00:00:09 GOOD MORNING THE MEETING WILL COME TO ORDER.
00:00:14 WELCOME TO THE JUNE 12TH, 2026 MEETING OF THE BUDGET
00:00:17 AND APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE. I'M SUPERVISOR CONNIE CHEN
00:00:20 CHAIRED THE COMMITTEE. I AM JOINED BY SUPERVISOR FOR
00:00:25 DANNY SLAUGHTER SHERMAN WALTON AND SHORTLY JANE CHEN OUR
00:00:29 CLERK. >> IT'S BRANT HALPER.
00:00:30 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK JEANETTE EGAN LAUGH FOR FROM SECRETARY
00:00:37 FOR BROADCASTING THIS MEETING. MR. CLERK, DO YOU HAVE ANY
00:00:40 ANNOUNCEMENT? >> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
00:00:41 JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER TO THOSE IN ATTENDANCE TO PLEASE
00:00:44 MAKE SURE TO SILENCE ALL CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES
00:00:46 TO PREVENT INTERRUPTIONS TO OUR PROCEEDINGS AND SHOULD YOU HAVE
00:00:49 ANY DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED AS PART OF THE FILE SO THEY SHOULD
00:00:53 BE SUBMITTED TO MYSELF THE CLERK PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE
00:00:55 TAKEN AT THE END FOR THE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA WHEN YOUR ITEM OF
00:01:03 INTEREST COMES UP AND PUBLIC COMMENT IS CALLED PLEASE LINE
00:01:06 UP TO SPEAK ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE CHAMBER TO YOUR RIGHT MY
00:01:07 LEFT LONG THOSE CURTAINS AND WHILE NOT REQUIRED TO
00:01:10 PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT WE DO INVITE YOU TO FILL OUT A
00:01:14 COMMENT CARD AND LEAVE THEM ON THE TRAY BY TELEVISION TO YOUR
00:01:18 LEFT BY THE DOORS IF YOU WISH FOR YOUR NAME TO BE ACCURATELY
00:01:19 RECORDED FOR THE MINUTES. ALTERNATIVELY YOU MAY SUBMIT
00:01:22 PUBLIC COMMENT IN WRITING IN EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS
00:01:25 EMAIL THEM TO MYSELF. THE BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS
00:01:26 COMMITTEE CLERK HAD B R A.K.A L I P A HAD S.F. GOP.ORG IF YOU
00:01:33 SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT VIA EMAIL IT WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE
00:01:37 SUPERVISORS AND ALSO INCLUDED AS PART OF THE OFFICIAL FILE.
00:01:40 YOU MAY ALSO SEND YOUR WRITTEN COMMENTS BY U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
00:01:42 TO OUR OFFICE IN CITY HALL AT ONE DR. CARLTON BE GOOD PLACE
00:01:47 ROOM 244 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA NINE FOR 1 OR 2
00:01:50 AND THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. >> THAT CONCLUDES MY
00:01:52 ANNOUNCEMENTS. >> THANK YOU, MR. CLERK.
00:01:54 AND BEFORE WE START, WE'LL NEED TO EXCUSE PRESIDENT RAFAEL
00:01:57 MENDELSON AS WELL AS SUPERVISOR DORSEY SECOND, SECOND, SECOND
00:02:04 BASE SUPERVISOR DANNY SAUTER FOR AN A ROLL CALL PLEASE.
00:02:09 AND ON THAT MOTION TWO EXCUSED SUPERVISORS DORSEY
00:02:14 AND MENDELSON MEMBER SAUTER SAUTER I REMEMBER WALTON WALTON
00:02:22 I CHURCH IN HIGH CHENNAI WE HAVE THREE EYES THE MOTION
00:02:23 PASSES AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT FOR TODAY THE
00:02:27 PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL BE LIMITED TO ONE MINUTE.
00:02:30 AND WITH THAT MR. CLERK PLEASE CALL ITEMS ONE THROUGH THREE
00:02:34 TOGETHER. >> YES ITEMS ONE THROUGH THREE
00:02:40 APOLOGIES JUST ON SECOND. >> OKAY.
00:02:45 ITEMS ONE THROUGH THREE ARE ITEMS AS IT RELATES TO THIS
00:02:46 COMMITTEE'S CONSIDERATION OF THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR
00:02:50 THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR
00:02:53 FISCAL YEAR 2026 THROUGH 2027 AND 2027 TO 2028.
00:02:58 ITEM ONE IS OUR HEARING TO CONSIDER THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED
00:03:00 BUDGET ITEM NUMBER TWO IS THE PROPOSED BUDGET
00:03:04 AND APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING ALL ESTIMATED
00:03:07 RECEIPTS AND ALL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES FOR DEPARTMENTS OF
00:03:11 THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO AS OF MAY 30TH 2026
00:03:14 AND I DON'T NUMBER THREE IS A PROPOSED ANNUAL SALARY
00:03:18 ORDINANCE AND THE OPERATING POSITIONS IN THE AOE FOR THE
00:03:21 FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 30TH 2027 AND JUNE 30TH 2028
00:03:24 CONTINUING CREATING OR ESTABLISHING THESE POSITIONS
00:03:31 AND ENUMERATING AND INCLUDING THEIR IN ALL POSITIONS CREATED
00:03:35 BY CHARTER OR STATE LAW FOR WHICH COMPENSATIONS ARE PAID
00:03:36 FROM CITY AND COUNTY FUNDS AND APPROPRIATED IN THE A
00:03:39 AUTHORIZING APPOINTMENTS OR CONTINUATION OF APPOINTMENTS
00:03:43 THERE ARE TWO SPECIFYING IN FIXING THE COMPENSATIONS
00:03:47 AND WORK SCHEDULES THEREOF AND AUTHORIZING APPOINTMENTS.
00:03:48 THE TEMPORARY POSITIONS AND FIXING COMPENSATIONS.
00:03:51 >> MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU MR. CLERK.
00:03:54 AND BEFORE WE OFFICIALLY START I WOULD LIKE TO FORWARD THE
00:03:58 OFFICIAL RECORD TO ANNOUNCE THE ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS THAT WE
00:04:03 REACH WITH THE FOLLOWING ENTERPRISE DEPARTMENTS FOR
00:04:10 PLANNING DEPARTMENT THEY WILL BE ACCEPTING THEY WILL BE
00:04:14 ACCEPTING BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S
00:04:15 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOUR SIX AND REJECTING FIVE SEVEN.
00:04:21 >> THEY PARTIALLY ACCEPTED A12 THREE FOUR YEAR ONE BUT NOT
00:04:28 YEAR TWO. WE WILL BE PLACING
00:04:31 RECOMMENDATIONS EIGHT AND NINE ON RESERVE UNTIL THE BOARD
00:04:36 APPROVES A NEW PERMIT SYSTEM CONTRACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:04:40 BUILDING INSPECTION. THEY WILL BE ACCEPTING BUDGET
00:04:43 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST RECOMMENDATIONS THREE THROUGH
00:04:49 1719 2122 AND REJECT 2324 THEY HAVE MARKED AND MODIFY
00:04:56 REJECTION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ONE TWO 1820 REJECTING THIS
00:05:05 RECOMMENDATION BUT UPDATING THE AMOUNT FROM $45,000 TO $39,000
00:05:11 FOR EACH ITEM WE WILL BE PLACING RECOMMENDATION 25 ON
00:05:15 RESERVE UNTIL THE BOARD AGAIN APPROVES A NEW PERMIT SYSTEM
00:05:20 CONTRACT. >> AND WITH THAT I AM I'M
00:05:24 CHECKING IN TO SEE IF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAS A TECHNICAL
00:05:27 ADJUSTMENTS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE RIGHT NOW I
00:05:33 SUPERVISOR MATTHEW PUCKETT DEPUTY DIRECTOR WITH ME.
00:05:37 SO WE WILL HAVE TECHNICAL ADJUSTMENTS AT SOME POINT TODAY
00:05:41 . >> I DO NOT BELIEVE THEY'RE
00:05:42 READY. I THINK IT'S AROUND ONE BUT WE
00:05:45 WILL GO BACK TO IT. WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU WHENEVER
00:05:47 YOU'RE READY. WHAT IF YOU COULD JUST REMIND
00:05:49 ME IT'S MY IT'S MY APOLOGIES THAT I WAS IT WAS MY OVERSIGHTS
00:05:53 YESTERDAY THAT DIRECTOR CUTLER WAS READY TO ANNOUNCE BUT I
00:05:57 ADJOURNED TO MEET. ABSOLUTELY.
00:05:58 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:06:00 >> AND SO WITH THAT CITY ATTORNEY WELCOME.
00:06:07 >> GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR AND SUPERVISORS.
00:06:08 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT OUR BUDGET.
00:06:11 WE ALL KNOW YOUR JOB IS CHALLENGING AND I APPRECIATE
00:06:15 ALL OF YOUR WORK. AS YOU KNOW WE ARE YOUR
00:06:19 ATTORNEYS. OUR OFFICE PROVIDES A WIDE
00:06:21 RANGE OF CIVIL CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES TO 100 PLUS CLIENTS
00:06:25 ADVICE AND COUNSEL DRAFTING COUNTLESS ORDINANCES
00:06:29 AND CONTRACTS DEFENDING THOUSANDS OF MATTERS
00:06:30 AFFIRMATIVE LITIGATION AND PUBLIC INTEGRITY WORK.
00:06:33 >> OUR EXPERTISE SPANS 24 LEGAL TEAMS ALPHABETICALLY FROM OUR
00:06:37 AIRPORT TO OUR WORKER PROTECTION TEAMS PROVIDING
00:06:41 ESSENTIAL SERVICES TO CITY DEPARTMENTS AND ENSURING CORE
00:06:44 SERVICES TO SAN FRANCISCANS. OUR WORK TOUCHES EVERY CORNER
00:06:48 OF THE CITY. WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF
00:06:49 EVERYTHING HARD AND MESSY WORKING TO SOLVE THE MOST
00:06:52 COMPLICATED PROBLEMS AND PROVIDE CORE SERVICES
00:06:56 ALONGSIDE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WITH ONLY A FEW
00:06:57 MINUTES I'M GOING TO TOUCH ON A FEW BUDGET RELATED TOPICS OUR
00:07:03 DEFENSIVE LITIGATION TEAMS WHICH AGGRESSIVELY DEFEND
00:07:04 THOUSANDS OF CASES HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY BUSY AS DISCOVERY IS
00:07:08 MORE COMPLICATED AND MORE CASES ARE GOING TO TRIAL.
00:07:11 >> OUR EFFORTS SAVED THE CITY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
00:07:14 IN POTENTIAL LIABILITY. FOR EXAMPLE, OUR TAX TEAM SAVED
00:07:18 THE CITY $120 MILLION THIS YEAR WITH A SETTLEMENT IN WHICH
00:07:19 AIRBNB ENDED ITS LAWSUIT AGAINST US WITH NO PAYMENT FROM
00:07:23 THE CITY AND WE'RE CURRENTLY DEFENDING OVER $1 BILLION
00:07:27 IN OTHER TAX CASES MUCH OF OUR WORK COMES TO US FROM CLIENTS
00:07:34 OR FROM LAWSUITS FILED AGAINST THE CITY.
00:07:35 WE DON'T CONTROL THE SPIGOT BUT OUR WORK IN FLOW IS EVER
00:07:38 INCREASING. OUR RESOURCES CONSTANTLY
00:07:39 STRETCHED. IF WE DON'T DEFEND A CASE
00:07:43 OUTSIDE COUNSEL WOULDN'T NEED TO WHICH WOULD BE FAR MORE
00:07:46 EXPENSIVE WHERE A HIGH QUALITY COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO MEET OUR
00:07:49 CITY'S LEGAL NEEDS. NOW OUR OFFICE NOT ONLY WORKS
00:07:53 ON TAX MATTERS CONTRACTS, REAL ESTATE DEALS AND BONDS THAT
00:07:57 ENSURE THE CITY GENERATES REVENUES BUT WE ALSO BRING
00:07:58 IN REVENUE. THIS YEAR AFFIRMATIVE
00:08:01 LITIGATION TEAM RECOVERED $4 MILLION FROM TOBACCO RETAILERS
00:08:05 FLOUTING OUR PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS .
00:08:07 AND THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH SUPERVISOR
00:08:09 WALTON ON THAT. OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT TEAM HAS
00:08:12 BROUGHT IN OVER $9 MILLION IN SETTLEMENTS AND JUDGMENTS
00:08:15 SINCE 2025 WORKING WITH MANY OF YOU AND WE'VE RECOUPED ANOTHER
00:08:19 $5 MILLION FROM AN OIL COMPANY THAT CAUSED AN OIL SPILL NEAR
00:08:21 FISHERMAN'S WHARF. OUR WORKER PROTECTION EFFORTS
00:08:24 WHICH I PRIORITIZED DURING MY TENURE AS CITY ATTORNEY HAVE
00:08:28 RESTORED OVER $28 MILLION OF STOLEN WAGES AND BENEFITS TO
00:08:31 THE POCKETS OF WORKERS. OUR CLAIMS TEAM PURSUES
00:08:34 COLLECTIONS FOR DAMAGE TO CITY PROPERTIES AND WE HAVE SECURED
00:08:38 CLOSE TO $2 MILLION THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR.
00:08:42 >> NOW AS YOU WELL KNOW, SAN FRANCISCO FACES AN
00:08:45 UNPRECEDENTED THREAT BY OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO OUR
00:08:49 COMMUNITIES, OUR PROGRAMS AND OUR BUDGET AND OUR OFFICE
00:08:52 IS WORKING DAY AND NIGHT TO PROTECT SAN FRANCISCANS FROM
00:08:56 THESE THREATS. LAST YEAR YOUR BOARD AND OUR
00:08:57 MAYOR GAVE US $1 MILLION FROM THE RESERVE FUND TO HIRE
00:09:01 SEVERAL NEW ATTORNEYS TO HELP THIS FIGHT ALONGSIDE THE WORK
00:09:04 OF MANY OTHERS ACROSS OUR ENTIRE OFFICE WE HAVE FILLED
00:09:08 ALL OF THOSE POSITIONS AND WE'VE PUT THAT FUNDING TO
00:09:09 GOOD USE IN SIX MONTHS WE HAVE FILED 16 LAWSUITS AGAINST THE
00:09:14 FEDERAL MINISTRATION, THREE QUARTERS OF WHICH HAVE FOCUSED
00:09:18 ON PROTECTING OUR CITY'S FEDERAL FUNDING.
00:09:21 THE GOOD NEWS IS WE ARE WINNING OVER 90% OF OUR CASES IN THE
00:09:25 LOWER COURTS PROTECTING BILLIONS IN FEDERAL FUNDING
00:09:28 AND ALSO MENTION THAT WE ARE PURSUING $440 MILLION IN FEMA
00:09:31 REIMBURSEMENTS FOR COSTS THE CITY INCURRED DURING THE
00:09:35 PANDEMIC EXPENSES WE'VE ALREADY PAID FOR.
00:09:39 AND I'LL NOTE THAT ANYTHING THAT WE GET FROM THAT WILL BE A
00:09:42 NET GAIN TO OUR BUDGET. OUR OFFICE ADVISES PUBLIC
00:09:47 SAFETY DEPARTMENTS ON INITIATIVES TO COMBAT CRIME
00:09:50 AND ENSURE SAFE AND CLEAN STREETS WHETHER WE'RE USING
00:09:51 CODE ENFORCEMENT TO SHUT DOWN CORNER STORES FRONTING AS
00:09:54 GAMBLING AND DRUG DENS, ENGAGING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
00:09:58 AND FIRST RESPONDERS ON EMERGENCY PLANNING OR
00:10:01 INVESTIGATING MAJOR INCIDENTS LIKE FLOODS TO MITIGATE CLAIMS
00:10:02 AGAINST THE CITY WHERE A KEY PART OF OUR CITY'S PUBLIC
00:10:06 SAFETY EFFORTS. WE'VE WORKED FOR THOUSANDS OF
00:10:09 HOURS AND EVERY ASPECT OF OUR CITY'S HOMELESSNESS AND MENTAL
00:10:13 HEALTH RESPONSES BOTH IN LITIGATION AND ADVICE
00:10:16 DRAFTING AND APPROVING HUNDREDS OF AGREEMENTS TO ADDRESS WHAT'S
00:10:17 HAPPENING ON OUR STREETS REPRESENTING THE CITY
00:10:21 AND DEPENDENCY AND CONSERVATORSHIP CASES.
00:10:23 WHEN IT COMES TO HOUSING WE ADVISE ON HOUSING ELEMENT
00:10:28 AND ZONING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND HUNDREDS OF NEW STATE LAWS
00:10:32 AND WE'VE WORKED WE'VE DONE SIGNIFICANT WORK ALONGSIDE EACH
00:10:36 OF YOU TO STREAMLINE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS FROM CHARTER REFORM
00:10:39 TO IMPROVING CONTRACTING AND PROCUREMENT PROCESSES.
00:10:43 OUR OFFICE PROCESSES HUNDREDS OF GRANTS AND CONTRACTS TO
00:10:44 FOSTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BOLSTER TRANSPORTATION
00:10:47 AND TOURISM AND OUR PUBLIC INTEGRITY WORK ENSURES THAT
00:10:51 TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE SPENT APPROPRIATELY.
00:10:54 NOW ON TO OUR BUDGET FOR THIS COMING FISCAL YEAR.
00:10:58 >> OUR PROPOSED BUDGET IS 132 MILLION.
00:11:01 >> ON THE SOURCES SIDE, 68 PERCENT OF OUR BUDGET ARE WORK
00:11:05 ORDERS FROM DEPARTMENTS TO PAY FOR OUR SERVICES ON USES NEARLY
00:11:09 80% OF OUR BUDGET IS PERSONNEL RELATED 17% FOR CRITICAL NON
00:11:13 PERSONNEL COSTS 3% FOR SERVICES TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND OUR
00:11:17 FEDERAL RESPONSE PROGRAM IS LESS THAN 2%.
00:11:21 ESSENTIALLY OUR BUDGET IS MADE UP OF PERSONNEL COSTS AND FIXED
00:11:25 EXPENSES WITH NO ACCESS WHILE WE HAVE A HANDFUL OF VACANCIES
00:11:29 LARGELY ATTRIBUTED TO THE RECENT HIRING FREEZE
00:11:32 AND ROUTINE DEPARTURES, MOST ARE APPROVED TO FILL AND CLOSE
00:11:36 TO AND WE'RE CLOSE TO FIRING TO FINAL HIRING DECISIONS WE NEED
00:11:39 TO FILL ALL VACANCIES. >> HERE ARE THIS YEAR'S CHANGES
00:11:44 TO OUR BUDGET THE ADJUSTMENTS ARE RELATED TO PERSONNEL COSTS
00:11:47 WHERE POSSIBLE WE HAVE CUT RENT SUBSCRIPT TIONS, MATERIALS
00:11:51 AND DEPARTMENT WORK ORDERS IN FISCAL YEAR 2728 YOU CAN SEE
00:11:55 AN INCREASE TO OUR ATTRITION SAVINGS.
00:11:58 WE ANTICIPATE WORKING WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ON WAYS THAT WE
00:12:01 CAN ACHIEVE THIS WITHOUT IMPACTING CORE FUNCTIONS.
00:12:03 WITH THAT I APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE, YOUR TIME, YOUR
00:12:07 PATIENCE AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
00:12:09 THANK YOU. WE JUST WANT TO EXPRESS OUR
00:12:11 GRATITUDE TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HOLDING
00:12:15 THE CITY UP AND GUARDING NOT JUST I THINK NOT JUST OUR
00:12:21 FUNDING BUT ALSO OUR RIGHTS AS A CITY DURING A VERY DIFFICULT
00:12:26 TIME AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
00:12:27 SO WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE WORK.
00:12:30 I DON'T SEE ANY NAME ON THE ROSTER.
00:12:31 THANK YOU CITY ATTORNEY CHIU FOR YOUR WORK.
00:12:34 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP.
00:12:35 >> THANK YOU. >> AND WITH THAT I'M GOING TO
00:12:43 CALL ON DIRECTOR KETTLER FOR INTRODUCING THE TECHNICAL
00:12:46 ADJUSTMENT. THANK YOU CHAIR CHAN I'M SOPHIA
00:12:51 HITLER FROM THE MAYOR'S BUDGET OFFICE.
00:12:54 AS I DISTRIBUTED YESTERDAY WE'RE INTRODUCING OUR FIRST
00:12:57 ROUND OF TECHNICAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED
00:12:59 BUDGETS. THESE INCLUDE CORRECTING
00:13:01 REVENUE FROM ONGOING TO ONE TIME IN THE HUMAN SERVICES
00:13:05 AGENCY FOR THE FEDERAL AND STATE REVENUE RESERVE FOR
00:13:09 THE ELIGIBILITY WORKERS IN CASE MANAGERS CORRECTING NON
00:13:12 PERSONNEL SERVICES EXPENDITURES AT THE HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY
00:13:15 CORRECTING EXPENDITURES FOR THE PIF BASELINE AND THE DEPARTMENT
00:13:19 OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES MOVING IT FROM ACROSS YEARS
00:13:23 ALIGNING REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES AT THE ARTS
00:13:24 COMMISSION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH CORRECTING
00:13:27 CODES THAT THE HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEM DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
00:13:28 RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
00:13:32 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELESSNESS AND SUPPORT HOUSING SHARE IF
00:13:35 THE PORTS AND THE OFFICE OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR AND THE FIRE
00:13:37 DEPARTMENTS CORRECTING AND UPDATING POSITIONS IN D M
00:13:40 RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND D H R WE ARE ALIGNING EXPENDITURES TO
00:13:44 MATCH UPDATED FEDERAL REVENUES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:13:47 HOMELESSNESS AND SUPPORT OF HOUSING AND THEN SHIFTING GEN
00:13:50 FUNDING FROM THE MCO RESERVE TO THE COSTS OF DOING BUSINESS
00:13:54 IN FISCAL 27 AND REDUCING EXCESS AIRCRAFT REVENUE
00:13:58 IN FISCAL 28 TO REFLECT STATE BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS
00:14:01 AND OFFSETTING WITH EXCESS MCO RESERVE THIS WILL REDUCE THE
00:14:06 PROPOSED FISCAL 27 BUDGET BY $110,821 AND WILL REDUCE THE
00:14:12 FISCAL 28 BUDGET BY $19 MILLION $519,541,618 RESULTING
00:14:19 IN SAVINGS OF $1.4 MILLION IN YEAR ONE AND A COST OF 3.18
00:14:25 MILLION DOLLARS IN YEAR TWO. THE NET IMPACT TO THE GENERAL
00:14:31 FUND IS $1.7 MILLION. THERE IS A TABLE THAT I'VE
00:14:32 DISTRIBUTED AND SHOULD BE AVAILABLE ONLINE AND I AM
00:14:35 AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU.
00:14:36 THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE THE TECHNICAL
00:14:39 ADJUSTMENT ON SAVING AND SO WITH THAT AND COLLEAGUES THESE
00:14:42 THIS IS THE INFORMATION WE DISTRIBUTE AT YESTERDAY
00:14:46 AND ALSO ELECTRONICALLY AND WITH THAT I SHOULD SAY
00:14:50 SOFIA DIRECTOR KETTLER ALREADY DISTRIBUTED HARD COPIES AN
00:14:54 ELECTRONIC COPY YESTERDAY AND SO WITH THAT WE WILL GO TO
00:14:57 SUPERIOR COURT. GOOD MORNING CHAIR CHAN
00:15:05 AND COMMITTEE I'M BRANDON RILEY COURT EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND I
00:15:09 AM GOING TO PRESENT ON YOUR CIVIL GRAND JURY AND INDIGENT
00:15:14 DEFENSE THE CIVIL GRAND JURY COUNTY FUNCTION MANAGED BY THE
00:15:23 COURT. WE NEED THE $250,000 TO MANAGE
00:15:30 THIS PROJECT. WE ARE THE FISCAL AGENT FOR THE
00:15:31 PROJECT. THE 250,000 IS THE SAME AS LAST
00:15:37 YEAR. >> NEXT FOR INDIGENT DEFENSE.
00:15:41 THIS IS WHERE THE COURT MANAGES THE COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL FOR
00:15:48 CONFLICTS WHEN THERE'S CONFLICTS FROM THE PUBLIC
00:15:50 DEFENDER'S OFFICE WE BELIEVE THAT IN JUSTICE FOR ALL
00:15:57 AND THAT GIDEON V WAINWRIGHT SAYS THAT THIS MUST HAPPEN BE A
00:16:01 US CONSTITUTION AND THAT BUDGET IS $10.6 MILLION AN INCREASE
00:16:08 THIS YEAR OF 810 MIL TO $810,000 A 8% INCREASE THAT
00:16:19 INCREASE DUE TO PROGRAM INCREASE CPI INCREASE THE
00:16:27 PERCENTAGE IS LIKELY TO BE INSUFFICIENT FOR THE WORK THAT
00:16:31 THE CONFLICTS PANEL IS DOING NOW BECAUSE OF THE
00:16:34 UNAVAILABILITY THAT THE PUBLIC PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE IS
00:16:38 CLAIMING, THERE IS A HUGE INFLUX OF MISDEMEANOR CASES
00:16:46 SURGE A MISDEMEANOR CASES THAT ARE CAUSING A HUGE BACKLOG
00:16:53 AND DOUBLING THE WORK FOR THE CONFLICTS PANEL AND THE ACTIVE
00:17:00 PENDING CASELOAD IS UP ABOUT 844% OVERALL.
00:17:07 THAT'S FOR FELONY CASES AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THE RAPID
00:17:14 ESCALATION OF CASES. NEXT SLIDE THE RAPID ESCALATION
00:17:19 OF CASES THAT ARE GOING TO THE CONFLICTS PANEL THERE WILL BE
00:17:26 EVEN WITH THIS $815,000 INCREASE THAT WE BUDGET FOR WE
00:17:33 DO KNOW THERE WILL BE EARLY NEXT YEAR WE WILL HAVE TO SEEK
00:17:37 A SUPPLEMENTAL AND IN YEARS PAST WE HAVE SAID WE WOULD HAVE
00:17:41 TO SEEK A SUPPLEMENTAL BUT THIS YEAR WE'VE ALREADY WE ALREADY
00:17:45 SEE THAT WE'RE ON TRACK BY EARLY NEXT CALENDAR YEAR WE
00:17:53 WILL NEED A SUPPLEMENTAL IF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE
00:17:57 CONTINUES WITH ITS UNAVAILABILITY.
00:18:00 >> NEXT SLIDE. SO THANK YOU.
00:18:01 THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE FOR INDIGENT DEFENSE AND FOR THE
00:18:04 GRAND JURY. >> I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY
00:18:08 QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. >> THANK YOU.
00:18:11 AND SUPERVISOR SAUTER THANK YOU.
00:18:15 QUESTION ON THE I SEE THE INCREASE IN INDIGENT DEFENSE
00:18:21 ADMINISTRATION 811,000 INCREASE OR SO BUT YOU SAY THAT THAT IS
00:18:23 LIKELY INSUFFICIENT GIVEN THE INCREASED WORKLOAD.
00:18:26 WHAT DO YOU IF YOU IF YOU WERE TO BE ABLE TO TRULY SQUARE UP
00:18:33 THE BUDGET WITH THE INCREASE IN CASELOAD, WHAT WOULD THAT
00:18:34 LOOK LIKE? YOU HAVE THOSE NUMBERS.
00:18:40 >> GOOD MORNING SUPERVISOR MY NAME IS RALEIGH CAMPING.
00:18:44 >> I'M THE CFO FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT.
00:18:46 IF WE WERE GOING TO DRAW UP THAT EXPENDITURES WE WOULD NEED
00:18:49 MAYBE ANOTHER 1 OR $2 MILLION PER YEAR IF THE CASE LOAD WOULD
00:18:52 STAY THIS THIS ELEVATED LEVEL. >> THANK YOU.
00:18:55 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:19:02 THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY.
00:19:06 I THINK THAT I HAVE EXPRESSED THAT CONCERN AND I THINK THAT
00:19:09 WE HAVE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LETTER AND THE
00:19:11 RESPONSE SPECIFICALLY AROUND PRETRIAL PROGRAM I, I THINK
00:19:18 THAT IT IS THANK YOU FOR THE FEEDBACK.
00:19:22 I THOUGH I WANT TO SAY THAT IT STILL DOES NOT TO ME RESPONDING
00:19:29 TO MY ORIGINAL INQUIRY ABOUT HOW THE RECOMMENDATION OF GOING
00:19:37 FROM RIGHT NOW SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT ALONG WITH PRETRIAL
00:19:42 PROGRAM SHIFTING THAT TO ADULT PROBATION IS GOING TO EO ANY
00:19:46 BETTER RESULTS AND KNOWING THAT SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT ELECTED
00:19:50 OFFICIAL AND BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT CONTRACT AND HAVE THAT
00:19:54 PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SHERIFFS WOULD BE ANYTHING
00:19:58 BETTER DONE TO ADULT PROBATION ?
00:20:01 >> COULD YOU ARTICULATE THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE
00:20:02 RATIONALE? I BELIEVE THAT THE RELATIONSHIP
00:20:09 THAT WE HAVE NOW THAT WITH PRETRIAL THAT IS SORT OF
00:20:13 MANAGED BY THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND HAS BEEN FOR A
00:20:17 NUMBER OF YEARS, I THINK THAT THAT THAT ARRANGEMENT WORKS NO
00:20:24 LONGER BECAUSE OF A LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, A LACK OF
00:20:29 ACCOUNTABILITY AND A LACK OF OVERSIGHT.
00:20:33 AND I THINK IN ONE OF MY MESSAGES TO YOU OR IN THE
00:20:36 LETTER TO YOU WE POINTED OUT IN THOUSANDS OF PIECES IT JUST
00:20:44 A SPOT CHECK I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS IN ANY KIND OF REVIEW.
00:20:47 IT WAS JUST A SPOT CHECK THAT THAT THAT WAS ALL THAT THE
00:20:51 SHERIFF HAD DONE ON THE ASSESSMENTS THAT I THINK THEY
00:20:56 HAD ONLY LOOKED AT EIGHT ASSESSMENTS ON THE REPORTS TO
00:20:59 THE COURT, THOUSANDS OF REPORTS TO THE COURT AND THE SHERIFF
00:21:01 HAD ONLY LOOKED AT 22 OF THOSE. AND SO I THINK THERE IS A LACK
00:21:04 OF OVERSIGHT WHEN IT COMES TO PRETRIAL AND AS IT RELATES TO
00:21:08 REQUEST AND THE RELATIONSHIP DIRECTLY WITH PRETRIAL IN THE
00:21:14 WORK THAT THEY PROVIDE IN COURT THEIR REPORTS HAVEN'T ALWAYS
00:21:19 BEEN TIMELY. >> THEIR REPORTS DO NOT THEY DO
00:21:23 NOT HAVE STAFF IN COURT TO STAND BEHIND THEIR REPORTS
00:21:27 AND THE COURT HAS ASKED FOR OVER AND OVER THAT YOU HAVE A
00:21:31 CASE MANAGER JUST LIKE APD. THEY SHOW UP IN COURT IF THEY
00:21:34 HAVE A REPORT. THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE REPORT
00:21:35 IS THERE BUT THE THE COURT CAN EXAMINE THAT PERSON THAT
00:21:39 DOESN'T HAPPEN IN PRETRIAL. >> WE HAVE TO GO AND ALL OF THE
00:21:43 REPORTS FROM PRETRIAL ARE SIGNED BY THE EXECUTIVE
00:21:46 DIRECTOR OF PRETRIAL. THEY ARE NOT SIGNED BY CASE
00:21:50 MANAGERS. SO THEN YOU HAVE TO GO FIND THE
00:21:52 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FIND OUT WHO WROTE THE REPORT AND THEN
00:21:54 BRING THAT PERSON BACK. >> SO IT'S A SORRY TO INTERRUPT
00:21:58 BUT HOW DO YOU THEN SEE ADULT PROBATION WOULD BE OPERATING
00:22:02 ANY DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE PROBATION THIS IS ACTUALLY AN
00:22:05 OLD LETTER THAT SAID, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T BELIEVE ADULT
00:22:10 PROBATION CAN DO IT. THIS IS THE WORK THAT ADULT
00:22:13 PROBATION WAS ESTABLISHED TO DO.
00:22:14 THIS IS COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. THEY ARE IN THE SPACE TO DO IT.
00:22:18 THEY DO IT RIGHT NOW THOUGH IS POST-CONVICTION.
00:22:21 >> THEY DO THIS WORK RIGHT NOW. THEY CAN MAKE ME SORRY TO
00:22:25 INTERRUPT AGAIN. HELP ME UNDERSTAND BETTER THAT
00:22:27 ISN'T IT THAT PRETRIAL PROGRAM ACTUALLY MANAGED BOTH
00:22:29 POST-CONVICTION ACTUALLY THAT PRETRIAL ADULT PROBATION ONLY
00:22:36 MANAGED POST CONVICTION POPULATION WHEREAS PRETRIAL
00:22:39 INCLUSIVE OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT AND SO TO SHIFT THAT INTO TO
00:22:44 COUNT ON TO ADULT PROBATION TO ACTUALLY MANAGE A WHOLE
00:22:48 DIFFERENT POPULATION BUT YOU THINK THAT IS MORE EFFECTIVE I
00:22:51 DO THINK IT'S MORE EFFECTIVE. I THINK I THINK THEY ALREADY
00:22:52 HAVE THE EXPERIENCE OF SUPERVISING THE COMMUNITY.
00:22:56 THEY ALREADY HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE AND IN
00:23:00 FACT MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON PRETRIAL NOW GO TO THE CAST
00:23:04 CENTER THAT THE ADULT PROBATION RUNS.
00:23:07 BASICALLY WHAT ADULT PROBATION CAN DO IS PARTIES CAN DO A
00:23:12 WALLED GARDEN PARTITION OFF THAT POSTCONDITION CONDITION
00:23:16 CONVICTION WORK THAT THEY NORMALLY DO AND WALL IT ALL FOR
00:23:20 THE PRETRIAL POPULATION BASICALLY PRETRIAL POPULATION.
00:23:24 YOU CAN SAY THAT PRETRIAL POPULATION WILL BE AT THE CAST
00:23:28 CENTER DOWN ON SIXTH STREET AND THE POST CONVICTED PEOPLE
00:23:31 THEY WOULD GET SERVICES DOWN ON BRYANT STREET.
00:23:32 >> THEY CAN WALL THAT OFF AND THEY CAN OFFER THESE SAME
00:23:35 SERVICES THAT PRETRIAL SERVICES OFFERING AND MANY OF THE
00:23:39 SERVICES I'M TELLING YOU THAT ARE ALL THEY ARE ALREADY
00:23:42 OFFERING THE SAME SERVICES. AND SO THAT'S WHAT I THINK I
00:23:44 SAID WHEN I WAS MEETING WITH SUPERVISORS EARLIER WHEN I WAS
00:23:50 TELLING THEM ABOUT THE COURT WANTING TO MAKE THIS MOVE
00:23:51 IN THAT THERE IS SOME DUPLICATION OF EFFORT HERE THAT
00:23:55 SOME OF THE SAME SERVICES THAT PRETRIAL OFFICE OFFERED THEY'RE
00:23:59 ALREADY BEING OFFERED BY ADULT PROBATION AND SO I THINK WE ALL
00:24:03 ACHIEVE SOME SAVINGS ONCE WE ARE IN ADULT PROBATION WE APPLY
00:24:07 SOME TECHNOLOGY TO SOME OF THE PROCESSES AND WE REALIZE THOSE
00:24:14 PLACES WHERE THERE'S A DUPLICATION OF EFFORT.
00:24:15 I THINK THIS IS A BETTER ARRANGEMENT FOR OVERSIGHT.
00:24:18 I THINK IT'S A BETTER ARRANGEMENT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
00:24:22 AND I CERTAINLY KNOW THAT IT'S A BETTER ARRANGEMENT FOR
00:24:26 TRANSPARENCY. >> THANK YOU.
00:24:30 >> I WANT TO SAY THAT IN TERMS OF COST SAVING NOT THE CASE
00:24:33 ACCORDING TO THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYST
00:24:34 AND THAT YOU CERTAINLY THERE ARE BOTH THE SHERIFFS PAUL MY
00:24:39 MOTO AS WELL AS OUR PUBLIC DEFENDER MANO RAJA HAS ACTUALLY
00:24:42 INDICATED A DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS THAN YOURS.
00:24:46 >> BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING I WANT BY MAKE THAT IF I
00:24:52 MAY THINK I NEVER I'M SO SORRY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
00:24:54 >> I WANT TO BE CLEAR. I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT NO,
00:24:56 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TALK OVER THE BUDGETS HERE.
00:24:58 >> YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TALK OVER THE BODY SAYING YOU ARE
00:24:59 NOT GOING TO TALK OVER THE BUDGET CHAIR IN THIS CHAMBER
00:25:02 SAID IT WAS YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TALK OVER THE BUDGET CHAIR
00:25:05 IN THIS CHAMBER. >> YOU'RE GOING TO LET THE
00:25:06 BUDGET CHAIR FINISH AND THEN YOU WILL TALK YOU'RE NOT GOING
00:25:09 TO TALK AND DISRESPECT THE BUDGET CHAIR IN THIS CHAMBER.
00:25:13 >> THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR WALTON AND IF I MAY
00:25:16 I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR FOR YOUR OPINION
00:25:20 LIKE I WANT TO TO SAY THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
00:25:24 OUT THERE AND THERE'S DIFFERENT ANALYSIS OUT THERE.
00:25:28 WE APPRECIATE YOUR LETTER BUT I THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE
00:25:32 ON ON THIS. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I
00:25:36 KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE RESPONSE OF THE LETTER.
00:25:37 I WANTED TO HAVE YOUR RESPONSE ALSO PUBLICLY ON THE RECORD AT
00:25:40 THIS MOMENT BY YOU AT DURING THIS HEARING.
00:25:44 I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR
00:25:48 OPINION. >> THANK YOU.
00:25:48 I'D LIKE TO RESPOND. I NEVER SAID THAT IT WAS GOING
00:25:52 TO BE THAT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE INCREASED COST.
00:25:58 THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED COST .
00:26:02 >> SO SUPERVISOR WALTON, THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR
00:26:05 YOUR PRESENTATION. BUT ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE
00:26:06 SHERIFF DEPARTMENT AND THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE
00:26:10 DISPUTES YOUR DATA AND YOUR INTERPRETATION OF THE WORK OF
00:26:14 FREE TRIAL? >> I BELIEVE MY DATA IS HONEST
00:26:19 AND TRUE DATA. I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE PUBLIC
00:26:22 DEFENDER GOT HIS DATA. I BELIEVE THAT THE DATA THAT
00:26:26 THE COURT PULLS FROM ITS DATABASE IS THE TRUE DATA OF
00:26:30 WHAT THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT
00:26:34 OF RESOURCES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE IS THAT UP TO LIKE
00:26:41 $4 MILLION AND NOT ACTUALLY BE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT
00:26:45 WE SPEND RIGHT NOW WHAT PRETRIAL DOING THE WORK?
00:26:49 >> I DON'T THINK THAT IS THAT IS CORRECT.
00:26:50 I THINK THAT THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE AND I THINK YOU WILL
00:26:54 SEE THAT FOR QUALITY YOU HAVE TO PAY MORE BUT I DON'T THINK
00:27:00 THAT THE INCREASE IS THE SAME AS WHAT YOU'RE PAYING PRETRIAL
00:27:04 TODAY. >> SO I'M HAVING A HARD TIME
00:27:08 UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH BECAUSE
00:27:11 YOU STATE THAT YOU THINK WE WILL SEE SOME SAVINGS BUT NOW
00:27:15 YOU SAY IT'S GOING TO BE AN INCREASE IN COSTS.
00:27:19 NO, I THINK I'M TRYING TO GET ANY START UP IN THE STARTING OF
00:27:22 A NEW ARRANGEMENT. THERE WILL BE SOME INCREASED
00:27:24 COST. I THINK THAT YOU WILL SEE DOWN
00:27:27 THE ROAD YOU WILL AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE SOME EFFICIENCIES
00:27:30 AND HAS THE DOE PROBATION TOLD YOU THEY WANT TO DO THIS?
00:27:34 YES. THANK YOU.
00:27:35 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.
00:27:41 SO WITH THAT WE WILL GO TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
00:27:43 MANAGEMENT. GOOD MORNING CHAIR CHAN
00:28:02 AND SUPERVISORS MARY ELLEN CAROL I'M THE EXECUTIVE
00:28:05 DIRECTOR FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
00:28:09 I COME TO YOU THIS MORNING WITH SOME GOOD NEWS AND A CHALLENGE.
00:28:13 THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT OUR 911 DISPATCH CENTER IS MEETING
00:28:16 STATE AND ANSWER TIME STANDARD WITH ZERO ADVANCED OVERTIME
00:28:22 AND THIS BUDGET KEEPS BUILDING ON THAT PROGRESS.
00:28:23 >> THE CHALLENGE IS THAT FEDERAL GRANTS THAT THE CITY
00:28:27 HAS RELIED ON FOR FUND TO FUND EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR OVER 15
00:28:31 YEARS DISAPPEARED PRACTICALLY OVERNIGHT.
00:28:35 >> THIS LEFT US WITH A FISCAL CLIFF THAT WE BACKFILLED WITH
00:28:39 THE GENERAL FUND TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT POSSIBLE.
00:28:42 >> THANKFULLY THE TIMING LEAVES US MUCH BETTER OFF THAN TWO
00:28:45 YEARS AGO ARE WITH DISPATCH AND ARE 24 SEVEN ON CALL TEAM
00:28:49 WELL-POSITIONED TO MONITOR AND ESCALATE INCIDENTS AS
00:28:52 NECESSARY WITH SUPPORT FROM EMERGENCY MANAGERS WHO RUN OUR
00:28:56 PLANNING TRAINING EXERCISES IN EOC, I'LL PROVIDE A QUICK
00:29:00 OVERVIEW OF HOW WE CARRY OUT OUR CORE SERVICES, OUR NEW
00:29:04 BUDGET STRUCTURES, OUR DEPARTMENT WITH FOUR DIVISIONS
00:29:08 EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS WHICH IS 911 EMERGENCY SERVICES
00:29:11 AND PROGRAMS THE EMS AGENCY AND ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
00:29:14 ARE A TWO YEAR BUDGET PROPOSES FIRST YEAR ALMOST 140 14
00:29:21 MILLION AND THE SECOND YEAR REDUCED TO ALMOST 113 MILLION
00:29:25 IN BOTH YEARS THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING IS THE DEPARTMENT
00:29:30 FOR THE DEPARTMENT IS THE NUMBER ONE CENTER
00:29:32 ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS INCLUDE OUR DEPARTMENTS, SIGNIFICANT
00:29:36 TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS AND CAPITAL ALLOCATIONS.
00:29:39 EMERGENCY SERVICES PROGRAM BUDGET INCLUDES COSTS FOR
00:29:41 EMERGENCY PLANNING, TRAINING AND WHAT REMAINS OF OUR FEDERAL
00:29:44 GRANT FUNDED PROGRAMS AND THE EMS AGENCY FUNDS MANDATORY
00:29:48 REGULATORY STATUTORY OVERSIGHT FOR THE CITY'S EMS SYSTEM.
00:29:55 >> WE HAVE 302 POSITIONS WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENTS 70% OF THE DMN
00:30:00 EMPLOYEES WORK IN THE NINE ONE CENTER.
00:30:03 >> OUR PROPOSED BUDGET FUNDS THREE DISPATCH ACADEMIES OVER
00:30:06 THE NEXT TWO YEARS. THIS ALSO TRANSFERS SEVEN
00:30:10 POSITIONS AND THEIR WORKLOAD FOR STREET RESPONSE TO EACH
00:30:14 AND IT DELETES 12 POSITIONS IN THE FIRST BUDGET YEAR SEVEN
00:30:17 WERE FILLED, FIVE ARE VACANCIES AND TWO MORE IN YEAR TWO THE
00:30:24 LOSS OF FEDERAL FUNDING YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE HAS MADE THIS
00:30:28 DIFFICULT BUDGET YEAR EVEN HARDER FOR US.
00:30:32 DIEM SERVES AS THE FISCAL AGENT FOR THE BAY AREA UAC WHICH IS A
00:30:35 100% FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAM. THE LOSS OF THIS FUNDING HAS
00:30:39 CAUSED US TO GREATLY REDUCE THE MANAGEMENT TEAM.
00:30:43 THE REMAINING TEAM WILL MANAGE THE EXISTING GRANT AWARDS THAT
00:30:47 ARE WINDING DOWN AND THE LONG TERM STATE OF THIS MANAGEMENT
00:30:49 TEAM WILL DEPEND ON FUTURE POTENTIAL FUNDING AND OUR GRANT
00:30:55 ELIGIBILITY. AND FOR 15 YEARS FEDERAL GRANTS
00:30:58 HAVE ALSO PAID FOR EMERGENCY PLANNERS IN OUR EMERGENCY
00:31:02 SERVICES DIVISION DIVISION. >> SINCE WE CAN NO LONGER RELY
00:31:04 ON THIS FUNDING IN THE FUTURE WE HAVE NOW REALLOCATED EIGHT
00:31:09 ALMOST $900,000 TO MOVE CORE EMERGENCY PLANNERS ON TO THE
00:31:13 GENERAL FUND. BUT THIS STILL HAS RESULTED
00:31:16 IN 4.5 FTE REDUCTION IN THAT DIVISION ATM.
00:31:20 >> WE HAVE VERY LOW VACANCY RATE OF 1% AND DEPARTMENT WIDE
00:31:25 WE HAVE LESS THAN FOUR VACANT POSITIONS AND THIS IS WHY IT IS
00:31:27 VERY HARD WHEN WE'RE ASKED TO ELIMINATE POSITIONS BECAUSE WE
00:31:30 REALLY HAVE MOST OF OUR POSITIONS FILLED.
00:31:33 >> THE REDUCTIONS FOR THIS BUDGET INCLUDE BOTH PERSONNEL
00:31:37 AND NON PERSONNEL COSTS WE ALREADY MENTIONED ARE PERSONNEL
00:31:38 REDUCTIONS TOTAL 14 OVER TWO YEARS.
00:31:42 WE ALSO ANALYZED ALL OF OUR NON PERSONNEL REDUCTIONS
00:31:46 AND REDUCED EVERYWHERE WE COULD .
