longer possibly until the next budget cycle. >> and then just a separate thing, i heard from some advocates that there is different, sometimes the data does not match it, i know as sfmta has data on the most dangerous areas, and this goes to what mandelman said. not, neighborhood advocacy not that this t should not make a difference. it's my understanding there were 70 spots that were identified as candidate for enforcement, cameras, unfortunately we have only 33 in this pilot of this. as we working together as

departments should, that your priorities match up to keep our neighborhoods as safe as possible? >> yes, we come together monthly and we talk about a variety of issues and i comment to them quite a bit, like hey, you have better data can we work. we know that there are some differences and it's, there is a variety of reasons for that. but the one thing that we're united is the collaboration piece. >> i may reach out to get a sense of the things. i think we'll try to stay well-informed and district 6 has obviously a lot of

challenging areas. i think the other questions have been satisfactory answered, so i appreciate your work on this. thank you very much. >> if you. >> you had mentioned that you were going to focus on speed, does that include stop signs? i can tell you in the sunset, stop signs are only a suggestion these days, that's one of the biggest complaints that i heard from constituents, why are people blowing through stop signs as much. >> what is i mean is speed is a huge priority. our top priorities are the

focus on the five violations because those were identified through vision zero early on to be crashes that cause people to be harmed. so yes, we'll continue 100% to do stop signs. we're focusing on speed. but focus on the five will still remain and still looking at the data, yes we'll do stop enforcement. and about thed information, it's hard, why can't we do it without motorcycle? >> you can, so the traffic company rides motorcycle so when i speak to the motorcycles it's specific to that. but also there is different types of trainings that they participate in. however, you don't need a

motorcycle, you can do traffic from vehicle, you can do traffic sometimes on foot. i've done that before, it's a lot of runing though, not my favorite. we're trying to bolster our traffic company, because we have the responsibility for traffic enforcement city wide. we're not the only ones responsible but that's our dedicated mission. >> i hear over and over again from people who call my office or write to me and say, if you just have one officer stations at the corner, they will get 40 people going through the stop sign, you'll make a lot of income just by those tickets. this question is more about, i'm just tele graphing what i'm hearing from frustrated residents just so they have a voice in this room if they cannot be here today. folks in the sunset feel like, i parked my car in the

driveway, it's not blocking the whole sidewalk. we just got ticketed, the whole length, this is sfmta but the point is, the regular resident, they don't see the residents, how come i got ticketed for three inches into the sidewalk and i see them blow through stop signs. so there is a frustration and there is this, the residents don't understand why, why they're getting dinged and the guy doing the dangerous activity is not. is there some creative way or mta if they have capacity to ticket people, they can do some stop signs? that is what is in the minds of the people. people want to know why can't refined a creative way to do this. >> we have different powers, so right now, dbt is tasked with enforcing parking and we're the

moving violations. is there a creative way to work through it, i'm sure but that would include all the different training, and state regulations and you know, piece officer powers. >> and i appreciate that, but i'm trying to show the frustration, as to why one person is getting ticketed and one is not. i'm doing all we can to give you more resources. we want to telegraph to the nation that san francisco is a leader in reform. we need to show that we support police, that's the key. people don't want to be police officers how are we going to do

anyone to do traffic enforcement. we need to show that we support police in san francisco and we're a good city and leaders in reform. that's what i'm exited to doing. >> thank you. >> but with the resource that's we have, it would be great if we can be more creative within the police department. if we don't need a motorcycle, let's get it some other way and focus on stop signs if we can, that will make the residents feel that they're heard and that they're being protected and then we'll make them feel more appreciative of the police department and want to join in the chorus that this is a great city with a great department. >> absolutely. >> supervisor mandelman. >> thank you chair stefani and i take and i have heard the point from many of my con stie two enters, many don't know the difference, they think about and they recognize that this city in particular is

extraordinarily affective of penal izing a whole, and it's frustrating to the person paying a parking lot and dealing with the health department or our planning department about something to then see flagrant breaking law is going on. that's why i'm glad because it will not only save lives but and make a difference for vision zero but also restore people's, perhaps in part restore people's qualifies that their government makes some sense. i want to underscore supervisor dorsey's question, i don't expect you to have an answer right now, but we're putting a lot of eggs in the basket of