00:31:49 THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE BREAKDOWN OF OUR MANAGEMENT TO
00:31:53 NON-MANAGEMENT POSITIONS COMPARED TO TWO YEARS AGO WE
00:31:54 HAVE REDUCED DBMS MANAGEMENT BY 29% GOING FROM 42 TO 30
00:32:00 AND BEGINNING IN THIS BUDGET YEAR OUR OVERALL RATIO
00:32:03 DEPARTMENT WIDE IS NOW ABOUT 10% MANAGERS TO 90% STAFF.
00:32:07 >> JUST VERY QUICKLY I'LL I'LL GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR CORE
00:32:11 SERVICES FOR 911 THE STATE STANDARD FOR FOUR CALLS IS TO
00:32:18 MEET 90% OF CALLS WITHIN 15 SECONDS.
00:32:22 >> WE MET THIS STANDARD LAST OCTOBER FOR THE FIRST TIME
00:32:25 SINCE 2022 AND WE HAVE METRICS SEEDED IT REPEATEDLY SINCE
00:32:30 AND HOW WE DID THIS IS THROUGH HIRING.
00:32:33 WE HAVE FILLED ACADEMIES WHICH HAS RESULTED IN ENOUGH NEW
00:32:35 DISPATCHERS TO MEET OUR STANDARDS FOR STAFFING
00:32:38 AND CALLS MANDATORY OVERTIME IS DOWN TO ZERO AND THAT IS NOT
00:32:42 ONLY GOOD FOR THE BUDGET, IT IS IMPORTANTLY GOOD FOR DISPATCHER
00:32:46 WELL-BEING FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES AND PROGRAMS.
00:32:49 >> THIS TEAM IS THE TEAM BEHIND CITY.
00:32:53 THE CITY'S NOT SO EMERGENCY NOT SO EVERYDAY EMERGENCIES.
00:32:57 THIS INCLUDES PLANNING, TRAINING, LEADING THE EOC
00:32:58 ACTIVATIONS FOR PLANNED AND UNPLANNED EVENTS.
00:33:01 WE HAVE AVERAGED 14 EOC ACTIVATIONS ANNUALLY SINCE
00:33:08 2021. IT ALSO INCLUDES THE COMMUNITY
00:33:09 AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AND LARGE VEHICLE PROGRAM COORDINATION
00:33:12 THAT WILL CONTINUE UNDER TEAM AND WE REMAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR
00:33:16 MANAGING THE REMAINING HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS PREVIOUSLY
00:33:20 AWARDED TO THE REGION ARE OUR LAST CORE FUNCTION IS THE
00:33:25 EMERGENCY C WHICH IS THE REGULATOR FOR THE EMS SERVICES
00:33:29 IN SAN FRANCISCO. >> THIS RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDES
00:33:32 MEDICAL CONTROL POLICY EVENT MEDICAL PLANS AND DISASTER
00:33:36 RESPONSE CHAIR CHAN AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS
00:33:39 IN CLOSING I JUST WANT TO PRESENT THAT FOR LESS THAN 1.5%
00:33:46 OF THE GENERAL FUND SAN FRANCISCO GETS A 911 SYSTEM
00:33:49 ANSWERING THE STATE STANDARD. A TEAM THAT COORDINATED THE
00:33:53 CITY'S PLANNING AND RESPONSE TO LARGE EVENTS IN EMERGENCIES
00:33:57 AND A DEPARTMENT THAT ABSORBED A FEDERAL FISCAL FISCAL CLIFF
00:34:01 WHICH WITH ITS CORE OPERATIONS INTACT AND THIS BUDGET
00:34:06 CONTINUES TO PROGRESS THAT PROTECT THAT PROGRESS.
00:34:09 >> I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS.
00:34:11 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:34:13 COULD YOU IN A WHERE WE HAVE RECEIVED SORT OF THIS A SERIES
00:34:20 OF EMAILS INDICATING A NOTION ABOUT THE LAYOFF WITHIN THE
00:34:25 DEPARTMENT NEW EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
00:34:28 COULD YOU KIND OF WALK US THROUGH EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE
00:34:32 IN TERMS OF LAYOFF AND SURE FILL POSITIONS OR ARE THEY
00:34:36 VACANT POSITION OR I DE SIMPLY TRANSFER OF FUNCTION AND IF SO
00:34:40 WHAT ARE THEY SO OKAY SO WE HAD AGAIN OF THE SEVEN FILL OF THE
00:34:49 12 POSITIONS THAT WERE LAID OFF THIS YEAR SEVEN WERE FILLED.
00:34:52 OF THOSE THREE ARE SEPARATING FROM THE CITY.
00:34:59 THREE HAVE ACCEPTED ALTERNATE EMPLOYMENT WITHIN THE CITY
00:35:03 AND ONE IS REMAINS TO BE DECIDED.
00:35:07 >> THE STATUS IS UNCLEAR AT THIS POINT OF THE SO DO YOU
00:35:11 WANT ME TO GO INTO DETAIL FOR EACH OF THOSE POSITIONS
00:35:14 AND HELP US ALSO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE WE DID RECEIVE A MEMO
00:35:18 ABOUT TRANSFER FUNCTION THAT SEEING THAT YEAH STREET TEAM SO
00:35:22 YEAH AS YOU ARE ALL WELL AWARE DBM HAS PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE
00:35:30 CRITICAL ROLE IN STREET RESPONSE HONESTLY GOING ON NINE
00:35:36 YEARS IN THE LAST YEAR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ASKED US
00:35:40 ACTUALLY YEAR AND A HALF TO HELP REBUILD THOSE
00:35:44 AND RESTRUCTURE THE STREET TEAMS WHICH WE DID.
00:35:48 IT HAS WE COLLABORATIVELY HAVE DECIDED THAT AT THIS POINT THAT
00:35:55 THOSE TEAMS ARE READY TO MOVE OVER INTO A LESS THIS IS
00:35:59 ABSOLUTELY EMERGENCY 911 TO A RESPONSE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT
00:36:06 OF PUBLIC HEALTH WHICH WE AGREE WITH THAT AND THAT IS THOSE ARE
00:36:09 THE SEVEN POSITIONS THAT WENT TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND AND
00:36:15 THAT IT'S AS SEVEN SEPARATE FROM THE 12 LAY OFF PLUS
00:36:19 TOTALLY SEPARATE SO ALL SEVEN OF THOSE POSITIONS SIMPLY MOVED
00:36:25 WE MOVED THOSE CLASSIFICATIONS ALL THOSE PEOPLE THEY KEPT
00:36:29 THEIR JOBS AND THEY HAVE ALL ACCEPTED TO THAT TRANSFER
00:36:34 AND ARE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT TRANSITION PERIOD WITH
00:36:37 DISPATCH. >> SO SO YOUR STAFFING CHANGE
00:36:41 HAS COME TO A TOTAL OF 19 OUT OF WHICH SEVEN IS TRANSFERRED
00:36:46 THEIR FUNCTIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
00:36:47 MANAGEMENT NEW DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE REMAINING
00:36:51 OF 12 OUT OF WHICH SEVEN WERE FILLED AND FIVE SOUNDS LIKE
00:36:57 WERE VACANT AND THEN THE SEVEN FILL WERE OUT OF THAT SEVEN
00:37:02 FILL LAYOFF THREE SEPARATE FROM THE FROM THE CITY OFFICIALLY.
00:37:06 YES. AND THEN THREE ACTUALLY WERE
00:37:07 REASSIGNED IN TWO DIFFERENT DUTY TO A DIFFERENT CITY
00:37:12 DEPARTMENT. >> YES.
00:37:12 AND THEN ONE SORRY WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT THE LAST ONE
00:37:15 THAT IS IN A PERSONNEL PROCESS. >> SO IT'S PENDING.
00:37:19 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DISPOSITION OF THAT IS GOING TO
00:37:22 BE UNDERSTOOD. AND COULD YOU WALK US THROUGH
00:37:23 OUR DOSE? DID 911 DOES THE SET THE 12 LAY
00:37:26 OFF FOR DATA 911 DISPATCH NOTICE BACHA HAS BEEN LAID OFF
00:37:30 NO AND WHAT OUR DAY SO STARTING WITH I'LL START WITH THE ONES
00:37:34 THAT HAVE BEEN REASSIGNED SO WE HAD A NICE THREE I'M SORRY 0922
00:37:45 WHICH WAS THE ONLY POSITION FROM THE 911 OR DO YOU SEE THAT
00:37:50 PERSON DID WAS A DATA MANAGER AND DID A LOT OF WORK FOR ALL
00:37:56 OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENTS AND WE'RE VERY
00:37:57 GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL THAT THAT PERSON WAS ABLE TO MOVE INTO A
00:38:01 POSITION WITHIN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND HONESTLY THIS IS
00:38:04 A GREAT EXAMPLE OF US WORKING COLLABORATIVELY AND KIND OF
00:38:08 COMBINING RESOURCES. SO WHY THAT PERSON REPORTS TO
00:38:13 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WE WILL STILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH
00:38:16 THEM. WE GIVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
00:38:17 INFORMATION THEY NEED OUR DATA AND SO THIS IS WE FEEL LIKE
00:38:21 THIS IS A GREAT RESULTS. THE WE HAD 109 OR 1 0933 WHICH
00:38:30 IS STILL THE KIND OF TBD WE HAD IN OH 932 WHICH WAS THE FISCAL
00:38:40 DIRECTOR AT THE BAY AREA UAC AND THE 093 AND THEN WE HAD
00:38:44 ANOTHER 0931 FROM UAC WHO HAS TAKEN A POSITION IN ANOTHER
00:38:47 DEPARTMENT. WE WE HAD A 2590 THREE POSITION
00:38:56 THAT WAS THE ONLY POSITION FROM EMSA AND THAT PERSON WILL BE
00:39:01 TRANSFERRING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.
00:39:04 THE OTHER TWO WE HAD AN OH 980 602 WHICH WAS AN EXEMPT RELEASE
00:39:10 FROM DIVISION OF EMERGENCY SERVICES AND ANOTHER 8603 WHICH
00:39:14 WAS AN EXEMPT RELEASE FROM THE DIVISION OF EMERGENCY SERVICES.
00:39:18 I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING UNDERSTOOD.
00:39:22 >> I SORRY DIRECTOR KILLER AND I BELIEVE DIRECTOR CAROL
00:39:28 SAID THIS EARLIER BUT JUST TO PUT A FINER POINT ON FOUR OF
00:39:30 THOSE SEVEN POSITIONS WERE LOSEY FUNDED AND WE WERE NOT
00:39:33 ABLE TO BACKFILL THAT GRANT. THREE OF THEM WERE GENERAL FUND
00:39:37 OR ANOTHER GRANT SOURCE. >> SO JUST TO BE CLEAR THE JUST
00:39:43 TO UNDERSCORE WHICH I SAID THE WE ARE THE FISCAL AGENT FOR THE
00:39:47 URBAN AREAS SECURITY INITIATIVE AND THAT IS A 100% FEDERALLY
00:39:51 FUNDED DIVISION. >> IT IS SORT OF A QUASI IT
00:39:55 REPORTS BOTH TO AN APPROVAL AUTHORITY WHICH HAS MEMBERS
00:39:59 FROM THE COUNTIES AND AND TO US AS CITY EMPLOYEES THE UAC
00:40:06 FUNDING FOR THE LAST YEAR HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED ANYWHERE
00:40:14 IN THE COUNTRY. BLUE OR RED.
00:40:17 >> SO I'M SO SORRY WHAT IS WASI URBAN AREAS SECURITY INITIATIVE
00:40:22 WE CALL IT UAC SO BEAR BAY AREA SEE IT IS A IT'S A REGIONAL
00:40:29 HOMELAND SECURITY PROGRAM THAT IS FOCUSED ON URBAN AREAS.
00:40:38 SO USUALLY IT IS A YOU KNOW, THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA
00:40:42 DC SO IT'S USUALLY NOT A SEPARATE CITY THAT FUNDING AS
00:40:46 YOU CAN SEE. >> DO YOU WANT TO PULL UP THAT
00:40:50 SLIDE AND BY THE WAY I'M NOT TOO SURE WE HAVE THAT ON THE
00:40:53 RECORD YOUR PRESENTATION MAYBE IT IS LIKE I COULDN'T FIND IT
00:40:58 ON THE TABLE. >> I CAN LIKE THANK YOU.
00:41:01 >> I WAS LIKE WAIT WHERE IS IT SO THAT AS YOU CAN SEE WE
00:41:11 DEPEND WE HAVE TRADITIONALLY THIS THIS HAS BEEN A VERY
00:41:15 CONSISTENT PROGRAM FOR 15 YEARS.
00:41:18 >> LAST YEAR WE WENT FROM 30 I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME
00:41:24 OVER 3030 $7 MILLION TO $4 MILLION FOR THAT FOR THAT
00:41:31 DIVISION. WE ALSO GET SOME OF THAT MONEY
00:41:38 COMES TO US TO TO DO OUR STAFFING.
00:41:42 >> WE USE SOME MONEY SO SO SAN FRANCISCO IS A CORE CITY.
00:41:46 WE GET SOME OF THAT MONEY PASSED ON TO US.
00:41:49 WE HAVE USED THAT SOME OF THAT MONEY TRADITIONALLY ON STAFF
00:41:54 SALARIES AND SO THAT IS PART OF THE REASON WE'VE BEEN HIT SO
00:41:58 HARD ON THIS WITHIN DIVISION OF EMERGENCY SERVICES WE THEREFORE
00:42:05 TOOK THAT SO SO FOR DIVISION OF EMERGENCY SERVICES WE WERE ABLE
00:42:09 TO INTERNALLY WE DID NOT GET GET ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM THE
00:42:14 GENERAL FUND BUT WE WERE ABLE TO REORGANIZE PRIORITIZE ABOUT
00:42:20 $900,000 TO MAXIMIZE THE ABILITY TO KEEP PEOPLE ON.
00:42:24 >> BUT WE CANNOT DO THAT FOR YOU.
00:42:27 >> OZZIE YOU OZZIE IS NOT A CITY PROGRAM.
00:42:31 IT IS A REGIONAL PROGRAM. THERE IS AN THERE'S NO THERE'S
00:42:34 NOT ONE PENNY OF GENERAL FUND THAT FUNDS THAT REGIONAL
00:42:38 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS. >> SO IT HAS BEEN HORRIBLE.
00:42:42 >> WE WENT FROM 25 PEOPLE IN THE LAST YEAR TO SEVEN CORE
00:42:46 STAFF THERE. >> THIS HAS BEEN A PROCESS OVER
00:42:50 THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF WITH THAT STAFF AND I CAN TELL YOU
00:42:53 THAT YOU KNOW, I THINK OVER THE LAST YEAR YOU'RE ONLY SEEING
00:42:58 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS BUDGET BUT WE HAVE HAD YOU KNOW, MANY
00:43:02 PEOPLE SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL AND LOOKED FOR OTHER JOBS
00:43:06 AND HAVE FOUND OTHER EMPLOYMENT OVER THE LAST YEAR.
00:43:09 >> BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOWN TO A VERY KEY AND AND SMALL CORE
00:43:16 STAFF NOW IF THE FUNDING BECOMES AVAILABLE AND IF WE ARE
00:43:19 ELIGIBLE FOR IT MEANING WITHIN THIS ADMINISTRATION.
00:43:24 THANKS. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR OUR CITY
00:43:27 ATTORNEY DAVID CHU AND HIS TEAM BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN REALLY
00:43:28 SUCCESSFUL IN HELPING OTHER PROGRAMS MOVE FORWARD
00:43:31 AND LETTING FUNDING COME THROUGH TO US.
00:43:35 BUT I THINK MOST PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH WE HAVE
00:43:39 DEPENDED ON THAT. FEDERAL FUNDING FOR 15 YEARS.
00:43:45 >> UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU FOR WALKING US
00:43:46 THROUGH THAT DETAILS. WE JUST WANTED TO BE ON THE
00:43:50 RECORD ABOUT THOSE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE MY NEXT QUESTION.
00:43:54 IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE SIREN. >> YEAH.
00:43:57 AND COULD YOU WALK US THROUGH I LOVE THE SIREN QUESTION.
00:44:01 I WALK US THROUGH THE THE SORT OF THINKING AND YOUR BUDGET
00:44:05 ABOUT WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE SIREN SO THE SIREN SYSTEM IS OWNED BY
00:44:10 THE DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATED BY DMN.
00:44:13 IT HAS BEEN OFFLINE SINCE 2018 AS MOST PEOPLE ARE AVAILABLE
00:44:17 BECAUSE OF SECURITY VULNERABILITY AND SOME OTHER
00:44:20 ISSUES. SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING
00:44:25 AND HAVE DONE HOMEWORK WITH DUTY OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
00:44:28 WE DID A FULL REQUEST FOR INFORMATION WHICH WE COMPLETED
00:44:29 IN LATE 2024. >> WE LOOKED AT RESTORING ALL
00:44:33 WE LOOKED AT RESTORING 35 SITES ALONG THE COAST BECAUSE THERE'S
00:44:40 ABOUT 112 SITES TOTAL. >> SO WE LOOKED AT TWO OPTIONS
00:44:44 30 FIVE SITES THAT AT THE TIME AND 20 24 WAS ESTIMATED TO BE
00:44:51 ABOUT 8.5 MILLION OF ONE TIME FUNDING PLUS ABOUT $1 MILLION
00:44:54 PER YEAR ONGOING TO MAINTAIN THOSE AND THEN FOR THE FULL
00:44:58 NETWORK WOULD BE ABOUT 21 MILLION PLUS ROUGHLY $3 MILLION
00:45:01 A YEAR FOR FOR ONGOING. >> SO THE TIMELINE AT THAT TIME
00:45:06 TO EXECUTE IT AND FULLY YOU KNOW, RETROFIT AND BUILD THAT
00:45:10 SYSTEM WOULD BE A 3 TO 6 YEAR TIMELINE.
00:45:14 >> SO THESE ARE CAPITAL SCALED NUMBERS AND THE YOU KNOW, THE
00:45:18 RIGHT VENUE TO TAKE THOSE IS THE PLANNING COMMITTEE AND THE
00:45:22 E SUPPORT OR THE USER BOND PROGRAMING WHICH IS WITHIN THAT
00:45:28 WE HAVE AT VARIOUS TIMES OVER THE YEARS ASKED FOR FUNDING
00:45:33 AND WE HAVE NOT THAT FUNDING HAS NOT BEEN PRIORITIZED AND IF
00:45:37 THE CITY FUNDS RESTORATION WE WOULD RECOMMEND THAT IT WOULD
00:45:41 BE A PHASED START WITH FOCUSING ON THE TSUNAMI INUNDATION ZONES
00:45:48 ALONG THE COAST WHICH WE FEEL IS MOST VULNERABLE AND WOULD
00:45:49 HAVE THE BEST USE OF THOSE SUN SIRENS.
00:45:53 BUT IN THE MEANTIME AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT WE ARE STILL
00:45:56 PROTECTED OUTDOORS. WE HAVE AN ALERT S.F. WE HAVE
00:46:01 WIRELESS ALERTS TO EVERY PHONE. >> WE HAVE NO RADIOS.
00:46:08 WE HAVE PUBLIC SAFETY VEHICLES WITH PA SYSTEMS AND THIS PLAN
00:46:12 HAS BEEN PUT TO THE TEST AND WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL DURING
00:46:18 THE DECEMBER 2024 SOUHAMI WARNING I'VE BEEN ON THE RECORD
00:46:23 TO SAY THAT I BELIEVE THAT TSUNAMI THE SIRENS ARE A
00:46:26 REDUNDANT SEE IF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE THE BOARD, THE CAPITAL
00:46:34 IMPROVEMENT PLAN CHOOSES TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THEM THAT'S
00:46:38 THAT IS SOMETHING I WOULD SUPPORT.
00:46:42 >> HOWEVER WE HAVE A LONG LIST OF PRIORITIES THAT HAVE NOT
00:46:46 BEEN ALWAYS SUPPORTED INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT WORK AT THE 911
00:46:53 CENTER ON TURK STREET. WE'RE THANKFUL THAT THE CAPITAL
00:46:57 PLANNING COMMITTEE OVER THE YEARS HAS BEEN INCREMENTALLY
00:47:01 INCREMENTALLY ALLOWING US TO DO THE MOST URGENT EMERGENT WORK
00:47:05 THAT NEEDS TO BE TO BE HAD THE SIRENS WERE BUILT IN THE 50S
00:47:13 FOR A COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT AND A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE
00:47:17 THEN. I I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S
00:47:20 CONCERN AND AND PEOPLE WOULD PEOPLE SEEM TO FEEL LIKE THEY
00:47:24 WOULD BE MUCH SAFER WITH THEM. I WOULD SUPPORT THEM COMING
00:47:26 BACK BUT THIS IS WHERE WE ARE NOW AND I'M VERY CONFIDENT
00:47:32 IN THE PLANS THAT WE HAVE AND THE NOTIFICATIONS THAT WE
00:47:34 ALREADY DO HAVE. >> I I'M GOING TO FINISH THIS
00:47:37 THOUGHT AND I'M GOING TO CALL IN SAVOY SAUTER WHO ALSO HAS
00:47:41 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.
00:47:44 >> I, I THINK THAT WHAT I AM TRYING TO ARTICULATE AT THIS
00:47:47 MOMENT IS THAT I DON'T THINK I EVER INSISTING THAT WE MUST
00:47:51 HAVE THE EXISTING CURRENT SYSTEM.
00:47:55 WHAT I HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR IS THAT WE SHOULD HAVE A
00:48:02 REDUNDANCY SYSTEM. >> IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE
00:48:04 CURRY AND ON WHAT WE HAVE BUT WE MUST HAVE A REDUNDANT WE
00:48:11 TENDENCY IN OUR EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM.
00:48:12 >> WHAT I HAVE FOUND AND LEARNED DEEPLY LAST
00:48:19 DECEMBER WHEN THERE IS A BLACK OUT CITY WHY PERSON MY
00:48:23 EXPERIENCE IS THAT WITHOUT BATTERY TO MY PHONE WITHOUT Y
00:48:31 FIVE THAT I HAVE NO WAY TO UNDERSTAND AND KNOW WHAT'S
00:48:35 ACTUALLY GOING ON AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHER SOURCE OF AND I
00:48:42 ALSO REALIZE I DIDN'T HAVE A RADIO ON WHICH I NEED ONE.
00:48:45 >> A BATTERY SUPERVISOR YES, TOTALLY AND EVEN A GENERATOR.
00:48:49 AND THEN I ALSO YOU KNOW THE KICKER IS ALSO DR. CARROLL IS
00:48:53 THAT LIKE I DIDN'T EVEN CHARGE MY SATELLITE PHONE THAT I'M
00:48:56 SUPPOSED TO BE CARRYING SO THAT WAS OUT OF BATTERY TOO AND I
00:49:00 DIDN'T HAVE A BACKUP BATTERY FOR THAT.
00:49:01 SO ALL OF WHICH IS TO SAY THAT AS SOMEONE AS ME THAT SHOULD BE
00:49:05 REALLY WELL PREPARED FOR AND ACTUALLY HAVE ACCESS TO
00:49:09 MULTIPLE DEVICES THAT IS I BELIEVE BEYOND YOUR EVERYDAY
00:49:13 PERSON IT BRINGS ATTENTION TO ME THAT WE HAVE TO DO WE HAVE
00:49:20 TO DO BETTER AND THAT AFAIK OUR REDUNDANCY SYSTEM THAT IS NOT
00:49:23 RELIABLE ON WI FI TECHNOLOGY AND BATTERY OR YOU KNOW
00:49:28 ELECTRICITY THAT PLUGS IN BUT MAYBE ALTERNATIVE WOOD
00:49:32 GENERATOR AND BATTERIES SO AGAIN I AM SIMPLY ASKING FOR A
00:49:35 REDUNDANCY SYSTEM NOT NECESSARY ONLY THE EXISTING TSUNAMI SIREN
00:49:40 SYSTEM BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND I THINK YOU HAVE KIND OF DROVE IT
00:49:43 IN MY HEAD A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND SAY THIS IS NOT GOOD
00:49:47 ENOUGH. IT'S OUR SYSTEM.
00:49:48 I THINK IT'S WAR. IN A CONVERSATION WITH THE BOND
00:49:52 I JUST PASSED 535 MILLION WORTH OF IT TO KIND OF SEE LIKE WHAT
00:49:57 OTHER THERE ARE WAYS TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE WHAT DEPARTMENT
00:50:01 TECHNOLOGY AND WHAT ARE OUR OPTIONS AND SO WITH THAT
00:50:05 SUPERVISOR SAUTER THANK YOU AND A QUESTION ABOUT THE
00:50:08 PERFORMANCE SCORECARD ON THE LAST SLIDE AND THE RESPONSE
00:50:13 TIME I'M SORRY I DIDN'T I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU JUST
00:50:17 SAID A QUESTION ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE SCORECARD ON THE
00:50:20 LAST SLIDE. >> OH HE RESPONSE TIME CHART
00:50:24 YOU KNOW I SEE THE GOAL BEING 90% AND WE'RE EACH HERE JUST
00:50:28 JUST A TICK BELOW THAT. YEAH.
00:50:31 WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO REACH THAT 90% AND THIS IS FOR THOSE
00:50:35 NOT LOOKING AT IT THIS IS THE AMBULANCE RESPONSE TO A CALL
00:50:38 WITHIN TEN MINUTES OF DISPATCH AND THE GOAL BEING 90% YOU KNOW
00:50:45 IT'S NOT WE'RE NOT TOO FAR OFF BUT WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET
00:50:48 TO 90% COMPARED TO SO TODAY SO THERE'S NOT ONE EASY ANSWER TO
00:50:52 THAT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT AND I
00:50:55 AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO ASK THE FIRE CHIEF BECAUSE HE
00:50:59 PROBABLY HAS HIS OPINION ABOUT THAT ALSO AS THE OPERATOR.
00:51:02 >> BUT YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT EMS HAS TO DO IS,
00:51:07 YOU KNOW, WE REGULATE THE SYSTEM AND WHEN WHEN WE HAVE
00:51:10 ANY ISSUES WITH WE MONITOR DIVERSION FROM HOSPITALS WHAT
00:51:15 WE CALL A PART TIME WHICH IS BASICALLY THE TIME THAT PEOPLE
00:51:19 ARE YOU KNOW, THAT AMBULANCE TAKE TO KIND OF TURN OVER.
00:51:26 WE ALSO HAVE A MUCH MORE COMPLEX POPULATION OF PEOPLE
00:51:33 THAT WE ARE SERVING AND SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WE ARE WE
00:51:37 ARE WORKING VERY CLOSELY ALL THE TIME ON ALL OF THOSE
00:51:41 THINGS. WE WORK INCREDIBLY CLOSELY WITH
00:51:45 FIRE WITH OUR PROVIDERS WHICH IS THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES
00:51:49 ABOUT 8,080% OF THE RESPONSE AND THEN WE HAVE PRIVATES WITH
00:51:54 20 WE WORK WITH THEM CLOSELY. WE'RE WORKING WITH THE
00:51:57 HOSPITALS PRACTICALLY ON A WEEKLY BASIS TO HELP THEM
00:52:01 AND HELP THEM UNDERSTAND WHAT WILL WHAT THEY NEED FROM US TO
00:52:05 BE ABLE TO TURN OVER AND SAME WITH THEM.
00:52:08 >> SO YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WE ARE WELL ON OUR WAY TO GET
00:52:12 THERE. WE HAVE SEEN FROM OUR EFFORTS A
00:52:16 LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS IN THESE VERY A LOT OF THE OTHER METRICS
00:52:20 THAT LEAD UP TO THAT ULTIMATE RESPONSE TIME.
00:52:23 >> AND SO WE JUST HAVE TO CONTINUE ON ON THOSE PATHS.
00:52:28 >> BUT IF THERE'S ONE THING YOU COULD HAVE OR DO TO IMPROVE IT,
00:52:32 WHAT WOULD THAT BE? YOU KNOW, THERE THERE REALLY IS
00:52:41 ONE THING THAT I WOULD SAY I THINK THAT WE NEED TO I THINK
00:52:44 ONE THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER A SYSTEM WIDE APPROACH TO TO THE
00:52:52 EMS SYSTEM. I WOULD LOVE TO NOT SEE THE
00:52:56 SAME PEOPLE BEING PICKED UP ON EMS LIKE WE NEED TO BE REDUCING
00:53:03 SOME OF OUR CALLS WOULD BE EXCELLENT.
00:53:04 >> WE'RE SEEING EMS CALLS INCREASE YEAR OVER YEAR AND SO
00:53:11 WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK AT WAYS IN WHICH AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS
00:53:15 TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT BE GOING TO AN
00:53:17 EMERGENCY EMERGENCY ROOM ARE DIVERTED TO OTHER MORE
00:53:23 APPROPRIATE LOCATIONS. >> AND WE'RE WE'RE DOING A GOOD
00:53:28 JOB. WE HAVE A LOT YOU KNOW, WE HAVE
00:53:30 H HAS DONE IS PUT HAS CREATED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS OTHER
00:53:35 PLACES THAT PEOPLE CAN GO 811 WE'VE GOT EVEN THE RESET CENTER
00:53:42 SERVES FOR THAT TO A CERTAIN DEGREE THANK YOU THANK YOU
00:53:46 WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE MORE QUESTIONS BUT NOT AT THE
00:53:53 MOMENT. OKAY.
00:53:54 AND WE APPRECIATE IT AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WORKING WITH
00:53:56 OUR BUDGET AND LEGISLATOR ANALYST.
00:53:57 THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOU.
00:53:58 THANKS. THANK YOU.
00:53:59 AND SO WITH THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE JUVENILE PROBATION
00:54:02 DEPARTMENT RELOADING OUR IS IT COMING UP WHICH WE'RE ALREADY
00:54:31 HANDLING IT WE'RE LOADING THANK YOU READY OKAY.
00:54:59 OKAY. SHALL I BEGIN PLEASE?
00:55:06 THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY.
00:55:07 I WANTED TO GIVE A HUGE THANK YOU TO THE FOLKS AT APD WHO
00:55:11 PREPARED THE BUDGET. >> I WANT TO THANK THE NBA FOR
00:55:15 THEIR PARTNERSHIP AND THE BALLET FOR WHAT I'M SURE WILL
00:55:18 BE THEIR FORTHCOMING PARTNERSHIP AS WE GO THROUGH
00:55:19 THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND OF COURSE OUR STAFF AND OUR
00:55:22 PARTNERS IN THE WORK. >> NEXT SLIDE JPG MANY CORE
00:55:26 OPERATIONAL SERVICES ARE DICTATED BY STATE AND FEDERAL
00:55:30 LAW IN THE JUVENILE SYSTEM. >> PROBATION ACTUALLY WORKS
00:55:34 WITH YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THAT POINT OF ARREST ALL THE WAY
00:55:38 THROUGH THEIR TIME IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND OFTEN BEYOND
00:55:41 INTO EXTENDED FOSTER CARE AND ALMOST 40% OF OUR CASELOAD
00:55:45 IS OVER 18 AT THIS POINT. >> TRADITIONALLY YOU CAN THINK
00:55:49 OF US AS MANAGING COURT FUNCTIONS, SUPERVISING YOUNG
00:55:52 PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY OPERATING A 24 OVER SEVEN DETENTION
00:55:56 FACILITY AND AGAIN THOSE FOSTER CARE RESPONSIBILITIES BUT ALSO
00:56:02 IN 2020 GOVERNMENT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SIGNED HISTORIC
00:56:04 AND IMPORTANT LEGISLATION THAT CLOSED CALIFORNIA'S YOUTH
00:56:07 PRISON SYSTEM AND TRANSFERRED THOSE DUTIES TO PROBATION AT
00:56:11 THE COUNTY LEVEL. >> THIS REFORM IS CALLED DOJ
00:56:15 REALIGNMENT AND IT MEANS WE ARE NOW ESSENTIALLY ALSO STATE
00:56:18 YOUTH PRISON AND PAROLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BUT IN SAN
00:56:23 FRANCISCO STYLE OUR DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVES OPERATIONALIZE THESE
00:56:27 LEGAL MANDATES SO YOU CAN SEE OUR FOUR KIND OF SETS OF
00:56:31 OBJECTIVES ON THIS SLIDE AND THE BULLETS UNDER THEM SHOW
00:56:34 OUR KEY STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING OUR OBJECTIVES.
00:56:38 THESE STRATEGIES ARE BUILT ON EXTENSIVE CITY PLANNING
00:56:42 PROCESSES GOING BACK TO THE CLOSED JUVENILE HALL WORKGROUP
00:56:46 AND THEY ARE VERY COLLABORATIVE IN ORIENTATION WE UPDATE OUR
00:56:50 STRATEGIES ANNUALLY TO REFLECT NEW MANDATES TO INCORPORATE
00:56:53 DATA AND TRENDS AND TO INCORPORATE STAFF FEEDBACK
00:56:57 AND STAKEHOLDER INPUT INCLUDING FROM OUR YOUTH AND FAMILIES.
00:57:01 WE DO NOT OPERATE DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS AT THIS POINT NONE OF
00:57:05 WHAT WE DO IS DISCRETIONARY. >> IT'S LIKE OVER THE LAST FIVE
00:57:10 YEARS THE JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT HAS DECREASED
00:57:13 GENERAL FUND SOURCES 8%. WE HAVE DECREASED OUR WORKFORCE
00:57:17 27%. >> WE'VE REDUCED CASE CARRYING
00:57:21 PROBATION OFFICERS IN PARTICULAR 48% WHICH HAS NOW
00:57:24 LED TO A 47% INCREASE IN THEIR CASELOAD SIZES.
00:57:27 >> AT THE SAME TIME WE'VE ABSORBED THAT DJJ REALIGNMENT
00:57:31 MANDATE THAT I MENTIONED WITHOUT COMMENSURATE FUNDING.
00:57:34 SO AT THIS POINT OUR ANALYSIS OF CURRENT RESOURCES COMBINED
00:57:39 WITH OUR EVOLVING MANDATES AND SOME COST DRIVERS HAS MADE
00:57:43 IT CLEAR THAT WE DOWNSIZE TOO FAR AND WE NEED TO BE
00:57:46 READJUSTING TO BE RIGHT SIZED AND RIGHT RESOURCED AND A
00:57:47 REALLY BIG PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE OF DJJ REALIGNMENT.
00:57:51 SO I'M GOING TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT IT.
00:57:53 >> THIS SLIDE UNDERSCORES THE FISCAL IMPACT OF ABSORBING DOJ
00:57:58 REALIGNMENT MANDATES. >> THE BROWN AND ORANGE SLICES
00:58:02 SHOW HOW MUCH WE SPEND ON THOSE FUNCTIONS AGAIN ESSENTIALLY
00:58:06 SERVING AS LONG TERM FACILITY REPLACING STATE YOUTH PRISONS
00:58:13 AND THAT KIND OF PAROLE FOR YOUTH FUNCTION.
00:58:14 >> DOJ REALIGNMENT COSTS NOW TAKE UP 21% OF OUR BUDGET WITH
00:58:17 THE STATE PROVIDING 3.5 MILLION AND THE DEPARTMENT ALLOCATING
00:58:23 ANOTHER 7.4 MILLION FROM OUR EXISTING BUDGET TO DO THAT
00:58:27 RELATIVELY NEW REQUIRED WORK. WITHOUT THAT WE WOULD BE BEFORE
00:58:31 YOU GIVING BACK GENERAL FUND MONEY.
00:58:32 >> NEXT SLIDE AND THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS WHY D.J.
00:58:36 REALIGNMENT HAS HAD SUCH A BIG IMPACT AND WE'RE TALKING
00:58:39 FISCALLY TODAY BUT ALSO FUNCTIONALLY AND ON THE ACTUAL
00:58:43 LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN SAN FRANCISCO YOUTH AND YOUNG
00:58:47 ADULTS WITH LONG TERM CUSTODIAL COMMITMENTS YOU CAN THINK OF
00:58:52 THEM AS THE EQUIVALENT OF SENTENCES IN THE ADULT SYSTEM
00:58:55 AND THEY CAN BE UP FOR UP TO SEVEN YEARS IN OUR FACILITY.
00:58:58 >> THOSE COMMITMENTS AND SERVING THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE
00:59:00 REQUIRE COMPREHENSIVE REHABILITATIVE PROGRAMING WHICH
00:59:03 WE HAVE HAD TO CREATE IN OUR FACILITY IN SEPARATE UNITS FROM
00:59:07 THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE WITH US IN DETENTION STATUS.
00:59:10 >> ADDITIONALLY, THE COURT HAS COMMITTED MORE YOUTH THAN
00:59:14 ANTICIPATED INTO THESE LONG TERM SECURE STAYS SIGNIFICANTLY
00:59:18 MORE YOUNG PEOPLE THAN THE COUNTY USED TO SEND TO JJ WHEN
00:59:22 IT WAS OPEN AND ADDITIONALLY EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY REENTRY FOR
00:59:26 THESE YOUNG PEOPLE THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO'VE COMMITTED THE
00:59:30 MOST SERIOUS HARM AND NEED THE MOST SUPPORT IT IS INTENSELY
00:59:33 INTENSIVE AND IT IS COSTLY PARTICULARLY FOR HOUSING
00:59:40 IN ADDITION TO SIGNIFICANT SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED
00:59:44 CASELOADS THAT I MENTIONED BEFORE, OUR PROBATION OFFICERS
00:59:48 HAVE SOME OTHER SIGNIFICANT DEMANDS RIGHT NOW THERE ARE
00:59:51 INTENSIVE NEW FOSTER CARE MANDATES, NEW LAWS THAT TOOK
00:59:54 EFFECT JANUARY 1ST AND A STEADY INCREASE IN YOUTH WHO'VE BEEN
00:59:59 COURT ORDERED INTO OUT OF HOME PLACEMENT WHICH IS A VERY LABOR
01:00:03 INTENSIVE PART OF OUR WORK FOCUSED ON YOUNG PEOPLE
01:00:04 AND FAMILIES WITH THE MOST COMPLEX NEEDS AND I EXPECT
01:00:10 AND APPRECIATE THAT OUR PROBATION OFFICERS ARE
01:00:12 PERFORMING THESE INCREASED RESPONSIBILITY IS AS WE'RE
01:00:15 HAVING THEM IMPLEMENT A VARIETY OF EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICES
01:00:19 DESIGNED TO IMPROVE YOUTH OUTCOMES, BETTER SUPPORT OUR
01:00:22 FAMILIES AND REDUCE RECIDIVISM SERVICES BY COMMUNITY BASED
01:00:30 ORGANIZATIONS COMPRISE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF SAN
01:00:35 FRANCISCO'S JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM.
01:00:36 THEY ARE NOT EXTRA THEY ARE CORE TO HOW WE DO OUR WORK.
01:00:39 EVERY YOUTH AND FAMILY GOING THROUGH OUR SYSTEM IS NOW
01:00:43 CONNECTED TO A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AS SOON AS
01:00:46 POSSIBLE AFTER ARREST AND CBOS PROVIDE AN ARRAY OF SERVICES
01:00:50 IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER. THE MAJORITY OF THOSE SERVICES
01:00:54 ARE FUNDED THROUGH A 3.5 MILLION ANNUAL WORK ORDER FROM
01:00:57 PROBATION TO DCF AND THAT FUNDING IS STABLE IN THE
01:01:01 BUDGET. >> HOWEVER, WE ALSO HAVE THREE
01:01:03 CRITICAL PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED IN COLLABORATION
01:01:05 WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR WHICH FUNDING IS SET TO EXPIRE
01:01:10 THIS FISCAL YEAR AND THEY ARE LISTED HERE AGAIN.
01:01:12 THEY ARE CORE TO OUR APPROACH AS A JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
01:01:15 AND THEY ARE HEAVILY UTILIZED. >> NEXT SLIDE ALL THIS TO SAY
01:01:22 OUR FOCUS AT THIS TIME IS ON PREVENT US ON PRESERVATION
01:01:26 AND STRENGTHENING OUTCOMES. SO IN YEAR ONE OUR PROPOSED
01:01:27 BUDGET INCLUDES SOME ADDITIONS FUNDING TO REPLACE THE EXPIRING
01:01:34 FUNDS THAT I MENTIONED FOR CRITICAL SYSTEM COMPONENTS WITH
01:01:35 OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO PROBATION OFFICERS TO ADDRESS
01:01:38 INCREASED CASELOADS AND MANDATES.
01:01:42 ONE POSITION SUBSTITUTION TO ACCOMMODATE THE INCREASINGLY
01:01:46 COMPLEX AND VERY CONSEQUENTIAL WORK REALIGNMENT AND ATTRITION
01:01:50 ADJUSTMENT THAT WILL ENABLE US TO REDUCE OVERTIME IN THE
01:01:54 JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER WITH BOTH FINANCIAL AND HUMAN
01:01:57 IMPACTS AND THEN CAPITAL AND EQUIPMENT FUNDING TO
01:02:01 SUPPORT CRITICAL REPLACEMENT AND REPAIRS IN OUR 76 YEAR OLD
01:02:05 BUILDING AND OTHER PARTS OF OUR CAMPUS.
01:02:09 >> AND THEN IN YEAR TWO ARE YOU ON YOUR TO AND YOUR TO THE
01:02:15 BUDGET INCLUDES TWO ADDITIONAL ITEMS ONE OF WHICH IS CAREER
01:02:17 AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOR THE LONG TERM YOUTH IN OUR
01:02:20 FACILITY. >> AGAIN IT'S NOT A
01:02:23 DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM. THIS IS A STATUTORY REQUIREMENT
01:02:27 . >> THIS SLIDE LISTS THE FOUR
01:02:31 POSITIONS THAT WE PROPOSED FOR ELIMINATION ALONG THE WAY
01:02:32 THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS AND THEN THIS SLIDE SHOWS OUR
01:02:38 PROPOSED ORG CHART INCLUDING MANAGER TO STAFF RATIO VACANT
01:02:42 AND NEW POSITIONS AND OUR ONE PROPOSED SUBSTITUTION AND THEN
01:02:45 FINALLY THIS SLIDE PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
01:02:47 REQUESTED BY CHAIR CHAN. >> THANK YOU.
01:02:50 I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS .
01:02:53 >> THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT
01:02:57 YOU'VE BEEN DOING. AS YOU HAVE INDICATED THERE ARE
01:02:59 ACTUALLY MANDATORY THERE'S NOTHING THAT WITHIN YOUR BUDGET
01:03:02 NOW AND YOUR FUNCTION AND OPERATION ARE
01:03:05 DISCRETIONARY. SO WE APPRECIATE THAT.
01:03:06 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK .
01:03:09 >> SUPERVISOR WALTON THANK YOU, CHAIR AND THANK YOU DIRECTOR
01:03:11 MILLER JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WHAT'S THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT YOU
01:03:16 ACTUALLY RECEIVE FROM THE STATE VERSUS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY NEED
01:03:20 FROM THE STATE FROM THE CLOSURE ?
01:03:24 >> WHY? RIGHT.
01:03:25 IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO WHAT WE RECEIVE FROM THE
01:03:26 STATE IS 3.5 MILLION AND THEN WHAT WE SPEND IS ANOTHER 7.4
01:03:30 MILLION. >> SO WE GET ABOUT A THIRD FROM
01:03:34 THE STATE OF WHAT IT ACTUALLY COSTS US TO DO THE WORK.
01:03:38 YOU KNOW WE OFTEN JOKE THAT THE STATE NEVER REALIGNS FUNCTIONS
01:03:41 TO THE COUNTIES AT A FISCAL LOSS TO ITSELF AND I THINK THIS
01:03:43 IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE SEE IT BUT ALSO IN DEFENSE OF THE
01:03:47 STATE I THINK THAT IT'S ALWAYS HARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S
01:03:51 JUST GOING TO COST A LOT MORE WHEN YOU SPREAD FUNCTIONS
01:03:54 ACROSS COUNTIES. AND I ALSO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
01:03:58 THAT I WANT TO SAY TO THE TO THE BODY THAT WE TAKE THE WORK
01:04:02 REALLY SERIOUSLY AND I THINK IT IS A REALLY HISTORIC IMPORTANT
01:04:05 CHANGE. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE
01:04:06 CLOSE THOSE STATE FACILITIES BUT I ALSO THINK WE NEED TO BE
01:04:09 REALISTIC ABOUT WHAT IT COSTS TO DO THE WORK WELL AND IN A
01:04:12 WAY THAT'S WORTHY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE COMMUNITY.
01:04:16 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
01:04:20 THANK YOU. AND WITH THAT WE WILL GO TO
01:04:23 ADULT PROBATION. THAT'S GOOD.
01:04:34 JEFF AS WE GET SET UP I WOULD JUST SAY GOOD AFTERNOON BUDGET
01:04:56 CHAIR CHEN SUPERVISORS WALTON SOUDER AND SUPERVISOR CHEN.
01:05:02 MY NAME IS CRYSTAL TO WELCOME THE CHIEF OF THE ADULT
01:05:04 PROBATION DEPARTMENT AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE
01:05:08 OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO SHARE THIS STORY AND STRATEGIC VISION OF
01:05:11 OUR DEPARTMENT ON BEHALF OF THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE CITY
01:05:15 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, WE EXTEND GRATITUDE TO THE
01:05:22 MAYOR OFFICE AND TO MAYOR LAURIE AND HIS STAFF FOR
01:05:26 ALL THE GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT DURING THIS PROCESS.
01:05:30 OUR ASSISTANT CHIEF IS JEREMY VAL VERDE JOINING ME TODAY IS
01:05:34 OUR POLICY AND LEGACY DIRECTOR ALICIA BROWN HOFMEISTER AND OUR
01:05:38 DEPUTY DIRECTOR THOMAS MADISON. I'M SO HONORED TO REPRESENT ALL
01:05:42 OF THE DEDICATED STAFF THAT MAKE UP OUR SMALL BUT MIGHTY
01:05:46 ADULT PROBATION TEAM. NEXT SLIDE OUR MISSION IS CLEAR
01:05:52 AND IT'S ROOTED IN EQUITY AND SERVICE.
01:05:56 EVERY ACTION WE TAKE IS DRIVEN BY THE BELIEF THAT ALL PEOPLE
01:06:00 DESERVE THE CHANCE TO THRIVE. NEXT SLIDE OUR CORE SERVICES
01:06:05 INCLUDE A MANDATED INVESTIGATIONS AND SUPERVISION
01:06:08 FUNCTIONS OUR INVESTIGATORS PROVIDE SENTENCING AND CUSTODY
01:06:12 RECOMMENDATION TO THE COURT THAT ARE PROVIDED TO THE D.A.
01:06:17 AND DEFENSE THAT RANGE FROM COMMUNITY SUPERVISION TO STATE
01:06:20 PRISON. OUR REPORTS FOLLOW THE LIFE OF
01:06:24 THE PERSON AND ARE USED BY CDCR FOR CLASSIFICATION
01:06:27 AND PROGRAMING PURPOSES. WE ARE MANDATED
01:06:34 AND INCENTIVIZED TO KEEP PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
01:06:38 WE RECEIVE FUNDING RELATED TO HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS WE ARE
01:06:42 SUCCESSFULLY ABLE TO REMAIN OUT OF JAIL AND STATE PRISON.
01:06:52 OUR SUPERVISION PRACTICES ARE GUIDED BY STATE MANDATES
01:06:57 AND EVIDENCE BASED PRINCIPLES. >> NEXT SLIDE OUR PERFORMANCE
01:07:03 HIGHLIGHTS REFLECTS OUR VALUES. OUR PROGRAMS DELIVER
01:07:07 ACCOUNTABILITY AND OPPORTUNITY THROUGH OUR COMPREHENSIVE
01:07:12 SERVICES. WE LAUNCHED OUR M CAS WHICH IS
01:07:15 OUR MOBILE PROBATION UNIT. WE HOUSED AN AVERAGE OF 335
01:07:21 INDIVIDUALS EVERY NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO AND A HUGE FEATURE OF
01:07:25 OUR HOUSING PROGRAMS IS THAT FOR A LONG TIME SAN FRANCISCO
01:07:29 WAS A TREATMENT DESERT ESSENTIALLY AND PROBATION WAS
01:07:35 ONE OF THE ONLY PLACES WHERE YOU COULD BE HOUSED IN A SOBER
01:07:37 LIVING TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM. WE HELPED 319 INDIVIDUALS BE
01:07:46 PREPARED AND SECURE JOBS. OUR CASH IS OUR ONE STOP HUB.
01:07:51 CREATING JUSTICE INVOLVED INDIVIDUALS TO CONNECTING
01:07:54 JUSTICE INVOLVED INDIVIDUALS TO SERVICES WITH DIGNITY AND CARE.
01:07:58 WE SERVED 3000 CLOSE TO 3000 UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE
01:08:05 CURRENTLY INFORMALLY JUSTICE INVOLVED THIS PAST YEAR AND OUR
01:08:09 RECIDIVISM RATE FOR THE THREE DIFFERENT POPULATION THAT WE
01:08:13 SERVE IS BELOW THE STATE'S AVERAGE.
01:08:16 >> NEXT SLIDE AND THIS IS OUR ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
01:08:20 AND FEATURES THE PROPOSED RESTORATIVE AND PREVENTION
01:08:24 SERVICES DIVISION. NEXT SLIDE OUR PRIORITIES
01:08:28 AND INCENTIVES INCLUDES A FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY AND TWO NEW
01:08:33 PROGRAMS PRETRIAL SERVICES AND VIOLENCE REDUCTION.
01:08:37 AND NOW I'LL TURN THIS OVER TO OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR TASK
01:08:41 MEDICINE. >> GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.
01:08:48 TORREY MATTESON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO
01:08:52 ADULT PROBATION DEPARTMENT. AND SO OUR PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR
01:08:58 2627 BUDGET IS $72 MILLION OF A $72.6 MILLION OUR REVENUES ARE
01:09:05 COMPRISED PRIMARILY OF GENERAL FUND AND THEN OUR SECOND
01:09:06 LARGEST GENERAL REVENUE SOURCE WOULD BE OUR STATE FUNDING
01:09:10 PRIMARILY A B109 REALIGNMENT FUNDING.
01:09:14 >> NEXT SLIDE. >> SO ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE
01:09:20 THERE IS AN INCREASE OF ABOUT $11 MILLION IN OUR BUDGET
01:09:24 AND THAT INCREASE IS PRIMARILY DUE TO TWO NEW PROGRAMS
01:09:27 AND I'LL GET INTO MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE BUDGET ON THAT ON
01:09:32 THOSE INCREASES. >> BUT OVERALL FOR OUR
01:09:34 EXPENDITURES SIMILAR TO MOST DEPARTMENTS SALARIES
01:09:38 AND PRINTERS WILL BE OUR LARGEST EXPENDITURE BUT THEN
01:09:40 OUR SECOND LARGEST EXPENDITURE WILL BE OUR HOUSING
01:09:42 AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND THAT WOULD BE ABOUT 30%
01:09:45 AND THAT INCLUDES OUR CITY GRANTS AND PROGRAMMATIC
01:09:49 PROJECTS AND THAT'S REFLECTING EXACTLY WHAT THE CHIEF JUSTICE
01:09:53 THE SECOND AGO A LOT OF OUR WORK THAT WE DO WE ACTUALLY
01:09:57 LEAN VERY HEAVILY ON THE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
01:09:58 IN PROVIDING SERVICES TO OUR CLIENTS.
01:10:02 >> NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. >> SO ALTHOUGH OUR BUDGET IS
01:10:09 INCREASING AND IT'S INCREASING DUE TO THOSE NEW PROGRAMS, IF
01:10:13 YOU LOOK AT JUST OUR EXISTING PROGRAMS AND OUR EXISTING
01:10:15 BUDGET, OUR BUDGET IS ACTUALLY REMAINING FLAT.
01:10:17 WE DID ELIMINATE FOUR POSITIONS IN THE BUDGET AT ABOUT
01:10:24 $600,000. THERE'S ABOUT $1 MILLION
01:10:27 REDUCTION IN SOME OF OUR HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
01:10:30 FUNDING AND WE'VE FOUND A WAY TO KIND OF WORK AND LOOK AT
01:10:31 SAVINGS AND ALSO LOOK AT SPENDING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
01:10:35 DON'T CUT INTO SERVICE PROVISION AND EXCLUDING THE NEW
01:10:39 PROGRAMS THAT I'LL GO OVER IN A SECOND.
01:10:42 OUR ACTUAL BUDGET IS THAT $62 MILLION IN OUR ACT ACTUALLY FTE
01:10:46 ACTUALLY GOES DOWN. >> NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
01:10:52 >> SO HERE OUR EXPENSES ARE BY OF COURSE OVER SERVICES AND OF
01:10:57 COURSE WE FOCUS ON OUR MANDATED SUPERVISION AND INVESTIGATIONS
01:11:00 WHICH IS ABOUT 42% OF OUR BUDGET AND THEN THE REMAINING
01:11:06 58% ALL SUPPORTS THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ALSO CORE SERVICES
01:11:10 AND SO WE INCLUDE OUR BUDGETING FOR HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE
01:11:11 SERVICES AS OUR I.T. PROCUREMENT RESEARCH IN EACH
01:11:15 OTHER AND IN ADDITION IN AN ADMINISTRATION THAT INCLUDES A
01:11:19 LOT OF DEPARTMENT WIDE SERVICES, ALL OF OUR WORK
01:11:22 ORDERS, RENT MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES ETC. SO TO THE NEW
01:11:30 PROGRAMS IN THE BUDGET THESE ARE OUR TWO PROGRAMS.
01:11:34 >> THE FIRST IS THE PRETRIAL PROGRAM AND THAT AMOUNT IS
01:11:40 ABOUT $7.4 MILLION IN THE FIRST YEAR WHICH IS 35 FTE AND THEN
01:11:46 ABOUT 8.5 IN THE SECOND YEAR AND THAT'S ANNUALIZED
01:11:50 POSITIONS. AND THEN THE SECOND PROGRAM OUR
01:11:51 BALANCE REDUCTION PROGRAM IS ABOUT $2 MILLION WITH THREE FTE
01:11:58 AND THAT REMAINS ABOUT TWO 2,000,003 OVER BOTH YEARS.
01:12:08 >> AND SO I'LL TALK ABOUT OUR PRETRIAL SERVICES VISION WHICH
01:12:15 IS TO MODERNIZE AND BE SERVICE FORWARD TO SUPPORT THE O.R.
01:12:19 DIVERSION AND ORAL OUR POPULATION THAT REQUIRES
01:12:23 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY.
01:12:24 NEXT SLIDE THE FOUR PILLARS OF OUR PROGRAM INCLUDE AUTOMATING
01:12:27 THE PSC TO PROVIDE FASTER CONSISTENT REPORTS TO THE COURT
01:12:33 . OUR PRETRIAL CASE MANAGEMENT
01:12:34 SYSTEM FEATURES REMOTE CHECK INS SCALE SUPERVISION BY RISK
01:12:38 TO ENSURE THE LEAST RESTRICTIVE PLAN THAT INCLUDES REDUCED
01:12:42 SUPERVISION OVER TIME. OUR TASK OUR REALLY ARE READY
01:12:46 SUPPORTS MANY PRETRIAL CLIENTS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE
01:12:50 SOURCE FOR HOUSING, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND CASE MANAGEMENT.
01:12:54 AND THEN FINALLY OUR PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND CONTINUOUS
01:12:58 IMPROVEMENT THAT INCLUDES A PSA VALIDATION STUDY FOR SAN
01:13:01 FRANCISCO. NEXT SLIDE OUR PROPOSED
01:13:08 TIMELINE IS FOUR PHASES AND THE PLAN INCLUDES THE DEVELOPMENT
01:13:14 OF THE AUTOMATED PSA AND WORKFLOWS MOVING INTO THE
01:13:18 SECOND PHASE WHERE WE WILL TEST THE PSA, DEVELOP THIS CASE
01:13:22 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ON BOARD NEW STAFF.
01:13:26 THE POSITIONS ARE ALL CITY POSITIONS THAT OFFER CAREER
01:13:31 MOBILITY WITH THE CITY AND COUNTY AND SAN FRANCISCO'S
01:13:32 FAMILY AND EVERY POSITION WILL BE PUBLICLY ADVERTISED.
01:13:38 THE THIRD PHASE IS FINALIZING OUR WORKFLOWS WITH THE COURT
01:13:42 AND SHERIFF. AND FINALLY OUR PRE GO LIVE
01:13:43 ACTIVITIES THAT INCLUDE NOTIFICATION TO CLIENTS AND WE
01:13:50 PROJECT GOING LIVE JANUARY 20TH, 27.
01:13:53 >> NEXT SLIDE THE NEW RESTORATIVE AND PREVENTION
01:13:57 SERVICES DIVISION WILL BE A NON SWORN DIVISION THAT INCLUDES
01:14:04 OUR REENTRY DIVISION, THE NEWLY FORMED VIOLENCE REDUCTION
01:14:06 INITIATIVE AND THE PRETRIAL SERVICES DIVISION THAT WILL
01:14:11 INCLUDE 44 NEW POSITIONS TO SUPPORT ASSESSMENT
01:14:15 AND MONITORING OF THE POPULATION.
01:14:16 THE VR AI COLLABORATIVE WITH DCF, APD AND PARTNERS WILL
01:14:23 COMMUNITY WILL PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
01:14:27 AND COMMUNITY LEADERS AND VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS TO
01:14:28 PREVENT VIOLENCE, RESPOND TO CRISIS SUPPORT VICTIMS
01:14:32 AND CONNECT HIGH NEED INDIVIDUALS TO SERVICES THAT
01:14:36 PROMOTE LONG TERM COMMUNITY SAFETY.
01:14:39 WE ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING AN MOU AND MULTI DEPARTMENT RFP TO
01:14:43 SOLICIT INTEREST IN THIS INITIATIVE THAT WILL BE
01:14:47 RELEASED WITHIN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.
01:14:50 NEXT SLIDE. NOW THE CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF
01:14:54 THE TRANSITION IS COORDINATING AND MEETING CADENCE WITH OUR
01:14:58 PARTNERS AND VENDORS WILL FOCUS ON RESEARCH AND QUALITY
01:15:02 ASSURANCE TO ENSURE CLIENTS ANNUAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
01:15:06 AND WE WILL HAVE DIRECT OVERSIGHT BY THE SUPERIOR COURT
01:15:10 AND THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR FISCAL
01:15:13 AND ADMINISTRATIVE CODES AND REGULATIONS AS IT RELATES
01:15:17 TO OVERSIGHT. NEXT SLIDE THIS SITE REFLECTS
01:15:21 OUR PROBATION OPERATIONS. NEXT SLIDE THIS IS OUR
01:15:28 ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS. NEXT SLIDE.
01:15:33 >> SO OUR CURRENT POSITION DETAILS REFLECT THAT WE HAVE
01:15:38 131 POSITIONS. NEXT SLIDE OUR DEPARTMENT
01:15:46 STAFFING REFLECTS A STERILE A STEADY DECLINE FROM 2019 WITH
01:15:52 154 POSITIONS TO 138 POSITIONS BY THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 2028.
01:15:59 THIS DOES NOT REFLECT THE PROPOSED NEW PROGRAMS.
01:16:05 >> AND SO THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION.
01:16:09 >> AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I'M AVAILABLE.
01:16:10 THANK YOU. >> JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND
01:16:14 WHERE IS THE PRETRIAL USES SUMMARY LIKE IT'S INCLUDED HERE
01:16:17 IS IT IN THE MY APOLOGIES I'M LOOKING AT YOUR LINE ITEM THE
01:16:24 THIS BOOK GREEN BOOK RIGHT HERE COULD YOU SHOW COULD YOU
01:16:29 INDICATE TO ME WHERE'S THE WHERE IS IT'S THE LINE ITEM OR
01:16:33 IS IT JUST KIND OF PART OF THE PERSONNEL IS A CITY GREEN
01:16:39 PROGRAM OR IS IT THE OR YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE OVERALL
01:16:43 BUDGET? NO, IT'S A PART OF THE THE
01:16:45 ACTUAL BUDGET. SO IF YOU CAN WE GO TO THE
01:16:48 SLIDE PLEASE ALIA THE ONE THAT'S THAT ONE THAT SHOWS THAT
01:16:51 SO IT'S REFLECTED IN OUR SALARIES IN NON PERSONNEL
01:16:55 AND NON PERSONNEL AND ALSO IN MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES I
01:16:58 SEE. >> AND THEN SO YOU ARE NOW
01:17:01 INCLUSIVE OF THE PRETRIAL. SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS FOR
01:17:09 YOUR TOTAL OF YOUR BUDGET AND IN THIS CASE SALARIES
01:17:16 FRINGE AND NON PERSONNEL SERVICES OR I SHOULD SAY YEAH
01:17:20 AND ADDED TOGETHER IT'S ADDITIONAL COSTS FOR THE 2627
01:17:27 IS 7.4 MILLION AND THEN FOR 2728 IS 8.5 MILLION ROUGHLY
01:17:31 AND BOTH COLLECTIVELY TOGETHER IS REALLY TO COVER TWO PRETRIAL
01:17:35 TRANSITION. >> YES NEW PROGRAM AND BUT IT'S
01:17:42 NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT THE TRANSITION DOESN'T HAPPEN OR AT
01:17:47 LEAST WE'RE NOT ANTICIPATING THAT IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL
01:17:51 SHOULD IT HAPPEN WILL BE SECOND HALF OF THE OF THE FISCAL YEAR
01:17:55 ISN'T IT. >> I'LL ANSWER YEAH SO BUT WE
01:18:01 NEED TO HIRE AND PREPARE THE PROGRAM BEFORE WE ACTUALLY GO
01:18:04 LIVE SO HIRING TRAINING, TESTING OUR MODEL, WORKING WITH
01:18:11 OUR VENDORS, TESTING THE NEW CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ALL OF
01:18:15 THAT NEEDS SOME TIME. AND SO BASED ON OUR MODEL
01:18:19 AND OUR PLAN WE PROJECT THAT WE WOULD BE PREPARED TO GO LIVE
01:18:25 JANUARY 27TH. >> AND SO THIS IS AT THE SAME
01:18:26 TIME WE'RE SPENDING BECAUSE WE JUST DID THAT TO FOUR DOES BODY
01:18:32 TO APPROVE A THREE YEAR CONTRACT FOR PRETRIAL WITH THE
01:18:35 SHERIFF AND WHICH THEN ALSO I BELIEVE A LEASING AGREEMENT
01:18:42 THAT WE WILL BE BUDGETED AT FOR ONE OR WE APPROVE THE CONTRACT
01:18:46 AND HOPING THAT AND THAT'S A QUESTION SO ALSO FOR THE SHARES
01:18:51 TO SEE HOW MUCH WAS ACTUALLY FUNDED FOR THAT CONTRACT.
01:18:54 MAYBE DIRECTOR CUTLER CAN HELP US ANSWER THAT QUESTIONS WITH
01:18:59 THE SHIRT DEPARTMENT BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IF THE
01:19:03 CONTRACT THAT WE APPROVE WAS FULLY FUNDED BECAUSE IN THIS
01:19:10 CASE WE JUST APPROVED A THREE WE APPROVE THREE YEARS CONTRACT
01:19:14 WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE'RE PUTTING THE ON WE'RE ONLY
01:19:21 ALLOWING THE SPENDING OF ONE YEAR PUTTING REMAINING OF THE
01:19:25 TWO YEARS ON RESERVE AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT TO BE IS THAT
01:19:30 IT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT $7 MILLION PER YEAR FOR THAT CONTRACT.
01:19:33 IT'S ABOUT $21 MILLION OF THAT CONTRACT WHICH MEANS THAT WE'RE
01:19:37 ANTICIPATING THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND THESE HAVE
01:19:38 ROUGHLY ABOUT $7 MILLION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2627.
01:19:42 MEANWHILE, THE PROBATION IS ALSO COMING IN AT ADDITIONAL
01:19:48 $7.4 MILLION FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT FOR THE SAME
01:19:52 PURPOSE. SO I'M JUST TRYING TO
01:19:53 UNDERSTAND EXACTLY HOW IS THIS TRANSITION GOING TO WORK WHERE
01:19:57 EVERYBODY SEEMS TO HAVE A WELL IN MY OPINION AT LEAST $3.5
01:20:03 MILLION FOR DUPLICATED PURPOSE OF SPENDING.
01:20:10 >> SURE. AND ALL THE COURT HAS
01:20:13 INSTRUCTED MY DEPARTMENT TO DEVELOP A PRETRIAL PROGRAM
01:20:15 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT AS
01:20:21 SOON AS WE'RE READY TO GO LIVE, THE COURT WILL START DIRECTING
01:20:25 THAT POPULATION TO US BETWEEN TODAY AND THE TIME THAT WE'RE
01:20:30 PREPARED. THE PROGRAM STILL NEEDS TO MOVE
01:20:33 AND SO I EXPECT THAT FUNDING IS FOR THAT PURPOSE.
01:20:40 >> HELP ME UNDERSTAND THOUGH IS IT THE COURT ORDER OR IS IT
01:20:41 JUST THE COURT RECOMMENDATION PER THE PENAL CODE IT'S THE
01:20:48 COURT THAT DETERMINES WHERE THIS POPULATION IS MANAGED
01:20:49 AND SO AS IT SITS TODAY WE ARE A DIRECT REPORT TO THE COURT
01:20:55 IN THE COURT SENDS WORK TO THE ADULT PROBATION DEPARTMENT
01:20:56 EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT ONE DAY DOES A COURT ASK ARE YOU STAFF
01:21:00 TO RECEIVE THIS ABUNDANCE OF WORK?
01:21:03 WE COMPLETED MORE THAN 4000 REPORTS AS ORDERED TO US BY THE
01:21:07 COURT AND NOT ONE TIME IN THOSE 4000 ORDERS THAT THE COURT
01:21:10 ASKED IF I HAD THE PROPER STAFFING BECAUSE WE'RE MANDATED
01:21:14 TO DO THAT WORK. SO TODAY THE COURT COULD SEND
01:21:18 THAT ENTIRE POPULATION TO US. THEY'RE NOT DOING THAT BECAUSE
01:21:22 THEY DON'T WANT TO OVERLOAD THE DEPARTMENT.
01:21:25 BUT IT IS THE CASE THAT PER THE PENAL CODE IT'S THE COURT THAT
01:21:27 DETERMINES WHERE PROBATION OR PRETRIAL GOES AND DOES THE
01:21:34 COURT ALSO DICTATE THE MODEL OF OPERATION FOR PRETRIAL?
01:21:38 >> THE COURT THE COURTS CAN SOME OF THIS IS MANDATED FOR
01:21:45 INSTANCE USING A RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL AND THEN IN THE
01:21:49 PENAL CODE JUST THE OVERALL STRUCTURE OF WHEN SOMEONE
01:21:52 SOMEONE'S RELEASED INTO THE COMMUNITY THE EXPECTATION THAT
01:21:54 REALLY IS ALL THE OVERSIGHT OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
01:22:00 >> BUT SO IF I BUILD A PROGRAM THAT THE SUPERIOR COURT IS NOT
01:22:02 IN AGREEMENT WITH, THEY COULD ABSOLUTELY SAY WHAT WE WANT THE
01:22:08 PROGRAM TO LOOK A CERTAIN WAY. BUT THE PROGRAM THAT WE DEVELOP
01:22:12 THEY'RE IN AGREEMENT WITH AND IT'S A PROGRAM THAT WE
01:22:16 INTEND TO IMPLEMENT. HOW IS IT THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY
01:22:20 UNDERSTAND THAT EXISTING PRETRIAL MODEL WILL BE ANYTHING
01:22:24 DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DEVELOP?
01:22:28 >> I'M SORRY I'M NOT FOLLOWING THE QUESTION BECAUSE I CAN'T
01:22:32 SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE CURRENT CURRENT MODEL.
01:22:35 >> YOU CANNOT SPEAK I MEAN I HAVEN'T TRIED I DON'T REPRESENT
01:22:39 THE CURRENT PRETRIAL POPULATION.
01:22:40 >> I CAN SPEAK TO AND BUT HOW IS IT THAT HOW IS IT THEN YOU
01:22:46 WILL BE OPERATING DIFFERENT THAN THE EXISTING PRETRIAL
01:22:47 PROGRAM? I UNDERSTAND I GUESS WHAT I
01:22:55 WILL REPRESENT TO YOU IS THE GOAL OF MY DEPARTMENT IS TO
01:22:59 DEVELOP A PROGRAM THAT WE KNOW WILL HAVE A DIRECT POSITIVE
01:23:05 IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE OFTEN TIMES HAVING TO REPORT TO
01:23:10 MULTIPLE AGENCIES GIVEN PLANS TO FOLLOW AND THEN JUST PUT
01:23:14 IN THE COMMUNITY TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO NAVIGATE
01:23:18 THAT AND THAT'S NOT FAIR TO THE PERSON IN OUR MODEL WE
01:23:22 RECOGNIZE THAT A LOT OF THIS POPULATION COMES TO US EVERY
01:23:29 DAY AT OUR CASC. SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO
01:23:33 STREAMLINE THAT, GIVE CONTINUITY TO THAT PERSON
01:23:36 SHOULD THEY AS THEY GO THROUGH THE COURT PROCESS END UP
01:23:40 FORMALLY WITH US AND STILL BENEFIT FOR THE ROBUST
01:23:47 PORTFOLIO OF SUPPORTS AND SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE AS
01:23:51 I SAID, WE SUPPORTED 3000 UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS LAST YEAR.
01:23:55 NOT ALL OF THEM WERE SUPERVISED LIKE PEOPLE COME TO THE COURSE
01:24:00 BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT'S A PLACE WHERE YOU WILL GET CONNECTED TO
01:24:01 THE SUPPORTS AND SERVICES THAT YOU NEED AND IT'S A MODEL THAT
01:24:04 WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR ALMOST 15 YEARS NOW AND SO IT
01:24:10 HAS A REPUTATION OF BEING A SAFE PLACE.
01:24:14 MOST PEOPLE WHO GO THERE DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS AN
01:24:16 ADULT PROBATION FACILITY AND SO WE'RE LEANING INTO OUR
01:24:19 EXPERIENCE WITH THIS POPULATION AND I HAVE ALL CONFIDENCE THAT
01:24:25 WE WILL BE IMPACTFUL AND IN A GOOD WAY FOR SAN FRANCISCO
01:24:28 AND TO THE CLIENTS WHO ARE HAVING TO NAVIGATE THE CRIMINAL
01:24:30 JUSTICE SYSTEM. >> THANK YOU.
01:24:34 SUPERVISOR CHEN THANK YOU, CHAIR THANK YOU.
01:24:37 CHAIR CHEN THANK YOU CHIEF TILLER FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
01:24:44 HELP ME UNDERSTAND BECAUSE FROM MY UNDERSTANDING AS ADULT
01:24:48 PROBATION AND CURRENTLY ALSO SUPERVISE INDIVIDUAL IN THE
01:24:49 PRETRIAL PHASES. >> DO YOU HAVE ANY DATA OR
01:24:53 IMPACT THAT WE CURRENTLY SUPERVISE PRETRIAL WE DO NOT
01:24:56 CURRENTLY SUPERVISE PRETRIAL. OKAY.
01:24:59 THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFIED. I BELIEVE IF IF I MAY CLARIFY
01:25:03 THE QUESTION I BELIEVE YOU'RE REFERENCING THE FACT THAT
01:25:07 PRETRIAL POPULATION COMES TO OUR HOUSE FOR SUPPORTS
01:25:12 AND SERVICES BUT THEY ARE NOT BEING SUPERVISED OR MONITORED
01:25:19 BY US. THEY ARE JUST BENEFITING FROM
01:25:20 THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE GRANTED.
01:25:24 >> THANK YOU. AND CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE
01:25:27 SLIDE WHERE IT'S HAS THE INITIATIVE WHERE IT APPLIES
01:25:30 ABOUT ROUGHLY ABOUT 35 44 FOR THE PROGRAM THAT IT'S ABOUT TO
01:25:36 LAUNCH. SO MY UNDERSTANDING FROM THIS
01:25:40 SLIDE IS THAT THE FULL STAFFING PLAN FOR THE NEW PROGRAM THE
01:25:44 PRETRIAL SERVICES DIVISION IT'S ABOUT 35 FTE FOR 2526 DEVICE
01:25:55 DURATION. >> YEAH RIGHT, RIGHT.
01:25:56 SO THAT'S THIS INCLUDING STAFF WORKING ON ALL HOLIDAYS BECAUSE
01:26:02 FROM MY UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT PRETRIAL DATE 24 SEVEN
01:26:09 365 IS THE CURRENT HOSTED MODEL THAT THAT IN YOUR STAFFING PLAN
01:26:14 IS ALSO INCLUDING THOSE EXPENSES CORRECT?
01:26:17 >> YES PRETRIAL MODELS ARE PRETTY MUCH 24 SEVEN OPERATIONS
01:26:21 LARGELY BECAUSE OF THE PRC IN OUR MODEL UTILIZING
01:26:25 TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZING THIS PROCESS WILL HELP TO EASE THE
01:26:32 BURDEN OF STAFF TO TO HAVE THAT LEVEL OF RESPONSE.
01:26:37 >> SO THE CURRENT BUDGET $5.9 MILLION FOR 2627 FISCAL YEAR
01:26:43 ALSO INCLUDING HOLIDAY PAY OVERTIME PAY THAT IT'S ALL
01:26:48 BUDGETED IN RIGHT BECAUSE IT WILL BE THEIR REGULAR SCHEDULES
01:26:54 AND ALSO HELP ME UNDERSTAND FROM THE OPERATION
01:26:58 AND PERSPECTIVE WHAT WILL BE NEW TO ADD TO YOUR INITIATIVE
01:27:03 THAT IS OFFER THAT IS NOT CURRENTLY OFFER UNDER THE
01:27:04 CURRENT STRUCTURES AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT PRETRIAL SAN
01:27:07 FRANCISCO PRETRIAL IS ALREADY ADDRESSING SOME OF YOUR
01:27:11 CONCERNS ABOUT THE SIGNATURES AND THAT THE STAFFING IT'S
01:27:15 IN THE COURTROOM TO FILE JUDICIAL QUESTIONS
01:27:19 AND PARTIALLY FUNDED ALSO BY YOU SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND YOU
01:27:22 KNOW WHY WILL BE NEW TO YOUR YOUR INITIATIVE.
01:27:25 >> SO AGAIN MY OUR DEPARTMENT WAS ASKED TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM
01:27:30 AND DEVELOP THE PROGRAMS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REALLY
01:27:34 GOOD AT. WE HAVE A GREAT RECORD AND WE
01:27:37 HAVE HELPED TONS OF PEOPLE REALLY STABILIZE THEIR LIVES.
01:27:41 SO WE LEANED INTO WHAT WE ALREADY DO AND WITH A
01:27:45 PERSPECTIVE OF JUST MODEL MODELING WHAT WE'VE BUILT
01:27:52 AND TAILOR IT TO THIS POPULATION THAT WE ALREADY KNOW
01:27:56 THAT WE'RE ALREADY SUPPORTING AND SO WE DID NOT LOOK AT THE
01:28:03 CURRENT PRETRIAL PROGRAM AND LOOK FOR DEFICIENCIES OR
01:28:07 CRITICIZE BUT THAT'S NOT OUR INTENTION OR INTEREST.
01:28:11 WHAT WE WHAT WAS PUT BEFORE US WAS TO BUILD A PROGRAM AND SO
01:28:15 WE BUILT A PROGRAM THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE FOR DOE
01:28:19 PROBATION AND UNTIL PROBATION WE ARE A COURT FUNCTION THIS IS
01:28:22 A COURT FUNCTION. WE DID NOT LOBBY FOR THIS BUT
01:28:29 WE UNDERSTAND WHY IT MAKES SENSE.
01:28:30 IT CREATES A VALUE ADD FOR SAN FRANCISCO BECAUSE RIGHT NOW
01:28:36 THIS WORK SITS OUTSIDE OF OF SAN FRANCISCO BRINGING THIS
01:28:43 WORK INTO THE CITY FUNCTION MEANS THAT IT WILL GIVE MORE
01:28:47 VISIBILITY TO ALL OF THE JUST ITS PARTNERS INCLUDING THE
01:28:51 PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE. IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE
01:28:55 REDUNDANCIES. FOR INSTANCE, IF A PERSON
01:29:01 INCURS A NEW ARREST PRETRIAL IS IN TOURING AND DOING
01:29:05 INFORMATION ON THAT PERSON OUTSIDE OF THE CITY.
01:29:09 THE CITY IS ALSO DOING IT INTERNALLY AND SO NOW
01:29:14 STREAMLINING ALL OF THIS REALLY WILL HAVE THE VALUE ADD OF
01:29:17 MODERNIZING ACTUALLY UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY AS THE COURTS
01:29:22 DESCRIBE TO US. THEY RECEIVE PAPER PIECES WITH
01:29:29 REAMS LIKE ONE COURT HISTORY TO BE 80 TO 90 PAGES OF COURT
01:29:34 HISTORY AND THAT'S WHAT THE COURT WILL RECEIVE WITH THE
01:29:40 EXPECTATION AND MAKE A DECISION WITH WITHIN A CERTAIN SHORT
01:29:44 TIMEFRAME WE HAVE TECHNOLOGY THAT COULD STREAMLINE THAT FOR
01:29:48 THE COURT AND THAT'S WHAT WE INTEND TO DO.
01:29:51 SO I CAN'T SAY WE'RE I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE COMPARISONS TO A
01:29:55 PROGRAM THAT I DON'T HAVE ANY PURVIEW TO BUT I CAN TELL YOU
01:29:59 WHAT CONFIDENCE WHAT ADULT PROBATION COULD DO.
01:30:02 >> THANK YOU. AND ANOTHER QUESTION I PRETRIAL
01:30:06 IS ALSO FUNDED BY STATE GRANTS AND I KNOW THEY ARE ALSO
01:30:10 CUTTING THE FUNDING. SO HOW WOULD THAT IMPACT YOUR
01:30:12 FUTURE REQUEST TO GENERAL FUND FROM THE CITY?
01:30:15 >> I'M SORRY I MISSED IT SO THE STATE IS ALSO CUTTING PRETRIAL
01:30:19 FUNDING SO HOW WOULD THAT IMPACT YOUR FUTURE REQUESTS OF
01:30:23 THE CITY GENERAL FUND? RIGHT.
01:30:25 SO WE DID CREATE THE BUDGET AND THIS IS A BUDGET THAT WE
01:30:29 HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT WILL HELP US TO MAINTAIN A HIGH LEVEL
01:30:34 STANDARD IN THIS PROGRAM. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO TAKING
01:30:38 ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SO MUCH IN PLACE ALREADY
01:30:45 THAT IS PRIMED TO ABSORB THIS. SO IT'S A BLENDING OF WHAT
01:30:48 ALREADY EXISTS IN THE CITY ALREADY HELPS US TO FUND SOME
01:30:52 OF WHAT WE DO. WE WE FUND THE CASC AND OUR
01:30:56 PROGRAMS AND SERVICES AS YOU SAW IN OUR BUDGET AT A REALLY
01:31:00 HIGH LEVEL AND SOME OF THAT IS STATE MONEY AND THROUGH SB 678
01:31:06 BECAUSE AS I DESCRIBED WE'RE INCENTIVIZED BY THE STATE TO
01:31:10 KEEP PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY OUT OF COUNTY JAIL IN THE
01:31:14 PRISON AND AT THE RATE WE'RE ABLE TO MAINTAIN OUR POPULATION
01:31:18 IN THE COMMUNITY, THE STATE GIVES US INCENTIVES AND WE USE
01:31:22 THAT FUNDING TO HELP SUPPORT OUR TASK IN ALL OF OUR HOUSING
01:31:26 AND PROGRAMS, SERVICES. >> SO CAN I INTERPRET THAT THE
01:31:30 FUTURE ASKED FOR THE CITY GENERAL FUND WILL BE MINIMAL AS
01:31:36 OH SORRY SORRY. >> SO SO AM I UNDERSTANDING
01:31:45 THAT BECAUSE THE PROGRAM THEN WILL DELIVER OTHER RESULTS SO
01:31:48 THE RATE OF RETURN IT'S THAT WE ARE CUTTING PRETRIAL STATE
01:31:53 GRANT BUT WE ARE GETTING MORE FROM THE STATE GOVERNMENT FOR
01:31:56 OTHER PROGRAMS SO THEN THAT WILL EVEN IT OUT SO THEN IT
01:32:00 WILL MEAN SO THE REQUEST FOR CITY GENERAL FUND THEN IT WILL
01:32:03 NOT BE A BIG LOSS IN THE FUTURE YEARS.
01:32:04 >> I, I CAN'T SAY THAT I, I, I WOULD SAY THAT BASED ON WHAT WE
01:32:12 HAVE RIGHT NOW IS THE BUDGET THAT WE PRESENTED THROUGH
01:32:18 FISCAL YEAR 2028 AND WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS YEAR IS
01:32:25 GOING TO BE THE BEST YEAR FOR US WHEN WE GO LIVE.
01:32:29 PART OF THE REASON WE WANT TO DO A VALIDATION STUDY ON THE
01:32:31 PSA IS BECAUSE ONE HASN'T BEEN DONE FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND SO
01:32:34 WE LOOK FORWARD TO TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE RESULTS OF
01:32:37 THAT WILL YIELD FOR SAN FRANCISCO AS I DESCRIBED IT,
01:32:43 THE REAMS OF PAPER THAT THAT THE COURT GETS RIGHT NOW THAT
01:32:48 COULD BE A COST SAVINGS WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR JUST ON PAPER
01:32:51 ALONE INCLUDING SAVINGS SAVINGS, SOME TREES.
01:32:55 BUT YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE PUT
01:32:59 FORWARD IS BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW AND AGAINST WHAT IT IS WE
01:33:07 DO CURRENTLY AS IT RELATES TO SUPPORT SERVICES IN THE
01:33:11 PRODUCTS THAT WE PRODUCE FOR THE COURT TODAY.
01:33:12 SO I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BUT IF YOU COULD HELP ME UNDERSTAND
01:33:16 THAT I JUST HEARD FROM THE THE SUPREME COURT SAYING THAT THIS
01:33:22 PROGRAM WILL BE FUNNELING AND IT WILL COST MORE AND ARE
01:33:26 FUN AND THEN IT WILL BE COST SAVING IN LATER YEARS AND NOW
01:33:30 WE SAY AND NOW THAT I'M HEARING YOU SAYING THAT THIS THIS COST
01:33:34 SAVING EVEN IN THE BEGINNING. >> AM I CORRECT AM I HEARING
01:33:38 THE DISCREPANCIES CORRECT? WHAT I REPRESENT WAS THE BUDGET
01:33:41 THAT WE PUT FORWARD IS A BUDGET THAT WE RECOGNIZE TO BE WHAT WE
01:33:48 NEED IN ORDER TO LAUNCH THE PROGRAM AS TIME GOES ON, THERE
01:33:52 IS A POTENTIAL FOR THE BUDGET TO THAT THE TRUE VALUE ADD
01:33:59 IN RETURN ON INVESTMENT WILL BE GREATER UNDERSTOOD BECAUSE WE
01:34:04 WILL HAVE A LEAST A YEAR OF MANAGING THE PROGRAM,
01:34:07 RESEARCHING THE PROGRAM AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING THE
01:34:11 MODEL AND SO BASED ON ALL THE FACTS AND EVIDENCE WE HAVE AT
01:34:16 THIS MOMENT, THAT'S WHERE WE STAND.
01:34:19 >> SO MAY I THEN SAY THE RATE OF RETURN COMPARED TO THE
01:34:23 CURRENT HOW WE DON'T KNOW YET. WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU KNOW,
01:34:27 MOVING IT TO ADULT PROBATION AND THE RATE OF RETURN WILL BE
01:34:31 HIGHER AND AND OBVIOUSLY FROM LIKE WHAT I JUST HEARD FROM
01:34:35 CHAIR CHEN IT'S THE TOPIC ASKED FROM THE SHARE DEPARTMENT
01:34:39 AND ALSO ADULT PROBATION FOR THE COUNTRY OF $7.4 MILLION IT
01:34:42 JUST A LITTLE CONFUSED TO ME AND HOW THIS IS GOING TO WORK
01:34:48 OUT IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS AND I WOULD APPRECIATE FOR MORE
01:34:49 CLARITY TO IN THE FUTURE DIRECTOR CUTLER AND I'M GOING
01:34:58 TO HAVE TO GO TO SUPERVISOR WALTON AND SUPERVISOR SAUTER
01:34:59 ABSOLUTELY I WILL I WILL MAKE SOME ATTEMPTS AT MY
01:35:03 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THIS COULD PLAY OUT.
01:35:08 >> SO CERTAINLY SO THERE IS FIRST OF ALL IN YEAR ONE THERE
01:35:11 IS ABSOLUTELY AN ADDITIONAL DUPLICATIVE COST IN IN THE
01:35:15 BUDGET BECAUSE WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS
01:35:19 REDUNDANCY AS WE TRANSITION FROM ONE SYSTEM TO THE OTHER.
01:35:22 >> WE ASSUMED THE COST OF THE CONTRACTS FOR PRETRIAL SERVICES
01:35:26 AT THE SHERIFF FOR SIX MONTHS WHILE WE STAND UP A NEW PROGRAM
01:35:30 AT ADULT PROBATION PER THE COURT'S REQUEST OR MANDATE
01:35:34 MANDATE. AND SO THERE IS A DUPLICATIVE
01:35:40 COST IN YEAR ONE AND IT IS COSTING MORE MONEY FOR THAT
01:35:41 TRANSITION REASON. >> SECONDLY, BECAUSE OF THE WAY
01:35:48 AND THIS IS LIKE NOT TO THE GOOD OF OUR SYSTEM BUT IT IS A
01:35:52 FACT BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE BUDGET CBO CONTRACTS VERSUS
01:35:55 IN-HOUSE STAFFING WE DO ASSUME ADDITIONAL ONGOING WAGE
01:36:00 INCREASES IN THE IN OUR IN-HOUSE STAFF WHICH IS
01:36:07 DIFFERENT FROM HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE LONG TERM INCREASED
01:36:08 COSTS OF CBO AND SO ON IN THE BUDGET THE COSTS ACCRUE FASTER
01:36:14 WHEN WE HAVE IN-HOUSE WORK. THAT IS A POLICY DECISION ON
01:36:18 WHETHER WE SHOULD BE CONTRACTING OUT WORK OR NOT.
01:36:19 >> SO WE'LL PUT THAT TO THE SIDE I NOT TO SPEAK FOR THE
01:36:23 COURTS BUT MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT I THINK HE WAS TALKING
01:36:27 ABOUT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU GUYS WERE JUST DISCUSSING THE RETURN
01:36:31 ON INVESTMENTS OF WHETHER THEY BELIEVE AND I WOULD LIKE I DO
01:36:34 NOT HAVE THE DATA TO TO DISCUSS THE VERACITY OF THIS AT ALL
01:36:39 AND I THINK THAT THIS IS WHAT A TRIAL PERIOD WOULD HELP US WORK
01:36:42 THROUGH. BUT I THINK THE THE PROPOSAL IS
01:36:46 THAT IF THEY HAD THE DATA THEY WERE LOOKING FOR WHICH THEY
01:36:50 BELIEVE THEY CAN GET FROM ADULT PROBATION THAT WE WOULD REDUCE
01:36:54 COSTS PARTICULARLY IN HOW WE IN IN HOW PEOPLE SHOW UP AT THE
01:36:58 COURTS, HOW PEOPLE SHOW UP IN THE JAILS, WHAT THE COST OF
01:37:02 INCARCERATION IS. I DON'T THINK THE PROPOSAL IS
01:37:05 NECESSARILY THAT THE STAFFING COST WOULD NECESSARILY COME
01:37:06 DOWN TO AT PROBATION BUT THAT AT A SYSTEM LEVEL WE WOULD BE
01:37:10 SPENDING LESS ON INCARCERATION AND OUR COURT SYSTEM WOULD BE
01:37:13 WORKING DIFFERENTLY AND HOPEFULLY MORE EFFICIENTLY.
01:37:17 >> AGAIN, THAT IS LIKE THAT IS WHAT WE NEED TO BEAR OUT
01:37:21 IN THIS POLICY DISCUSSION. >> THANK YOU.
01:37:24 THANK YOU SUPERVISOR WALTON THANK YOU SO MUCH TO YOUR
01:37:29 CHANNEL AND MOST OF MY QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED BUT ONE
01:37:32 OF THE THINGS I AM STRUGGLING WITH IS AS WE TALK ABOUT THE
01:37:36 TRANSITION DOES THE DEPARTMENT OR EVEN FOR THAT MATTER ANY
01:37:40 CITY DEPARTMENT HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF HIRING ON TIME?
01:37:47 >> I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT. I COULD YOU CAN SPEAK TO YOUR
01:37:51 DEPARTMENT. I EAT RIGHT AND I WILL WE HAVE
01:37:55 CURRENTLY WE HAVE FIVE NEW STAFF THAT HAVE BEEN MADE
01:37:59 OFFERS AND WILL ALL BE ON BOARD STARTING JULY SIX THROUGH JULY
01:38:08 22ND. AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS WE'RE
01:38:09 PRIMED TO START ADVERTISING MORE POSITIONS AND GETTING THEM
01:38:13 GOING. IT'S A HIGH PRIORITY FOR OUR
01:38:14 DEPARTMENT AND RIGHT NOW WHEN WE THAT OUR PRIMARY FOCUS IS
01:38:21 GETTING TO A STAGE OF TESTING THE TECHNOLOGY AS IT RELATES TO
01:38:29 AUTOMATION AND THE FIVE STAFF THAT ARE COMING ON THAT IS
01:38:33 GOING TO BE WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND SO THROUGH THAT TESTING
01:38:37 IT'S GOING TO GIVE US TRUE INFORMATION AS TO THE OTHER
01:38:44 PIECES OF THE PROGRAM, ITS DEVELOPMENT AND HOW IT ALL
01:38:46 COMES TOGETHER. AND SO RIGHT NOW THE STAFFING
01:38:49 WE'RE ON WE'RE ON STAFFING TARGET AND AGAIN AS SOON AS THE
01:38:56 THIS PHASE IS DONE WE'LL BE DOING A WIDER SEARCH FOR NEW
01:39:00 STAFF TO TAKE ON. >> SO YOU TYPICALLY HIRE THIS
01:39:04 AMOUNT OF PEOPLE IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME TO WELL WE'RE VERY
01:39:11 SMALL DEPARTMENT. IT'S NOT OFTEN THAT WE GET
01:39:15 OPPORTUNITIES TO HIRE STAFF SO WE AS I SAID WE'RE PRIMED TO
01:39:19 START ANNOUNCING THE POSITIONS AS SOON AS WE HAVE THE FULL
01:39:26 SUPPORT AND CONFIDENCE THAT WE'RE GOING WE'RE MOVING
01:39:27 IN THIS DIRECTION. LET ME ASK DIFFERENTLY YOU
01:39:31 TYPICALLY HIRE 35 PEOPLE IN THE SIX MY TIME PERIOD IN THE
01:39:34 PROBATION DEPARTMENT I'M SORRY WE TYPICALLY HIRE TYPICALLY
01:39:37 HIRED 35 PEOPLE WITHIN A SIX MONTH TIME PERIOD AN ADULT
01:39:40 PROBATION DEPARTMENT. >> WE'VE NEVER BEEN IN A
01:39:43 POSITION TO BE ABLE TO HIRE 35 PEOPLE AND SO BUT AS I SAID,
01:39:50 WE'RE WE'RE READY TO START MOVING FORWARD AS WE'RE TESTING
01:39:55 THE PROGRAM. WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE STAFFING
01:39:59 ACCORDINGLY. AND SO AS WE'RE SEEING THE
01:40:02 DIFFERENT PIECES OF WHAT OUR VISION IS COMING TOGETHER,
01:40:07 WE'LL BE FOCUSING ON THOSE POSITIONS AND THEN CONTINUING
01:40:11 THE PROCESS. IS THAT A POSSIBILITY COME
01:40:14 JANUARY 20TH, 27 ALL 44 STAFF ARE NOT HERE IN HOUSE IN OUR
01:40:21 CASE THAT'S ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY.