technology, automated license plate readers, red light cameras, we are thinking that we can and hoping that we can make up for the shortage and rule that our human beings less efficient which we talked about. and we've seen where people do stuff to their license plate. and i think it would be really it would replicate the problem that supervisor engardio identified, if we were only good sending the people that were following the rules and their license plate and the people who figure out how to violate or how to, i think it's

a must be a illegal violation to alter your license plate. >> yes. >> it could be that it will need to be a thing for the san francisco police department to make these technologies work to raise the priority of pulling people over who have done weird stuff to their license plate. >> i'll tell you the dirt bike issue, most have stolen that are taking over the streets. if they're not, they don't have license plates, so it makes it very very difficult to do enforcement, because we do quite a bit of follow-up after the fact. we seized 57 vehicles laughter and that's after the fact from information that was collected after the officer or follow-up investigation at that was done but again to your point only as good as the information being

accurate. so if ttsds a stolen plate, we don't know who it who's address it belongs to. >> and i think it means that technology can help and can help us make our streets safer and help with other stuff as well but we're still going to need people. >> a lot harder to alt a vin on a vehicle, so. >> okay, that's all we got. so maybe we should do public comment, madam chair. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who speak on this item should line up long the wall, all speakers will have two minutes. >> speaker: hi supervisors, luke sfpd near elimination of traffic enforce including by officers outside of traffic

company who regularly enforce traffic logs is a damming way of department doing minimum of their response. response times and closure rate also got worse. the whole of the board is to hold the accountable for not doing part of their job. and i encourage you to hold sfpd and monitor enforcement data and comparing it injury date to see if any enforcement it has on public safety. unfortunately arm traffic enforcement does not seem to be coordinated. in affective tool rather than--bike lanes, transit only lanes, median diverters a proven an affective tool that not only increases safety but helps shift away from cars

noise and air pollution. i urge you to shift focus time and funding towards automated enforcement including red light and turn only lights, and decrease car traffic demand for parking, noise and air pollution, investing time and funding enforcement sustainable infrastructure is moving to significantly increase roadway safety. and more affective, i urge you to call for a hearing to understand why automated enforcement is being implemented too slowly or not at all and defined ineffectively and the impact that has on public safety. thank you. >> next speaker.

>> my name is fran taylor, when covid hit san francisco responded with alle hands-on deck and the city's measures worked. we had one of the lowest death rates in the country, we responded so forcefully because every one was afraid of dying, we were all vulnerable. unfortunately not every one feels so vulnerable to traffic violence, drivers including the police driving around in the protection of their big ol' cars are not the ones getting crushed so why bother to address failure to you. instead the focus on quote public safety, bunching up at the more privileged, most victims of traffic violence are people of color or poor san franciscans and do many poor people do drive, the

demographic is quaoud to the wealthier. drivers of more expensive cars are the least likely to respect pedway. mouthing concerns about equity while giving those who may be your dorors--enforcement is dis ingenuous. stopping drivers because of windows has nothing to to with protecting pedestrians and adding more police to add to congestion. media city officials and police have all contributed to the culture of indifference. we have been a bond ond.

>> clerk: next speaker. >> speaker: our son was killed by a speeding driver in district 7, supervisor stefani. and you know i came here because i heard it was enforcement. and andrew's case really shows that there is a big difference between knowing somebody speeding, detecting somebody speeding. i know that driver was coming down to the school 40 miles per hour because the da's office told me that. and yet, while he was not the only.

[inaudible] but to send message on speed in a elementary school zone, 5 could 8 in the morning, you've got to get grief counselors to the kids. i'm sorry, all of you have sent it. no big deal. >> thank you so much for your

comments. next speaker. >> clerk: next speaker. [speaking away from microphone] . >> clerk: you can begin your comments. >> speaker: good morning supervisors my name is heidi peterson, i live in western edition, i don't drive because i'm a terrible driver. i just took that responsible on myself so that means i'm biking and walking around the city knowing that i'm not the most aware person, some of us just aren't. speeding matters for sure. i've been hit by a car multiple times, like i said i'm not the most aware person. most recently, it was in frofnt