01:40:24 BUT IF AS WE STAND RIGHT NOW WE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL
01:40:28 HAVE ENOUGH STAFFING TO MEET MEET OUR GOAL AT THE SAME TIME
01:40:33 WE'RE NOT OFFERING MAGIC HERE IF WE'RE NOT READY WE'RE WE
01:40:37 WILL SAY THAT WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO CREATE OR DO
01:40:40 ANYTHING THAT WE'RE NOT POSITIONED OR CONFIDENT THAT
01:40:44 WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO. >> WHEN WOULD YOU DETERMINE
01:40:47 WILL BE YOUR TIMELINE TO DETERMINE THAT YOU AREN'T
01:40:51 READY? >> SO THAT'S PART OF THE PHASES
01:40:54 THAT WE DEVELOP THE FOUR PHASES AND SO THE FOUR PHASES ARE
01:40:58 ONGOING AND CONTINUOUS AND SO AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH EACH
01:41:02 PHASE THAT'S GOING TO GIVE US GET US CLOSER TO OUR TIMELINE.
01:41:09 AND SO BASED ON WHERE WE ARE TODAY BECAUSE THIS IS NOT OUR
01:41:13 FIRST GOAL LIVE TIMELINE THAT WE'VE HAD SINCE THIS
01:41:14 CONVERSATION STARTED WHICH IS BASED ON WHERE WE ARE TODAY IS
01:41:18 JANUARY. >> THAT'S YOUR FIRST TIMELINE
01:41:21 BUT FROM WHAT YOU JUST SAID YOU'VE NEVER HAD TO BRING ON
01:41:25 THIS AMOUNT OF PERSONNEL AND THAT AMOUNT OF TIME 35
01:41:31 STAFF WHAT I CAN'T SAY WE HAVE HIRED GROUPS OF 15 SWORN DEPUTY
01:41:35 PROBATION OFFICERS AND WHEN YOU'RE HIRING SWORN STAFF THEY
01:41:42 HAVE TO GO THROUGH AN EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND PROCESS.
01:41:46 >> IT'S EXTENSIVE. WE HAVE TO HIRE 15 PEOPLE
01:41:49 AND LESS THAN SIX MONTHS THAT ARE SWORN.
01:41:53 ALL OF THE STAFF NONE OF THE STAFF ARE SWORN.
01:41:54 THESE ARE ALL NON SWORN POSITIONS.
01:41:57 AND SO IF IF I COMPARE IT TO WHAT WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH WITH
01:42:02 OUR SWORN STAFF VERSUS THIS STAFF THE STAFF IS A WALK
01:42:05 IN THE PARK BECAUSE IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO GET SWORN STAFF
01:42:09 THROUGH THE BACKGROUND PROCESS AND THEN SO YOU DON'T HAVE ANY
01:42:13 CONCERNS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO STAFF UP.
01:42:17 >> I WOULD NEVER SAY I HAVE NO CONCERNS.
01:42:21 I ALWAYS HAVE CONCERNS BUT YOU KNOW AS THIS PLAN BUT THE THE
01:42:28 WHAT WE PUT FORWARD IS WHAT WE HAVE CONFIDENCE TO DO AND THEN
01:42:31 THE TECHNOLOGY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE DEPARTMENT
01:42:35 IS FAMILIAR WITH. >> THIS IS SOMETHING THAT A LOT
01:42:37 OF DEPARTMENTS ARE FAMILIAR WITH.
01:42:39 THIS IS BEING IN SAN FRANCISCO I OFTEN GET INVITED TO SPEAK ON
01:42:47 PANELS AND SUCH AS IT RELATES TO TECHNOLOGY AND PROBATION
01:42:50 BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT I'M IN SAN FRANCISCO AND THEY'RE
01:42:54 ALWAYS REALLY SURPRISED TO LEARN HOW IN OUR OVERALL
01:42:58 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AS IT RELATES TO TECHNOLOGY HOW WE'RE
01:43:03 WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY AHEAD OF WHERE MOST COUNTIES ARE AND SO
01:43:10 THIS AUTOMATION PROCESS IS IS NOT IT'S NOT NEW.
01:43:14 IT'S SOMETHING WE UNCOVERED. SO WHEN THE COURT CAME TO ME
01:43:18 AND SAID THAT THEY WANTED US TO DEVELOP THIS PROGRAM, WE DIDN'T
01:43:22 LOBBY FOR IT. IT WASN'T ON MY REPORT OUT
01:43:23 BECAUSE I REPORT OUT TO THE COURT TWICE A MONTH.
01:43:26 THEY HAVE DIRECT OVERSIGHT FOR ME AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF
01:43:32 THE REASONS WHY THEY WANT TO PULL THIS UNDER THEM BECAUSE IF
01:43:34 I DON'T PERFORM TO THEIR LIKING THERE'S NO MORE ME AND I AND I
01:43:39 WANT TO BE HERE SO WE LOOKED AT PROBATION DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE
01:43:47 PRIMARILY THIS IS A PROBATION FUNCTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY
01:43:52 YOU'LL FIND THIS FUNCTION IN PROBATION AND IN CALIFORNIA
01:43:55 THE SAME FOR FOUR YEARS THERE'S BEEN PROBATION DEPARTMENTS THAT
01:43:59 HAVE MANAGED PRETRIAL FOR OVER 25 YEARS IN OUR IN OUR BAY AREA
01:44:02 COUNTIES ESPECIALLY. AND SO OUR APPROACH WAS TO LOOK
01:44:08 AT OUR NEIGHBORS, LOOK AT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
01:44:13 PRETRIAL WHICH IS NOW TO TALK TO VENDORS.
01:44:17 WE WE DID LIKE A LITERATURE REVIEW TO SEE OKAY WHAT WHAT IS
01:44:21 A NEW MODERN PRETRIAL SYSTEM? AND WHAT WE FOUND IS THIS
01:44:25 AUTOMATION ACTUALLY ALAMEDA COUNTY RECEIVED AN INNOVATION
01:44:32 AWARD BECAUSE THEY DEVELOPED A WAY TO AUTOMATE THE PSA
01:44:40 IN AUTOMATION THEY DO IN LIKE 15 MINUTES COMPARED TO WHAT
01:44:43 HAPPENS TODAY AND SO JUST HAPPENED TO BE OUR RESEARCH
01:44:47 DIRECTOR WAS A PART OF THAT TEAM IN ALAMEDA AND SO THAT
01:44:53 REALLY JUST MADE IT EASY FOR US TO TURN TO ALAMEDA AND GET
01:44:58 SUPPORT FROM THEM IN MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS PROCESS.
01:45:02 THE COUNTY COMMITTED I.T STAFF PROBATION AND THE COURT THEY'VE
01:45:09 ALL BEEN RESOURCES FOR US AS WE'VE WORKED TOWARDS THIS MODEL
01:45:14 AND SO EVEN WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE ACTUALLY THAT
01:45:22 EXISTS IN SAN FRANCISCO TODAY WE DON'T COMPARE TO THEIRS
01:45:25 AND SO WE'RE WORKING DILIGENTLY WITHIN THE CITY SYSTEM WITH
01:45:30 JUSTICE AND WITH THE COURTS TO GET TO A MODEL THAT WILL
01:45:34 AUTOMATE BASED ON SAN FRANCISCO SORRY FOR THE LONG RESPONSE.
01:45:38 >> YEAH, BECAUSE I THINK MY QUESTION IS ARE WE CURRENTLY
01:45:42 USING THAT TECHNOLOGY? >> NO AND THAT'S THAT'S WHAT
01:45:46 WE'LL BE DOING. WE WE HAVE A VENDOR WHO'S
01:45:49 BUILDING A PRODUCT FOR US AS WE SPEAK.
01:45:53 AS SOON AS THEY'RE DONE WITH THAT PRODUCT WE WILL START
01:45:56 TESTING WITH THOSE FIVE STAFF THAT I DESCRIBED THAT WILL ALL
01:46:00 BE HERE STARTING JULY 6TH THROUGH JULY 22ND.
01:46:01 >> THANK YOU. >> ABSOLUTELY.
01:46:05 SUPERVISOR SAUTER THANK YOU, CHAIR SHARON, WE'RE HEARING
01:46:09 FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT ABOUT CONCERNS THAT SHIFTING TO
01:46:12 THIS MODEL THE TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT MODEL MIGHT RESULT
01:46:16 IN FEWER PARTNERSHIPS AND RESOURCES SPECIFICALLY A
01:46:20 LACK OF CONNECTIONS TO HOUSING RESOURCES TREATMENT PROVIDERS,
01:46:24 MEDI-CAL ENROLLMENT ASSISTANCE AND PEER SUPPORT SERVICES, THE
01:46:27 INTERVENTIONS THAT ARE MEANT TO STABILIZE INDIVIDUALS WHILE
01:46:29 THEIR CASES ARE PENDING. WILL YOU BE ABLE TO OFFER ALL
01:46:33 OF THOSE PARTICULAR SERVICES OUTLINED?
01:46:36 >> AND THAT'S WHAT WE DO. I'M SMILING BECAUSE THAT'S
01:46:39 DESCRIBING THE WORK OF PROBATION.
01:46:43 ALL OF THAT WORK IS MANDATED WORK FOR PROBATION WHERE IN THE
01:46:46 PENAL CODE IS PROBATION IS MANDATED TO UTILIZE EVIDENCE
01:46:51 BASED PRACTICES IN ORDER TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF CUSTODY.
01:46:58 AND SO THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THIS HUGE PORTFOLIO OF SUPPORTS
01:47:02 AND SERVICES AND HOUSING AND TREATMENT AND OUR TASK TO
01:47:06 MEET THAT. SO ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE
01:47:09 CURRENTLY BEING MET AND EXCEEDED ADULT PROBATION
01:47:12 AND WE'LL JUST CONTINUE THAT CONTINUE IN THAT DIRECTION.
01:47:16 >> YOU'D BE ABLE TO OFFER ALL OF THOSE BY THE JANUARY START
01:47:20 DATE YOU THINK WE DO IT RIGHT NOW AT THE PRETRIAL THE CLIENTS
01:47:23 COME TO OUR TASK RIGHT NOW TO GET CONNECTED AND SERVICES
01:47:28 AND JUST UP TO A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO PRETRIAL WILL ALSO BE
01:47:31 AT OUR TASK ON WEDNESDAYS AND SO WITH THAT I HAVE ALL
01:47:39 CONFIDENCE THAT WE CAN MEET BUT I DON'T MEAN TO I DON'T
01:47:44 DIMINISH YOUR WORK. I DO I JUST HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT
01:47:47 THIS PROPOSED CHANGE, RIGHT? I MEAN IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING
01:47:51 THAT'S BEEN ASKED OF YOU AND YOU KNOW, TO YOUR CREDIT
01:47:55 YOU'RE TRYING TO SORT IT OUT THE BEST YOU CAN.
01:47:58 I JUST IT'S A QUESTION OF IF WE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THIS
01:48:01 PROPOSED TRANSITION OR NOT AND YOU KNOW, TO SUPERVISOR
01:48:06 WALDEN'S LINE OF QUESTIONING JUST THE THE HIRING ITSELF, IT
01:48:10 GIVES ME TREMENDOUS PAUSE. I MEAN ON THE ONE HAND I LOVE
01:48:13 TO SEE THE AMBITION OF TRYING TO HIRE QUICKLY.
01:48:14 ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING THAT YOU'VE NEVER
01:48:17 DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE ,CONSIDERING THAT THIS WOULD
01:48:22 REPRESENT IN TERMS OF EMPLOYEES REPRESENT 20 TO 25% INCREASE
01:48:26 ALMOST OVERNIGHT OF YOUR DEPARTMENT I MEAN THAT'S THAT'S
01:48:30 A SIGNIFICANT STRAIN ON YOU AND YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF
01:48:34 WE WANT TO ASK THAT OF YOU. I THINK, YOU KNOW, FOR ME IT
01:48:37 SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE TWO COMPETING PROPOSALS HERE
01:48:38 AND WE'RE KIND OF LEFT TO SORT OUT BOTH OF THEM.
01:48:41 BUT I THINK THE QUESTION IS DO WE HAVE A COMPELLING REASON TO
01:48:45 CHANGE? AND THERE'S A LOT OF BACK
01:48:48 AND FORTH AND MAYBE SOME HE SAID SHE SAT ON THIS FOR ME.
01:48:51 I NEED TO SEE THE NUMBERS. I NEED TO SEE THAT ARGUMENT
01:48:55 AND I'M YET TO BE CONVINCED OF THAT.
01:48:56 MAYBE THAT CHANGES BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT TO LET YOU
01:48:59 KNOW WHERE I AM AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, FOR A TRANSITION OF THIS
01:49:03 MAGNITUDE I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT MORE DETAILS ABOUT
01:49:07 HOW WE ACTUALLY GET THERE LAID OUT BETWEEN NOW AND JANUARY
01:49:11 AND I JUST DON'T SEE THAT RIGHT NOW.
01:49:14 AND SO WE'LL BE HAPPY TO PRESENT FURTHER DETAILS OF OUR
01:49:18 PLAN AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING THE STAFF ALL OF THE STAFF WILL
01:49:22 BE HOUSED AT OUR COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT SERVICES CENTER.
01:49:26 WE HAVE THE ROOM AND THEIR WORKSTATIONS ARE BEING
01:49:29 ESTABLISHED AS WE SPEAK AND ONBOARDING THE THE STAFFING
01:49:36 IS NOT GOING TO BE FOR ONE DAY TO THE NEXT.
01:49:40 IT WILL BE HAPPENING OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT SIX MONTHS.
01:49:43 AS I SAID, THE FIRST STAFF WILL START COMING JULY 6TH AND SO
01:49:49 THAT ALONG WITH WE'RE GROWING THAT THE PROGRAM AS OUR TESTING
01:49:57 AND DEVELOP IT DEVELOPMENT MATCHES.
01:50:00 >> THANK YOU. THANKS BYE.
01:50:04 SURE DORSEY THANK YOU CHAIR CHEN I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT FROM
01:50:11 THE COURT'S REQUEST THERE THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT THE MOST
01:50:16 SIGNIFICANT PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT THAT THEY'RE
01:50:19 LOOKING FOR OVER THE PRIVATIZED SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW
01:50:23 WITH THE PRETRIAL DIVERSION PROJECT.
01:50:24 >> WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO GET IS IMPROVEMENTS IN PERFORMANCE
01:50:33 FOR INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED PUBLICLY VERIFIED PUBLICLY
01:50:37 EVALUATED AND EFFECTIVELY MANAGED PRETRIAL SERVICES.
01:50:42 >> CAN YOU WALK ME THROUGH DO YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GOING
01:50:46 TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THE COURT'S CONCERNS?
01:50:47 >> I SAY THAT WITH 100% CONFIDENCE BECAUSE I DO THAT
01:50:50 EVERY SINGLE DAY. OKAY.
01:50:53 OUR DEPARTMENT SUPPORTS THE COURT EVERY DAY IN OUR
01:50:57 SENTENCING REPORTS OR SUPPLEMENTARY REPORTS AND THE
01:51:01 SUPERVISION OF THE POPULATION AND WE HAVE A REALLY STRONG
01:51:05 RECORD WITH THE COURT. I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE
01:51:09 REASON WHY THEY WANT TO MOVE IN THIS DIRECTION BECAUSE THEY
01:51:13 WILL HAVE DIRECT OVERSIGHT ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE PROGRAM
01:51:16 BECAUSE IT IS A SERVICE TO THE COURT PER STATUTE AND SO IN DO
01:51:26 I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY THAT PRETRIAL DIVERSION IS A COURT
01:51:27 MANAGED PROCESS? >> YES.
01:51:30 OKAY. I'M GOING TO SAY THAT, YOU
01:51:34 KNOW, MOST OF MY CAREER I HAVE WORKED IN OFFICES THAT ARE
01:51:38 INVOLVED IN THE COURT AND I'M POWERFULLY PERSUADED WHEN THE
01:51:42 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA TELLS US THAT THEY LACK
01:51:46 CONFIDENCE IN THE SERVICE THAT'S FULFILLING A FUNCTION
01:51:49 THEY'RE TASKING YOU WITH SOLVING THE PROBLEMS THAT
01:51:56 THEY'RE ENCOUNTERING WITH THE INCUMBENT PROVIDER.
01:51:58 I KNOW THAT THERE IS FOR BUDGET FOR OUR PURPOSES WE'RE IN A
01:52:01 SITUATION WHERE WE PROBABLY HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE FACT THAT
01:52:05 THERE'S GOING TO BE REDUNDANCY AND PERHAPS SOME INEFFICIENCY
01:52:09 AS WE MAKE THIS TRANSITION. I DON'T WANT TO CONTEMPLATE
01:52:12 WHETHER WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO A SORT OF, YOU KNOW, SORT OF
01:52:19 BATTLE OF BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.
01:52:22 BUT WE HAVE THE JUDICIARY DIRECTING A DEPARTMENT THAT IT
01:52:26 OVERSEES AND IT'S UP TO US TO FUND THAT.
01:52:30 I WILL SAY THAT I THE THING THAT KIND OF IS UNSETTLING TO
01:52:37 ME IS WHEN THE COURT POINTS OUT THAT THEY HAVE DISPARATE
01:52:41 FINDINGS FROM PRETRIAL DIVERSIONS CLAIM OF A 94%
01:52:47 SAFETY RATE AND THE COURT IS COMING UP WITH A 69% IN YOUR
01:52:51 OTHER WORK FOR THE COURT DO YOU HAVE SIMILAR DISPARITIES
01:52:57 IN NUMBERS THAT THE COURT IS SHOWING AND WHAT YOU'RE
01:52:59 SHOWING? >> NO, WE HAVE WE'RE
01:53:01 SCRUTINIZED BY THE COURT DIRECTLY AS I SAY, BECAUSE WE
01:53:05 HAVE DIRECT OVERSIGHT AND I HAVE TO REPORT OUT TO THE COURT
01:53:10 TWICE A MONTH. >> OKAY.
01:53:17 >> OKAY. I MEAN I GUESS I IT SOUNDS TO
01:53:21 ME LIKE WHERE YOU THINK WE MIGHT BE ON TRACK FOR JANUARY
01:53:25 BUT WE HAVE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO THIS WITHOUT
01:53:32 ANYTHING FALL FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS.
01:53:35 >> I DO. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WHAT WE
01:53:36 HAVE ARRIVED AT IS WE'VE APPROVED THE THE CONTRACT, THE
01:53:43 UNDERSTANDING THAT WE'RE PUTTING TWO YEARS ON RESERVE.
01:53:45 IN YOUR VIEW IS GETTING IT RIGHT.
01:53:48 I KNOW THAT IT HIRING UP THIS QUICKLY IS UNUSUAL BUT I MEAN
01:53:54 WE MAY HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY TO GET YOU TO WHERE YOU NEED TO BE
01:53:56 THAT WILL SATISFY THE COURT'S CONCERNS.
01:53:59 CAN YOU JUST ADDRESS THE TIME, THE TIMING THAT YOU THINK
01:54:03 YOU'VE GOT AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE IN THE
01:54:07 COURSE OF HALF A YEAR OR YEAR? >> RIGHT.
01:54:10 AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO RAISE A RAISE OUR TIME OF GO LIVE UNTIL
01:54:15 WE'RE ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL WILL BE UNTIL WE'RE
01:54:22 ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT THAT OUR PROGRAM HAS FULL LEGS AND WE'RE
01:54:25 READY TO GO. OKAY.
01:54:26 I DO NOT HAVE ANY PRESSURE FROM THE THE COURT OR WELL, THE THE
01:54:33 COURT DEFINITELY WANTS THIS TO HAPPEN AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
01:54:34 BUT THEY ARE DEFINITELY RELYING ON THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'RE THAT
01:54:41 WE'RE PROVIDING AS TO WHERE WE ARE AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE
01:54:45 PHASES WE'RE NOT GOING TO LAUNCH UNTIL WE'RE RESOURCED
01:54:49 AND PREPARED BETWEEN NOW AND THEN WE'LL JUST BE REFINING
01:54:53 OUR VISION. >> OKAY.
01:54:53 I MEAN I, I APPRECIATE YOUR ANSWERS.
01:54:56 I WOULD JUST SAY I AM POWERFULLY PERSUADED THAT WHEN
01:55:00 THE SUPERIOR COURT EXPRESSES A LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN A
01:55:04 PROVIDER TO TAKE THAT VERY SERIOUSLY, IT HAS NOT BEEN MY
01:55:08 EXPERIENCE IN 20 SOMETHING YEARS OF WORKING FOR THE CITY
01:55:11 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO MOST OF THOSE YEARS WORKING
01:55:13 WITH JUDGES WHATEVER ISSUES I MAY HAVE HAD SOMETIMES WITH
01:55:18 DECISIONS THE ESSENTIAL COMPETENCE OF THE SUPERIOR
01:55:20 COURT OF CALIFORNIA HERE IN THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO IS NOT
01:55:23 ONE OF THEM. SO TO ME THIS FEELS LIKE THERE
01:55:27 IS I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE IS A STRONG CASE TO BE MADE TO NOT
01:55:34 DO OR TO TO STIFF ARM THE COURT AS IT WERE AND WHAT THE COURT
01:55:37 IS DIRECTING US TO DO. I THINK WHAT WE HAVE TO FIGURE
01:55:39 OUT AND TO LIVE WITH IS THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME IT SEEMS TO ME
01:55:42 SOME INHERENT INEFFICIENCY BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO HAVE
01:55:45 TO BE REDUNDANCIES AS WE MAKE THE TRANSITION AND I JUST DON'T
01:55:49 KNOW IF IT'S ON THE TABLE THAT WE'RE GOING TO SAY WE'RE NOT
01:55:51 GOING TO FUND THE TRANSITION. I WOULD HOPE THAT WE DON'T GET
01:55:53 INTO A SITUATION LIKE THAT BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD BE
01:55:56 PROBLEMATIC FOR OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER
01:55:58 BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. >> BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR
01:56:00 ANSWERS. >> AGREED.
01:56:03 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
01:56:04 SUPERVISOR WALTON, MY APOLOGIES TO YOUR CHAD.
01:56:08 >> I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE MORE THING TO AS WE MOVE FORWARD
01:56:11 THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND WE THINK ABOUT WHAT'S BEING
01:56:15 PROPOSED HERE, YOU'RE ALSO YOUR DEPARTMENT IS ALSO TAKING ON
01:56:21 ANOTHER SERVICE, ANOTHER SERVICE AREA AND ADDING THE
01:56:25 WORK OF VIOLENCE REDUCTION AND AS VIP INTO YOUR PORTFOLIO
01:56:33 AS WELL. SO YOU'RE DOING THE WORK OF
01:56:36 VIOLENCE PREVENTION, YOU'RE DOING THE WORK OF PRETRIAL OR
01:56:40 PROPOSING TO DO BOTH IN A REAL SHORT TIME PERIOD.
01:56:44 SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT FOR THE RECORD THAT THAT
01:56:49 WAS STATED THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS GOING TO BE ATTEMPTING TO
01:56:50 TAKE ON A LOT IN THE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND BE ASKED TO
01:56:56 DO IT EFFECTIVELY. >> IT IS VERY CONCERNING IF I
01:57:03 COULD SAY THAT THIS IS A WORK THAT IS NOT A HEAVY LIFT FOR US
01:57:10 AS IT RELATES TO AS VIP AS VRT WHEN MAYOR LEE WAS ALIVE
01:57:15 AND WITH THIS HE ENTRUSTED ADULT PROBATION TO HELP TO LEAD
01:57:19 THE IPO PROGRAM. AND SO OUR DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN
01:57:26 VERY MUCH IN THE FOREFRONT. I WAS THERE I'VE BEEN
01:57:27 IN DEPARTMENT THE ONE TIME I AM VERY MUCH IN THE FOREFRONT OF
01:57:34 WORKING ON THIS DESIGN, THIS IS A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO
01:57:39 RECALIBRATE, RETHINK WHAT EXISTS CURRENTLY AND DEVELOP
01:57:45 THROUGH THIS PARTNERSHIP WITH DCF AND H IN ORDER TO CREATE A
01:57:49 REALLY ROBUST NETWORK FOR SAN FRANCISCO AS IT RELATES TO THIS
01:57:56 ISSUE. >> THANK YOU SUPERVISOR WALTON
01:57:58 AND I WOULD JUST STATE BEING INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH IPO
01:58:01 ONE OF THE CREATORS OF IPO SOMEONE WHO YES WAS ONE OF THE
01:58:08 ONLY PROVIDERS OF THE IPO PROGRAM I KNOW AND UNDERSTAND
01:58:12 THE INTRICACIES OF THIS WORK AS VIP WORK WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR
01:58:17 CONNECTION WITH COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY AND THERE'S A
01:58:21 STIGMA WITH A DOOR PROBATION IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS SAN
01:58:25 FRANCISCO. SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
01:58:28 BRINGING ON FOLKS WHO ACTUALLY WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE
01:58:32 SYSTEM THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO CHANGE, IT IS A BARRIER
01:58:39 AUTOMATIC BARRIER FOR ADULT PROBATION TO BE WORKING IN THIS
01:58:43 CAPACITY. AND SO HAVING BEEN HAVING BEING
01:58:44 MINDFUL OF THAT AND KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU'RE
01:58:49 ALSO GOING TO TAKE ON THE WORK OF PRETRIAL IS DEFINITELY STILL
01:58:55 A MAJOR CONCERN BECAUSE THIS IS DIFFERENT WORK GOING
01:58:59 IN COMMUNITY ACTUALLY WORKING WITH FOLKS WHO HAVE A STIGMA
01:59:02 WITH ADULT PROBATION JUST FROM FROM ONSET THANK YOU FOR VISOR
01:59:09 . I LOOK FORWARD TO SPEAKING WITH
01:59:11 YOU FURTHER ON THE VISION. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
01:59:14 THANK YOU SIR. SUPERVISOR WALTON AND WITH THAT
01:59:17 I'M GOING TO ARTICULATE THIS. I THINK THAT LET'S HAVE
01:59:21 CONTINUED CONVERSATION WITH ADULT PROBATION WITH SUPERIOR
01:59:25 COURT AND WITH THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
01:59:26 I THINK THE GOAL IS HERE'S TO ONE IS THAT LET'S ACTUALLY MAKE
01:59:30 SURE WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY APPROVE AS A CONTRACT IN TERMS
01:59:37 OF TERMS ON CONDITION FOR PRETRIAL THROUGH THE SHERIFF'S
01:59:40 DEPARTMENT THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT WHAT THAT ACTUALLY WOULD
01:59:44 LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF SPENDING FOR THE TRANSITIONS AND THAT
01:59:46 CONTRACT BUT THEN ALSO WHAT THE DOLE PROBATION ACTUALLY NEEDS
01:59:51 LET'S NOT I AM INCLINED TO EITHER PART OF THE SHERIFF'S
01:59:56 DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET WHICH WE ARE INDICATED AS WELL AS ADULT
01:59:59 PROBATION PARTICULARLY THE SECOND YEAR ON RESERVE OR FIRST
02:00:05 MAYBE HALF OF THE FIRST YEAR OR TWO OR CERTAIN ASPECTS OF IT TO
02:00:09 BE PUT ON RESERVE. SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT
02:00:13 CONVERSATION AND HAVE ALLOWING THIS COMMITTEE TO AS SUPERVISOR
02:00:18 SOUDER AND AND VICE CHAIR DORSEY AND JUST YOU KNOW
02:00:22 AND SUPERVISOR WALTON ALL THESE I THINK ASHLEY SO JUST SO THE
02:00:26 SUPERVISOR AND EVERYBODY ACTUALLY CLEARLY HAVE QUESTIONS
02:00:27 SO IT WILL BE GOOD TO ACTUALLY PUT ON FUNDING ON RESERVE SO
02:00:32 THAT ALLOWING THIS CONVERSATION AND BE ABLE TO TAKE PLACE MAYBE
02:00:35 SIX MONTHS FROM NOW ON BEFORE WE IMPLEMENT OR BEFORE BEFORE
02:00:40 THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH. BUT I THINK THAT IT'S A BIT
02:00:44 COMPLICATED OF HOW MUCH AND WHERE AND HOW SO I WILL
02:00:48 WANT US TO SORT OUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE TO ALLOW
02:00:52 ACCOUNTABILITY AND CONVERSATION PUBLIC CONVERSATION FOR THIS
02:00:55 BODY TO ACTUALLY HAVE. >> SO THAT'S ONE THOUGHT.
02:00:58 >> AND SECOND THOUGHTS I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO TO ARTICULATE THAT
02:01:02 I WOULD LOVE ALL DEPARTMENTS INCLUDING SUPERIOR COURT TO BE
02:01:06 ACTUALLY A PARTNER IN PROBLEM SOLVING.
02:01:10 >> THIS IS CLEARLY IF THIS IS A QUOTE UNQUOTE A COURT MANDATE
02:01:14 BECAUSE OF THE PENAL CODE CHANGE.
02:01:17 >> I WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND IF WE COULD GET REIMBURSEMENTS
02:01:21 FROM THE STATE FOR THIS TRANSITION THAT IF THIS IS A
02:01:24 COURT MANDATE BECAUSE OF STATE LEGISLATURE HAS CHANGED THE
02:01:26 POLICY, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OUR LOCAL JURISDICTION BE ABLE
02:01:32 TO BE REIMBURSED AND WHAT ASKED THAT SUPERIOR COURT TO BE A
02:01:36 PARTNER IN THIS TO ASK FOR REIMBURSEMENT BY SURE DORSEY I
02:01:43 ,I, I APPLAUD YOU FOR RAISING THAT BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS
02:01:46 I FACT I JUST HAD THIS CONVERSATION THERE ARE SOME
02:01:47 DOLLARS THAT I THINK SAN FRANCISCO MAY BE LEAVING ON THE
02:01:50 TABLE IN TERMS OF ASSET FORFEITURES AND THINGS THAT WE
02:01:54 COULD DO JUST GENERALLY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
02:01:58 I THINK WE DO WE'RE WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB, FOR EXAMPLE IN THE
02:02:01 HEALTH CARE SECTOR OF DRAWING DOWN MEDICAL DOLLARS.
02:02:05 I THINK THERE I THINK THERE MIGHT BE SOME MONEY THAT WE'RE
02:02:06 LEAVING ON THE TABLE WITH THE STATE THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL
02:02:09 WITH THIS. SO THANK YOU CHAIR CHAN FOR
02:02:12 YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD EXPLORE.
02:02:13 >> THANK YOU. >> AND OF COURSE I THINK THAT
02:02:17 MY APOLOGIES TO EVERYONE AND COLLEAGUES IT'S ALREADY
02:02:20 TRAVEL FOR IT IS MY COMMITMENT THAT WE WILL HAVE A 30 MINUTES
02:02:24 BREAK SO WE'LL COME BACK WITH PUBLIC DEFENDER IN WHICH I
02:02:27 THINK THAT HE PROBABLY CAN ALSO GIVE US SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT
02:02:31 PARTICULARLY ON THIS ISSUE AND IT IS MY INTEREST TO GET
02:02:32 HIS TAKE AS WELL AS SHARES PAUL MY MOTOS TAKE LATER TODAY WHICH
02:02:38 WE CAN HAVE THIS CONVERSATION CONTINUE ON RUSSELL THIS
02:02:39 AFTERNOON AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION CHIEF
02:02:43 AND WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR WORK.
02:02:47 >> I DO CONCUR WITH SURVEYS WALTON YOU KNOW LIKE HOW DO WE
02:02:50 MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE SET UP FOR SUCCESS IN DURING THIS
02:02:54 TRANSITION AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN DO AND IMPLEMENT
02:02:55 ALL PROGRAMS? >> I SEE THAT AND SO WE WILL
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02:31:04 AS
02:34:40 YOU
02:36:54 WE ARE RETURNING TO THE JUNE 12TH, 2026 MEETING OF THE
02:36:58 BUDGET APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE AND WITH THE CITY DEPARTMENT
02:37:02 HERE AND NOW WE HAVE OUR PUBLIC DEFENDER.
02:37:04 >> WELCOME. GOOD MORNING CHAIR CHAN
02:37:09 SUPERVISORS DORSEY CHEN SAUTER WALTON THANK YOU FOR THE
02:37:13 OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT ON THE BUDGET FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO
02:37:17 PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE. AS YOU'RE ALL AWARE OUR OFFICE
02:37:20 IS AT AN INFLECTION POINT. CASELOADS ARE RISING, CASES ARE
02:37:24 BECOMING INCREASINGLY COMPLEX AND OUR COMMUNITY'S NEEDS ARE
02:37:29 GREATER THAN EVER. >> OUR ASKS REFLECT WHAT IT
02:37:32 ACTUALLY TAKES TO DELIVER JUSTICE IN OUR CITY WE SERVE
02:37:36 SAN FRANCISCO'S MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS PEOPLE WHO CAN'T
02:37:40 AFFORD AN ATTORNEY AND ARE GUARANTEED ONE BY THE
02:37:43 CONSTITUTION. FUNDING THIS OFFICE IS AN
02:37:44 INVESTMENT IN FAIRNESS INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC SAFETY
02:37:47 AND INVESTMENT IN COMMUNITY TRUST.
02:37:50 I LOOK FORWARD TO WALKING YOU THROUGH OUR STAFFING OUR
02:37:51 CLIENTS, OUR WORKLOAD PRESSURES AND THE MEANINGFUL REENTRY WORK
02:37:55 OUR OFFICERS EVERY DAY. BUT BEFORE GOING THROUGH THIS
02:37:58 PRESENTATION LIKE YOU JUST REFLECT FOR A MOMENT ON THE
02:38:02 AWESOME RESPONSIBILITY OF WALKING INTO A JAIL CELL OR TO
02:38:07 AN IMMIGRANT DETENTION FACILITY AND KNOWING THAT THE QUALITY OF
02:38:11 THE HOLISTIC REPRESENTATION THAT WE PROVIDE IS GOING TO
02:38:14 HAVE A DRAMATIC IMPACT ON THE REST OF THAT INDIVIDUAL'S LIFE
02:38:18 THEIR FAMILY AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE NEXT GENERATION.
02:38:25 OUR MISSION VISION VALUE AND THEORY OF CHANGE REPRESENTS
02:38:30 THE FOUNDATION OF OUR OFFICE. THIS IS NOT A PASSIVE ROLE.
02:38:33 WE'RE ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN SHAPING A MORE JUST SAN
02:38:37 FRANCISCO. OUR VISION IS A WORLD WHERE
02:38:40 COLLECTIVE HUMANITY IS CHERISHED, WHERE NO ONE IS
02:38:41 DEFINED BY THEIR WORST MOMENT AND WHERE EVERYONE HAS ACCESS
02:38:45 TO A ZEALOUS LEGAL DEFENSE REGARDLESS OF INCOME TO MAKE
02:38:49 MORE FAIR AND JUST RESULTS HAPPEN.
02:38:52 >> OUR VALUES ARE LOVE, COURAGE, COMPASSION
02:38:56 AND EXCELLENCE AND OUR BUDGET AND CONTINUED REQUESTS ARE NOT
02:38:57 SIMPLY AN OPERATIONAL ASK. THERE ARE COMMITMENT TO THOSE
02:39:00 VALUES IN ACTION. >> EACH YEAR OUR OFFICE SERVES
02:39:04 OVER 20,000 INDIGENT PEOPLE IN SAN FRANCISCO WE'RE ASSIGNED
02:39:08 CASES DIRECTLY BY THE COURT UNDER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF
02:39:11 THE US CONSTITUTION A GUARANTEED RIGHT TO COUNSEL.
02:39:17 100% OF OUR CLIENTS ARE LOW INCOME.
02:39:18 WE REPRESENT 84% OF ALL INDIGENT DEFENDANTS IN SAN
02:39:21 FRANCISCO. >> MANY COME FROM COMMUNITIES
02:39:25 BOTH WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THIS COUNTRY THAT HAVE ENDURED
02:39:29 STRUCTURAL DISCRIMINATION AND MULTIPLE COMPLEX TRAUMAS.
02:39:32 MANY ARE LIVING WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS.
02:39:36 A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER ARE LIMITED ENGLISH SPEAKERS AND OR
02:39:39 IMMIGRANTS NAVIGATING A LEGAL SYSTEM AND LANGUAGE BARRIERS
02:39:41 CULTURAL CHALLENGES AND HEIGHTENED IMMIGRATION
02:39:44 CONSEQUENCES ATTACHED TO EVERY SINGLE CASE ARE EFFECTIVE
02:39:48 DEFENSE FOR THESE CLIENTS REQUIRES NOT JUST ATTORNEYS BUT
02:39:52 ALSO SOCIAL WORKERS PARALEGALS ,INVESTIGATORS AND CLERKS
02:39:56 AND SUPERVISORS AND THIS HAS BEEN ARTICULATED IN THE
02:40:00 CALIFORNIA PUBLIC DEFENSE WORKLOAD STUDY THAT WAS
02:40:04 COMMISSIONED BY THE LEGISLATURE THIS YEAR.
02:40:08 >> WE CONTINUE TO AND I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS STRATEGIC
02:40:12 PLANNING ASSESS AND STRATEGICALLY DEPLOY OUR
02:40:15 STAFF TO MEET THE MOST URGENT NEEDS EVEN AS OUR STAFF
02:40:19 CAPACITY HAS REMAINED CONSTRAINED AND STATIC SINCE WE
02:40:20 PRESENTED OUR STAFFING MAKEUP TO YOU LAST YEAR, WE'VE SHIFTED
02:40:24 ATTORNEY STAFFING AND MANAGEMENT POSITIONS TO
02:40:28 ADDRESS THE RISING CASELOAD BOTH IN MISDEMEANOR AND FELONY
02:40:30 UNITS WHERE THE DEMAND HAS INCREASED DUE TO THE HIGHER
02:40:34 ARRESTS AND FILING RATES. WE EXPANDED SOCIAL WORKER
02:40:38 AND PARALEGAL SUPPORT IN THE MISDEMEANOR UNIT, RECOGNIZING
02:40:39 THAT HOLISTICALLY DEFENSE REQUIRES MORE THAN JUST
02:40:43 ATTORNEYS. WE ADDED IN MEDICAL SOCIAL
02:40:46 WORKER TO THE MENTAL HEALTH UNIT THAT IS CURRENTLY
02:40:49 REPRESENTING 730 CONSERVATIVES THE THREE ATTORNEYS IN THAT
02:40:52 UNIT TO PROVIDE A CONTINUUM OF CARE FOR CLIENTS WITH SEVERE
02:40:56 MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES ADDRESSING ROOT CAUSES AND ALSO
02:41:00 FACILITATING APPROPRIATE PLACEMENTS FOR THESE
02:41:03 INDIVIDUALS. WE FILL VACANCIES VERY QUICKLY
02:41:07 ON AVERAGE WITHIN 2 TO 3 MONTHS OF RECEIVING APPROVAL.
02:41:09 >> OUR CURRENT VACANCY RATE IS LESS THAN 3% WITH TWO NEW
02:41:15 POSITIONS ONBOARDING IN JULY WE'RE NOT REALLY IN A POSITION
02:41:18 TO LEAVE VACANCIES OPEN FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME BECAUSE
02:41:22 THERE'S ALWAYS A CASELOAD WHEN THERE'S A VACANCY THAT WE HAVE
02:41:23 TO REASSIGN AS QUICKLY AS WE POSSIBLY CAN DESPITE THESE
02:41:29 ADAPTATIONS, OUR STAFFING CANNOT KEEP PACE WITH THE
02:41:30 VOLUME AND THE COMPLEXITY OF WHAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO
02:41:34 HANDLE. >> LOOKING AT A COMPARISON
02:41:38 HERE, THE OFFICE MAINTAINS A ROBUST AND DEDICATED STAFF BUT
02:41:42 COMPARED TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY THE CAPACITY GAP IS
02:41:45 STRIKING PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU LOOK BEYOND ATTORNEYS TO
02:41:46 INVESTIGATORS AND SUPPORT STAFF.
02:41:50 THIS CHART, BY THE WAY, EXCLUDES OUR MENTAL HEALTH
02:41:51 AND IMMIGRATION UNITS AND THOSE AREN'T CASES THE DEA LOOKS AT
02:41:54 BUT OUR INVESTIGATORS THERE'S WHERE THE GAP IS HIT THE
02:41:58 HARDEST. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS 36,
02:42:00 WE HAVE 20. AND AS YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THE
02:42:04 AS A POLICE DEPARTMENT IS ACTIVELY WORKING ALONGSIDE THE
02:42:07 PROSECUTION TO BUILD CASES. SO WE'RE TRYING TO COUNTER THAT
02:42:08 INVESTIGATIVE MACHINE WITH NEARLY HALF THE RESOURCES.
02:42:12 AND TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, WE HAVE ONE INVESTIGATOR ASSIGNED
02:42:16 TO THREE FELONY ATTORNEYS AND A MISDEMEANOR ATTORNEY.
02:42:19 AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THEY JUST SIMPLY CAN'T GET TO ALL
02:42:20 THE CASES. THEY DO AS MUCH AS THEY CAN
02:42:24 EXTREMELY HARDWORKING. BUT THAT LEADS TO DELAYS NOT
02:42:27 JUST FOR THE ACCUSED AND THEIR FAMILIES.
02:42:28 WITNESSES, VICTIMS, EVERYONE IN THE SYSTEM OF LAW
02:42:35 ENFORCEMENT WHO HAVE TO CONTINUE TO RETURN TO COURT
02:42:36 UNTIL WE CAN GET THE CASE READY FOR TRIAL SUPPORT STAFF ALL IS
02:42:42 THE SAME PATTERN 155 AT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE 87
02:42:45 AT RS 40% LESS 44% LESS OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT KEEPS
02:42:48 ATTORNEYS IN COURT OUT OF ADMINISTRATIVE WORK AND FOCUSED
02:42:53 ON THEIR CLIENTS. >> A WELL-RESOURCED PROSECUTION
02:42:56 DESERVES AN EQUALLY RESOURCED DEFENSE AND RIGHT NOW THAT
02:43:00 BALANCE DOESN'T EXIST AND OUR SYSTEM AND CLIENTS BEAR THE
02:43:03 CONSEQUENCES. CURRENT FISCAL YEAR BUDGET IS
02:43:07 APPROXIMATELY 58 MILLION AND THE COMPARISONS SHOWS THE
02:43:14 FUNDING DISPARITY ACROSS SOME OF OUR MAJOR PUBLIC SAFETY
02:43:16 DEPARTMENT. OUR BUDGET IS ROUGHLY SIX TIMES
02:43:19 LESS THAN THE SHERIFF'S 14 TIMES LESS THAN THE POLICE
02:43:22 DEPARTMENT'S OUR AGENCY WHOSE WORK FEEDS THE CASES WE'RE
02:43:26 REQUIRED BY LAW TO DEFEND. MOST STRIKINGLY, WE RECEIVE
02:43:32 4.3% OF THE COMBINED BUDGETS OF THE POLICE SHERIFF DEA
02:43:33 PROBATION AND SUPERIOR COURT. YET WE'RE THE ONLY AGENCY
02:43:40 IN THE SYSTEM CONSTITUTIONALLY REQUIRED TO REPRESENT THE
02:43:41 PEOPLE IN THIS IS A STRUCTURAL BALANCE NOT A FISCAL FOOTNOTE.
02:43:47 >> THIS CHART BEFORE YOU TELLS A CLEAR STORY OUR PEOPLE OUR
02:43:52 OFFICERS REALLY PEOPLE POWER DEVOTED DIRECTLY TO CLIENT
02:43:56 REPRESENTATION COVERING THE FULL RANGE OF MISDEMEANOR
02:43:59 FELONY MENTAL HEALTH, YOUTH AND IMMIGRATION CASES FROM
02:44:02 ARRAIGNMENT ALL THE WAY TO REENTRY SUPPORT ONLY 4% OF OUR
02:44:06 BUDGET GOES TO ADMINISTRATION H.R.
02:44:07 PAYROLL FINANCE. THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY LEAN
02:44:11 ADMINISTRATIVE FOOTPRINT FOR AN OFFICE OF OUR SIZE
02:44:15 AND COMPLEXITY. THIS NEXT SLIDE CAPTURES WHAT'S
02:44:21 DRIVING OUR WORKLOAD CRISIS AND THESE AREN'T HYPOTHETICAL
02:44:25 PRESSURES. EACH FACTOR LISTED HERE HAS
02:44:29 INCREASED OVER THE PAST YEAR. THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE
02:44:30 ARRESTS BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND AGAIN WE DON'T
02:44:33 CONTROL THAT. THAT'S DECISIONS MADE BY OTHERS
02:44:37 BUT WE DO HAVE THE COURTS FREE DOWNSTREAM CONSTITUTIONAL
02:44:40 IMPACT OF IT MORE FILINGS BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY MEANS
02:44:45 MORE CLIENTS ASSIGNED TO OUR ATTORNEYS, FEWER CASES SETTLING
02:44:48 OR BEING DIVERTED MEANS MORE CASES GOING TO LITIGATION
02:44:52 AND JURY TRIALS WHICH ARE AMONG THE MOST INTENSE OF RESOURCE
02:44:57 INTENSIVE TESTS THAT AN ATTORNEY CAN UNDERTAKE.
02:45:00 >> SO THIS IS INCREASED CONTRIBUTING TO INCREASINGLY
02:45:04 HIGH ACTIVE MISDEMEANOR AND FELONY CASELOAD MISDEMEANOR
02:45:08 ACTIVE CASELOAD HAVE RISEN BY 68% AND FELONY ACTIVE CASELOAD
02:45:11 HAVE INCREASED BY 52% SINCE 2019.
02:45:17 THE RECENT CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT KOWALCZYK DECISION IS
02:45:21 GOING TO CREATE IMMEDIATE OBLIGATIONS FOR OUR STAFF TO
02:45:25 IDENTIFY CLIENTS WHO ARE HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRETRIAL
02:45:29 DETENTION OR UNAFFORDABLE BAIL. SO WE'RE IN A POSITION NOW
02:45:33 WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING UP WITH RELEASE PLANS THAT ARE
02:45:37 AS COMPREHENSIVE AS POSSIBLE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR
02:45:38 CLIENTS ARE ABLE TO BOTH MAKE THEIR COURT DATES AND MAKE SURE
02:45:44 THAT AND SUPPORT PUBLIC SAFETY AT THE SAME TIME WE'RE GOING TO
02:45:47 HAVE TO GET FINANCIAL RECORDS TO PROVIDE THE COURT WITH
02:45:49 INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT AFFORDABLE BAIL IS ACTUALLY
02:45:53 GOING TO MEAN IN ANY PARTICULAR CASE.
02:45:56 OKAY. THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE'RE DOING
02:46:00 MORE WITH LESS AND THAT'S NOT REALLY SUSTAINABLE.
02:46:04 SO WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE AND WORK WITH YOU
02:46:08 IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND BE RAMBO AND THE BUDGET JUDGE WHO
02:46:12 WE DO APPRECIATE TO ADDRESS OUR STAFFING AND OPERATING LEGAL
02:46:15 NEEDS AND WHAT WE SHOULD BE GUIDED BY IS WHAT WE HAVE FOR
02:46:20 THE FIRST TIME IN HALF A CENTURY WE HAVE A NATIONAL
02:46:24 WORKLOAD STUDY THAT'S PRODUCED BY THE RAND CORPORATION AND THE
02:46:27 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION AND WE ALSO HAVE A CALIFORNIA WORKLOAD
02:46:31 REPORT PRODUCED PURSUANT TO AB 625 AND IT CAME OUT ON
02:46:39 SEPTEMBER 29TH OF 2025. SO JUST NOW IN CALIFORNIA
02:46:42 GOVERNMENT CODE IT'S BEEN CODIFIED IN CALIFORNIA
02:46:45 GOVERNMENT CODE 15403. I ALSO WANT TO LEAVE THE BOARD
02:46:53 WITH A CLEAR PICTURE OF WHAT OUR OFFICE PRODUCES BEYOND THE
02:46:57 COURTROOM. THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF PROGRAMS
02:47:01 AND INITIATIVES THAT DIRECTLY REDUCE RECIDIVISM, RESTORE
02:47:05 LIVES AND STRENGTHEN PUBLIC SAFETY.
02:47:06 THE HOME FARMING PROJECT PARTNERS WITH IMPACT JUSTICE
02:47:10 WHERE WE'RE TACKLING THE HOUSING CRISIS HEAD ON FOR
02:47:13 PEOPLE RETURNING FROM INCARCERATION WHERE PEOPLE ARE
02:47:17 BEING PAID TO HOUSE PEOPLE IN THEIR HOME WHEN THEY'RE
02:47:18 RETURNING FROM PRISON BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT STABLE HOUSING IS
02:47:21 THE SINGLE MOST RELIABLE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESSFUL REENTRY
02:47:28 . WE HAD A STATE LEGISLATIVE
02:47:29 VICTORY AB 321 ARE ADVOCACY HEALTH PACTS IT'S CALLED THE
02:47:33 BIT BETTER INFORMED DECISIONS ACT.
02:47:36 IT GIVES JUDGES DISCRETION TO REDUCE A FELONY WOBBLER CASE
02:47:40 BEFORE TRIAL THAT SOMETHING COULD BE CHARGED AS A
02:47:44 MISDEMEANOR OR FELONY IF THEY FIND CHANGE CIRCUMSTANCES
02:47:47 EITHER SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THE CASE WHETHER IT'S A
02:47:50 WITNESS STATEMENT OR SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S UNCOVERED OR THE
02:47:54 CLIENT WHO'S NOW BEEN INCENTIVIZED TO EITHER ENGAGE
02:47:59 IN SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT OR GET A JOB OR START
02:48:03 AN EDUCATIONAL PATH, THAT CHANGE BY THAT CLIENT NOW GIVES
02:48:07 A JUDGE WITH THAT CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCE THE ABILITY TO
02:48:11 REDUCE SOMETHING A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR WHICH IS GOING TO
02:48:15 FREE UP THE FELONY DOCKET AND ENABLE PEOPLE TO MOVE IN A
02:48:22 MORE POSITIVE DIRECTION MORE QUICKLY.
02:48:25 WE HAVE A FREEDOM PROJECT THAT TO DATE HAS SECURED THE RELEASE
02:48:28 OF 108 PEOPLE FROM STATE PRISON THROUGH RE SENTENCING
02:48:32 AND PAROLE ADVOCACY WITH ZERO RECIDIVISM AND THAT'S THANKS TO
02:48:36 ART SUPERSTAR SOCIAL WORKERS WHO WORK IN THAT UNIT AND OF
02:48:40 COURSE OUR CLEAN SLATE PROGRAM WHICH I APPRECIATE THE MAYOR'S
02:48:43 OFFICE REMOVING THE LIMITED TERM ON THE 2.5 POSITIONS THERE
02:48:48 IT'S OUR CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGEMENT PROGRAM THAT
02:48:51 REMOVES BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING AND VACATES
02:48:55 CONVICTIONS FOR SURVIVORS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
02:48:59 >> A CLEAN RECORD MEANS A REAL SECOND CHANCE.
02:49:02 >> WE ALSO HAVE A COLLEGE PATHWAY PROGRAM WHERE WE'RE
02:49:06 ACTIVELY TRYING TO GET OUR CLIENTS ENROLLED AT SF STATE OR
02:49:09 AT CITY COLLEGE. THANK YOU FOR THAT.
02:49:14 HAPPY TO FIELD ANY QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU.
02:49:17 JUST WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK.
02:49:21 WE UNDERSTAND THERE ARE MANY CHALLENGES IN THE LAST SPECIAL
02:49:24 IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS TO TRY TO GET YOUR STAFFING LOAD
02:49:28 AND BE RESPONSIVE AND STILL BE ABLE TO ENSURE RIGHTS OF
02:49:32 EVERYDAY PEOPLE WHEN THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE CRIMINAL
02:49:36 JUSTICE SYSTEM. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
02:49:39 I DON'T KNOW WE I HAVE ALREADY ASKED EVERYBODY THIS QUESTIONS
02:49:43 BUT JUST WANTED TO GIVE A NOTE AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON
02:49:47 JUST THE TRANSITION OF THE PRETRIAL YOU HAVE PROVIDED A
02:49:50 LETTER SPECIFICALLY STATING YOUR POSITION.
02:49:51 JUST THOUGHT THAT I WANTED TO ALSO ASK YOU ON THE RECORD.
02:49:55 >> SURE. THANK YOU FOR THAT.
02:49:58 >> YOU KNOW THAT PHASE OF PRETRIAL AND ESPECIALLY WITH
02:50:02 THIS NEW KOWALCZYK DECISION IS A VERY CRUCIAL PHASE, RIGHT?
02:50:06 SO WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT OUR CLIENTS MAKE ALL OF THEIR COURT
02:50:08 DATES. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT IF
02:50:10 THERE'S AN UNDERLYING ISSUE THAT MAY HAVE CAUSED THE
02:50:14 INITIAL RISK THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING THAT THROUGH
02:50:17 WHATEVER TERMS ARE APPROPRIATE, WHETHER IT'S SUBSTANCE USE
02:50:18 DISORDER AS I SAID BEFORE, WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND GET
02:50:22 WE'RE GOING TO ON OUR OWN DO OUR OWN WORK THERE AND WE'RE
02:50:25 OFTEN ASKED BY THE COURT TO BECAUSE WE OFTEN HAVE MORE
02:50:29 INFORMATION FRANKLY THAN EITHER PROBATION OR PRETRIAL WHICHEVER
02:50:32 WAY THIS GOES THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE WE PROVIDE THAT TO THE
02:50:34 COURT AND FRANKLY THE COURTS ARE OFTEN RELYING ON OUR SOCIAL
02:50:37 WORKERS TO PROVIDE THAT. BUT THE THING ABOUT PRETRIAL
02:50:40 AND I'VE HAD THE FORTUNE OF WORKING WITH SO MANY OF THE
02:50:44 STAFF MEMBERS IN PRETRIAL IT'S IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT THEY CARE
02:50:49 ABOUT OUR CLIENTS AND THEY ARE REALLY UNDERSTANDING SOME OF
02:50:53 THE UNDERLYING DYNAMICS AND REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SURE
02:50:57 THEY CONNECT THOSE CLIENTS WITH YOU APPROPRIATE SERVICES
02:51:01 AND GET THEM BACK TO COURT. SEEING ONE OF THEM REPEATEDLY
02:51:04 ACTUALLY OFFERED HER A POSITION IN OUR SOCIAL WORKER UNIT WHICH
02:51:06 I'M SO HAPPY THAT SHE ACCEPTED AND I THINK THE ISSUE WITH
02:51:09 PROBATION AND OUR HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP TO PROBATION IS
02:51:13 FRANKLY WE OFTEN HAVE TO GO WITH THE CLIENTS TO PROBATION
02:51:17 BECAUSE WE'RE AFRAID OF WHAT CAN BE SAID, WHAT MIGHT BE
02:51:21 MISINTERPRETED AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
02:51:22 SOME OF THOSE THINGS CAN THEN BE USED AGAINST THEM
02:51:25 POTENTIALLY IN SENTENCING OR IN A VIOLATION AND THAT IS
02:51:28 SUPERVISOR WALTON POINTED OUT EARLIER THAT TRUST LEVEL ISN'T
02:51:32 ALWAYS THERE AND THAT'S PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT
02:51:36 FACTOR IN ENABLING SOMEONE TO SUCCEED PRETRIAL IS BEING ABLE
02:51:41 TO BE COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT WITH THE PERSON THAT THEY'RE
02:51:44 INTERACTING WITH SO THAT THEY CAN GET THE APPROPRIATE
02:51:45 SERVICES FOR THEM. AND I THINK THAT YOU KNOW,
02:51:48 THERE HAS THERE WAS AN EXPLICIT A CARVE OUT FOR S A PRETRIAL
02:51:52 FOR A REASON AND IT'S AND I KNOW FROM TALKING TO OTHER
02:51:56 PUBLIC DEFENDERS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND BEING INFORMED BY
02:52:00 PRETRIAL SERVICES HERE THEY'RE OFTEN CONSULTED FOR HOW TO
02:52:04 EFFECTIVELY DO PRETRIAL. ARE THERE WAYS THAT CAN BE
02:52:08 IMPROVED? ABSOLUTELY.
02:52:09 AS WITH ALL OF OUR AGENCIES AND WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST
02:52:12 ACTUALLY KNOW I'VE TALKED TO SHERIFF MIYAMOTO ABOUT THIS IS
02:52:15 THAT WE REINSTITUTE WORKING GROUPS SO WE CAN SEE IF THERE
02:52:19 ARE GAPS WHERE THERE'S GRAPHS CAN BE FILLED IN AND I THINK
02:52:21 THAT'S THE FRANKLY THE AREA THAT WE SHOULD BE INVESTING
02:52:24 IN IS GETTING THOSE SYSTEMS ALONG WITH THE COURT WHICH I'M
02:52:27 HAPPY TO MEET WITH. SO IF THERE ARE ISSUES THAT WE
02:52:29 CAN SMOOTH THOSE OUT SO THAT PRETRIAL CAN NOT JUST CONTINUE
02:52:32 IN ITS CURRENT DURATION BUT ACTUALLY OPERATE AT A HIGH
02:52:35 LEVEL HIGHER LEVEL WITHIN THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
02:52:38 THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOU AND THANK YOU
02:52:42 AGAIN FOR YOUR WORK. THANK YOU.
02:52:46 >> THANK YOU. AND NEXT WE WILL HAVE THE FIRE
02:52:47 DEPARTMENT. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM CHAIR.
02:53:15 OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE DEAN CHRISMAN, FIRE CHIEF,
02:53:20 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT ON OUR
02:53:22 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL FISCAL YEAR 2627 AND 2728.
02:53:29 FIRST SLIDE PLEASE. FIRST WE'LL PROVIDE A HIGH
02:53:30 LEVEL OVERVIEW HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF OUR DEPARTMENT'S
02:53:34 BUDGET BY FUND WHERE PREDOMINANTLY A GENERAL FUND
02:53:37 DEPARTMENT THE STRUCTURAL BREAKDOWN OF OUR BUDGET IS
02:53:40 FAIRLY CONSISTENT YEAR OVER YEAR AS YOU CAN SEE.
02:53:44 >> NEXT SLIDE HERE'S A QUICK SLIDE TO SHOW WHAT TYPE OF
02:53:51 EXPENDITURES OUR ALLOCATIONS GO TO.
02:53:52 YOU CAN SEE THE TWO BIGGEST SLICES OF THE PIE MAKE UP
02:53:55 ALMOST 90% OF OUR OVERALL BUDGET AND THEY REPRESENT
02:53:58 PERSONNEL COSTS AND SALARIES AND BENEFITS AND THE VAST
02:54:02 MAJORITY OF OUR PERSONNEL COSTS ARE DEDICATED TO FRONT LINE
02:54:04 EMERGENCY FIRE, EMS, MEDIA POWER MEDICINE SERVICES.
02:54:10 >> HERE'S OUR BUDGET ALLOCATION BY FUNCTION.
02:54:14 AS MENTIONED IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, FRONTLINE OPERATIONS IS
02:54:15 PREDOMINATELY WHERE OUR FUNDS ARE FOCUSED WITH OUR
02:54:19 INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPORT DIVISIONS MAKING UP THE
02:54:22 REMAINDER. >> WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BUDGET
02:54:26 INSTRUCTIONS, BUDGET REDUCTIONS IN THE BUDGET PROCESS ABOVE
02:54:30 EVERYTHING ELSE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PRIORITIZES
02:54:33 EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO THE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS OF SAN
02:54:34 FRANCISCO. THIS INCLUDES OUR FRONT LINE
02:54:37 FIRE SUPPRESSION, EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND COMMUNITY
02:54:41 PARAMEDICS AND SERVICES. THIS IS THE BACKBONE OF THE
02:54:42 DEPARTMENT AND ALL OTHER DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONS EXIST TO
02:54:46 SUPPORT THIS MISSION. GIVEN BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS,
02:54:49 THE BUDGET THE DEPARTMENT HAS HAD TO LOOK AT HOW THESE
02:54:53 SERVICES ARE DELIVERED AND TRY TO FIND EFFICIENCIES EITHER
02:54:54 OPERATIONAL AND OR FISCAL TO IMPROVE DAILY RESPONSE
02:54:58 AND PREPARE FOR LARGE SCALE DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES.
02:55:01 THIS INCLUDES ANALYZING WORKFLOWS AND SUPERVISOR AERIAL
02:55:05 DUTIES AS WELL AS LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY WHERE APPROPRIATE.
02:55:09 THESE EFFORTS ARE MADE EVEN MORE CHALLENGING IN THE LIGHT
02:55:10 OF INCREASING CALL VOLUME FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
02:55:13 THIS NEXT GRAPH WILL INDICATE THAT AS NOTE IN THE PREVIOUS
02:55:17 SLIDE ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BUDGET
02:55:20 REDUCTIONS IS THAT THE DEPARTMENT'S CALL VOLUME
02:55:23 CONTINUES TO INCREASE OVER TIME.
02:55:24 THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS PROJECTED TO RESPOND TO OVER
02:55:28 180,000 DISTINCT INCIDENTS IN THE CURRENT YEAR CURRENT
02:55:31 FISCAL YEAR AS A SCOPE OF SERVICES.
02:55:32 THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES INCREASES.
02:55:35 OUR DAILY STAFFING LEVELS HAVE STABILIZED IN RECENT YEARS.
02:55:39 WE'VE HAD TO DO MORE WITH EXISTING RESOURCES AND FIND
02:55:41 EFFICIENCIES IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
02:55:46 FOR YOU THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS LOOKING AT TONE TO NINE TOTAL
02:55:50 DELETED POSITIONS MADE UP OF SIX CIVILIAN POSITIONS
02:55:53 AND THREE UNIFORMED POSITIONS FOR THE CIVILIAN POSITIONS.
02:55:56 THERE WERE NO LAYOFFS INVOLVED AS THESE POSITIONS WERE HELD
02:56:00 VACANT DUE TO THE HIRING FREEZE FOR THE UNIFORMED POSITIONS,
02:56:04 MEMBERS WERE REASSIGNED AND SUPERVISORY
02:56:05 RESPONSIBILITIES WERE REDISTRIBUTE ADDED AMONG OTHER
02:56:08 EMPLOYEES. THE DEPARTMENT ALSO IDENTIFIED
02:56:12 INCREASED EMS REVENUES AS A RESULT OF SOME LEGISLATIVE
02:56:16 CHANGES AT THE STATE LEVEL TO ASSIST WITH OFFSETTING GENERAL
02:56:17 FUND COSTS IN THE BUDGET. >> HERE'S A HIGH LEVEL ORG
02:56:28 CHART. THE DEPARTMENT HAS A PROBABLY
02:56:30 APPROXIMATELY 1850 FULL TIME EMPLOYEES UNIFORM FUNCTIONAL
02:56:33 AREAS ARE SPLIT ACROSS THREE DEPUTY CHIEFS OPERATIONS
02:56:37 ADMINISTRATION AND EMS. THE DEPARTMENT'S THREE DEPUTY
02:56:42 CHIEFS ARE SUPPORTED BY NINE ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEFS SPREAD
02:56:45 ACROSS VARIOUS DISCIPLINES. OUR POSITIONS ARE IN AN EXEMPT
02:56:48 CAPACITY AT THE WILL OF THE CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT.
02:56:50 IN ADDITION, THE DEPARTMENT HAS FIVE CIVILIAN MANAGERS OVER
02:56:53 SUCH AREAS AS FINANCE, HUMAN RELATIONS AND IT ALL POSITIONS
02:56:57 ON THE COMMAND STAFF ARE CURRENTLY FILLED.
02:57:03 >> THE PAST FEW YEARS THE DEPARTMENT HAS RESTORED THE
02:57:04 OVERALL HEALTH OF ITS STAFFING LEVELS.
02:57:07 COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE BOARD OF
02:57:08 SUPERVISORS AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AS ITS HIRING PLAN HAS
02:57:11 ALLOWED THE DEPARTMENT TO CONDUCT ACADEMIES THAT HAVE
02:57:15 ALLOWED THE DEPARTMENT TO BACKFILL VACANT UNIFORMED
02:57:16 POSITIONS. THESE STAFFING INITIATIVES
02:57:19 CONTINUE INTO THE TWO BUDGET YEARS BEFORE YOU.
02:57:23 WITH FUNDS ALLOCATED TO HIRE TWO H-2 FIREFIGHTER ACADEMIES
02:57:26 IN EACH IN EACH FISCAL YEAR ALONG WITH AGE THREE EMT
02:57:30 PARAMEDIC ACADEMIES TO MAINTAIN EXISTING STAFF LEVELS FOR EMS
02:57:34 AMBULANCES, AMBULANCE SERVICES, THE COMMUNITY PARAMEDICS IN A
02:57:38 HEALTHY STAFFING LEVEL HAS IMPROVED MORALE REDUCING NEED
02:57:41 FOR MANDATORY OVERTIME AND PROVIDED A ROBUST WORKFORCE
02:57:43 TO BE AVAILABLE IN CASE OF A RECALL IN A DISASTER OR LARGE
02:57:46 EMERGENCY. >> NEXT SLIDE THIS IS A BRIEF
02:57:53 CHART TO SHOW OUR REDUCTIONS IN OVERTIME IN OUR OPERATING
02:57:54 FUND OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS. >> ACTUAL OVERTIME EXPENDITURES
02:57:57 HAVE REDUCED BY 28% IN THAT PERIOD.
02:58:01 IF YOU REMOVE WAGE INCREASES THAT REDUCTION INCREASES 38%
02:58:04 OVER THE FIVE YEARS. THIS IS A DIRECTOR'S GOAL OF
02:58:08 THE MAYOR'S THE DEPARTMENT'S HIRING INITIATIVES AND WE WANT
02:58:09 TO THANK THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND THE MAYOR'S
02:58:13 OFFICE FOR THEIR SUPPORT. >> NOW LOOKING TO A FEW
02:58:19 INITIATIVES THAT WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IN OUR BUDGET,
02:58:23 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAS INCLUDED A SIGNIFICANT ALLOCATION FOR
02:58:25 FIRE APPARATUS REPLACEMENT IN THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE
02:58:28 DEPARTMENT. THE COMMITMENT IS ALLOCATION OF
02:58:30 $8 MILLION OVER A YEAR OVER TEN YEARS WITH THE INTENT TO
02:58:34 REPLACE ALL FIRE ENGINES AND TRUCKS THAT ARE OVER 20
02:58:37 YEARS OLD AND ALL AMBULANCES OVER TEN YEARS OLD.
02:58:40 THE DEPARTMENT HAS A VERY LARGE FLEET RESULTING IN PERFORMANCE
02:58:43 ISSUES, HIGH MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR COSTS AND LACK OF
02:58:47 CRUCIAL AND DEPENDABLE RESOURCES IN THE DISASTER OR
02:58:51 LARGE EMERGENCY. IT HAS BEEN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT
02:58:52 TO REPLACE THESE UNITS DUE TO RISING COSTS, SUPPLY CHAIN
02:58:55 ISSUES AND MARKET DIFFICULTIES .
02:58:59 THIS IS A CRUCIAL INVESTMENT IN SAN FRANCISCO'S PUBLIC
02:59:00 SAFETY RESPONSE. I MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE
02:59:04 PRESENTATION HOW CRUCIAL IT WAS TO HAVE A HEALTHY STAFFING
02:59:07 LEVEL IN CASE OF THE NEED TO RECALL EMPLOYEES IN A DISASTER
02:59:10 OR EMERGENCY. WE NEED TO ENSURE THESE MEMBERS
02:59:12 HAVE THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO DO THEIR JOBS WHEN THEY COME IN.
02:59:15 GIVEN THIS AN ALLOCATION OVER TIME, THE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING
02:59:19 CLOSELY WITH THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE ON A FINANCING MECHANISM
02:59:22 TO PURCHASE THESE APPARATUS AND MAKE A LARGE INVESTMENT
02:59:25 UPFRONT. HEALTH AND SAFETY ALSO INCLUDED
02:59:29 OUR BUDGET AS AN ALLOCATION FOR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.
02:59:33 THESE TURN OUT COATS AND PANTS ARE WHAT FIREFIGHTERS DEPEND ON
02:59:37 IN AN EMERGENCY TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE ELEMENTS OF FIRE.
02:59:38 >> AS YOU MAY RECALL, THE CITY PASSED ORDINANCE 126 DASH 24
02:59:43 AND 2024 THAT PROHIBITED THE DEPARTMENT FROM PROVIDING OR
02:59:44 USING PPE THAT CONTAINED FAST CHEMICALS.
02:59:48 BY JUNE 30TH 2026. AT THE TIME THIS A
02:59:51 GROUNDBREAKING LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE HEALTH
02:59:55 AND SAFETY OF FIRE DEPARTMENT MEMBERS FROM THE ELEMENTS OF
02:59:59 THEIR JOB ENCOUNTERED DURING THEIR COURSE OF DUTY AS CANCER
03:00:02 IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN THE FIRE SERVICE.
03:00:05 THE DEPARTMENT WAS ABLE TO SECURE SOME GRANT FUNDING TO
03:00:06 CHIP AWAY AT THIS REPLACEMENT BUT THIS INVESTMENT WILL ALLOW
03:00:10 THE DEPARTMENT TO COMPLETELY REPLACE ALL TURNOUTS WITH FAST
03:00:13 FERRY UNITS AND MAINTAIN MAINTAIN THE CITY'S POSITION ON
03:00:17 THE CUTTING EDGE. A FIREFIGHTER HEALTH AND SAFETY
03:00:20 THE DEPARTMENT WAS ALSO ALLOCATED $500,000 TO FUND A
03:00:23 PORTION OF A JOINT PROJECT BETWEEN THE CITY SAN FRANCISCO
03:00:26 FIRE DEPARTMENT LOCAL 798 FIREFIGHTERS UNION AND THE SAN
03:00:28 FRANCISCO FIREFIGHTERS CANCER PREVENTION FOUNDATION.
03:00:31 THIS PROJECT WILL MAKE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND OFFER
03:00:35 MEMBERS ADVANCED CANCER SCREENINGS TO SUPPORT EARLY
03:00:37 DETECTION. WITH THAT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER
03:00:42 ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
03:00:45 THANK YOU. >> VICE CHAIR DORSEY THANK YOU
03:00:46 CHAIR AND CHIEF, I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'RE
03:00:50 DOING TO PROTECT US SAN FRANCISCANS AND ALSO PROTECT
03:00:54 THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF YOUR MEMBERS.
03:00:57 >> I WANTED TO JUST TEASE OUT BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS A
03:01:01 QUESTION THAT I OFTEN ASK A LOT OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCIES.
03:01:04 WHEN I SEE THE REDUCTION IN CIVILIAN ROLES I LIKE TO
03:01:09 KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT ELIMINATING A CIVILIAN POSITION TO CREATE A
03:01:12 RESPONSIBILITY FOR A SWORN OR UNIFORMED MEMBER.
03:01:16 THAT'S ALMOST DEFEATING THE PURPOSE OF THAT.
03:01:19 SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE INVITE YOU TO AND THAT'S A
03:01:21 VALUABLE AND IMPORTANT QUESTION.
03:01:24 I REFER TO THE ONE SLIDE THAT DISCUSSES THE AREAS THAT WE'VE
03:01:27 HAD REDUCTIONS. >> SO THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
03:01:32 AND INTEGRATION OF OUR OPERATIONS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO
03:01:36 DO MORE WITH LESS. SO WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE ON
03:01:40 THOSE DUTIES. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE
03:01:41 POSITIONS THAT'S BEEN DELETED IS AS OUR FACILITIES MANAGER
03:01:44 AND THAT'S THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WOULD MANAGE INCOMING PHONE
03:01:47 CALLS FROM FIRE STATIONS TO SAY THAT THE DUTY REPAIRS AT THE
03:01:49 FACILITY. NOW THROUGH TECHNOLOGY WE CAN
03:01:51 COMPLETELY AUTOMATE THAT SO ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR THAT
03:01:55 PERSON AND WE CAN DISPATCH WE HAVE AN ON DUTY PLUMBER
03:01:58 ELECTRICIAN AND A STATIONARY ENGINEER THAT CAN MANAGE THESE
03:02:00 AS WELL AS A CIVILIAN SO THEY'RE NOT UNIFORM BUT THEY
03:02:03 ACTUALLY FUNCTION AS IN PLACE OF THAT PERSON.
03:02:07 AND WE ALSO HAVE MATERIALS COORDINATOR THAT'S A PERSON WHO
03:02:11 ISSUES OUR TURNOUTS AND WE FIND OUR TURNOUT GEAR AND THAT WE
03:02:12 FOUND THAT HAVING UNIFORMED PERSONNEL THERE MAKES THAT RUN
03:02:15 A LOT MORE SMOOTHLY IN THE CURRENT PERIOD.
03:02:18 WE ARE GOING TO BE ISSUING A LOT OF TURNOUTS IN THE NEXT
03:02:22 COUPLE OF YEARS WITH THIS INCREDIBLE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT
03:02:23 WE HAVE. AND ONCE WE DO THAT THEN IT
03:02:26 SHOULD SETTLE DOWN AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE USE LIKE
03:02:29 A MODIFIED DUTY FOLKS OR OTHERS TO TO PERFORM THOSE FUNCTIONS.
03:02:34 >> OKAY. THAT SOUNDS GREAT.
03:02:35 AND I'M I'M ALSO GRATEFUL TO SEE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE
03:02:38 MAKING AN INVESTMENT IN THE APPARATUS.
03:02:41 I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE AGREE ON AND IT REALLY IS
03:02:43 FOR A CITY LIKE OURS AN INVESTMENT.
03:02:45 >> I THINK EVERY TIME I HAVE A MEETING ABOUT JUST PREPAREDNESS
03:02:49 I POINT TO A NEW YORK TIMES FEATURE STORY CALLED SAN
03:02:53 FRANCISCO'S BIG SEISMIC GAMBLE ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO MOVING ITS
03:02:57 DOWNTOWN TO THE SOUTH THE MARKET DISTRICT THAT I
03:03:01 REPRESENT. >> THERE'S A HIGH RISK OF
03:03:04 LIQUEFACTION AND PROBLEMS BUT IF WE KNOWING THAT WE'RE GOING
03:03:08 TO BE READY FOR THAT AS IT REALLY IS TRULY AN INVESTMENT
03:03:09 IN OUR CITY. SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORK
03:03:12 TO GET THAT DONE AND I'M GOING TO SUPPORT IT.
03:03:14 >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.
03:03:19 AND CHIEF, I JUST HAD A QUESTION SORT OF GOING BACK TO
03:03:23 THE BLACKOUT THAT WE HAD BUT ALSO JUST FOR THE THE THE
03:03:26 BLACKOUT FROM P G THAT WE HAD IN DECEMBER BUT ALSO IN THE
03:03:30 LAST FEW LIKE PARTICULAR THE LAST TWO YEARS THAT WE HAVE
03:03:34 SEEN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE OPERATING IN OUR CITY
03:03:38 AND CREATING PROBLEMS FOR OUR FIRST RESPONDERS.
03:03:43 DO YOU HAVE ANY DATA INDICATING THE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
03:03:47 AND STAFFING THAT WE END UP HAVE TO DEPLOY THAT YOU AND I'M
03:03:51 HAVE TO DEPLOY JUST TO TACKLE SOME OF THESE CHALLENGES THAT
03:03:58 WE SEE THAT IS CAUSED BY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE EITHER
03:04:02 BLOCKING ROAD BLOCKING INTERSECTIONS OR YOU KNOW THE
03:04:06 WORST CASE WAS IN MY OPINION DURING THE BLACKOUT WHEN THEY
03:04:08 WERE THERE JUST SO MANY OF THEM ARE ALL OF THEM LITERALLY DONE
03:04:12 STUCK IN OUR ROAD WEIGHT? >> SURE.
03:04:15 SO THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLY BUSY NIGHT FOR US.
03:04:18 WE WENT TO THREE TIMES MORE CALLS THAN WE NORMALLY DO
03:04:22 AND THAT EVENING UNFORTUNATELY OUR OUR MEMBERS ARE WELL VERSED
03:04:25 ON DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS TO GO AND WERE ABLE TO MANIPULATE
03:04:29 THEIR VEHICLES APPARATUS AROUND THE WAYMO'S BUT IT DEFINITELY
03:04:33 CREATES A DELAY IN RESPONSE AND THE DANGER TO THE
03:04:37 RESIDENTS. WE DID STAFF ADDITIONAL MEMBERS
03:04:38 AT AT THE COMMUNICATION CENTER THAT EVENING.
03:04:43 AND FRANKLY IF WE HAVE A MAJOR EMERGENCY LIKE A DISASTER,
03:04:45 THOSE VEHICLES ARE GOING TO GET PUSHED OUT OF THE WAY PROBABLY
03:04:48 BY A FIRE ENGINE OR A VEHICLE THAT WE PROVIDE AND WE DO HAVE
03:04:51 A PLAN IN PLACE WHERE A BIT OF EQUIPMENT CAN RESPOND TO
03:04:52 INTERSECTIONS AND MOVE VEHICLES OUT OF THE WAY.
03:04:55 BUT THAT'S A LAST CASE. YOU KNOW, LAST RESORT AS FAR AS
03:04:59 A PIECE. >> YOU KNOW, THERE ARE CLEARLY
03:05:00 SOME ISSUES AT THE SUBSTATION AT EIGHTH AND MISSION.
03:05:03 SOME PONDING INSIDE OF IT FROM SOME LEAKY ROOFS AND THINGS
03:05:06 THAT PUT OUR MEMBERS IN DANGER WHICH IS OF GREAT CONCERN TO
03:05:07 MYSELF. AND THIS IS THE THIRD CASE OF
03:05:10 THE FAILURE AT THAT FACILITY IN MY CAREER.
03:05:14 >> YEAH, I THINK WHAT I AM TRYING TO GET AT TODAY IS I'M
03:05:18 INTERESTED IN CREATING A FEE LEGISLATION SPECIFICALLY FOR
03:05:25 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE THAT WILL CAN BE SITED NOW THEY THEY CAN
03:05:30 BE CITED BUT SPECIFICALLY FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE THAT WILL
03:05:34 REQUIRE OUR FIRST RESPONDER BE A POLICE OFFICER OR
03:05:39 FIREFIGHTERS FIRST RESPONDER THAT WILL ACTUALLY HAVE TO
03:05:41 REACT TO THEM AS A EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND AN EMERGENCY FEES
03:05:47 CHARGES. >> SO WE'D LOVE TO LEARN MORE
03:05:48 NOT JUST FROM THE ANY INCIDENTS BUT SORT OF OVER A PERIOD OF
03:05:55 TIME THAT FIRST RESPONDER WILL END UP HAVE TO RESPOND TO
03:05:59 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BEING MALFUNCTIONING AND ADDING INTO
03:06:05 EITHER YOUR RESCUE MISSION OR CREATING BLOCKAGE TO ACCESS.
03:06:10 >> THANK YOU. YEAH.
03:06:10 THE OTHER ISSUE THAT WE'RE HAVING IS IF SOMEBODY HAS FALLS
03:06:15 ASLEEP IN A WAY MORE THEY'RE WAY MORE AUTOMATICALLY CALLS
03:06:21 911 AND THEN WE END UP RESPONDING.
03:06:22 SO SOME OF OUR RESOURCES END UP BEING TIED UP IN THOSE TYPE OF
03:06:25 RESPONSES FOR SOMEBODY WHO HAS JUST FALLEN ASLEEP IN THE WAY
03:06:26 MYSELF. IT'S SOMETHING WE'RE REALLY
03:06:29 LOOKING INTO. WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH THEM
03:06:30 TO HAVE A A VIBRATION SYSTEM IN THE WAY MO OR LOUDER ALERT
03:06:33 TO WAKE PEOPLE UP WHEN THEY ARE DROPPED OFF LATE AT NIGHT SO.
03:06:37 BUT IT DOES IT IS A IS A DRAW ON OUR RESOURCES.
03:06:40 >> INTERESTING. THANK YOU.
03:06:41 I APPRECIATE IT. I DON'T SEE OTHER NAME ON THE
03:06:44 ROSTER. >> WE NOW WILL GO TO THE NEXT
03:06:47 DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU.
03:06:48 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE'RE WILL NOW GO TO THE
03:06:50 SHERIFF'S WEB SITE AND THEN WE'LL GO.
03:07:11 >> GOOD AFTERNOON CHURCH AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
03:07:14 APPRECIATE BEING HERE. I'LL BE GOING THROUGH THE FIRST
03:07:17 FEW SLIDES THAT WE HAVE IN OUR PRESENTATION TODAY FOLLOWED BY
03:07:20 STAFFING SLIDES THAT PATRICK WILL TAKE CARE OF AND WILL BE
03:07:24 OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE ON ANY PART OF
03:07:26 THIS PROCESS. GOOD AFTERNOON.
03:07:29 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY PRESENTING OUR BUDGET.
03:07:32 ONE OF THE ASKS DURING THIS PROCESS WAS IN REGARDS TO OUR
03:07:34 PROGRAMS AND SERVICES. I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE THREE
03:07:39 LEVELS OF PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE ARE CORE SERVICES OPERATING
03:07:43 COUNTY JAILS, COURT SECURITY SERVICES, LAW ENFORCEMENT
03:07:47 AND SECURITY SERVICES TO CITY AGENCIES, CIVIL COURT MATTERS
03:07:51 AND ELECTRONIC MONITORING. THAT'S OUR CORE FUNCTIONS BOTH
03:07:54 CONSTITUTIONAL AND CITY ORDINANCE STRATEGIC PROGRAMS
03:07:56 THAT WE HAVE ARE RELATED SPECIFICALLY TO JUSTICE
03:07:59 INVOLVED INDIVIDUALS BOTH IN AND OUT OF CUSTODY ARE
03:08:02 ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS FOR THOSE THAT ARE OUT OF CUSTODY
03:08:06 INCLUDING SWAP OR REENTRY AND SUPPORT PROGRAMS INCLUDING
03:08:09 NO VIOLENCE ALLIANCE AND OUR SURVIVOR RESTORATION PROJECT
03:08:13 OUR OVERARCHING COMMUNITY PROGRAMS.
03:08:13 SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE IN CUSTODY ARE FREE
03:08:17 AND MAKE PHONE CALLS AND TABLETS AND EDUCATIONAL
03:08:21 PROGRAMS AND I'D HIGHLIGHT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY DISCRETIONARY
03:08:25 PROGRAMS. HOWEVER, WE DO PARTICIPATE
03:08:26 AND HELP MANAGE ONE SPECIFIC PROGRAM WITH PSC THAT WE ARE
03:08:29 NOT FUNDED FOR BUT DIRECTLY AFFECTS OUR RESOURCES
03:08:32 AND PEOPLE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
03:08:35 OUR ORGANIZATIONAL CHART. AS YOU CAN SEE WE'RE DIVIDED
03:08:39 INTO FOUR DIVISIONS UNDER BOTH THE UNDERSHERIFF AND ASSISTANT
03:08:43 SHERIFF. I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT TWO OF
03:08:45 OUR EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT POSITIONS HAVE GONE EMPTY RIGHT
03:08:49 NOW BOTH OUR ASSISTANT SHERIFF AND CHIEF OF STAFF POSITIONS
03:08:53 ARE CURRENTLY VACANT BUT THE REST OF OUR MANAGEMENT STAFF
03:08:54 THAT IS IN PLACE IS LISTED HERE AND I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT
03:09:01 ONE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT
03:09:05 TURNOVER AT OUR CAPTAINS LEVEL. WE HAVE I BELIEVE THREE THAT
03:09:09 HAVE LEFT AND THAT'S OUT OF NINE.
03:09:10 SO A THIRD OF OUR CAPTAIN LEVEL RANKS ARE GOING TO BE NEWER
03:09:16 INDIVIDUALS ONCE THOSE ARE APPROVED.
03:09:19 OVER THE NEXT FEW SLIDES I'LL HAVE PATRICK COVER THOSE
03:09:23 AND FOLLOWING OUR SWORN WORKFORCE MEASUREMENTS
03:09:24 DEPARTMENT STAFFING AND HIRING AND SEPARATION TRENDS.
03:09:28 >> THANK YOU, SHERIFF. DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS
03:09:31 THROUGH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE SALARY HIRING PROGRAM WE'VE
03:09:35 SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED THE STAFFING GAP BETWEEN OUR
03:09:39 AUTHORIZED SWORN STAFFING AND ALSO OUR FIELD POSITIONS BY
03:09:45 39%. WE'VE IMPROVED THE STAFFING GAP
03:09:49 FROM 230 A SHORTFALL OF 230 AUTHORIZED POSITIONS TO NOW A
03:09:56 PRESENT VACANCY RATE OF 140. I ALSO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT
03:09:59 WITH OUR RETIREMENT RETENTION INCENTIVE PROGRAM 19 MEMBERS
03:10:05 HAVE CONTINUED PROVIDING SERVICE TO THE CITY AND COUNTY
03:10:09 OF SAN FRANCISCO AND THROUGH THIS PROCESS IT HELPED SAVE THE
03:10:13 CITY $1 MILLION IN FRINGE BENEFIT COSTS THIS YEAR ALONE.
03:10:16 FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS A GOAL TO
03:10:21 HIRE 75 DEPUTIES IN THIS FOLLOWING TABLE WE SHOW WHERE
03:10:27 THE PROGRESSION HAS THE PROGRESSION BETWEEN OUR SWORN
03:10:34 PROFESSIONAL STAFF AND CADET STAFFING.
03:10:35 WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE IS THAT WE'VE IMPROVED THE NUMBER OF
03:10:38 POSITIONS THAT WE FILLED ACROSS THE BOARD.
03:10:43 HOWEVER I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF WE
03:10:46 DELETED 11 POSITIONS IN THE FISCAL YEAR 26 BUDGET YEAR
03:10:51 AND ALSO THERE'S BEEN ONE POSITION DELETED IN FISCAL YEAR
03:10:57 27 FOR OUR FLEET MANAGER. >> THESE POSITIONS AS THESE
03:11:01 DELETED POSITIONS DO REVERSE SOME PREVIOUS EFFORTS TO
03:11:05 CIVILIAN EYES, SOME ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS
03:11:07 AND ALTHOUGH THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF SHOWS A 70% FILL RATE
03:11:10 WHEN WE CONSIDER THE DELETED POSITIONS, THE VACANCY RATE IS
03:11:15 APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD IN TERMS OF HIRING TRENDS WHAT
03:11:20 WE CAN SEE IS WITH SIGNIFICANTLY HELPED SPAWN
03:11:23 STAFFING IN THE LAST TWO FISCAL YEARS WE'VE WE'VE HIRED
03:11:26 APPROXIMATELY 100 SWORN DEPUTIES EACH OF THE LAST TWO
03:11:32 YEARS AND OUR GOAL IS TO HIRE 75 FOR NEXT YEAR.
03:11:36 I'LL PASS IT OFF TO THE SHERIFF TO DISCUSS THE RESET CENTER.
03:11:42 >> SO WE DID WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IN OUR PRESENTATION TWO
03:11:45 SPECIFIC AREAS OF OUR OPERATIONS.
03:11:46 ONE IS THE RESET CENTER WHICH IS OUR RAPID ENFORCEMENT
03:11:49 SUPPORT EVALUATION AND TRIAGE CENTER RECENTLY OPENED AND TO
03:11:52 DATE AS OF THIS MORNING WE'VE HAD 643 ARRIVALS AT THE SITE.
03:11:58 WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SURPASS OUR EXPECTATIONS IN REGARDS TO
03:12:03 PEOPLE THAT ARE RELEASED INTO AND CONNECTED TO CARE.
03:12:07 WE'RE STANDARD ABOUT 28% OF THAT ABOUT 177 OF THOSE
03:12:10 INDIVIDUALS WERE CONNECTED TO CARE UPON THEIR RELEASE.
03:12:13 THIS WHOLE SITE IS BASED ON THE CONCEPT THAT WE WANTED A SPACE
03:12:18 BETWEEN JAILS AND HOSPITALS WHERE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE
03:12:21 UNDER THE INFLUENCE IN PUBLIC CAN GO AND BASICALLY SLEEP IT
03:12:25 OFF AND CARE FOR THEMSELVES IN A NURTURING AND THERAPEUTIC
03:12:29 ENVIRONMENT WITH HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS NOT IN A JAIL
03:12:33 AND NOT IN A HOLDING CELL. SO FAR IN REGARDS TO OUR OUR
03:12:37 OPERATIONS WE HAVE DEPUTIES THAT ARE ASSIGNED THERE OUTSIDE
03:12:40 OF THE CARE AREAS OF THE FACILITY.
03:12:43 WE UTILIZE CARE CONNECT APPS TO REDUCE ADMISSION TIMES TO THE
03:12:45 CENTER AND WE HAVE A QUICKER TRANSITION FOR OFFICERS
03:12:48 AND ARRESTING AGENCIES SO THEY CAN DROP THE INDIVIDUAL OFF
03:12:52 AND GET RIGHT BACK OUT TO BEING ON THE STREETS AND BEING IN THE
03:12:55 COMMUNITY. THIS IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN
03:12:59 NOT JUST OURSELVES BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH,
03:13:02 POLICE DEPARTMENT, DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND FIRE
03:13:03 DEPARTMENT AND I PERSONALLY FEEL THAT WE'VE ENJOYED SOME
03:13:07 SUCCESSES HERE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONTINUED
03:13:10 FUNDING OF THIS CENTER AND THE CONTINUED GOOD WORK THAT THEY
03:13:14 DO. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
03:13:17 PRETRIAL SERVICES. I HAVE BEEN VERY COGNIZANT OF
03:13:21 THE INTEREST FROM THE BOARD FROM THIS COMMITTEE
03:13:25 SPECIFICALLY IN REGARDS TO PRETRIAL SERVICES AS WELL AS
03:13:29 OUR COMMUNITY. AND I DO WANT TO SAY THAT
03:13:30 CURRENTLY PRETRIAL SITS UNDER US.
03:13:33 I DO KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU HAD QUESTIONS FOR BOTH THE COURTS,
03:13:38 THE PROBATION DEPARTMENT, THE PUBLIC DEFENDER REGARDING THIS.
03:13:41 HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS AS WELL.
03:13:45 WHAT I WANT TO POINT OUT SOMETHING IN REGARDS TO THIS
03:13:46 OUR CURRENT CURRENT PLANS ARE TO CONTINUE OUR CONTRACT WITH
03:13:54 PRETRIAL DIVERSION. RIGHT NOW WE'RE FUNDED THROUGH
03:13:57 THE FIRST SIX MONTHS I BELIEVE TROJAN AS YOU MENTIONED
03:14:00 AND THERE WAS AN INTEREST IN HAVING A TRANSITION FOR THE
03:14:03 PROBATION DEPARTMENT IN JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR.
03:14:08 AND MY PERSONAL FEELING IS THAT WE WILL NEED TO BE FUNDED FOR
03:14:12 PRETRIAL FURTHER THAN THOSE SIX MONTHS AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE
03:14:18 IS A NEED FOR INCREASED COLLABORATION BETWEEN OUR
03:14:23 JUSTICE PARTNERS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS
03:14:26 SOMETHING THAT ADDRESSES THE CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF THE
03:14:27 COURTS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME ALSO FOCUSES ON A CONTINUITY OF
03:14:34 SERVICES AND THE GOOD WORK THAT PRETRIAL HAS DONE THROUGH THE
03:14:38 YEARS CONSISTENTLY IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE RECOGNIZED
03:14:42 AND LEVERAGED AS A PART OF ANY SORT OF TRANSITION.
03:14:45 THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT SUBJECTS THAT WERE BROUGHT UP
03:14:49 IN REGARDS TO PRETRIAL. MANY QUESTIONS THAT ALL OF YOU
03:14:52 BROUGHT UP. I DO WANT TO SAY THAT
03:14:54 IN REGARDS TO WHAT THE COURTS ARE INTERESTED IN IN DOING ONE,
03:15:02 THERE WAS A CARVE OUT IN ASSEMBLY BILL I THINK IT WAS
03:15:08 1 OR 2 SPECIFIC TO THE USE OF PROBATION IN PRETRIAL SERVICES.
03:15:13 WHAT WASN'T MENTIONED IS THAT IN THAT BILL THAT GIVES COURTS
03:15:20 THE ABILITY TO CONTRACT WITH PROBATION DEPARTMENTS.
03:15:26 THERE WERE CARVE OUTS SPECIFIC TO SAN FRANCISCO SECTION FOUR,
03:15:31 PARAGRAPH NINE. I'LL BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THAT
03:15:32 TO YOU. BUT I WAS VERY SPECIFIC TO US
03:15:35 BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAD PRETRIAL DIVERSION BEING CONDUCTED BY
03:15:38 THE ORGANIZATION AND IT WAS A SIGN OF ITS SUCCESS THAT IT WAS
03:15:42 RECOGNIZED AS A CARVE OUT. THE CHANGE WOULD BE A
03:15:46 SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TO OUR PROCESSES.