cafe, i was lucky because he was going slow. he was lucky that i'm an abled person because i didn't fall over. there is a hospice and hospital there, multiple schools, it's a popular yai, people walk their dogs. any of those people would have been seriously harmed in the same slow collision and he just ran a stop line because he was looking at the homeless person instead of looking where he was going, that's what he told me. the first person i knew who died in a car crash, was sitting on her living room couch when a car went through her wall. speed matters, i commuted to visitation valley by bike, i saw a place where a tesla's drove into somebody's house in san bruno and caught fire. this is going to be more of a

big as we get heavier cars, we need to be good about speed. these are buildings getting hid, there is nothing pedestrians or cyclist can do. the only people that can protect us are police. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> speaker: good afternoon, supervisors, rod in37 year resident. we know it's a wild wild west out there that speeding stop line and red light is 'em demic in san francisco. i thank you for calling this very important hearing. one thing i want to take issue is you said that drivers treat lights like stop lines, if they did that, it would be an improvement. i have been riding a bike in san francisco for over 30 years and i have never seen it this

bad and i'm going to share an incident that i saw recently on vanis and market, i was riding west bound and had the green light on vaness avenue, a driver going about 50 miles per hour westbound, buzz through the market street intersection running a red light. there is a pedestrian that was stepping off the curve had she gotten there a couple of seconds earlier, she would have been killed. i had been there a couple of seconds earlier, i would have been killed too. this is the type of activity going on in san francisco and people do it because they know they can getaway with it. it's crazy.

i want to mention, motorcycles are some of the most dangerous vehicles that i've encountered on the streets. and motor eyesed bicycles, not only on the streets but on the sidewalk. i cannot tell you how scared i feel with whizing cars. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next speaker. >> speaker: madam chair members of the committee, my name is alec nash, i am the chair of the tenant association safety committee and co-chair of the coast safety committee. i want to thank supervisor mandelman who should be my supervisor before i moved to the gateway about four years ago at the beginning of covid

and commander jones who presented such an excellent program. it is grat --gratifying to see that this issue is being taken seriously. i applaud those who are doing that. would i like to associate myself with robin's comment that he highlights some things that are unbelievable. when i moved at the water front at the beginning of covid, unbelievable, i think that as the streets emptied out, people became very wreckless in their driver they no longer cared, it was not dangerous, there was nobody else there. so somehow we have to bring the city back from a period where nobody really scared because nobody was out there and people were taking over the streets who had no right, who were privileged to be taking over the streets. i'm so glatd to hear about the

close relationship between the sfpd and sfmta, we at the association work closely with the mpa, would i like to call for director code enforcement and waves on embarcadero where we have convoys in addition to the information there are noise cameras. that would help a lot. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> speaker: good afternoon supervisor sxz thank you for the opportunity to voice my concerns. i live in district 3 and a member of walk sf and the coast neighborhood association the safety committee.

in 2022, i was killed in a cross walk in northbeach. a year later my husband and i were almost hit again in the actual same crosswalk by a car that was turning left. and oddly enough, the car was also turning left in front of a police cruiser that was there and there were absolutely no consequences for the wreckless driver. we live in san francisco, we don't have a car we walk everyday and there is not one day that where we don't see somebody speeding, we are

interested in seeing implement with vision zero with a emphasis on the turn calming infrastructure. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: gaotd morning, or are we in the afternoon, we've been waiting for this hearing for a very long time. i want to thank supervisor mandelman for bringing requesting this hearing and bringing this topic forward. we don't need to tell you the dangerous behavior is rampart, we're experiencing the experience. i do want to thank demander jones for championing this new approach to speed enforcement.