03:15:49 THERE IS A CONCERN AS WAS MENTIONED BY PUBLIC DEFENDER
03:15:53 RAJI ABOUT A RECENT COURT DECISION CLASSIC WHICH WILL
03:15:57 HAVE IMPACTS ON JUSTICE INVOLVED PERSONS THAT HAVE
03:16:02 MISDEMEANOR CHARGES AND THERE'S GOING TO BE AN INCREASE IN THE
03:16:06 OUT OF CUSTODY PRETRIAL POPULATION AND INCREASE
03:16:13 IN INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED THAT SUPERVISION AND AND CARE.
03:16:16 I ALSO WANT TO REFERENCE IN REGARDS TO PRETRIAL THIRD.
03:16:23 ONCE WE WERE MADE AWARE OF THE INTEREST IN THE COURTS TO MAKE
03:16:25 A CHANGE. WE HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE
03:16:28 TO BE PARTNERS IN ANY SORT OF COLLABORATION IN ORDER TO MAKE
03:16:31 SURE THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL NOT DIRECTLY AFFECT
03:16:34 THE PROCESSES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN PLACE.
03:16:36 THAT IS OF A SIGNIFICANT CONCERN TO ME AS THE SHERIFF
03:16:41 FOR TWO REASONS ONE, UNDER THE BUFFETT DECISION WE HAVE A
03:16:49 DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY IN THE MANAGEMENT AND CARE OF
03:16:53 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE IN OUR CUSTODY THAT ARE OUT OF OUR
03:16:56 CUSTODY BUT STILL JUSTICE INVOLVED AND ANY
03:16:59 MATERIAL CHANGES TO THE WAY WE DO THINGS RIGHT NOW WITH OUR
03:17:01 PRETRIAL PROCESS MAY HAVE IMPACTS ON ME AS THE SHERIFF
03:17:07 BEING ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THAT WERE IN THAT LAWSUIT.
03:17:12 THE SECOND ONE THAT IS MORE CONCERNING TO ME IS OUR
03:17:14 POPULATION AND THE EFFECTS OF OUR INCARCERATED POPULATION.
03:17:17 WE ARE MANAGING THE NUMBERS RIGHT NOW IN ANTICIPATION OF
03:17:23 ANY SORT OF CHANGES. WE WILL BE ABLE TO MANAGE THE
03:17:29 NUMBERS IF THERE IS AN INCREASE BUT I AM CONCERNED BECAUSE WE
03:17:32 DON'T KNOW BECAUSE ALTHOUGH THERE ARE PLANS AND PEOPLE
03:17:36 TALKING ABOUT IMPLEMENTING PLANS THERE HASN'T BEEN AN
03:17:40 APPLICATION OF THOSE. I WAS CONCERNED ONLY BECAUSE
03:17:44 AND I WILL CONTINUE TO TALK TO THE CHIEF PROBATION CHIEF OF
03:17:47 PROBATION CRYSTAL TULLOCH REGARDING OUR COLLABORATION ON
03:17:51 ANY SORT OF TRANSITION. BUT THE TIMELINE PRESENTED
03:17:55 DIDN'T HAVE DATES AND THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN FOR ME AS A
03:17:58 PARTNER IN THIS PROCESS IS AT LEAST HAVING SOME SORT OF
03:18:02 TOUCHSTONES AND DATES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PHASES
03:18:03 AND UNTIL WE GET THOSE WE COULD NOT COME TO YOU AS A BODY
03:18:08 AND ASK FOR FUNDING FOR SOMETHING THAT WE'RE NOT SURE
03:18:11 WHEN IT'S GOING TO START. SO THAT IS A CONCERN FOR ME
03:18:14 IN REGARDS TO PRETRIAL. I'LL BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY
03:18:19 QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE ON THAT REGARDING PRETRIAL.
03:18:22 AS SOON AS PATRICK FINISHES THE REMAINDER OF OUR PRESENTATION
03:18:25 THIS NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE BUDGETARY SOURCES FOR THE NEXT
03:18:29 TWO FISCAL YEARS. THERE'S SOME SLIGHT INCREASES
03:18:33 DUE TO SOME EXPENDITURE WORK ORDER RECOVERIES AND THEN THIS
03:18:40 LAST SLIDE SHOWS OUR BUDGETARY USES THE MAJOR INCREASES
03:18:44 IN GENERAL FUND SUPPORT IS $24 MILLION INCREASE IN PERSONNEL
03:18:48 COSTS. THAT'S PRIMARILY DUE TO A
03:18:50 ADJUSTMENT IN ATTRITION TO ACCOUNT FOR INCREASES IN THE
03:18:55 NUMBER OF DEPUTIES THAT WE HIRE THIS YEAR AND ALSO TO FACTOR
03:18:58 THE BENEFIT INCREASES FOR OUR MEMBERS WHO ARE ON CALPERS THE
03:19:05 NON PERSONNEL SERVICES HAS ALSO INCREASED BY APPROXIMATELY 6.7
03:19:08 MILLION. THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH THE
03:19:09 CONTRACTED SERVICES FOR THE RESEARCH CENTER.
03:19:13 AND THEN LASTLY THERE'S $1 MILLION IN CAPITAL OUTLAY WHICH
03:19:16 IS FOR A NEW TRANSPORT BUS. AND IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS
03:19:23 FROM THE COMMITTEE WE'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
03:19:26 >> SUPERVISOR WALTON THANK YOU, CHAIR CHAN AND THANK YOU SO
03:19:30 MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. I'M.
03:19:33 DID I MISS A CONVERSATION ABOUT OVERTIME WHEN THESE SLIDES
03:19:40 IN WHICH SLIDE AND SORRY ON ANY SLIDE.
03:19:44 >> I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO
03:19:48 OVERTIME THAT WEREN'T COVERED IN ANY SLIDE PRESENTATION.
03:19:49 >> HOW MUCH DID YOU FORECAST EARN OVERTIME FOR THIS NEXT
03:19:54 BUDGET? >> THE OVERTIME BUDGET IS
03:19:57 APPROXIMATELY 30. SORRY I APOLOGIZE.
03:20:27 >> I DO HAVE THE INFORMATION BUT IT'S ON MY DESK.
03:20:32 IT'S A IT'S 30. >> LET ME LET ME DO THIS
03:20:38 BECAUSE YOU CAN BRING THE INFORMATION BACK AND MAKE SURE.
03:20:42 BUT AND THEN COMPARED TO WHAT DID YOU FORECAST LAST YEAR
03:20:45 AND OVERTIME AND HOW MUCH DID YOU ACTUALLY SPEND THE OVERTIME
03:20:49 FOR THIS YEAR AS COMPARED TO LAST YEAR THERE WASN'T INCREASE
03:20:53 OF APPROXIMATELY $2.2 MILLION. THAT WAS TO HELP STAFF THE
03:20:59 DEPUTIES SUPPORT FOR THE RESEARCH CENTER AND THEN THE.
03:21:03 ANY MINOR DIFFERENCES FROM THIS CURRENT YEAR WOULD BE DUE TO
03:21:07 COLA INCREASES. SO YOU DIDN'T GO OVER YOUR
03:21:11 OVERTIME BUDGET LAST YEAR FOR LAST YEAR OR THIS YEAR THE LAST
03:21:15 FISCAL YEAR, LAST FISCAL YEAR WE DID WE WE REQUESTED A A
03:21:21 SURPLUS SUPPLEMENTAL AND ALSO A SURPLUS TRANSFER.
03:21:25 >> IF YOU COULD BRING THOSE NUMBERS NEXT WEEK OR SIMILAR.
03:21:29 THANK YOU. >> I ACTUALLY HAVE THE EXACT
03:21:37 QUESTIONS AS SUPERVISOR WALTON ON OVERTIME I'M INTERESTED TO
03:21:41 UNDERSTAND AS YOU KNOW PREVIOUSLY THAT THE POLICE
03:21:44 DEPARTMENT WAS ACTUALLY ROUGHLY FOR THEM THE YEAR BEFORE WAS
03:21:49 ABOUT $31 MILLION OVERTIME AND THEY KEPT TO THAT $31
03:21:53 MILLION ROUGHLY FOR THEIR OVERTIME.
03:21:54 SO I'M INTERESTED. SIMILAR TO WHAT SUPERVISOR
03:21:58 WALTON HAS ASKED IS THAT WHAT WAS WHAT IS YOUR WHAT IS YOUR
03:22:02 INCLUDED IN YOUR BUDGET FOR OVERTIME THIS YEAR AND AND BY
03:22:06 COMPARISON TO YOUR PREVIOUS YEAR.
03:22:10 >> SUPERVISOR CHIN THANK YOU. CHAIR CHAN THANK YOU SHERIFF
03:22:13 FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. YES, I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS
03:22:15 RELATED TO PRETRIAL. >> SO YOU MENTIONED THAT
03:22:20 IN ASSEMBLY BILL 102 THAT'S A COVER FOR THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM.
03:22:25 >> SO IS THAT BUT THERE'S ALSO MULTIPLE TIMES THAT'S BEEN
03:22:26 REFERRED AS A JUDICIAL MANDATE AND PINNACLE.
03:22:29 SO CAN YOU CLARIFY FOR ME IS THAT A BAND DAY OR NOT A MONDAY
03:22:35 ? SO IN REGARDS TO THE A, B 1 OR
03:22:39 2 AS LEGISLATION THE CARVE OUT IS SPECIFIC TO TWO COUNTIES SAN
03:22:44 FRANCISCO AND SANTA CLARA COUNTY AT THE TIME WE HAD A NEW
03:22:49 ENTITY THAT WAS PERFORMING PRETRIAL SERVICES FOR US SO
03:22:53 THAT CARVE OUT WAS PROVIDED TO US BECAUSE OF THAT SPECIFIC TO
03:22:57 PRETRIAL ASSESSMENT AND SUPERVISION IN TERMS OF THE
03:23:00 LANGUAGE REGARDING MANDATE AS WAS MENTIONED BY SUPERVISOR
03:23:05 DORSEY EARLIER AS THE SHERIFF I HAVE AN INTEREST IN MAKING SURE
03:23:12 THAT ALL OF OUR JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS INCLUDE ALL
03:23:15 PARTNERS INCLUDING THE COURTS AND THE COURTS HAVE EXPRESSED
03:23:20 CONCERNS ABOUT THE CURRENT SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE
03:23:24 SPECIFICALLY THE WORK OF PRETRIAL DIVERSION AS AN ENTITY
03:23:31 ,THEIR PROPOSAL AND THEIR INTEREST IN SHIFTING TO THE
03:23:34 PROBATION DEPARTMENT CANNOT BE ABSENT OF CONSIDERATIONS OF THE
03:23:39 PROCESS ITSELF. WE HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS SINCE
03:23:43 DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR REGARDING THIS AND THAT WAS WHEN WE FIRST
03:23:49 WERE MADE AWARE BY THE COURTS OF THEIR INTEREST IN MOVING
03:23:50 AWAY FROM PRETRIAL DIVERSION AND INTO THIS MODEL THAT'S
03:23:53 BEING PROPOSED. I THINK THAT MANY MEMBERS OF
03:23:57 THE COMMITTEE HAVE MENTIONED THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME
03:24:01 REDUNDANCY AND OVERLAP IF THIS IS TO OCCUR AND THERE ARE SOME
03:24:05 CHALLENGES BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE VERY DELIBERATE, THOUGHTFUL
03:24:09 AND DETAILED IN REGARDS TO PLANNING SOMETHING LIKE THIS
03:24:12 OUT. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, I DON'T
03:24:15 BELIEVE SIX MONTHS IS REALISTIC TO GET THAT DONE.
03:24:19 I BELIEVE SUPERVISOR WALTON MENTIONED IN HIS COMMENTARY
03:24:23 PREVIOUS THAT JUST THE TIME IT TAKES TO HIRE PEOPLE ALONE THAT
03:24:26 WOULD BE SOMEWHAT ACCELERATED FOR SIX MONTHS IN THIS PROCESS
03:24:32 AND I WOULD TEND TO AGREE WITH THAT HAVING HIRED AS MANY
03:24:36 PEOPLE AS WE'VE HIRED THROUGH OUR PROCESSES AS EVIDENCED BY
03:24:40 OUR SLIDES. I ALSO WANT TO ADDRESS
03:24:41 SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP BY YOU IN TERMS OF FUNDING.
03:24:44 YOU HAD MENTIONED YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAD HER PRETRIAL FUNDING
03:24:47 STATEWIDE HAS BEEN REDUCED AND I JUST CAME BACK THIS
03:24:51 MORNING FROM A STATE SHERIFFS CONFERENCE WHERE THAT WAS
03:24:52 BROUGHT UP AS A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION THAT THERE WERE SOME
03:24:56 FUNDING CONCERNS ABOUT PRETRIAL.
03:24:59 I KNOW WE WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
03:25:02 PARTNERSHIP IN TERMS OF LOOKING TO FUNDING.
03:25:03 I BELIEVE THAT SOMEBODY MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT GRANT
03:25:07 FUNDING ON THIS BUT IT WILL BE A CHALLENGE TO DO THAT FUNDING
03:25:10 AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WERE LOOKING TO AS WELL.
03:25:16 I DO WANT TO SAY THAT IN REGARDS ALSO TO WHAT WAS
03:25:24 MENTIONED ABOUT THIS PROCESS AND SUPERVISOR SALARY, YOU
03:25:28 MENTIONED YOU KNOW, YOU FELT THAT THIS WAS LIKE LOOKING AT
03:25:32 TWO COMPETING THINGS AND KIND OF LIKE A HE SAID SHE SAID
03:25:35 IN TERMS OF WHEN YOU START TO ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY WE'RE
03:25:39 DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING ULTIMATELY THE COURTS HAVE AN
03:25:43 INTEREST IN MAKING SURE THAT THEY HAVE FULL TRANSPARENCY
03:25:46 IN THE PROCESSES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE MANAGEMENT
03:25:47 SUPERVISION OF NOT JUST PRETRIAL DIVERSION BUT OF THE
03:25:51 CLIENTS THAT ARE IN THEIR CARE. AND WHAT HASN'T BEEN MENTIONED
03:25:55 IS SOME OF THOSE PROCESSES ARE ONGOING WORK AS THE SHERIFF'S
03:26:01 OFFICE WHICH OVERSEES PRETRIAL DIVERSION WE DO HAVE THOSE
03:26:06 PROCESSES IN PLACE. I WILL RECOGNIZE AS WAS
03:26:07 MENTIONED BY THE PUBLIC DEFENDER EARLIER, THERE HAVE
03:26:10 BEEN GAPS IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE COURTS IN REGARDS TO
03:26:13 THIS. THERE WAS A DIRECT
03:26:14 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PRETRIAL DIVERSION AND THE COURTS WHICH
03:26:21 DUE TO DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES INVOLVING FINANCES
03:26:25 AND INVOLVING REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION STARTED TO CLOUD
03:26:29 THE RELATIONSHIP AND STARTED TO STARTED TO DETERIORATE THAT
03:26:37 RELATIONSHIP AND MY INTEREST AS EVIDENCED BY THE LETTER THAT I
03:26:41 SENT OUT YESTERDAY IS IF WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME SORT OF
03:26:45 TRANSITION OR CHANGE WE ALL NEED TO BE AT THE TABLE AND WE
03:26:48 ALL NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT VERY DELIBERATELY AND VERY DETAILED
03:26:53 NOT JUST LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL FOR AN INCREASE
03:26:57 IN SOFTWARE. I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT CHIEF
03:27:00 TULLOCH MENTIONED THAT THEY'RE LEANING VERY HEAVILY ON TECH AS
03:27:04 AN IMPROVEMENT AND THEY WANT TO IMPROVE PROCESSES SO THAT THERE
03:27:07 ARE COST SAVINGS RELATED TO THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.
03:27:11 ULTIMATELY THOUGH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WORKING WITH
03:27:12 PEOPLE AND PUBLIC DEFENDER AS YOU MENTIONED ONE OF THE
03:27:19 GREATEST STRENGTHS OF PRETRIAL IS THERE PEOPLE AND THE
03:27:22 COMMITMENT THAT THEY HAVE TO THOSE THAT THAT THAT ARE
03:27:26 IN THEIR CARE. WE SEE THAT AS WELL.
03:27:29 WE KNOW THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE CONTINUED DISCUSSION ON THIS
03:27:36 AND THAT DOESN'T ANSWER YOUR DILEMMA OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
03:27:39 HOW TO ALLOCATE FUNDING AND RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE THAT
03:27:41 THIS WORKS. BUT I BELIEVE THAT ANY SORT OF
03:27:45 HYBRID INSTEAD OF ANY SORT OF ABSOLUTE DECISIONS ON THIS
03:27:48 WOULD BE BEST IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM
03:27:51 AND OUR COMMUNITY WHEN IT COMES TO THAT.
03:27:52 THAT WAS A VERY LONG ANSWER FOR YOU.
03:27:55 >> SUPERVISOR I APOLOGIZE. APPRECIATE THAT ANSWER.
03:27:59 I MEAN NOW COMES BACK TO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BUDGET AS THE
03:28:00 BUDGET THAT YOU ALLOCATE TO A CHILD.
03:28:03 DOES THAT ALSO ENABLE THEM TO PROVIDE STAFFING TO SUPPORT
03:28:07 PROVIDE THE SUPPORT AS REQUIRED?
03:28:10 >> NOW THAT IS ASKING BY THE JUDGES.
03:28:13 CURRENTLY THE PROPOSED BUDGET ONLY FUNDS THE SAN FRANCISCO
03:28:18 PRETRIAL CONTRACT FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
03:28:22 WE WOULD EITHER HAVE TO REQUEST A SUPPLEMENTAL FOR THE SECOND
03:28:29 HALF OF THIS YEAR WE DID DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS WE DID TRY
03:28:32 TO MAKE A REQUEST TO HAVE THIS CONTRACT FUNDED IN FULL WITH
03:28:37 TRYING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONCERNS OF ALL THE DIFFERENT
03:28:41 GROUPS BY CONSIDERING A COMPROMISE OF HAVING THE SECOND
03:28:45 HALF BE PLACED ON RESERVE. HOWEVER, THERE WEREN'T
03:28:49 SUFFICIENT FUNDS WITHIN THE CITY BUDGET TO INCLUDE THE
03:28:56 REQUESTS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET SO LET ME ASK IT IN ANOTHER
03:28:59 WAY. SO IT'S DEFUNDING TO PRETRIAL
03:29:00 AT FOR THEIR STAFFING LEVEL. SO I HEARD THAT EARLIER THE
03:29:07 COURT'S MENTIONING THAT IS NOT A STAFF PERSON FROM PRETRIAL
03:29:11 AND COURTROOM. >> SO I WANTED TO ASK IS THE
03:29:14 BUDGET THAT IS FUNDED FOR PRETRIAL WORK THAT'S THERE'S A
03:29:16 FUNDING PART TO DEDICATE STAFFING TO TO BE IN THE
03:29:19 COURTROOM TO SUPPORT THE JUDGE'S NEEDS.
03:29:23 >> SO WHAT I CAN SAY WITH THAT IS OUR CONTRACT WITH PRETRIAL
03:29:26 SERVICES INCLUDES FUNDING FOR APPROXIMATELY 65 FULL TIME
03:29:30 EQUIVALENT POSITIONS AND IT INCLUDES MULTIPLE AREAS.
03:29:35 THERE IS APPROXIMATELY 20 POSITIONS, FOUR PIECES THERE'S
03:29:41 A POSSIBLY ANOTHER 20 FOR THE CIRCUIT CASE MANAGEMENT
03:29:47 PROGRAMS. THERE IS ANOTHER 20 POSITIONS
03:29:50 THAT ARE GROUPED AS COURT LIAISONS AND THEN THERE THE
03:29:57 REMAINING POSITIONS ARE PRIMARILY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE
03:30:01 SUPPORT. >> IF I MAY ALSO ADD SUPERVISOR
03:30:05 FOR IN REGARDS TO YOUR QUESTION AND HAVING STAFF AVAILABLE TO
03:30:06 SUPPORT THE COURT'S I KNOW THAT THERE WERE CHALLENGES THAT WAS
03:30:11 ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT THE COURTS HAD CONCERNS ABOUT
03:30:14 KNOWING WHO WRITES THE REPORTS SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE A DIRECT
03:30:18 CONNECT TO THAT INDIVIDUAL IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
03:30:21 REPORTING. I KNOW THAT THERE WERE CHANGES
03:30:22 MADE IN OUR PROCESSES SO THAT THERE WOULD BE THOSE
03:30:25 INDIVIDUALS AND I BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS HAVING
03:30:29 THE DIRECTOR'S NAME ON THE REPORT ITSELF INSTEAD OF THE
03:30:32 PERSON THAT WROTE THE REPORT WAS A CHALLENGE IN TERMS OF
03:30:33 FOLLOW UP AND MAKING SURE THAT THE STAFF WAS AVAILABLE TO THE
03:30:36 JUDGES AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ADDRESSED IN THAT
03:30:39 I BELIEVE PRETRIAL HAS ADDRESSED AS WELL RIGHT.
03:30:42 THEN YOU ALSO MENTIONED THAT CURRENTLY THE SHERIFF'S
03:30:46 DEPARTMENT IS FINDING ABOUT 60 FOR POSSESSION WITH THE BUDGET
03:30:50 OF $7.5 MILLION. BUT IN THE PREVIOUS SECTION
03:30:54 THAT ADULT PROBATION IS PROPOSING THE SAME AMOUNT FOR
03:30:57 35 EMPLOYEES. CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND
03:31:02 WHERE IS THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN ABOUT 30 POSITIONS?
03:31:04 >> I THINK I HAVEN'T SEEN HOW THE 30 POSITIONS FOR ADULT
03:31:09 PROBATION IS STRUCTURED FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET BACK
03:31:17 IN FEBRUARY WHEN WE COMPARED IT IT DIDN'T ALIGN 1 TO 1 WITH THE
03:31:21 POSITIONS THAT WE WERE FUNDED UNDER THE PRETRIAL CONTRACT
03:31:25 THERE CERTAINLY I THINK WHEN ADULT PROBATION PRESENTED THEY
03:31:29 MAY MENTION THAT THEY WERE GOING TO UTILIZE SOME OF THEIR
03:31:33 EXISTING STAFFING RESOURCES SO THAT MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR SOME OF
03:31:37 THE DIFFERENCE. >> THE CURRENT CONTRACT AS IT
03:31:44 EXISTS OUR UNDERSTANDING WAS AT LEAST FOR THE PRETRIAL CONTRACT
03:31:48 IT COVERS FOUR AREAS I THINK THOSE ARE REFERENCED ON THE
03:32:03 SLIDES AS WELL THAT WE PRESENTED.
03:32:04 >> SO THAT'S WHAT PATRICK'S LOOKING FOR.
03:32:05 IT COVERS FOUR AREAS THE PROBABLE CAUSE PSA, THE
03:32:10 PRETRIAL SUPERVISION OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE
03:32:14 BUDGET POSITIONS FOR ADULT PROBATION IT WOULD COVER THE
03:32:18 PIECES AND ALSO THE CASE MANAGEMENT FOR SOME OF THE
03:32:22 OTHER SERVICES THAT ORIGINALLY WERE PROPOSED ELECTRONIC
03:32:29 MONITORING THAT REMAINS WITH OUR OFFICE AND I THINK SOME OF
03:32:33 THE OTHER REQUESTS THAT THEY HAVE PROPOSED WITHIN THE
03:32:38 ORIGINAL FEBRUARY BUDGET I DON'T THINK IT'S PART OF THE 30
03:32:41 BUT IN TERMS OF WHAT'S PROPOSED IN THEIR BUDGET VERSUS PRETRIAL
03:32:47 SERVICES, I THINK JUST LOOKING AT THE NUMBER OF POSITIONS
03:32:52 ALONE THE PRETRIAL DIVERSION CONTRACT COVERS 65 POSITIONS
03:32:56 AND SO IT MY OPINION IS THAT THE BUDGET FOR ADULT PROBATION
03:33:03 WOULD COVER A PORTION OF THE WORK BUT NOT ALL OF THE CURRENT
03:33:07 WORK BEING PROVIDED BY PRETRIAL.
03:33:10 >> AND ONE MORE THING TO NOTE SUPERVISOR I BELIEVE THAT
03:33:14 PRETRIAL THE ENTITY ITSELF ALSO OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTRACTED
03:33:18 FUNDING THEY ALSO GET DONATIONS AND FUNDING FROM SEPARATE
03:33:23 SOURCES AND I THOUGHT THEY HAD AN ADDITIONAL 8 MILLION FOR
03:33:26 ADDITIONAL STAFF IN ANTICIPATION OF THE
03:33:27 INCREASED WORKLOAD RELATED TO COLD, SICK AND OTHER FACTORS.
03:33:30 >> SO BASICALLY THE EXISTING PRETRIAL SERVICES HAS MORE THAN
03:33:36 $7.5 MILLION AND EVEN WITH 64 EMPLOYEES YOU AND THEY'RE DOING
03:33:40 A GOOD JOB BUT THERE ARE ROOMS FOR IMPROVEMENT AND COMPARING
03:33:45 TO 35 EMPLOYEES THAT IS PROPOSED BY ADULT PROBATION.
03:33:50 I WAS JUST LOOKING BACK TO THE SLIDE THAT THEY PROPOSED THE
03:33:51 ENTIRE DEPARTMENT HAVE ABOUT ONE HUNDRED 43 EMPLOYEES
03:33:54 CURRENTLY AND THEN 35 IS NEW FOR THE PRETRIAL AND THEN THREE
03:34:02 FOR THE VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM.
03:34:03 SO I'M JUST SEEING AND IT'S GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU THAT YOU
03:34:07 KNOW, SEEING THE WORKLOAD AND HEARING FROM THE STAFFING
03:34:11 AND AND AND IT'S REALLY REALLY I THINK I WILL REFER BACK TO
03:34:18 SUPERVISOR SALTER'S LAST COMMENT IS WE ARE SEEING TWO
03:34:21 COMPETING CONTRACTS AND THEN WHAT EFFICIENCY AND HOW TO DO
03:34:26 THE VERY BEST SERVICES FOR SAN FRANCISCO.
03:34:27 THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL MY QUESTION.
03:34:29 >> THANK YOU AND VICE CHAIR DORSEY THANK YOU CHAIR CHIN FOR
03:34:33 SURE. I WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATION ON
03:34:37 THIS SO FAR SUCCESS OF THE RESET CENTER.
03:34:38 THIS IS SOMETHING I'VE BEEN A BELIEVER IN AND I'M REALLY
03:34:41 ENCOURAGED TO SEE THE NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS TO CARE AT 28%
03:34:48 WHICH IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE AND LET'S HOPE THAT CONTINUES
03:34:51 TO GO UP. THAT'S I JUST WANT I HAVE A
03:34:59 QUESTION ABOUT THE THE SIX MONTHS VERSUS ONE YEAR BECAUSE
03:35:03 AND THIS MAY BE MORE OF A QUESTION FOR SOPHIA KETTLER
03:35:06 FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. >> IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT
03:35:10 WE APPROVED A THREE YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE UNDERSTANDING
03:35:14 THAT WE WERE PUTTING TWO TWO YEARS ON RESERVE BUT WE WOULD
03:35:17 HAVE AT LEAST A YEAR THAT WOULD GIVE US SO IT WASN'T MY
03:35:20 UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WOULD BE GIVING SIX MONTHS OF FUNDING OR
03:35:24 ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT THINGS?
03:35:27 >> THANK YOU SOPHIA KETTLER FOR THE MAYOR'S BUDGET OFFICE.
03:35:31 >> I'M GOING TO SAY THIS AS DIPLOMATICALLY AS I CAN WE WERE
03:35:34 OUT OF THE BUDGET SYSTEM SEVERAL WEEKS AGO.
03:35:38 >> THE SHERIFF HAS THE ABILITY TO PUT FORWARD LEGISLATION
03:35:43 AND THEY PUT FORWARD THE CONTRACT WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF
03:35:46 THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND THAT CAME BEFORE YOU ALL AFTER WE
03:35:51 HAD COMPLETED OUR BUDGET DELIBERATIONS BUT BEFORE
03:35:54 OBVIOUSLY IT HAD COME TO YOU. AND I THINK THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
03:35:58 A MATTER FOR US ALL TO DECIDE IT PERFECTLY FOR FOR YOU ALL AS
03:36:00 THE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE DECIDE WHEN WE
03:36:03 ORIGINALLY THE COURT HAD MANDATED THAT WE OR HAD
03:36:09 SUGGESTED DIRECTED I MEAN CHOOSE YOUR VERB BASED ON ALL
03:36:13 THAT HAD HAD INDICATED THAT THEY WOULD PREFER A JULY FIRST
03:36:18 2026 START DATE AND WE PUSHED BACK ON THAT BECAUSE WE DID NOT
03:36:22 BELIEVE THAT AN OPERATION COULD BE READY BY THEN.
03:36:23 AND SO WHAT WE DID IS WE EXTENDED THAT RATHER THAN
03:36:26 MOVING IT IMMEDIATELY WE EXTEND WE WE PROPOSE THAT WE FUND THE
03:36:30 CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR SIX MONTHS.
03:36:32 WE DID THAT HAVING HAD A NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS WITH ALL THE
03:36:36 DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT NOT
03:36:39 EVERYONE WAS ON BOARD BUT BUT NEEDING TO MAKE A DECISION I
03:36:43 THINK BETWEEN SIX MONTHS AND ONE YEAR IS LIKE REASONABLE
03:36:47 PEOPLE CAN DISAGREE AND THIS IS THIS IS WHY WE ARE HERE
03:36:48 AND THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A DELIBERATIVE PROCESS BUT WHAT
03:36:54 WE WERE REACTING TO WAS WAS SHOULD IT BE JULY 1ST OR NOT?
03:36:56 AND WE THOUGHT IT SHOULD NOT BE JULY 1ST.
03:36:58 >> OKAY. AND THEN AS FAR AS WHAT THE
03:36:59 BUDGET WAS, THE BUDGET WAS DECIDED AND AND IN THE SYSTEM
03:37:06 BEFORE THE CONTRACT CAME TO YOU.
03:37:06 >> OKAY. OKAY.
03:37:10 SUPERVISOR SAUTER THANK YOU. >> ONE OF THE SHIFT TOPICS TO
03:37:18 SLIDE FOUR CAN YOU JUST GIVE A SENSE THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF
03:37:22 THE REASON THOSE FEEL LIKE PRETTY HIGH VACANCY RATES I
03:37:26 MEAN YOU'RE LOOKING AT ONLY 65, 70, 75% OF THOSE POSITIONS
03:37:33 FILLED MAYBE WHY THAT IS THE CASE AND THEN IF YOU CAN JUST
03:37:35 ARTICULATE WHAT THOSE PARTICULAR ROLES ARE FOR
03:37:38 PROFESSIONAL STAFF SO WE CAN GET A SENSE OF YOU KNOW, WHAT
03:37:42 IS NOT BEING FILLED AT THE MOMENT.
03:37:45 >> I'LL ANSWER THAT. OKAY.
03:37:46 IN TERMS OF THE ROLES PRIMARILY THE THE THE LACK OF HIRING IS
03:37:49 PRIMARILY DUE TO BUDGETARY DEFICITS IN OUR OFFICE.
03:37:54 IT'S A COMBINATION OF THE INCREASED NUMBER OF DEPUTIES
03:37:58 THAT WE HIRED AND ALSO THE INCREASED AMOUNT OF OVERTIME
03:38:01 USAGE DURING THIS YEAR FOR OUR PROFESSIONAL STAFF POSITIONS.
03:38:08 THERE'S A LOT OF VACANCIES WITHIN OUR FINGERPRINT UNIT.
03:38:12 THERE'S 12 FUNDED POSITIONS HOWEVER TO ONLY TO OUR FIELD
03:38:17 ARE OTHER AREAS WHERE THERE'S SIGNIFICANT GAPS INCLUDE OUR
03:38:24 8420 THE REHABILITATION SERVICE COORDINATORS FOR THOSE
03:38:29 POSITIONS THEY'RE ONLY FUNDED BY APPROXIMATE.
03:38:33 ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THE POSITIONS ARE CURRENTLY STAFFED
03:38:36 ARE LEGAL CLERKS WITHIN OUR CENTRAL RECORD IT'S MORE
03:38:41 DIVISION AND ALSO OUR CIVIL UNIT THOSE ARE ALSO
03:38:44 SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERSTAFFED. THOSE ARE WITHIN THE CIVIL
03:38:50 DIVISION ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THE POSITIONS ARE FUNDED OR ARE
03:38:54 FILLED AND FOR THE CENTRAL RECORDS AND WARRANTS UNIT PART
03:38:59 OF THE REDUCTION AND DELETE THE POSITIONS WERE IN THAT UNIT WE
03:39:06 HAD TO DELETE SIX LEGAL CLERK POSITIONS IN SUCH RECORDS
03:39:13 AND WARRANTS TO SATISFY THE POSITION REDUCTIONS LAST FISCAL
03:39:17 YEAR. >> SO IT'S NOT THAT YOU'RE
03:39:20 TRYING TO GET THEM FILLED AND YOU CAN'T BUT RATHER YOU'RE
03:39:24 KEEPING THEM YOU'RE NOT PRIORITIZING THEM BECAUSE
03:39:28 YOU'RE PUTTING THE FUNDS TOWARDS DEPUTY HIRING
03:39:29 AND OVERTIME. IT'S A BIT OF A COMBINATION OF
03:39:33 BOTH. WE HAD TRIED TO WORK WITH THE
03:39:37 MAYOR'S OFFICE AND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE ON
03:39:40 GETTING SOME OF THE POSITIONS RELEASE BUT DEFINITELY THE
03:39:47 HAVING A BALANCED BUDGET IS IS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR WITHIN
03:39:55 IT. I THINK EARLY ON WITHIN THE
03:39:56 FISCAL YEAR WHEN WE AT THAT POINT IN TIME WE WERE NOT A
03:40:00 DEFICIT. WE DID TRY TO SUBMIT POSITION
03:40:03 REQUESTS TO BE FILLED AND WE DIDN'T GET THOSE APPROVED IN A
03:40:11 TIMELY FASHION TO BE ABLE TO FILL THEM.
03:40:12 AND THEN AS WE PROGRESSED THROUGH THE YEAR WHEN OUR
03:40:19 DEFICITS INCREASED AND WE WERE PLACED ON HIRING RESTRICTIONS.
03:40:23 >> THANK YOU. WHAT IS YOUR ATTRITION RATE OR
03:40:27 WE HAVE IN TERMS OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF OR SHARE
03:40:31 YOUR WE YOUR WHAT IS YOUR ATTRITION RATE FOR YOUR SWORN
03:40:35 AND THEN UNSWORN AT IN TERMS OF SEPARATION?
03:40:42 AS FOR SWORN STAFF, WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY ON AVERAGE ABOUT
03:40:49 50 APPARENTLY 50 POSITIONS EACH OR 50 SEPARATIONS EACH YEAR.
03:40:53 UM AND THEN FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF IT DOES VARY FROM YEAR TO
03:41:00 YEAR. THIS I BELIEVE THIS FISCAL YEAR
03:41:04 WE'VE HAD SEVEN SEPARATIONS SO OH 50 OUT OF YOUR 920 WE HAD
03:41:18 FOR THIS YEAR FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF WE HAD SEVEN SEPARATIONS
03:41:26 THAT INCLUDES SIX CADETS AND THREE PROFESSIONAL STAFF.
03:41:33 SO IS YOUR ATTRITION RATE ANYWHERE BETWEEN LIKE SO FOR
03:41:37 DOES SWORN 5% IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?
03:41:42 >> OUR ATTRITION RATE FOR FOUR SWORN I HAVE TO DO THE MATH BUT
03:41:49 YEAH IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT FIVE PERCENT FIVE FIVE 5%.
03:41:55 OKAY. AND YOU SAY HOW MANY FOR YOUR
03:41:58 PROFESSIONAL AGAIN IT DOES VARY FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
03:42:03 UM EXCLUDING CADETS UH IN THREE YEARS AGO WE HAD 13
03:42:09 SEPARATIONS. YEAH LAST YEAR WE HAD SEVEN
03:42:12 AND CURRENTLY SO FAR WE'VE HAD THREE SEPARATIONS JUST SHOULD
03:42:17 OKAY, WELL THANK YOU AND I, I THINK I HAVE INDICATED EARLIER
03:42:24 TOO THAT WE WILL LOVE TO CONTINUE IN THIS CONVERSATION
03:42:28 AROUND PRETRIAL HOW THE TRANSITION SHOULD BE WHICH THEN
03:42:32 IMPACT THE ALLOCATIONS OF FUNDING AS WELL AS WHAT TO PUT
03:42:36 ON RESERVE AND HOW MUCH AND TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT DUPLICATING
03:42:42 BUT ALSO ALLOWING US TO REQUEST FOR REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE
03:42:47 STATE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THIS TRANSITION.
03:42:50 I ASSUME THAT THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO ACT FROM THE DIRECTOR.
03:42:55 CUTLER NO, I'M STILL A YEAH, GO AHEAD.
03:43:02 >> THANK YOU. THE ONLY THINGS I WOULD ADD
03:43:05 AND I THINK I WOULD LOOK TO THE CITY ATTORNEY TO CONFIRM THIS
03:43:07 FOR ALL OF YOU ON A TIMELINE THAT MAKES MORE SENSE.
03:43:10 THE STATE THE GOVERNOR STATE BILL OR BUDGET TODAY WHICH DID
03:43:14 REAFFIRM THE CARVE OUTS THAT IT CAN BY STATE LAW STAY AS A NON
03:43:22 AS A CONTRACTED AGENCY WITH THE SHERIFF.
03:43:23 >> HOWEVER, MY UNDERSTANDING AND IT IS STILL UP TO THE
03:43:26 COURTS TO DECIDE WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE IT UNDERSTOOD.
03:43:29 SO JUST KIND OF REAFFIRMING THAT EVERYTHING IS AS IT HAS
03:43:32 BEEN. >> RIGHT.
03:43:33 SO IT SOUNDS TO ME IF I UNDERSTAND IT CORRECTLY IS THAT
03:43:36 FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO THAT WE HAVE AN
03:43:40 EXEMPTION A CARVE OUT THAT ALLOWING THE CITY OF COUNTY SAN
03:43:43 FRANCISCO TO HAVE THIS INDEPENDENT PRETRIAL PROGRAM AS
03:43:47 IT CURRENTLY FASHIONED AND OPERATE IT.
03:43:48 HOWEVER, IT IS THE AUTHORITY AND THE JURISDICTION OF OUR
03:43:56 SUPERIOR COURT TO THEN MANDATE THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN
03:43:57 FRANCISCO TO NOW THEN TO ABIDE BY THE PENAL CODE, THE STATE
03:44:04 PENAL CODE TO THEN ACTUALLY HAVE THE PRETRIAL AS A PROGRAM
03:44:11 RUN AND OPERATE BY ADULT PROBATION.
03:44:15 >> SO IT THEN NOW BECOMES A CONVERSATION THANKS TO THE
03:44:19 SYSTEM WHICH WE HAVE OUR ELECTED SHERIFF AND THIS BODY
03:44:23 TO BE ABLE TO HAVE SOME CONVERSATION AND MAKE SOME
03:44:28 DETERMINATION WHICH I APPRECIATE.
03:44:30 >> THANK YOU. SO WITH THAT WE WILL GO TO
03:44:34 THANK YOU, SHERIFF. AND SO NOW WE WILL GO TO THE
03:44:35 DEPARTMENT OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY.
03:44:37 >> THANK YOU
03:45:47 . PLEASE.
03:45:50 GOOD AFTERNOON. PAUL HENDERSON, EXECUTIVE
03:45:54 DIRECTOR AT THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY.
03:45:55 THANK YOU SO MUCH SUPERVISORS FOR HAVING US HERE TODAY.
03:45:58 I'M HERE TO PRESENT THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET FROM THE
03:46:02 DEPARTMENT BUT FIRST I WANT TO THANK MY STAFF AT THE DPA
03:46:10 INCLUDING THE INVESTIGATORS, SENIOR INVESTIGATORS
03:46:11 AND ATTORNEYS, OPERATIONAL STAFF PARTICULARLY THE FOLKS
03:46:14 THAT HELPED PUT THIS BUDGET TOGETHER FOR ME.
03:46:21 MANY OF THOSE FOLKS ARE HERE TODAY WITH ME AS WELL.
03:46:24 IN CASE YOU HAVE COMPLICATED QUESTIONS THAT WE CAN ANSWER
03:46:28 IN DEPTH IN DETAIL, I'M GOING TO TRY NOT TO REPEAT TOO MUCH
03:46:32 OF THE INFORMATION THAT'S ALREADY IN FRONT OF YOU
03:46:34 AND HAVE BEEN PRESENTED. BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
03:46:37 THINGS THAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE GO OVER
03:46:39 FOR YOUR RECORDS. WE'LL START UP HERE WITH WHAT
03:46:43 YOU CAN ALREADY SEE WHICH IS THE SUMMARY OF THE BUDGET
03:46:50 AND WHAT I WANT TO POINT OUT HERE THOUGH IS THAT OUR
03:46:52 WORKFORCE IS STILL 30% BELOW OUR 2021 BASELINE FROM THAT
03:46:56 FISCAL YEAR BEHIND THESE NUMBERS AND THE SUMMATION IS A
03:47:01 FULL INVESTIGATION TEAM THAT LAST YEAR OPENED 899
03:47:07 INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS AND THE REASON THAT I'M
03:47:10 POINTING THAT OUT IS BECAUSE OFTENTIMES WHEN WE PRESENT WHAT
03:47:12 THESE NUMBERS THAT ARE ASKED FOR IN THESE HEARINGS, WE DON'T
03:47:16 ARTICULATE AND EXPLAIN THE DISTINCTION AND THE DIFFERENCE
03:47:19 BETWEEN THE ALLEGATIONS THAT COME FROM THE OFFICE AND THE
03:47:23 NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS THAT COME IN.
03:47:27 AND SO THIS NUMBER OF 899 ARE THE ACTUAL INDEPENDENT
03:47:31 INVESTIGATIONS THAT ARE COMPLETED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
03:47:34 FOR THE WORK SUMMARIZING THE WORK I WILL POINT OUT THAT THAT
03:47:38 NUMBER IS MORE RELEVANT BECAUSE THE CASELOAD AND THE COMPLAINTS
03:47:42 THAT ARE COMING INTO THE OFFICE HAS CONTINUED TO INCREASE
03:47:46 AND ESCALATE. LAST YEAR IT WAS 22% HIGHER
03:47:49 THAN IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST AND THIS YEAR IS EXPECTED TO BE
03:47:52 HIGHER THAN THAT BASED ON WHAT HAS BEEN COMING INTO THE OFFICE
03:47:56 . NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
03:48:00 >> HERE'S OUR MISSION CORE AND FUNCTIONS.
03:48:01 I'M NOT GOING TO REREAD ALL OF THAT FOR YOU.
03:48:04 I PRESUME EVERYONE KNOWS THE MAJORITY OF WHAT THAT WORK IS
03:48:11 BUT I DID WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE INVESTIGATION STAFF
03:48:16 THE SAME INVESTIGATIVE STAFF THAT WE HAVE IN THE AGENCY ALSO
03:48:20 SUPPORTS THE SHERIFF'S OVERSIGHT WORK.
03:48:23 SO IT'S THE SAME STAFF DOING THAT WORK THAT INCLUDES
03:48:25 MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATIONS, ALL OF THE JAIL OVERSIGHT WORK
03:48:28 PENDING THE INSPECTOR GENERAL APPOINTMENT AND NONE OF THE
03:48:36 WORK AS A REMINDER FOR THE PAST YEAR HAS INCLUDED THE INSPECTOR
03:48:39 GENERAL BECAUSE THAT POSITION HAS NOT BEEN FILLED.
03:48:43 ALSO ON THIS PAGE YOU CAN SEE THAT THE SB 1421 WORK ALSO IS
03:48:50 PART OF THE WORK BUT THAT TRANSPARENCY WORK WE THINK IS
03:48:54 PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT IN BOTH OF THE AGENCIES WHERE WE'RE
03:48:58 DOING OVERSIGHT TO PRESENT THE PUBLIC WITH AWARENESS ABOUT
03:49:01 WHAT THE RESULTS OF THOSE INVESTIGATIONS HAVE BEEN.
03:49:05 CURRENTLY WE'VE RELEASED OVER 56,000 PAGES OF THOSE DOCUMENTS
03:49:11 ALSO AND HERE IS THE AUDIT WORK AGAIN THIS IS THE SEVERAL
03:49:16 NATIONAL AWARD WINNING AUDITS THAT HAVE BEEN PRODUCED AT THE
03:49:20 AGENCY THIS YEAR. WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT'S
03:49:23 ONGOING THAT I THINK FOLKS ARE PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT AND I
03:49:27 CAN'T WAIT TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT AND AUDIT WHEN IT COMES
03:49:31 OUT PRESENTING AN OVERVIEW OF ALL OF THE LICENSE PLATE READER
03:49:35 WORK THAT'S BEING DONE IN THE CITY FROM THE POLICE
03:49:38 DEPARTMENT. LET ME BE CLEAR NEXT SLIDE
03:49:41 PLEASE. >> THESE ARE PERFORMANCE
03:49:46 MEASURES THAT HAVE BEEN ASKED FOR AND AGAIN THERE'S A
03:49:52 DIFFERENTIATED DIFFERENTIATION MADE BETWEEN OPENING CASES,
03:49:56 ALLEGATION CASES AND ACTUAL INVESTIGATION IS WHAT I WANT TO
03:50:00 SHOW HERE AND POINT OUT IS THIS 94 AVERAGE DAY PROCESSING IS A
03:50:03 BIG DEAL. THIS IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF
03:50:08 EFFICIENCY THAT THE AGENCY HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO GENERATE
03:50:11 AND PRODUCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE AGENCY.
03:50:15 MANY OF YOU MAY BE AWARE THAT THE OLD RATES BEFORE REVAMPING
03:50:23 CC AND THE EPA INCLUDED UP TO A 20% 33 OR 433 BEFORE DEADLINES
03:50:31 CASES BEING MISSED. WE HAVE BEEN AT 100% COMPLIANCE
03:50:36 SINCE I'VE TAKEN OVER THE AGENCY.
03:50:39 THAT MEANS THAT NOT ONLY ARE WE NOT LOSING JURISDICTION FROM
03:50:43 THOSE TIME DELAYS BUT WE ARE NOW GETTING THE CASES
03:50:47 INVESTIGATED IN A VERY EFFICIENT WAY.
03:50:50 THAT IS WHAT'S BEHIND THE 94 DAY EFFICIENCY.
03:50:54 THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL. IT'S A LOT OF WORK TO DO THOSE
03:50:58 INVESTIGATIONS IN THAT TIME THE AMOUNT BUT IT DOES REFLECT BEST
03:51:01 PRACTICES AND I THINK IT'S SIGNIFICANT PARTICULARLY IF YOU
03:51:05 COMPARE THE AGENCY TO WHAT OTHER SIMILAR AGENCIES DO
03:51:09 OUTSIDE OF SAN FRANCISCO. >> NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
03:51:16 >> HERE'S OUR OPERATING EXPENSES.
03:51:20 SALARY AND FRINGE OBVIOUSLY ARE THE BULK OF THE BUDGET
03:51:24 AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE INVESTIGATION WITH LABOR
03:51:28 INTERVIEWS BODY WORN CAMERA REVIEW, EVIDENCE ANALYSIS
03:51:32 REPORT WRITING AND LEGAL WORK AND PROCESSES ARE THE MAJORITY
03:51:35 OF WHAT WE DO. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAS MADE THE
03:51:40 INCREASE HERE AND THAT'S SHOWN HERE.
03:51:41 IT'S A VERY SMALL AND MODEST FOUR $779,000 AND THAT AGAIN IS
03:51:47 ALSO FOR SALARY SALARIES TO FUND THE INVESTIGATIVE
03:51:50 CAPACITIES WHICH I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT IN SLIDE EIGHT AND I
03:51:58 JUST I'LL TALK ABOUT IT SHORTLY WHEN WE GET TO IT AND THOSE THE
03:52:02 WHAT THAT WILL TRANSLATE INTO ARE THE NEW INVESTIGATORS TO
03:52:07 MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE STILL IN COMPLIANCE WITH CHARTER
03:52:11 OBLIGATIONS WORKING WITH AND EXPANDING POLICE
03:52:14 DEPARTMENT. AND AGAIN THAT'S SEPARATE FROM
03:52:17 THE WORK THAT'S GOING ON WITH THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WITH
03:52:19 THE EXACT SAME STAFF. >> NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
03:52:29 >> ALL RIGHT. SO HERE YOU CAN SEE OUR BUDGET
03:52:32 ALLOCATIONS, THE LARGEST ALLOCATION BEING FOR LABOR
03:52:36 LABOR WORK ASSOCIATED WITH THE INVESTIGATIONS THAT WE DO.
03:52:40 WE HAVE A PRETTY LEAN MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE HERE
03:52:44 AND WHAT I WANT TO POINT OUT HERE AND THEN LOOKING AT THIS
03:52:49 ALLOCATION OF HOW THE WORK GETS SPREAD OUT WITH THE ACTUAL WORK
03:52:56 DONE IN THE AGENCY AS THAT THIS SUMMARY IS LESS THAN INTERNAL
03:53:01 AFFAIRS COSTS. SO OUR INVESTIGATIONS
03:53:04 AND OUTCOMES ARE PER DOLLAR LESS THAN WHAT THE CITY WOULD
03:53:08 PAY FOR THE AGENCY FEES IN REVIEW TO DO THOSE
03:53:12 INVESTIGATIONS THEMSELVES. THE OUTCOME IS LESS FOR DOING
03:53:16 THE INVESTIGATIONS THAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS FOR SAN
03:53:19 FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT AND IT IS LESS THAN THE
03:53:21 INVESTIGATIVE AGENCIES DOING THE WORK INTERNALLY FOR THE
03:53:25 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
03:53:31 >> HERE'S THE WORKFORCE EVALUATION.
03:53:35 >> THIS IS JUST TRACKING OUR WORKFORCE WITH THEIR BASELINE.
03:53:40 YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS THAT ARE IN HERE.
03:53:43 THERE'S BEEN A SLIGHT RECOVERY FROM THE DECLINE FROM THE
03:53:47 ATTRITION AND THAT RECOVERY IS STILL MODEST AND VERY
03:53:54 DELIBERATE AND THAT'S WHAT WILL ALLOW US TO HIRE IN THE FUTURE.
03:53:56 WE DON'T HAVE THEM YET. THE TWO NEW S.F. PD
03:53:59 INVESTIGATOR IS THAT WE'RE NEEDED TO MEET THE CHARTER
03:54:03 MANDATES FOR THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.
03:54:06 YOU CAN SEE HERE EVEN IN 2720 IN THAT 2728 LEVEL
03:54:10 IN ANTICIPATION THAT WE STILL REMAIN ABOUT 16.8 POSITIONS
03:54:16 BELOW THE 2021 YEAR BASELINE WHILE THE CASE LINE HAS WHILE
03:54:23 OUR CASELOAD HAS CONTINUED TO GROW, THE TREND LINE IS
03:54:26 RECOVERING BUT WE STILL HAVE NOT CLOSED THE GAP FOR THE WORK
03:54:30 THAT ALREADY EXISTS AND CONTINUES TO GROW.
03:54:32 >> NEXT SLIDE HERE'S THE ORGANIZATION CHART FOR THE
03:54:41 OFFICE AND IT'S 12 INVESTIGATORS, FIVE SENIOR
03:54:44 INVESTIGATORS, THREE ATTORNEYS. THAT'S THE TEAM THAT IS
03:54:47 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OVER 900 INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS THAT
03:54:53 TOOK PLACE IN 2025 AND THAT STRUCTURE IS UNCHANGED FROM THE
03:54:56 PRIOR YEAR. >> NEXT SLIDE HERE'S HER
03:55:04 RESPONSE FOR THE BUDGET INSTRUCTIONS.
03:55:07 >> AGAIN, THIS IS NOT ADDITIONAL FUNDING.
03:55:09 THIS IS REDUCED TO ATTRITION THAT ALLOWED US TO COVER THE
03:55:12 NEW INVESTIGATIONS AND ALSO FOR US TO MAINTAIN ALL OF THE COSTS
03:55:17 ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCREASED JURISDICTION WITH OFFICER
03:55:21 INVOLVED SHOOTING COSTS BECAUSE THERE ARE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
03:55:25 THAT. BUT THIS REDUCED ATTRITION
03:55:27 ALLOWS US TO CONTINUE THAT NEXT SLIDE THAT CONCLUDES THE
03:55:32 PRESENTATION. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
03:55:36 QUESTIONS THOUGH IN CASE FOLKS HAVE ANY.
03:55:37 BEFORE MOVING ON TO BY ACCIDENT YES.
03:55:43 BY CHAIR DORSEY THANK YOU CHAIR CHEN I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THE
03:55:47 STAFFING LEVEL IF I'M UNDERSTANDING RIGHT IS THAT YOU
03:55:51 ARE 15.8 OR 16.8 BELOW I THINK IT'S 16.8.
03:55:58 >> LET'S SEE. >> SO ON PAGE SEVEN THERE'S A
03:56:04 REFERENCE AT THE BOTTOM DESPITE PARTIAL RECOVERY REMAINS 15.8
03:56:08 POSITIONS BELOW THE YEAR CORRECTED IS 15.8.
03:56:11 >> OKAY NOW IF IF I'M READING THIS CORRECTLY, THIS IS BECAUSE
03:56:16 THE CHARTER SECTION 4.136 SAYS THAT THE STAFF OF DPA SHALL
03:56:19 CONSIST OF NO FEWER THAN ONE LINE INVESTIGATOR FOR EVERY 150
03:56:24 SWORN OFFICERS SWORN MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
03:56:28 THAT'S THE BASELINE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
03:56:32 >> YES. LET ME JUST LET YOU KNOW I SAID
03:56:35 SO WE'RE BELOW THAT. I KNOW MY NAME'S NICOLE
03:56:40 ARMSTRONG, THE CFO WITH DPA. NO, THIS IS OUR FULL STAFF
03:56:43 NUMBER. OKAY.
03:56:44 CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 12 INVESTIGATORS WHICH PUTS US
03:56:47 IN LINE. WE'VE DONE A FORECASTING WITH
03:56:50 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND WE IDENTIFIED THAT HOW MANY
03:56:51 OFFICERS ARE BEING RECRUITED? SO WE NEED TWO NEW
03:56:57 INVESTIGATORS TO BE ABLE TO FUNCTION ACCORDING TO THEIR
03:57:01 CHARTER. THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE
03:57:03 HAD IN OUR DEPARTMENT WERE OUR WE HAD ATTORNEYS.
03:57:05 WE HAD A OUTREACH COORDINATOR. WE HAD ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
03:57:12 THAT WE WERE DOING IN OUR DEPARTMENT.
03:57:13 INSTEAD WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE HAVE A FEWER STAFF MEMBER DOING
03:57:16 MORE ROLES IN THE OFFICE AS AN EXAMPLE, AS A CFO I'M ALSO
03:57:20 DOING THE OPERATIONS I RUN THE TECH TEAM, I RUN THE PAYROLL
03:57:24 TEAM, THE ACCOUNTING AND THE FRONT DESK CLERKS.
03:57:27 SO WE'VE LIMITED ADDITIONAL OTHER ONES.
03:57:31 THE CORE FUNCTIONS ARE REMAIN THE NUMBERS AS THE CHARTER FOR
03:57:35 OUR INVESTIGATORS RIGHT NOW. >> OKAY.
03:57:36 SO WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE THEN WITH THE CHARTER, THE STAFFING
03:57:41 ,THE STAFFING NUMBERS THAT THE CHARTER REQUIRES THAT ONE LINE
03:57:45 INVESTIGATOR FOR EVERY 150 SWORN POLICE OFFICERS WE'RE
03:57:49 IN COMPLIANCE WITH WE WILL BE ONCE WE HAVE THOSE TWO NEW
03:57:52 INVESTIGATORS. OKAY.
03:57:52 AND JUST TO GIVE CONTEXT TO THAT COMPLIANCE THAT COMPLIANCE
03:57:56 DOESN'T CONTEMPLATE THE OTHER ISSUES THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS
03:58:00 ALREADY DOING AND PARTICULARLY I'M REFERENCING THE SHERIFF
03:58:03 STUFF THAT IS ALSO TAKING PLACE AS WELL.
03:58:04 AND THAT'S A BIG IMPLICATION. I KNOW WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT
03:58:09 NEXT. BUT AS SHE REFERENCED, EVERYONE
03:58:12 IS WEARING SEVERAL HATS IN THE AGENCY INCLUDING MYSELF.
03:58:16 OKAY. OKAY.
03:58:17 THANKS FOR THE SAME SALARY TOO. >> JUST TO BE CLEAR, I DIDN'T
03:58:23 WANT TO NOT MISS THAT. >> THANK YOU.
03:58:26 WE DON'T HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTION AND THANK YOU SO MUCH
03:58:31 FOR YOUR WORK. >> OH, SUPERVISOR WALTON NO, I
03:58:34 DON'T HAVE QUESTIONS. >> I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING
03:58:35 BEFORE WE GO TO THE NEXT PRESENTATION.
03:58:38 >> ABSOLUTELY. PLEASE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
03:58:41 >> AND I DO JUST BEFORE WE HEAR THE PRESENTATION ABOUT THE
03:58:45 INSPECTOR GENERAL AND SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OVERSIGHT BOARD WANT
03:58:50 TO RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT SINCE THIS
03:58:53 DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO BE UNDERSTAFFED, IT RAISES SERIOUS
03:58:57 QUESTIONS ABOUT SAFETY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE CAPACITY
03:59:03 OF OUR OVERSIGHT SYSTEM. AND AS MOST OF YOU KNOW,
03:59:04 PROBABLY IS NOT JUST A NICE TO HAVE.
03:59:09 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE VOTERS MANDATED THAT WE DO HERE
03:59:12 IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
03:59:16 AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT NOT ONLY AS WE GO THROUGH THIS
03:59:18 BUDGET PROCESS BUT AS WE CONTINUE TO TRY TO RESPOND TO
03:59:24 WHAT THE VOTERS MANDATED THAT WE DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER
03:59:27 ON THIS BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DEPARTMENT
03:59:29 HAS WHAT IT NEEDS AND WANT TO THINK THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE
03:59:32 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR CONTINUE WORK WITH THAT
03:59:39 DEPARTMENT BECAUSE WITHOUT YOUR WORK WE WOULD NOT HAVE WE WOULD
03:59:43 NOT BE DOING ANYTHING IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT THE
03:59:47 VOTERS MANDATED WHEN THEY PASSED PROBABLY IN 2020.
03:59:50 >> SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
03:59:53 >> SUPERVISOR I WOULD ALSO ADD TO THAT LIST THAT
03:59:55 TRANSPARENCY'S SAFETY AND COMMUNITY DEMANDS THAT
03:59:58 CONTINUE SEPARATELY FOR BOTH OF AGENCIES AND BOTH OF THE WORK.
04:00:05 BUT IT'S A PLEASURE TO AT LEAST ARTICULATE THEM SO PEOPLE GET
04:00:08 TO SEE HERE AND TIE THOSE EFFICIENCIES TO THE NUMBERS
04:00:12 AND THE SUPPORT THAT COMES FROM ALL OF THE ASSOCIATED AGENCIES
04:00:19 THAT UPLIFT THE WORK. THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF MY STAFF
04:00:23 . THANK YOU.
04:00:27 >> AND SO WITH THAT WE WILL GO TO THE SHERIFF'S INSPECTOR
04:00:31 GENERAL. >> I'M GOING TO BE EVEN MORE
04:00:32 EFFICIENT WITH THIS SET HERE. SO I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU THAT
04:00:36 I'LL JUST TRANSITION TO THE BUDGET FOR THE OFFICE OF THE
04:00:39 SHERIFF'S INSPECTOR GENERAL BECAUSE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
04:00:42 POSITION IS CURRENTLY VACANT. THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE
04:00:46 ACCOUNTABILITY HAS BEEN MANAGING ALL OPERATIONS FOR
04:00:47 THIS OFFICE. MY STAFF AND I ARE EFFECTIVELY
04:00:52 RUNNING TWO SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS WHICH IS WHY I'M
04:00:53 PRESENTING JUST TO CLARIFY THE BUDGET AGAIN TODAY IT'S STILL
04:00:57 ME AND CITY BUDGET RECORDS THIS OFFICE IS LISTED AS THE
04:01:04 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTABILITY OR SDR WHILE
04:01:08 IN THE SAN FRANCISCO CHARTER IT'S REFERENCED AS THE OFFICE
04:01:11 OF SHERIFF'S INSPECTOR GENERAL OR OHS IG AND THEY ARE THE SAME
04:01:16 AGENCY AND FOR CONTEXT THE OFFICE WAS FORMERLY CREATED
04:01:23 IN 2020 THROUGH PROP D WHICH WAS INTRODUCED BY OUR
04:01:27 SUPERVISOR SIMON WALTON AND THEN APPROVED BY VOTERS.
04:01:31 THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OVERSIGHT BOARD APPOINTED AN
04:01:32 INAUGURAL EL INSPECTOR GENERAL IN 2023.
04:01:38 THAT INDIVIDUAL BEGAN WORK IN JANUARY OF 2024 AND THEN
04:01:44 RESIGNED ONE YEAR LATER IN JANUARY OF 2025, LEAVING THE
04:01:47 INSPECTOR GENERAL POSITION CURRENTLY VACANT SINCE THAT
04:01:51 TIME ALTHOUGH THAT WORK IS BEING DONE AND CARRIED ON
04:01:55 IN THE OFFICE AS YOU KNOW DEPAY'S INVOLVEMENT WITH THE
04:01:59 OFFICE OF OVERSIGHT WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE DID NOT BEGIN
04:02:03 WITH THE CREATION OF THE US IG SINCE 2019 UNDER A LETTER OF
04:02:07 AGREEMENT WITH SHARE WITH THEN SHERIFF HENNESSEY AND MYSELF
04:02:11 DPA HAS CONDUCTED ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATIONS
04:02:15 INTO ALLEGATIONS OF IMPROPER CONDUCT BY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES.
04:02:18 SHERIFF MIYAMOTO REAFFIRMED THIS COMMITMENT TO INDEPENDENT
04:02:25 OVERSIGHT BY EXPANDING DPS ROLE AND I WILL POINT OUT IN EVERY
04:02:29 YEAR SINCE WE BEGAN DOING THE WORK IN 2019 THE WORK HAS
04:02:36 EXPANDED BOTH IN JURISDICTION AND SCOPE SINCE WE'VE BEEN AT
04:02:40 THE TABLE AT THE REQUEST OF THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THE PUBLIC,
04:02:45 THE BOARD AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AS WELL BOTH THE MAYOR'S
04:02:49 OFFICE AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ALSO ASKED DPA TO A
04:02:53 STEP TO SUPPORT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEWLY
04:02:56 CREATED INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE WHICH AT THAT TIME STILL
04:03:00 DID NOT YET HAVE A FULL STAFF AND INFRASTRUCTURE OR THE
04:03:04 SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO BEGIN OR CONTINUE THAT WORK IN THE
04:03:08 ABSENCE OF THAT SUPPORT AND THE ABSENCE OF THE INSPECTOR
04:03:12 GENERAL, DPA HAS PROVIDED EVERY ESSENTIAL FUNCTION NECESSARY
04:03:19 FOR THE CITY TO OPERATE. >> THIS INCLUDES INVESTIGATIVE
04:03:23 WORK, OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT BUDGET DEVELOPMENT
04:03:27 AND MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE AND STAFFING
04:03:30 SUPPORT FOR BOTH THE OVERSIGHT BOARD THEMSELVES AND FOR THE
04:03:34 CTA. OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS DPA
04:03:38 HAS BUILT SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE AND CUSTODIAL SETTING
04:03:41 INVESTIGATIONS DEVELOPED ALL OPERATIONAL WORKFLOWS
04:03:45 AND REPORTING STRUCTURES, LAUNCHED AN ELECTRON TICK
04:03:49 PUBLIC COMPLAINT PORTAL AND A CUSTOMIZED CASE MANAGEMENT
04:03:53 SYSTEM AND ESTABLISHED A STRONG WORKING PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
04:03:57 SHERIFF'S OFFICE LEADERSHIP. AS A RESULT, THE FOUNDATIONAL
04:04:01 INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED FOR A FULLY FUNCTIONAL INSPECTOR
04:04:05 GENERAL'S OFFICE IS ALREADY OPERATING AND ALREADY EXISTS
04:04:09 AND ONCE AN INSPECTOR GENERAL IS APPOINTED AND ADDITIONAL
04:04:13 STAFF ARE HIRED THE OFFICE WILL BE ABLE TO STAND UP QUICKLY
04:04:17 AND BEGIN OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY WITH SYSTEMS
04:04:20 ALREADY IN PLACE ALBEIT MORE STAFFING AND BUDGET WOULD BE
04:04:26 NECESSARY. >> HOWEVER, THIS WORK HAS COME
04:04:29 WITH SOME SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES AS I ALLUDED TO
04:04:33 IN MY PREVIOUS CONVERSATION UNTIL EARLIER THIS YEAR, DPA
04:04:37 HAS ABSORBED ALL OF THESE RESPONSIBILITIES WITHOUT
04:04:38 DEDICATED FUNDING OR ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATOR POSITIONS EVEN AS
04:04:44 THE EXPECTATION FROM BOTH THE PUBLIC AND THE CITY CONTINUE TO
04:04:45 INCREASE. LAST YEAR DPA REACHED A
04:04:48 SATURATION POINT AND HAD TO INVOKE A PROVISION IN OUR
04:04:52 AGREEMENT WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE ALLOWING US TO DECLINE
04:04:55 SOME OF THE WORK AND THE COMPLAINTS WHEN WE LACKED THE
04:04:59 SUFFICIENT RESOURCES TO INVESTIGATE THEM RESPONSIBLY.
04:05:03 WE DO APPRECIATE THAT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND THIS BOARD
04:05:06 RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS OVERSIGHT WORK AND THEN
04:05:10 APPROVED TO TEMPORARY EXEMPT INVESTIGATOR POSITIONS WHICH WE
04:05:14 IMMEDIATELY FILLED IN MARCH. BUT EVEN WITH THESE ADDITIONS
04:05:18 THE WORKLOAD EVEN CURRENTLY IS OUTPACING THE AVAILABLE
04:05:22 STAFFING. FINALLY, IT'S IMPORTANT TO
04:05:26 UNDERSCORE THE VALUE OF CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT IN GENERAL.
04:05:30 DPA CONTINUES TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT
04:05:34 IS NOT ONLY MORE CREDIBLE TO THE COMMUNITY, IT'S ABSOLUTELY
04:05:38 MORE COST EFFECTIVE CIVILIAN INVESTIGATORS COST
04:05:41 SIGNIFICANTLY LESS PER HOUR THAN SWORN SERGEANTS
04:05:45 AND LIEUTENANTS WHO STAFF INTERNAL AFFAIRS UNITS FROM THE
04:05:49 VARIOUS LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE INDEPENDENT
04:05:53 INCREASES PUBLIC TRUST AND SHIFTING ADMINISTRATIVE
04:05:57 INVESTIGATIONS TO CIVILIAN STAFFS FREES SWORN PERSONNEL TO
04:06:01 FOCUS ON DUTIES ONLY PEACE OFFICERS CAN PERFORM WHICH
04:06:04 WOULD REDUCE OVER TIME AND IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY.
04:06:08 IN FACT, OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENTS HAVE REACHED OUT TO
04:06:12 EXPLORE HAVING DPA ASSIST WITH THEIR INTERNAL INVESTIGATION
04:06:16 INVESTIGATIONS IN LARGE PART FOR THESE COST SAVINGS AS WELL
04:06:20 THAT ARE IN THE CITY FAMILY AS WELL.
04:06:21 THIS IS AN ADDITIONAL OPERATIONAL REALITY AND THE
04:06:24 CONTEXT FOR TODAY'S BUDGET. I'M GOING TO TAKE LESS THAN A
04:06:28 MINUTE TO JUST GO THROUGH THE SLIDES HERE.
04:06:32 >> SO SLIDE ONE AS YOU CAN SEE IS JUST THE BUDGET SNAPSHOT.
04:06:36 I KNOW YOU ALREADY HAVE THESE RECORDS SO I'M NOT GOING TO
04:06:39 SPEND A LOT OF TIME GOING OVER THEM AGAIN.
04:06:43 SLIDE TWO OUR MISSION AND CORE FUNCTIONS WHICH YOU ALREADY
04:06:47 KNOW I BALUTA TOO BUT THEY ARE INCLUDED HERE.
04:06:51 >> NEXT SLIDE SLIDE THREE IS OUR MINIMUM STAFFING FOR THE
04:06:57 BOARD CLERK AND THE INSPECTOR GENERAL THAT IS THE STAFFING
04:07:01 FOR THE OFFICE MORE FUNDING SUPPORTS THE DPA WORK FOR
04:07:06 INVESTIGATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS.
04:07:09 ONE OF THE POSITIONS IS FILLED THE CLERK POSITION THE OTHER IS
04:07:13 VACANT AND IN RECRUITMENT FOR THE TIME BEING.
04:07:16 NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO OUR BUDGET IMPLICATIONS AT
04:07:23 THE PROPOSED LEVEL THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S MUST
04:07:25 CONTINUE RELYING ON BORROWED SUPPORT AND CANNOT YET OPERATE
04:07:28 INDEPENDENTLY. THIS AGAIN IS NOT ABOUT
04:07:32 EXPANDING BEYOND THE MANDATE. THIS IS STILL ABOUT FUNDING THE
04:07:36 VOTER MANDATED CREATED ENTITY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
04:07:44 THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION .
04:07:47 I JUST WANT TO ADD WILL REMAIN COMMITTED TO BOTH THE
04:07:49 TRANSPARENT AND AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE ONGOING
04:07:53 WORK THAT WE ARE DOING WITH THE OFFICE FOR THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
04:07:56 AGENCIES AND THE PUBLIC THAT WE SERVE.
04:08:00 >> AND I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD.
04:08:03 >> THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR WALTON THANK YOU,
04:08:04 CHAIR AND REALLY JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR CITY ATTORNEY
04:08:09 . SO THE FIRST ONE JUST IT IS IT
04:08:13 LEGAL FOR THE CITY TO CONTINUE TO IGNORE A VOTER MANDATE
04:08:17 AND NOT FULLY FUND THE DEPARTMENT?
04:08:20 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, SUPERVISORS .
04:08:24 DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY BRAD RUSTY.
04:08:25 SUPERVISOR WALTON, I BELIEVE YOU'RE REFERRING TO A PROVISION
04:08:29 OF THE MEASURE THAT PROVIDES THAT CERTAIN NUMBER OF
04:08:32 INVESTIGATORS PER SHERIFF'S PART SHERIFF'S EMPLOYEES.
04:08:36 THE DEPARTMENT SHOULD HAVE THAT THAT PROVISION STARTS OUT
04:08:40 SAYING THAT IT'S SUBJECT TO THE BUDGETARY AND FISCAL PROVISIONS
04:08:43 OF THE CHARTER. >> SO WHICH MEANS BASICALLY
04:08:45 THAT THE FUNDING FOR THOSE POSITIONS IS SUBJECT TO THIS
04:08:48 PROCESS THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH NOW.
04:08:52 AND WHILE THE VOTERS I THINK EXPRESSED AN INTENT FOR THAT TO
04:08:55 BE THE THE STAFFING OF THE DEPARTMENT, IT WAS SUBJECT TO
04:08:59 THE BUDGETARY PROCESS. I MEAN THE VOTERS HAVE THE
04:09:02 INTENT THAT WHEN YOU CALL TO FIX A POTHOLE THE STREET IS
04:09:06 PAVED. I MEAN THAT THAT'S ALL PART OF
04:09:10 WHAT WE DO HERE AT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
04:09:13 >> IS IT LEGAL FOR ONE DEPARTMENT TO CONTINUE TO
04:09:17 PROVIDE OPERATIONS FOR ANOTHER ?
04:09:22 >> AGAIN, I THINK THAT'S ONGOING AND FOREVER THAT'S
04:09:23 SOMETHING THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE POLICY DECISIONS OF THE OF
04:09:27 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND THE MAYOR.
04:09:30 >> THANK YOU. I DO JUST WANT TO SAY, YOU
04:09:34 KNOW, AS AS WE LOOK AT THIS SCALITO BUDGET THAT WE CONTINUE
04:09:39 TO HAVE IN FRONT OF US YEAR AFTER YEAR, IT PUTS A STRAIN ON
04:09:43 THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY.
04:09:46 IT PUTS A STRAIN ON THE OVERSIGHT SYSTEM.
04:09:47 AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NEEDED ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
04:09:53 POLICY PERSONNEL AND OF COURSE STAFF FOR INVESTIGATIONS AT THE
04:09:57 VERY LEAST FOR THIS DEPARTMENT TO BE FULLY FUNCTIONAL.
04:10:00 AND I JUST THINK IT IS A TRAVESTY THAT WE CONTINUE TO
04:10:04 FUND THIS DEPARTMENT AT THIS LEVEL BECAUSE OF POLITICS
04:10:09 AND REALLY IGNORING WHAT THE VOTERS MANDATED AND WHAT THE
04:10:13 VOTERS ASK FOR. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN DO
04:10:14 THAT IN GOOD CONSCIENCE. BUT AGAIN, I WANT TO THINK THE
04:10:20 DEPARTMENT OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR
04:10:21 SUPPORT IN THIS WORK. >> THANK YOU, CHAIR.
04:10:24 CHAIR. THANK YOU.
04:10:27 I THINK IF I MAY SUGGEST THAT FOR THE BUDGET AND LEGISLATIVE
04:10:32 ANALYST AS YOU EVALUATE BOTH THE POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY AS
04:10:39 WELL AS THE SHERIFF'S ACCOUNTABILITY, I THINK IT
04:10:40 WARNS. I THINK THIS BODY WOULD LOVE
04:10:44 FEEDBACK WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE FEEDBACK THAT IS SHOULD WHAT
04:10:50 WHAT WOULD A FULLY STAFF OFFICE OF SURE ACCOUNTABILITY LOOKS
04:10:55 LIKE AND WHAT WOULD A PROJECTED STAFFING LEVEL AND BUDGET WILL
04:11:02 LOOK LIKE SO THAT IT'S ALMOST KIND OF WE'RE DOING A REVERSE
04:11:05 OF WHAT WE TYPICALLY WOULD DO AND SAY HEY YOU KNOW WE DON'T
04:11:09 NEED OUR FUNDING, WE DON'T NEED STRONG PROGRAMING.
04:11:13 THIS COULD BE SHIFT. I THINK THAT THIS IS PROBABLY
04:11:15 ONE THAT LET'S HAVE THAT INFORMATION FOR THIS COMMITTEE
04:11:19 TO CONSIDER FOR THIS BUDGET. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR
04:11:24 WORK. >> WE APPRECIATE IT.
04:11:24 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
04:11:27 AND WITH THAT WE WANT TO WELCOME DISTRICT ATTORNEY BROCK
04:11:32 JENKINS TO THE CHAMBER
04:12:14 . ALL RIGHT, WE'RE READY TO GO.
04:12:18 OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAN VICE
04:12:19 CHAIR DORSEY, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
04:12:23 MY NAME OBVIOUSLY IS BROOKE JENKINS, THE SAN FRANCISCO
04:12:27 DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO
04:12:30 PRESENT THE BUDGET OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR
04:12:34 THE FISCAL YEAR 20 2627. I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE
04:12:38 MAYOR'S OFFICE AS WELL AS THE MAYOR'S BUDGET OFFICE FOR THEIR
04:12:42 COMMUNICATION AND WORK OVER THE LAST NUMBER OF MONTHS ON OUR
04:12:46 BUDGET. >> THIS BUDGET CONTINUES TO
04:12:49 PRIORITIZE THE CORE SERVICES THAT ARE ESSENTIAL TO ENHANCING
04:12:53 PUBLIC SAFETY IN OUR CITY SERVICES THAT SUPPORT VICTIMS,
04:12:58 SURVIVORS AND COMMUNITIES DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED BY
04:13:01 CRIME. THESE PRIORITIES REFLECT THE
04:13:05 ONGOING INPUT I RECEIVE FROM SAN FRANCISCANS ACROSS EVERY
04:13:09 NEIGHBORHOOD AS I WORK TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC SAFETY
04:13:10 THROUGH ENGAGEMENT, TRANSPARENCY AND LISTENING
04:13:13 CLOSELY TO COMMUNITY CONCERNS. THE RESOURCES OUTLINED IN THIS
04:13:17 BUDGET DIRECTLY SUPPORT OUR CITY'S MOST URGENT PUBLIC
04:13:22 SAFETY NEEDS WITH PURPOSE AND RESOLVE.
04:13:25 >> MY OFFICE REMAINS FOCUSED ON CLOSING OPEN AIR DRUG MARKETS,
04:13:29 DETERRING RETAIL THEFT, ADDRESSING PROPERTY CRIMES
04:13:32 AND REDUCING CAR BREAK INS. WE ARE COMMITTED TO REDUCING
04:13:36 THE CRIMES THAT IMPACT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND SMALL
04:13:40 BUSINESSES MOST DEEPLY WHILE FULLY ACKNOWLEDGING
04:13:43 AND UNDERSTANDING THE FINANCIAL PICTURE LOCALLY AND ON THE
04:13:45 NATIONAL STAGE. I AM BECOMING CONCERNED THAT
04:13:48 THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO FULLY ADDRESS THESE CHRONIC
04:13:52 AND PERVASIVE PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES ARE NOT BEING
04:13:55 CONSISTENTLY MADE AVAILABLE ESPECIALLY AT A TIME WHEN
04:13:59 CASELOADS ARE AT A HIGH POINT SINCE THE PRE-PANDEMIC ERA.
04:14:03 >> FOR FOUR YEARS IN A ROW I HAVE CONSISTENTLY MADE CLEAR
04:14:07 THAT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ARE NEEDED IN ORDER FOR MY OFFICE
04:14:11 TO EFFECTIVELY FULFILL ITS MANDATE TO PROSECUTE CRIME
04:14:14 FULLY IN SAN FRANCISCO. >> HOWEVER, YEAR AFTER YEAR OUR
04:14:19 REQUESTS HAVE BEEN DENIED AND WE HAVE NOW BEEN INFORMED
04:14:23 OF EXPECTED CUTS TO COME IN 2028 FOR WHICH I HAVE GRAVE
04:14:29 CONCERNS. >> ON TO MY DEPARTMENT'S
04:14:33 MISSION THE MISSION OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS
04:14:37 TO PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY AND ENSURE THAT OUTCOMES IN THE
04:14:41 CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ARE FAIR, JUST AND APPROPRIATE.
04:14:45 THE CORE WORK OF OUR OFFICE IS ALSO ROOTED IN SUPPORTING
04:14:48 VICTIMS OF CRIME TO HELP THEM HEAL AND BEGIN THE PROCESS OF
04:14:53 PUTTING THEIR LIVES BACK TOGETHER IN THE AFTERMATH OF A
04:14:56 CRIME. >> LASTLY, IT IS THE MISSION OF
04:14:57 THE DEPARTMENT TO IMPLEMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS THAT
04:15:00 PROVIDE OFFENDERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REHABILITATE
04:15:04 THEIR LIVES BY DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS DEDICATED
04:15:07 TO REDUCING RECIDIVISM. >> IN FISCAL YEAR 2027, THE
04:15:15 DEPARTMENT'S $99.1 MILLION PROPOSED BUDGET IS INCREASING
04:15:18 BY 2.6% OR TWO POINT $5 MILLION.
04:15:24 THIS INCREASE IS LARGELY DRIVEN BY MANDATORY NEGOTIATED SALARY,
04:15:27 SALARY AND FRINGE INCREASES IN FISCAL YEAR 2028.
04:15:31 THE PROPOSED BUDGET INCREASES BY 2.2% TO $101 MILLION.
04:15:39 A $2.2 MILLION INCREASE AGAIN LARGELY DRIVEN BY MANDATORY
04:15:43 NEGOTIATED SALARY AND FRINGE COSTS.
04:15:47 >> TAKING A MORE DETAILED LOOK AT THE PROPOSED BUDGET INCREASE
04:15:51 OF 2.5 MILLION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027.
04:15:54 IT ILLUSTRATES THAT THE MANDATORY SALARY AND FRINGE
04:15:58 COSTS NEGOTIATED BY THE CITY ARE THE MAIN DRIVERS FOR THE
04:16:01 OVERALL INCREASES AT TWO POINT 8 MILLION IT REFLECTS 746,000
04:16:07 IN REDUCTIONS TO THE LEASING COSTS AND WORKERS COMPENSATION
04:16:11 WORK ORDER BUDGETS. AND IT REFLECTS A ONE TIME
04:16:15 ADJUSTMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT'S SPECIAL FUND ACCOUNTS THAT
04:16:16 RESULT IN A NET INCREASE OF 400 AND $88,000.
04:16:21 >> THE DEPARTMENT'S PRIMARY SOURCE OF REVENUE IS THE
04:16:26 GENERAL FUND AT 90% OF TOTAL FUNDING 6% OF THE DEPARTMENT'S
04:16:31 BUDGET IS SUPPORTED BY FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS.
04:16:34 THE REMAINING 4% OF THE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET IS
04:16:38 SUPPORTED BY SPECIAL FUNDS AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL REVENUE
04:16:41 . >> ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, 80%
04:16:46 OF THE DEPARTMENT'S EXPENDITURE BUDGET IS SALARY AND FRINGE.
04:16:49 THESE EXPENDITURES ARE DEDICATED TO THE CORE WORK OF
04:16:53 THE DEPARTMENT WHICH IS TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE CRIME
04:16:56 AS WELL AS SUPPORTING VICTIMS OF CRIME.
04:16:59 15% OF THE BUDGET IS WORK ORDERS WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
04:17:03 >> LASTLY, CITY GRANT PROGRAMS NON PERSONNEL SERVICES
04:17:08 AND MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES MAKE UP THE REMAINING 5% OF THE
04:17:11 DEPARTMENT'S EXPENDITURES. >> IN FISCAL YEAR 2027 THE
04:17:17 DEPARTMENT'S 280.32 BUDGETED POSITIONS HAVE DECREASED BY
04:17:22 APPROXIMATELY TWO POSITIONS. >> THE REDUCTION REFLECTS THE
04:17:26 DEPARTMENT'S REDUCTION AGREED TO WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
04:17:29 IN FISCAL YEAR 2028. >> THE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGETED
04:17:33 POSITION COUNT IS 274.89 WHICH IS A 5.4 THREE FTE LESS THAN
04:17:40 THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THIS REDUCTION IS DUE TO THE
04:17:44 MAYOR'S REORGANIZATION INITIATIVE THAT HAS NOT YET
04:17:47 BEEN DETAILED. >> I MUST BE HONEST THAT A
04:17:51 REDUCTION OF THIS SIZE WILL IMPACT ONGOING OPERATIONS.
04:17:58 >> >> THIS SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S
04:18:02 BUDGETED STAFFING HAS BEEN LEVEL SINCE FISCAL YEAR 2021
04:18:08 2022. >> THE MAYOR'S PROPOSED
04:18:11 STAFFING LEVEL FOR DEPARTMENT FOR MY DEPARTMENT IN THE 2028
04:18:16 FISCAL YEAR IS CONCERNING ESPECIALLY GIVEN CASE LOADS
04:18:20 CURRENTLY BEING HANDLED BY OUR STAFF IN OUR COMMUNICATION WITH
04:18:28 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE REGARDING CORE VERSUS DISCRETIONARY
04:18:32 PROGRAMS. >> WE CONVEYED THAT EVERYTHING
04:18:33 WE DO AND FUND IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO OR SUPPORTIVE OF THE
04:18:37 DEPARTMENT'S CORE MISSION. >> OUR UNITS DIRECTLY PROSECUTE
04:18:40 OR INVESTIGATE CRIMINAL CASES, SUPPORT VICTIMS OF CRIME, SEEK
04:18:44 INNOVATIVE WAYS TO REDUCE CRIMINALITY BY OFFERING
04:18:48 ALTERNATIVES OR ARE A PART OF THE SUPPORT MECHANISM FOR EACH
04:18:52 OF THE DIRECT SERVICE UNITS. >> ALTHOUGH CENTRAL TO THE
04:18:55 DEPARTMENT'S MISSION OF IMPLEMENTING RESPONSIBLE
04:18:59 REFORMS GIVING OFFENDERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE ROOT
04:19:00 CAUSES OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR AND DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE
04:19:04 PROGRAMS TO SERVE AS TOOLS FOR REHABILITATION, THE DEPARTMENT
04:19:08 IDENTIFIED ITS PROGRAM DIVISION AS STRATEGIC AND BASED AS A
04:19:14 STRATEGIC DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM IN THE BUDGET YEAR.
04:19:22 SPECIFIC REDUCTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET INCLUDE THE
04:19:27 ELIMINATION OF THE DEPARTMENT'S 0931 MANAGER THREE WHICH IS
04:19:31 WHICH WAS OUR DIRECTOR OF POLICY PROGRAMS AND GRANTS
04:19:34 REDUCTIONS TO SALARY EQUIVALENT OF AN 1824 PRINCIPAL ANALYSTS
04:19:41 AND ADJUSTMENTS MADE TO THE LEASE COSTS FOR OUR FACILITY
04:19:45 IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR. >> SALARY AND FRINGE REDUCTIONS
04:19:49 OF APPROXIMATELY $1 MILLION REMAIN A CONCERN FOR THE
04:19:51 DEPARTMENT'S ONGOING OPERATIONS.
04:19:54 >> WHAT DO THESE BUDGET REDUCTIONS MEAN?
04:19:58 >> WITH THE ELIMINATION OF THE DIRECTOR OF POLICY PROGRAMS
04:20:02 AND GRANTS THE DEPARTMENT'S ABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY ENGAGE
04:20:05 IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND POLICIES AND PROMOTE PUBLIC
04:20:06 SAFETY THAT PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY AND A FAIR CRIMINAL
04:20:10 JUSTICE SYSTEM WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED.
04:20:13 OUR ABILITY TO FIND OUTSIDE RESOURCES FOR INNOVATIVE
04:20:17 PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSES OF CRIMINALITY
04:20:18 AND IMPLEMENT CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THEM WILL
04:20:22 BE IMPACTED. >> FUTURE PROPOSED REDUCTIONS
04:20:25 OF OVER $1 MILLION IN ATTRITION SAVINGS WILL HAVE A DIRECT
04:20:29 IMPACT ON THE DEPARTMENT'S ABILITY TO ACHIEVE ITS CORE
04:20:32 MISSION AS THE DEPARTMENT HAS FEW DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS
04:20:36 WITHIN OUR BUDGET. >> THIS SLIDE PRESENTS THE
04:20:46 DEPARTMENT'S OVERALL STRUCTURE AND HOW THE DEPARTMENT IS
04:20:47 ORGANIZED TO FOCUS ON ITS ESSENTIAL WORK.
04:20:50 ALL UNITS CONTRIBUTE TO OUR CORE MISSION.
04:20:57 THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY STAFFING AS OF MAY
04:21:04 22ND 2026. 313 FULL AND PART TIME
04:21:08 POSITIONS ARE FILLED AND WE HAVE CURRENTLY 16 VACANCIES.
04:21:14 >> OF THOSE 16 POSITIONS THAT WERE VACANT AS OF MAY 1ST, 12
04:21:19 HAVE BEEN OFFERED TO CANDIDATES .
04:21:22 >> ALL HAVE ACCEPTED TO HAVE STARTED WORK AND THE REMAINING
04:21:26 FOUR ARE AT VARIOUS STAGES OF RECRUITMENT.
04:21:33 >> THIS SLIDE SHOWS AN OVERALL MANAGER TO STAFF RATIO OF 1 TO
04:21:38 9. >> THIS SLIDE SHOWS BOTH
04:21:49 PENDING CASES AND ANNUALLY FILE CASES ARE AT THEIR HIGHEST
04:21:53 POINT SINCE PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC.
04:22:02 VICTIMS SERVED CONTINUE TO EXCEED 9000 VICTIMS ANNUALLY.
04:22:05 BOTH WORKLOAD SLIDES ILLUSTRATE THE NEED FOR THE NECESSARY
04:22:09 RESOURCES TO ADDRESS THE INFLUX OF CASES COMING INTO
04:22:13 AND EXISTING IN OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
04:22:20 >> WE HAVE CONSISTENTLY EXPRESSED THE NEED FOR
04:22:24 ADDITIONAL STAFFING AND RESOURCES TO ADDRESS THE
04:22:27 EVER INCREASING WORKLOAD THAT MY OFFICE HAS.
04:22:28 THIS IS WHY I STAND HERE CONCERN TODAY THAT THE PROPOSED
04:22:32 FUTURE REDUCTIONS AND THE ONGOING UNFUNDED AREAS THIS
04:22:35 DEPARTMENT HAS HAD TO MANAGE ARE BECOMING A PROBLEM.
04:22:39 >> WE ARE WORKING IN AN UNTENABLE ENVIRONMENT.
04:22:43 >> LET ME JUST GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
04:22:47 MY MISDEMEANOR UNIT RIGHT NOW WHICH IS COMPRISED OF 12
04:22:50 ATTORNEYS HAS OVER 225 CASES EACH.
04:22:57 >> THAT IS REALLY ABOUT 100 CASES IN EXCESS OF WHAT THEY
04:23:01 SHOULD BE HANDLING. >> WE HAVE ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL
04:23:08 RESOURCES FOR LEGAL SUPPORT STAFF THAT IS PARALEGAL SUPPORT
04:23:12 WITH THE ONGOING INCREASES IN OUR DISCOVERY OBLIGATIONS
04:23:17 WHICH I WILL GET INTO OVER THE NEXT SLIDE.
04:23:20 FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW I HAVE CONVEYED THAT MY OFFICE IS
04:23:27 IN DESPERATE NEED OF MORE PARALEGALS.
04:23:28 >> WE HAVE THE LEGAL MANDATE WHICH HAS COME DOWN FROM THE
04:23:35 LEGISLATURE BASED ON THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT THAT WE ARE
04:23:39 REQUIRED TO PRODUCE DATA TO THE DEFENSE IN ORDER FOR THEM TO
04:23:46 ANALYZE THEIR RACIAL JUSTICE ACT CLAIMS AND WE HAVE TO
04:23:50 RESPOND TO ANY RACIAL JUSTICE ACT MOTIONS THAT ARE HIRED.
04:23:54 WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY FUNDING FOR THAT MANDATE.
04:23:59 >> WE HAVE REQUESTED $1.3 MILLION TOWARDS OUR GENERAL
04:24:02 OPERATIONS FOR THINGS THAT INCLUDE AS SUPERVISOR WALTON
04:24:08 LOVES OUR SHUTTLE. THAT HAS TO TAKE MY LAWYERS TO
04:24:12 COURT EACH AND EVERY DAY BECAUSE WE HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM
04:24:16 THE HALL OF JUSTICE. WE ARE NO LONGER IN WALKING
04:24:19 DISTANCE OF THE COURTHOUSE. >> WE HAVE REQUESTED $768,000
04:24:26 TO BACKFILL VOCA FUNDING FOR VICTIM SERVICES THAT WE NO
04:24:30 LONGER RECEIVE BASED ON REDUCTIONS AT THE STATE
04:24:34 AND FEDERAL LEVEL AS WELL AS $217,000 FOR THE BE THE JURY
04:24:38 PROGRAM WHICH I'M SURE YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH.
04:24:42 IT'S ONE OF THE ONLY THINGS THE PUBLIC DEFENDER AND I STAND
04:24:46 TOGETHER ON WHICH IS MAKING SURE THAT JUROR JUROR POTENTIAL
04:24:49 JURORS WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO ONLY MAKE $15 A DAY FOR JURY
04:24:56 SERVICE AND OFTEN THEN ASKED A HARDSHIP OFF OF OUR JURIES BE
04:25:00 PAID MORE SO THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY ENGAGE IN JURY SERVICE
04:25:03 SO THAT WE HAVE JURIES THAT ARE ARE ACTUAL REFLECTION OF THE
04:25:07 COMMUNITIES HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
04:25:14 >> AS I MENTIONED, ONE OF THE MOST DESPERATE NEEDS THAT WE
04:25:17 HAVE IS ENHANCEMENT OF OUR LEGAL SUPPORT STAFFING.