and here is what we like. nothing is more dangerous than speed. and they're looking at the officers to be very directed using a approach and where they're going to be targeting their enforcement. this is something that san francisco has been asking for years. what is incredible is inagency coordination, as we all noted sfmta just finished a robust collection data and that data needs to inform this work. in our small quick research on when we saw the sfpd's first round on they're going to focus, there was not a lot of overlap from the sfpd data, we

would like to see the enforcement looking at the two agencies. i want to thank you supervisor dorsey for inserting yourself into that transparency is going to be key, we're going to be working and monitoring the results because there is no more important than vision zero than enforcement that is going to yield to the most dangerous driver behavior and behavior change to get to vision zero, thank you very much. >> do we have any additional speakers? seeing none, public comment is now clodes. supervisor mandelman i'll turn it back over to you. >> thank you, chair stefani, thank you to the committee for your time, thank you commander jones for a strong plan, and for already having gotten at least arrested the decline and

we hope turn the corner in terms of enforcement and i want to thank walk san francisco and the advocates who have come to talk to us and continue to champion not just traffic enforcement of course but all the investments that we need to make our streets safer. with that, i want to give commander jones and the department enough time to get more information on how this is going, but i don't want to go for another year. i want to ask that the meeting be continued with the call of the chair and i will work with the chair to schedule something in october or november as a check in, a mid-year check in on how it's going. >> thank you, supervisor mandelman and colleagues i

don't see anybody else on the roster so i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> clerk: on the motion to continue this item to the call of the chair, vice chair engardio. >> aye. >> clerk: member dorsey. >> aye. >> clerk: chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: i have three ayes. >> thank you, madam clerk, are there anymore items before us today? >> clerk: that completes our agenda.

>> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor.

in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue.

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>> handicap throwing it out there anniversary sfgovtv thank you for keeping our san francisco community informed. >> hi this is supervisor savvy happy thirty anniversary for the access to the community and all the partners in san francisco so many people don't know had is happened on a daily process within the hassle of san francisco government if makes it accessible to everyone. >> happy anniversary sfgovtv wow. h wow. the san francisco police department likes to congratulate off the record for thirty years of [music] digital literacy is something severely lacking in our world today and it takes a lot to understand that. food water and shelter have basic

necessities so long we forget about wifi and connection to the interenet and when you go into communities and realize peep ople are not able to load homework and talk to teachers and out of touch with the world. by providing the network and system we are able to allow them to keep up in the modern age. >> folks still were not served by internet throughout the city and tended to be low income people, people in affordable housing. people of color and limited english and seniors, all those are high concentrations in affordable housing, so we thought given that we had a fiber network that stretched throughout the city reaching deep into neighborhoods that would be a perfect opportunity to address it in san francisco. >> the infrastructure the city and star help us run are dejtle programs. it played a critical role from the time we

opened during covid till now so we were able to collaborate with online services that offer tutoring and school support. it also helped us be able to log the kids on for online school during covid, in addition to like, now that everybody has switched most of their curriculum online we can log kids on to the online homework, check grades in addition to helping parent learn how to use the school system portm >> the office of digital equity our goal fiber to housing is insure we have all three legs of the 3 legged stool. the first leg is high quality internet connection. we liken the high quality internet connection to the highway. the second leg is high quality devices. this is the car. you want to make sure the

specks on the car is up to speed and lastly, it is important to get kind of that driver's education to learn how to navigate the road, to know the signs to watch out for in terms of making sure you are school while you are surfing the internet it is private so that is the digital literacy piece. >> my daily life i need the internet just to do pretty much everything. the internet has taken so much control over people's daily lives including myself that i just need it to get certain jobs done, i need it for my life. i need it. >> the program really seeks to where ever possible provide a service that's equivalent or higher speed and quality as the best commercial service . >> we serve all of san francisco, but we definitely have to be equitable in our distribution of services. that means everybody gets what they need to be successful.

>> actually one of the most gratifying part of my work here at department of technology, it is really bringing city resources to address problems faced with our communities with the highest need. >> i think it is important because i grew up in a low income community without internet access and it is hard. i think it is important for everyone to have internet access no matter their income and maybe one day their kid will have internet access for us and help the school and with their skills. cultu

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to the call to order. call to order. the april 23rd, 2024 meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. can we have a roll call of officers? roll call, please. president paulson here. vice president rivera. here. commissioner ajamie. here. mr. maxwell here. commissioner stacy here. we have a quorum. so i'd like to announce that the san francisco public utilities commission acknowledges that it owns and are stewards of the unseated lands located within the ethnohistoric territory of the ohlone tribe and other familiar descendants of the historic, federally recognized mission san