04:25:21 WITH THE RISING CASES, THE VOLUME OF WORK HANDLED BY THE
04:25:25 DEPARTMENT'S LEGAL SUPPORT STAFF IS BECOME HAS BECOME
04:25:26 OVERWHELMING OVER THE COURSE OF 20 25.
04:25:30 >> PARALEGALS HANDLED 1.5 MILLION PAGES THAT NEEDED TO BE
04:25:38 REVIEWED, REDACTED AND PRODUCED TO THE DEFENSE DOWNLOAD AUDIT
04:25:42 AND DISCOVERED 77,000 BODY WORN CAMERA VIDEOS MANAGED 35TB OF
04:25:49 OTHER MEDIA THE EQUIVALENT OF 1000 FULL LENGTH MOVIES
04:25:53 AND ISSUED OVER 83,000 SUBPOENAS.
04:25:57 >> IT IS AT A POINT THAT FOR THEM IS UNTENABLE.
04:26:01 I'LL GIVE YOU SOME MORE ILLUSTRATION ON THAT FRONT AS
04:26:05 POLICE TECHNOLOGY INCREASES AS TECHNOLOGY JUST IN SOCIETY
04:26:10 INCREASES THAT MEANS THERE ARE MORE SOURCES OF DISCOVERY.
04:26:15 WE NOW HAVE LICENSE PLATE READER CAMERAS.
04:26:17 WE NOW HAVE DRONES. WE NOW HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT
04:26:20 AVENUES OF EVIDENCE SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS, YOU NAME IT
04:26:25 THAT HAVE TO BE THAT ARE PART OF INVESTIGATIONS THAT HAVE TO
04:26:29 BE PRODUCED OVER TO THE DEFENSE THAT TYPE OF DISCOVERY JUST
04:26:33 KEEPS INCREASING YEAR TO YEAR. AND SO THAT IS A PART OF WHY
04:26:37 AGAIN IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT FOR US TO LIVE UP TO OUR ETHICAL
04:26:40 OBLIGATION TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DEFENSE HAS WHAT THEY ARE
04:26:44 ENTITLED TO. WE HAVE TO BE WORKING NONSTOP
04:26:47 TO ENSURE THAT THIS MATERIAL IS REVIEWED AS WE SAID,
04:26:51 POTENTIALLY REDACTED FOR CONFIDENTIAL OR SENSITIVE
04:26:55 INFORMATION AND PRODUCED TO THEM IN A TIMELY FASHION.
04:26:58 AND SO THAT'S WHY I CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE THE NEED FOR MORE
04:27:03 SUPPORT STAFF. BUT AT THIS TIME THAT IS THE
04:27:04 END OF OUR PRESENTATION AND I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS
04:27:07 YOU HAVE. THANK YOU.
04:27:13 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR
04:27:15 LEADERSHIP. I DON'T SEE ANY NAME ON THE
04:27:18 ROSTER. WE DO UNDERSTAND IT'S A VERY
04:27:21 DIFFICULT BUDGETARY TIME SO WE REALLY THANK YOU FOR DOING YOUR
04:27:28 DUE DILIGENCE TO SEE HOW WE CAN MAKING SURE THAT YOU FULFILL
04:27:32 YOUR OBLIGATION TO KEEP OUR CITY SAFE AT THE SAME TIME
04:27:36 AND BEING ABLE TO HELP US AS A CITY TO FULFILL OUR BUDGETARY
04:27:39 AND FIDUCIARY OBLIGATIONS. SO THANK YOU.
04:27:43 THANK YOU. WELL, THANK YOU.
04:27:47 AND SO WITH THAT WE WILL GO TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
04:28:26 . >> OKAY.
04:28:27 GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CHAN VICE CHAIR DORSEY SUPERVISORS CHEN
04:28:31 WALTON AND SOUDER. I'M CHIEF DEREK LIU AND I
04:28:35 APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THE SAN FRANCISCO
04:28:38 POLICE DEPARTMENT'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2027
04:28:41 AND 2028. I'M JOINED TODAY BY ASSISTANT
04:28:45 CHIEF NICOLE JONES DC MARK M COMMANDER MCGUIRE AND CHIEF
04:28:49 FINANCIAL OFFICER CAMI WU WHO ARE HERE TODAY TO HELP ANSWER
04:28:52 ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> WE'RE OPERATING IN A RAPIDLY
04:28:56 EVOLVING ENVIRONMENT MARKED BY SHIFTING CRIME TRENDS,
04:29:00 SIGNIFICANT STAFFING SHORTAGES AND RISING PUBLIC EXPECTATIONS
04:29:04 FOR VISIBILITY, TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
04:29:07 OR A BUDGET PRESENTATION OUTLINES HOW WE ARE ADAPTING TO
04:29:11 THESE PRESSURES THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS IN HIRING
04:29:12 TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL REFORM.
04:29:19 >> OUR MISSION IS TO COMMIT TO EXCELLENCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
04:29:23 AND DEDICATE OURSELVES TO THE PEOPLE, TRADITIONS
04:29:24 AND DIVERSITY OF THE CITY. WE AIM TO PROVIDE SERVICE WITH
04:29:27 UNDERSTANDING, RESPOND WITH COMPASSION AND PERFORM WITH
04:29:31 INTEGRITY TO PROTECT LIFE AND CREATE A SAFER SAN
04:29:34 FRANCISCO. >> OUR BUDGET IS GUIDED BY FOUR
04:29:41 STRATEGIC PRIORITIES ONE TO GROW TO FULL STAFFING.
04:29:47 TWO TO EQUIP OFFICERS EFFECTIVELY.
04:29:50 THREE ENHANCE PUBLIC SAFETY IN THREE CONDITIONS.
04:29:54 AND FOUR STRENGTHEN TECHNICAL TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
04:29:58 >> THIS SLIDE PROVIDES YEAR TO DATE COMPARISONS OF VIOLENT
04:30:03 CRIMES AND PROPERTY CRIME FROM JANUARY THROUGH MAY.
04:30:06 MOST CATEGORIES FOR VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE SHOWN SIGNIFICANT
04:30:10 IMPROVEMENT. THE OVERALL DECREASE COMPARED
04:30:14 TO 2025. >> YEAR TO DATE IS NEARLY 11%.
04:30:18 FOR PROPERTY CRIMES THE OVERALL DECREASE COMPARED TO 2025 IS
04:30:21 OVER 24%. TO ADDRESS PERSISTENT PROBLEM
04:30:25 AREAS WE HAVE LEVERAGE THE REAL TIME INVESTIGATION CENTER OR
04:30:28 TECH TO IDENTIFY PATTERNS GUIDE DEPLOYMENTS AND DISRUPT
04:30:32 ORGANIZED NETWORKS TO STRENGTHEN RECRUITMENT.
04:30:36 >> WE HAVE ADVANCED THREE MAJOR STRATEGIES FOCUSED ON PROCESS
04:30:39 IMPROVEMENTS, APPLICANT ENGAGEMENT AND EXPANDED
04:30:43 MARKETING EFFORTS. BUILDING ON THE MOMENTUM FROM
04:30:46 LAST YEAR WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED THE FOLLOWING ENHANCING
04:30:49 RECRUITMENT INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH INCLUDES HIRING FULL TIME
04:30:54 BACKGROUND INVESTIGATORS. STREAMLINING APPLICANT OUTREACH
04:30:58 AND ENGAGEMENT IN CONDUCTING TARGETED ANALYSIS OF CANDIDATES
04:31:01 SUCCESS RATES. >> EXPANDING AND IMPROVING
04:31:05 APPLICANT ENGAGEMENT THAT'S ACHIEVED BY HOSTING ORGANIZED
04:31:12 CONSOLIDATED HIRING EVENTS OFFERING PREP SESSIONS FOR BOTH
04:31:17 THE WRITTEN EXAM AND THE PHYSICAL AGILITY TESTS.
04:31:20 AND EXPANDING THE VARIETY OF RECRUITMENT EVENTS.
04:31:26 WE'VE STRENGTHENED MEDIA AND MARKETING EFFORTS BY
04:31:29 PROMOTING THE DEPARTMENT'S HIGHLY COMPETITIVE WAGES
04:31:31 AND PENSION BENEFITS, ENHANCING OUR ONLINE HIRING PRESENCE
04:31:37 AND LAUNCHING TARGETED BILLBOARD ADVERTISING
04:31:38 AND SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS. TOGETHER THESE STRATEGIES AIM
04:31:41 TO MODERNIZE THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS, IMPROVE APPLICANT
04:31:45 EXPERIENCE AND ENSURE WE CONTINUE TO ATTRACT HIGH
04:31:48 QUALITY CANDIDATES. >> AS A RESULT OF OUR EXPANDED
04:31:53 RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES, WE ARE ON TRACK TO RECEIVE 10,000
04:31:57 APPLICATIONS BY THE END OF THE YEAR A REMARKABLE INCREASE
04:32:00 COMPARED TO TRENDS FROM THE LAST THREE YEARS.
04:32:03 AS OF JUNE 1ST WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED MORE THAN 3800
04:32:06 APPLICATIONS. >> THE PROPOSED BUT PROPOSED
04:32:16 BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 27 IS 882.6 MILLION, INCREASING TO
04:32:22 901 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 28. >> THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF THIS
04:32:26 INCREASE IS GROWTH IN GENERAL FUND COSTS LARGELY TIED TO
04:32:29 PERSONNEL EXPENSES SUCH AS SALARIES, BENEFITS AND OVERTIME
04:32:33 NEEDED TO MAINTAIN ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES.
04:32:37 >> THE DEPARTMENT HAS IDENTIFIED SEVERAL REDUCTIONS
04:32:38 FOR THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEARS. ELIMINATION OF 33 FTE POSITIONS
04:32:47 PRIMARILY WITHIN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
04:32:51 AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT ROLES AS WELL AS FOR CIVILIAN
04:32:55 LAYOFFS ACROSS ADMINISTRATIVE AND FIELD OPERATIONS DIVISIONS.
04:32:58 DESPITE THESE ADJUSTMENTS, THE PROPOSED BUDGET CONTINUES TO
04:33:02 PRIORITIZE STAFFING, OPERATIONAL READINESS
04:33:06 AND PUBLIC SAFETY OUTCOMES. >> THE TOTAL GENERAL FUND
04:33:10 EXPENDITURE FOR UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR IS 765.3 MILLION AND MORE
04:33:15 THAN 90% OF THE GENERAL FUND IS DEDICATED TO PERSONNEL COSTS.
04:33:18 ARE NON GENERAL FUND BUDGET ACCOUNTS FOR 13% OF THE TOTAL
04:33:23 SRP BUDGET OR 117.3 MILLION. THIS PORTION INCLUDES FUNDING
04:33:29 FOR THE AIRPORT BUREAU POLICES AIRPORT BUREAUS PERSONNEL AS
04:33:33 WELL AS VARIOUS FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS THAT SUPPORT
04:33:37 SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS.
04:33:40 >> CITIES SWORN STAFFING STAFFING NOW ANALYSIS SHOWS WE
04:33:45 NEED APPROXIMATELY 2257 FULL DUTY SWORN OFFICERS TO MEET
04:33:51 CURRENT OPERATIONAL DEMANDS. AS OF MAY 20TH, 26 WE HAVE 1618
04:33:55 OFFICERS A DEFICIT OF OVER 600 OFFICERS.
04:33:59 >> FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE
04:34:03 IN CITY'S SWORN STAFFING AN ENCOURAGING TREND DRIVEN BY
04:34:06 IMPROVED RECRUITMENT, HIRING AND RETENTION.
04:34:12 >> MOVING TO OUR ORGANIZATIONAL CHART.
04:34:15 THIS UPDATED EXECUTIVE CHART REFLECTS OUR LEADERSHIP
04:34:16 STRUCTURE AS OF JUNE 1ST, 2026. FIVE BUREAUS REPORT DIRECTLY TO
04:34:22 THE CHIEF AND FOUR DIVISIONS REPORT TO THE ASSISTANT CHIEF.
04:34:26 >> APPROXIMATELY 4% OF OUR CIVILIAN PROFESSIONAL STAFF
04:34:30 STAFF SERVICE IN MANAGEMENT ROLES ENSURING APPROPRIATE
04:34:33 LEADERSHIP CAPACITY ACROSS ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT
04:34:35 FUNCTIONS. >> A FULL POSITION LIST IS
04:34:38 AVAILABLE AS A SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENT.
04:34:41 >> >> THIS CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION AND WE'RE HAPPY TO
04:34:46 ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
04:34:47 >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.
04:34:52 >> SUPERVISOR WALTON, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
04:34:54 THANK YOU, CHIEF LEW. WHAT DID YOU FORECAST FOR
04:34:57 OVERTIME IN THIS BUDGET? GIVE ME.
04:35:03 >> SO FOR THE OVERTIME TIME OUR BUDGET HAS APPROPRIATED 72
04:35:11 MILLION AND OVERTIME. >> HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO
04:35:12 LAST YEAR? SO THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR WE
04:35:15 ARE PROJECTED TO BE AT APPROXIMATELY 96 MILLION.
04:35:20 >> SO YOU ARE FOR UNDER BUDGETING $27 MILLION AND YOU
04:35:31 DO THIS EVERY YEAR. I MEAN IS THERE SOME KIND OF
04:35:36 RULE THAT I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT SAYS YOU JUST HAVE TO DO A
04:35:39 SUPPLEMENTAL EVERY YEAR? LIKE WHY DO WE DO THIS EVERY
04:35:41 SINGLE YEAR? >> I MEAN WHOEVER WANTS TO
04:35:46 ANSWER HAPPINESS. SO THANK YOU, SOPHIA KILLER FOR
04:35:50 THE MAYOR'S BUDGET. SO LAST YEAR YOU'LL RECALL WE
04:35:52 HAD ACTUALLY IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS WE HAD BEEN BUDGETING
04:35:56 AROUND 35 TO $40 MILLION IN OVERTIME.
04:35:59 AND LAST YEAR WE MADE AN EFFORT TO KIND OF TRUE UP SO THAT WE
04:36:01 WOULD NOT CONTINUE ASLI COME BACK FOR A GENERAL FUND SET.
04:36:06 >> BUT ALSO IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET WE RAISED OVERTIME FROM
04:36:09 IN THE $30 MILLION ISH RANGE TO THE 70 ISH MILLION DOLLAR
04:36:12 RANGE. >> THERE WAS A LOT OF EXTRA
04:36:15 OVERTIME THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF SPECIAL EVENTS
04:36:19 IN PARTICULAR I THINK YOU KNOW SPECIFICALLY AND MISS WU HAS
04:36:23 HAS MUCH BETTER NUMBERS ON THIS THAN I.
04:36:24 BUT THE SUPER BOWL ALONE WAS AROUND 8 MILLION DOLLARS.
04:36:30 >> AND SO WE BELIEVE THAT WITH WITH KIND OF TIGHTER CONTROLS
04:36:35 AND LIKE NEW THINKING ABOUT SCHEDULING AND THE CONTINUED
04:36:38 IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE ARE SHOWING ON HIRING THAT WE CAN
04:36:42 CONTINUE TO CONSTRAIN OVERTIME TO REASONABLE LEVELS.
04:36:46 ONE THING WE DID THIS YEAR AS MUCH AS THEY DID WE PROJECTED
04:36:49 AND WE ARE PROJECTED TO SPEND IN THE 90S ON OVERTIME WE DID
04:36:52 NOT NEED A GENERAL THE SUPPLEMENTAL AND THAT IS A
04:36:54 TESTAMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP AT THE DEPARTMENT AND TO THE
04:36:57 FINANCIAL CONTROLS THAT MS. WU HAS HAS PUT IN PLACE.
04:37:00 BUT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO KEEP THAT WITHIN THE AMOUNT OF
04:37:04 SALARY SAVINGS THAT WE HAVE ACCRUED FROM FROM ON THE POLICE
04:37:08 SIDE AND MOVING THAT OVER. AND SO ONE THING THAT WE SEE IS
04:37:11 AS WE CONTINUE TO HIRE UP, HOPEFULLY WE WILL NEED LESS
04:37:12 OVERTIME. >> BUT WHILE WE DO NOT HAVE
04:37:15 FULL STAFFING WE DO MOVE UNUSED SALARY DOLLARS OVER TO THE
04:37:19 OVERTIME BUCKET IN THE OVERTIME SUPPLEMENTAL BUT WE DID NOT
04:37:23 REQUEST THE DEPARTMENT DID NOT REQUEST A GENERAL FUND
04:37:24 SUPPLEMENTAL THIS YEAR. >> WELL WITH ALL DUE RESPECT,
04:37:27 THE RIGHT TO KILL HER WE HAD THE SAME CONVERSATION LAST YEAR
04:37:34 ABOUT WAS FORECASTED AND WHAT IS THOUGHT TO BE ACTUAL.
04:37:38 >> SO SEPARATE FROM THE DEBATE ABOUT HOW MUCH OVERTIME THE
04:37:46 DEPARTMENT HAS EVERY YEAR, WHY DO WHY DOES THE DEPARTMENT NOT
04:37:49 ATTEMPT TO FORECAST AND PUT IT IN THE BUDGET EXACTLY WHAT THEY
04:37:54 THINK THEY WILL SPEND? >> I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT
04:38:01 QUESTION SUPERVISOR AND I WILL LET THEM SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
04:38:02 BUT FROM THE BUDGET OFFICE WHO VERY MUCH YOU KNOW I THINK THEY
04:38:05 HAVE A REQUEST AND THEN WE HAVE WHAT WE ARE WILLING TO BUDGET
04:38:08 ON THEIR BEHALF. AND SO I THINK THAT THEY WILL
04:38:10 HAVE REQUESTED MORE MONEY. >> YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT
04:38:13 IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET WE ACTUALLY HAD ASSUMED A CERTAIN
04:38:17 AMOUNT OF SAVINGS IN YEAR TWO OVERTIME THAT WE DID NOT THINK
04:38:20 WE WERE GOING TO GET. SO WE ACTUALLY DID INCREASE
04:38:22 OVER THE BASE BUDGET NOT TO GET TOO TECHNICAL WE INCREASED
04:38:24 THEIR ASSUMPTIONS ON OVERTIME OVER BASE BUDGET THIS YEAR.
04:38:27 >> AND ONE OF THE WAYS WE FORECASTED WAS WE LOOKED AT THE
04:38:32 AMOUNT OF OVERTIME THAT THEY HAVE BEEN NEEDING EVERY PAY
04:38:35 PERIOD SINCE THE SUPER BOWL. RIGHT?
04:38:35 SO PRE-SUPER BOWL THERE WAS A BIG SURGE DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
04:38:39 THERE WAS A BIG SURGE OF SPECIAL EVENTS.
04:38:41 AND SINCE THE SUPER BOWL THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON VERY TIGHT
04:38:45 FINANCIAL CONTROLS LOOKING AT THAT AND ANNUALIZING WHAT THEY
04:38:49 HAVE BEEN USING, WE BELIEVE WE ARE AT THE CORRECT OVERTIME
04:38:53 REQUIREMENT. WE THAT IS HOW WE ARE
04:38:55 FORECASTING IT. WE KNOW WE DO NOT GET IT RIGHT.
04:38:59 THIS IS AN ART NOT A SCIENCE. BUT I THINK WE WE BELIEVE WE
04:39:00 WOULD RATHER BUDGET CLOSE TO AND BE SLIGHTLY OFF RATHER THAN
04:39:04 GREATLY OVER BUDGET. >> YEAH SUPERVISOR FOR FOR OUR
04:39:09 PART I WOULD SAY THAT DEPARTMENT DID REQUEST WHAT WE
04:39:12 THOUGHT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE. WE OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T GET THERE
04:39:16 BUT WE ARE SYMPATHETIC TO THE FACT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
04:39:19 IN THAT SAME BOAT. SO WE HAVE AS DIRECTOR CUTLER
04:39:23 SAID WE HAVE MAINTAINED OR INSTITUTED A LOT OF CONTROLS
04:39:27 AND SYSTEMS THAT WE THINK OF HELPED US ALONG THE WAY.
04:39:30 >> AND OUR INTENTION IS TO STAY WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS THAT
04:39:32 THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN WITH OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A DISCREPANCY
04:39:38 BETWEEN WHAT PD FEELS AND WHAT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE FEELS.
04:39:42 >> I JUST THINK WE'RE RESPONSIBLE TO MAKE SURE THAT
04:39:48 WE TRY TO GET AS CLOSE TO ACTUALS EVERY YEAR WHEN WE DO
04:39:51 BUDGET AS WE CAN AND WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT NOT JUST
04:39:55 WITH THIS DEPARTMENT BUT MOST CERTAINLY WITH THIS DEPARTMENT
04:39:59 AND THAT IS FRUSTRATING. >> THANK YOU, CHIEF.
04:40:03 THANK YOU. AND VICE CHAIR DORSEY THANK YOU
04:40:07 CHAIR CHEN AND I WILL SAY I DO SHARE THE FRUSTRATION OF MY
04:40:11 COLLEAGUES SUPERVISORS WALTON ABOUT OVERTIME AND EVEN BEING,
04:40:15 YOU KNOW, SOMEONE TO LISTEN. I'M NEVER GOING TO VOTE AGAINST
04:40:19 A SUPPLEMENTAL FOR POLICE OVERTIME BECAUSE THE
04:40:22 ALTERNATIVE IS UNTHINKABLE. BUT I'M NOT PROUD OF IT THAT WE
04:40:26 HAVE AN UNDERSTAFFING ISSUE THAT REQUIRES US TO USE
04:40:31 MANDATORY OVERTIME JUST TO KEEP OUR HEADS ABOVE WATER.
04:40:32 MY HOPE IS THAT WE WILL GET I THINK RIGHT NOW JUDGING FROM I
04:40:38 KNOW THERE'S A COUPLE OF WAYS OF MEASURING IT BUT IT'S ABOUT
04:40:41 700 OFFICERS SHORT IF WE'RE LOOKING AT FULL DUTY AND EVEN
04:40:44 AS WE DID SOMETHING IF I'M UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY LAST
04:40:46 YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEVERAL YEARS WE HIRED MORE
04:40:49 COPS THAN WE LOST. BUT THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS THAT
04:40:56 OF THE CHARTER MANDATED RECOMMENDS AND BASED ON THE
04:41:00 METHODOLOGY WE ALL AGREED TO HAS NOW GONE UP THAT THE
04:41:04 MINIMUM THAT THE RECOMMENDED STAFFING LEVEL IS NOW 20 TO 57
04:41:10 . >> SO AND I THINK I ALSO SHARE
04:41:14 THE FRUSTRATION THAT IT FEELS TO ME LIKE WE THERE IS A
04:41:18 CERTAIN SORT OF LIKE I DON'T KNOW THEATER OF OF WHERE
04:41:21 HOLDING THINGS THAT WE KNOW LIKE POSITIONS THAT WE THINK
04:41:23 ARE GOING TO BE BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO NEED THAT MONEY FOR
04:41:26 OVERTIME BUT IT'S NOT REALLY TRANSPARENT TO US SO IT IS
04:41:29 SOMETHING OVER THE LONG TERM THAT I HOPE WE DO ADDRESS.
04:41:33 >> I HAD ASKED THE QUESTION THAT I WAS GOING TO ASK IS
04:41:37 ABOUT CIVILIAN IZATION. >> SO I HAD ASKED CHIEF
04:41:41 CHRISMAN ABOUT THIS ALSO BUT I WANT TO ASK YOU AS WELL CHIEF,
04:41:47 WHEN WE WHEN WHEN THERE ARE LAYOFFS OF CIVILIANS, IT SEEMS
04:41:52 TO ME IF WE'RE IF THERE ARE ANY CIVILIAN LAYOFFS THAT INVOLVE
04:41:56 WORK THAT THEN NOW A SWORN OFFICER OR UNIFORMED
04:42:01 FIREFIGHTER HAS TO DO, IT'S DEFEATING THE PURPOSE OF THE
04:42:04 LAYOFF. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE
04:42:05 TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO STAFF UP.
04:42:08 BUT I JUST WONDER IF WE'RE GIVING THOUGHT TO CIVILIAN
04:42:12 ROLES THAT ARE NOW HAVING TO BE FILLED BY SWORN FOLKS.
04:42:18 >> SO MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER THAT .
04:42:22 >> SUPERVISOR YOU AND I BELIEVE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS MANY
04:42:25 TIMES. WE'RE ACUTELY AWARE OF THE
04:42:26 POSITIONS THAT CAN BE CIVILIAN IZED AND WE'RE DOING OUR BEST
04:42:31 TO GET TO IT AS WE CAN. UNDERSTOOD THAT LAYOFF SEEMS
04:42:37 COUNTERINTUITIVE TO THAT MISSION, BUT THIS IS WHERE
04:42:38 WE'RE AT AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THE BEST WE CAN WITH WHAT
04:42:42 WE HAVE TO WORK WITH. IS THERE SOME ELEMENT OF SWORN
04:42:48 STAFFING ASSUMING SOME OF THESE DUTIES?
04:42:49 YES, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO MITIGATE THAT AND MINIMIZE IT
04:42:53 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. >> OKAY.
04:42:56 >> AND I THINK THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD JUST SAY AND I
04:42:58 KNOW THAT I'VE TALKED TO THE CHIEF ABOUT THIS I DID WANT TO
04:43:01 GET JUST AN ANSWER TO SORT OF THE HYPOTHETICAL.
04:43:05 I THINK I'VE GOT TO SORT OF LIKE BALLPARK BUT IT WOULD BE
04:43:06 NICE TO GET A CLEAR NUMBERS LET'S SAY WE COULD WAVE A MAGIC
04:43:09 WAND AND HIRE THE 700 PLUS OFFICERS THAT WE NEED TO GET TO
04:43:13 FULL STAFFING IN A YEAR. HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST US?
04:43:17 BECAUSE I THINK THE ANSWER IF I IF I BELIEVE IF I UNDERSTAND
04:43:21 THE ANSWER IT'S IT'S NOT MUCH MORE THAN WE'RE PAYING NOW
04:43:24 BECAUSE OF ALL THE OVERTIME WHICH IS KIND OF INFURIATING
04:43:26 WHEN WE CONSIDER THAT WE'RE USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS MORE
04:43:28 TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR LESS POLICING JUST BECAUSE WE NEED
04:43:32 SOMETHING THAT'S MORE AMBITIOUS TO GET TO A FULLY STAFFED
04:43:36 POLICE DEPARTMENT. BUT MAYBE YOU GOT A BALLPARK
04:43:39 BUT AT SOME POINT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE NUMBERS ON THAT OR
04:43:42 IF WE WERE TO FILL EVERY POSITION SWORN MEMBER IT WOULD
04:43:47 BE OVER $505 MILLION. >> OKAY.
04:43:49 OKAY. >> OKAY.
04:43:57 SO 30 $1 MILLION IS WHAT ROUGHLY 30 OR 30 31 TO $35
04:44:05 MILLION IS WHAT WE HAVE BUDGETED AT LAST YEAR FOR ONE
04:44:09 FISCAL YEAR, RIGHT? ONE FISCAL YEAR ABOUT ROUGHLY
04:44:12 $35 MILLION FOR OVERTIME. >> IF YOU GET THERE THAT WAS
04:44:19 WHAT WE HAD BUDGETED IN FISCAL 25 LAST YEAR.
04:44:21 THIS YEAR WE HAD BUDGETED IN THE 70S AND THIS YEAR HOW
04:44:24 MUCH IT WAS I BELIEVE 7572. SUMMARY.
04:44:27 SUMMARY IS 7273 FOR ONE FISCAL YEAR?
04:44:32 >> YES. CORRECT.
04:44:34 OKAY. AND THEN SO AND THAT IS BECAUSE
04:44:36 NOW WE'RE LESSON LEARNED FROM YOU KNOW, THE 2526 FISCAL YEAR
04:44:42 INCLUSIVE OF SUPER BOWL. NOW WE ANTICIPATING FEE FOR
04:44:49 AND POTENTIALLY OTHER EVENTS AND SO WE SAY FOR THE 2627 NOW
04:44:53 WE'RE ANTICIPATE WAITING ABOUT $73 MILLION PER FISCAL YEAR FOR
04:45:01 OVERTIME. >> YES WE KEPT OVERTIME ABOUT
04:45:05 FLAT AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE FIFA
04:45:08 WORLD CUP IS IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR IN THE CURRENT
04:45:12 FISCAL YEAR AS 2526. YES.
04:45:15 CORRECT. I SEE BECAUSE WE ARE CURRENTLY
04:45:20 IN JUNE IT IS 30 WHAT 39 DAYS LONG?
04:45:24 SO IT WILL BE KIND OF LIKE TEN DAYS INTO THE NEW FISCAL YEAR
04:45:28 IN YOUR INTERIM WHEN WE WRAP UP .
04:45:31 >> YEAH, EXACTLY. UNDERSTOOD.
04:45:32 SO BUT THEN I THINK MISS WILL YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION VERY
04:45:38 DEFINITIVELY WITH A 550 MILLION SALARY?
04:45:44 >> CAN YOU WALK ME THROUGH? YES.
04:45:47 THAT'S 505 MILLION IF WE WERE TO FULLY EVO'S FULL STAFF OF
04:45:52 ALL SWORN. >> YEAH AND THAT IS ON TOP OF
04:45:55 YOUR EXISTING 800 SOMETHING MILLION.
04:45:56 >> NO. OKAY.
04:45:59 THAT IS INCLUSIVE OF THAT. SO IT WOULD BE A ESSENTIALLY OF
04:46:03 THE 881 MILLION THAT INCLUDES NON GENERAL FUND SOURCE 764
04:46:08 MILLION APPROXIMATELY IS GENERAL FUND AND SO TO FUND THE
04:46:13 ENTIRE FILL EVERY SWORN POSITION THAT WE HAVE IT WOULD
04:46:18 BE 505 MILLION OF THAT RIGHT NOW.
04:46:27 MM HMM. YOU HAVE 882 WHILE A LET'S JUST
04:46:34 SAY IF I MAY ROUNDED UP $883 MILLION OF YOUR TOTAL BUDGET
04:46:41 OTTAWA EACH YOU HAVE ABOUT ADDING THIS UP LIKE RIGHT ON
04:46:51 THE SPOT LIKE 615 PLUS 147 SO I DON'T KNOW SEVEN HUNDRED AND 22
04:47:02 MILLION DOLLARS THAT IS FOR YOUR SALARY AND PEOPLE.
04:47:09 SO THE GENERAL FUND PORTION FOR JUST PERSONNEL COSTS IS
04:47:16 APPROXIMATELY 644 MILLION AND THAT INCLUDES THE OVERTIME
04:47:18 IS IN THAT AMOUNT. AND SO IF WE WERE TO FULLY FUND
04:47:21 IT OF OF THE 644 MILLION THE ENTIRE 505 MILLION WOULD BE FOR
04:47:27 PERSONNEL FOR SWORN ONLY. SO WE WOULD NOT HAVE ENOUGH
04:47:31 FUNDING IF THEY WERE ALL FILLED.
04:47:34 >> SO ESSENTIALLY SOME OF THE THE SAVINGS FROM THE VACANCIES
04:47:38 IS PAYING FOR THE OVERTIME. IF THEY WERE ALL FILLED, YES.
04:47:42 OVERTIME WOULD BE REDUCED BUT RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE MORE DONE A
04:47:49 $600 MILLION IN SALARY AND BECAUSE THAT COVERS BOTH
04:47:53 THE SWORN AND CIVILIAN PROFESSIONAL STAFF.
04:47:57 >> SO YOU'RE ABOUT SO YOU'RE ABOUT LIKE 100 SOMETHING
04:48:01 MILLION DOLLARS OFF IF YOU WERE TO FULLY FUND SWORN OFFICER OR
04:48:11 200 MILLION IT WOULD DEPEND ON THE ACTUAL COSTS FOR WE HAVE TO
04:48:16 FACTOR IN THE CIVILIAN PROFESSIONAL STAFF ACTUAL COST.
04:48:19 >> SURE. AND THEN SO I THINK THE
04:48:20 QUESTION RIGHT THE QUESTION IS THAT THEN WHAT IS THE
04:48:23 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW YOU'RE SWORN YOUR
04:48:30 ROUGHLY ABOUT 600 SOMETHING MILLION FOR YOUR SWORN AND IF
04:48:35 YOU WERE FULLY FUND YOUR SWORN OFFICERS YES I GET THE WHAT
04:48:45 YOU'RE TRYING TO BREAK DOWN HOWEVER TO GET TO FULL DUTY
04:48:46 SWORN IT WILL TAKE AT LEAST YOU KNOW UPWARDS OF TEN YEARS SO
04:48:52 WE'RE NOWHERE NEAR THERE BASED OFF OF, YOU KNOW, THE NUMBERS
04:48:55 THAT WE ARE SEEING FROM ATTRITION AND THE NET SWORN.
04:49:06 >> AND I THINK THE QUESTION WAS THAT WE GET WHAT I GET I'M
04:49:13 LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS RIGHT NOW.
04:49:14 >> THE NUMBERS IS WHAT THE NUMBER IS RIGHT NOW AND OUT OF
04:49:17 WHICH THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT 90 WAS $73 MILLION PER FISCAL YEAR
04:49:23 THAT IS SPECIFICALLY NOW YOU SET ASIDE FOR OVERTIME THE
04:49:26 QUESTION BY VICE CHAIR DORSEY AND WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT
04:49:31 IS THEN THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE 90 AT THE $73 MILLION THAT
04:49:35 YOU HAVE SET ASIDE FOR FULL TIME VERSUS SHOULD YOU BE FULLY
04:49:39 STAFF AT THE STAFFING LEVEL THAT AS INDICATED BY REQUEST OR
04:49:46 REPORT MANDATE WHAT IS THE DISCREPANCY APPROXIMATELY
04:49:50 AND YOU'RE SAYING APPROX TIMIDLY IS $550 MILLION TO
04:49:58 FULLY FUND AND PAY FOR THE FULL SWORN IS 505 MILLION
04:50:07 APPROXIMATELY YES. >> AND THE DIFFERENCE WOULD BE
04:50:14 WE NEED TO CALCULATE THE AMOUNT FOR THE CIVILIANS TO SEE OF THE
04:50:18 644 MILLION IN THE BUDGET IS ENOUGH TO COVER THAT.
04:50:22 >> HOWEVER, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET TO FULL DUTY SWORN SO IF
04:50:26 IT WERE JUST TO FACTOR THAT IN WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FILL
04:50:29 SIX HUNDRED SWORN STAFF BY NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
04:50:35 >> SO THE HYPOTHETICAL IN THAT SENSE IS NOT GOING TO YOU CAN'T
04:50:40 CALCULATE IT IN ONE FISCAL YEAR ,JUDGE THAT I THINK I DO NOT
04:50:48 HAVE THESE NUMBERS AT HAND AND I DON'T IMAGINE THEY DO
04:50:51 EITHER. BUT WE CAN ABSOLUTELY LOOK AT
04:50:53 WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY SPENDING ON AN ANNUAL BASIS JUST ON ST
04:50:56 SALARY AND FRINGE FOR SWORN FIVE HUNDRED AND FIVE IS THE IF
04:51:00 WE HAD EVERYBODY AND SO BACK OUT KIND OF WHAT THE DIFFERENCE
04:51:04 OF THAT IS HOW MUCH WE WOULD SAVE THERE AND COMPARE THAT TO
04:51:07 WHAT WE THINK A PROJECTED OVERTIME CHANGE WOULD BE I
04:51:08 IMAGINE OVERTIME WOULD NOT GO AWAY.
04:51:11 SO WE WOULD PROBABLY WE WOULD HAVE TO KIND OF DO A COMPARISON
04:51:14 THERE. WE WE WOULD LOVE TO BRING YOU
04:51:16 THOSE NUMBERS FOR NEXT WEEK OR AT YOU KNOW, AT YOUR PLEASURE
04:51:19 BUT WE DON'T HAVE OVER THE WEEKEND YEAH YEAH AND CHAIR
04:51:22 AND JUST TO SIMPLIFY. >> SO WITH THE DEFICIT OUR
04:51:26 DEFICIT I'M PRETTY SURE IS ALMOST EXACTLY 650 SWORN
04:51:29 OFFICERS AT THIS MOMENT THE MORE THAT WE CAN REDUCE THAT
04:51:33 DEFICIT FOR THE INCREASES IS THE LESS OVERTIME WE WILL HAVE
04:51:38 TO USE. >> SO I ANTICIPATE THAT WHERE
04:51:41 WE'RE AT YOU KNOW THE LOW 70S AND OVERTIME RIGHT NOW SHOULD
04:51:45 WE GET INCREMENTALLY HIGHER AND HIGHER IN STAFFING?
04:51:49 I THINK WE WILL BE I THINK FAR CLOSER TO THAT $40 MILLION
04:51:52 MARK, $30 MILLION MARK THAN WE HAVE.
04:51:56 AND I THINK THAT THAT'S I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE
04:51:59 YOU ARE TRYING TO GET AT BUT THERE IT IS A WIN FOR THE
04:52:04 DEPARTMENT TO HAVE MORE OF THESE POSITIONS FILLED AND IT'S
04:52:07 MORE COST EFFECTIVE FOR THE CITY.
04:52:11 THEY'LL BE MORE POLICING TO SUPERVISOR DARCY'S POINT AT A
04:52:15 LOWER COST. >> I HAD A DIFFERENT POINT THAT
04:52:19 ACTUALLY I'M TRYING TO GET AT BUT I THINK I WANTED TO SORT
04:52:24 OUT THE MATH A BIT MORE. >> I APPRECIATE AND WOULD LIKE
04:52:28 TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION. WHAT I'M REALLY TRYING TO GET
04:52:31 AT THOUGH IS CHIEF THAT I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING NOW THAT I
04:52:38 DON'T THINK YOU'VE BEEN AS OUR CHIEF FOR MORE THAN A YEAR YET
04:52:42 AND THIS IS YOUR FIRST BUDGET. WHAT I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING
04:52:49 IS A VISION UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP TO ARTICULATE WITH
04:52:51 THE UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU KNOW AS INDICATED AS ALL WE HAVE
04:52:57 UNDERSTOOD IS THAT TO MEET A GOAL AND I HAVE QUESTION I'M
04:53:01 GOING TO START QUESTIONING THE PREMISE OF THAT STUDY AND HEAR
04:53:05 ME OUT STEP BY STEP AND IS THAT AT SOME POINT I THINK THAT THE
04:53:12 QUESTION WHAT YOUR VISION AND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR
04:53:16 UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHAT IS THE BEST IN POLICING AND KEEPING
04:53:20 THE CITY SAFE AND WITH THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY
04:53:24 AND WHAT WE'RE LEARNING AT OUR TECH AND THE FACT THAT THE
04:53:28 PREMISE OF THE STUDIES IN MY OPINION DOES NOT ACTUALLY
04:53:35 INCLUDE THAT CHANGE OF TECHNOLOGY THE THE AUTOMATED
04:53:39 LICENSE PLATE READER THAT AREN'T AT THE ARCTIC THAT
04:53:43 YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE TECHNOLOGY, THE USAGE OF DRONES
04:53:47 ALL THESE ARE ACTUALLY HAVE COME NOW AS WE CONTINUE TO MAKE
04:53:51 PROGRESS AND THE POTENTIAL OF USING AUTOMATIC LIKE
04:53:58 TRANSCRIPTION OR TRANSCRIBING YOU KNOW YOUR BODY CAMERA OR
04:54:02 YOUR REPORT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE ARE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS BECOMING
04:54:07 AVAILABLE TO YOU THAT AS SOME POINT ABOUT THE LEVEL OF
04:54:10 STAFFING AND THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS THAT YOU MAY END UP
04:54:14 NEEDING TO MEET THE VISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY MAY CHANGE
04:54:18 AND I'M ASKING FOR A VISION AND A THOUGHT INTO THE STAFFING
04:54:25 STUDY THAT ACTUALLY ALSO INCORPORATE INTO THOSE
04:54:29 TECHNOLOGY AND VISION AND TOOLS THAT MAYBE EVENTUALLY IS NOT SO
04:54:33 MUCH ABOUT IT IS SORT OF THIS BALANCING ACT BETWEEN STAFFING
04:54:40 OVERTIME AND THEN UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY THAT MAY CHANGE
04:54:44 THE NUMBER OF YOUR MANDATE AND TO YOUR POINT CHURCH AND I
04:54:48 THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT BEAR OUT IN THE NEXT STAFFING
04:54:52 STUDY. >> SO OUR DRONE AS FIRST
04:54:56 RESPONDERS PROGRAM IS RELATIVELY NEW AND I WANT TO
04:55:00 CALL IT BRAND NEW BUT RELATIVELY NEW LICENSE PLATE
04:55:01 READERS, ETC.. SO OUR STAFFING STUDY IS BASED
04:55:04 ON ACTUAL WORKLOAD ANALYSIS FROM THE AMOUNT OF TIME OUR OUR
04:55:08 OFFICERS ARE SPENDING IN THE FIELD.
04:55:11 SO WHAT WE WOULD HOPE TO SEE TO YOUR POINT IS IN THE NEXT TWO
04:55:15 YEARS THAT THE DATA IS GOING TO REFLECT THAT THERE WAS LESS
04:55:19 OFFICER HOURS NEEDED OUT IN THE FIELD BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO
04:55:23 DO THINGS IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND SO INSTEAD OF FOUR PEOPLE
04:55:26 HAVING TO RESPOND TO THAT CALL FOR SERVICE WE WERE ABLE TO PUT
04:55:31 THE DRONE UP AND THAT REDUCED THE THE WORKLOAD.
04:55:34 SO WE ARE HOPEFUL I THINK AS YOU ARE THAT WE WILL HAVE THAT
04:55:39 DATA AND WE WILL BEGIN MAKING GOOD ASSESSMENTS OF THE IMPACT
04:55:46 OF THAT TECHNOLOGY. ONE OF THE I WOULD SAY BLESSING
04:55:49 AND A CURSE THAT WE HAVE TO DO THIS STUDY EVERY TWO YEARS IS
04:55:53 THAT WE ARE ABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE CHANGES IN THE ENVIRONMENT
04:55:57 AND I DO BELIEVE WE'LL SEE THE THE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT.
04:56:01 >> GREAT. AND THEN I THINK THAT'S WHAT
04:56:02 I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO TO SEE THE UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY
04:56:08 AND BE ABLE TO AGAIN REEVALUATE OVER TIME REEVALUATE STAFFING
04:56:12 MANDATE ACCORDINGLY AND THAT TO ADJUST YOUR BUDGET ACCORDINGLY
04:56:20 . >> SO WITH THAT SUPERVISOR JIM
04:56:22 THANK YOU CHAIR CHAIRMAN THANK YOU CHIEF LOEB FOR AND THE TEAM
04:56:26 FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND AND THANK YOU FOR THE LEADERSHIP
04:56:29 AND THE GOOD WORK OF KEEPING SAN FRANCISCO SAFE AND BECAUSE
04:56:32 THERE'S A GREAT MOMENTUM ACROSS ALL THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
04:56:36 DEPARTMENT THAT WE ARE RECRUITMENT RATE IS UP SO WHAT
04:56:40 IS OUR RECRUITMENT GOAL FOR 26 27?
04:56:43 >> SO WE HAVE WE WE'RE HOPE WE'RE ON PACE FOR OVER 10,000
04:56:49 APPLICATIONS WHICH IS HUGE COMPARED TO WHAT WE'VE HAD THE
04:56:51 LAST FEW YEARS AND BY THE END OF THE YEAR WE'RE HOPING TO GO
04:56:54 NET POSITIVE ABOUT 38 OFFICERS BY YEAR END 20 26.
04:57:00 >> SO WHILE THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A HUGE NUMBER, IT'S IT IS
04:57:04 A BIG NUMBER FOR US RELATIVE TO WHAT IT'S BEEN IN THE PAST.
04:57:08 >> RIGHT. AND THEN COMING BACK TO A
04:57:09 LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE NUMBER THE $73 MILLION OVER TIME DOES THAT
04:57:16 ACCOUNT INTO LIGHT IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS?
04:57:17 >> I WOULD SAY WE HAVE 30 A OFFICER GRADUATING AND THEN
04:57:20 WE'LL HAVE THERE IS 68 MORE OFFICER THAT IS ON A REGULAR
04:57:26 BASIS THAT YOU CAN USE FOR LIKE REGULAR TIME AND THEN ON TOP OF
04:57:31 THAT IT'S WE ARE ALSO DOING SO WELL WITH RECRUITING
04:57:35 CONFERENCES BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO AND TOURISM.
04:57:38 HOW WOULD THAT NUMBER THEN CHANGE OVER TIME?
04:57:42 I KNOW 38 OFFICERS IS NOT A HUGE NUMBER BUT WOULD THAT
04:57:45 STILL HAVE SOME IMPACT INTO YOUR OVERTIME PROJECTED OVER
04:57:46 TIME? >> YEAH.
04:57:49 I MEAN SPEAKING BROADLY, EVERY NEW OFFICER THAT WE NET
04:57:53 POSITIVE IMPACTS OUR OVERTIME BOTTOM LINE IN A POSITIVE
04:57:57 MANNER OR NEGATIVELY I GUESS RIGHT HELPS US SO THAT'S THAT'S
04:58:02 SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK FORWARD TO BUT I WOULD JUST SAY THAT
04:58:09 IN TERMS OF OVERTIME I MEAN TO DIRECTOR LOU'S POINT, WE AREN'T
04:58:13 WE AREN'T ADDING ENOUGH PEOPLE QUICKLY ENOUGH.
04:58:17 WE STILL NEED TO RELY ON OVERTIME.
04:58:18 THERE'S A LOT OF FACTORS WITH OVER WE HAVE A HUGE DEMAND FOR
04:58:21 THE DRUG MARKETS VIOLENT CRIME KNOWN EVENTS EVEN THOUGH THERE
04:58:24 ARE NO EVENTS THERE ARE DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT GO INTO
04:58:28 THE OVERTIME LIKE FOR EXAMPLE I THINK NEW YEAR'S EVE IS ON A
04:58:31 FRIDAY IN 2027. SO THAT'S ADDITIONAL PEOPLE,
04:58:35 RIGHT? BECAUSE THERE'S AND THEN THERE
04:58:38 ARE UNKNOWNS AS WELL WITH EVENTS BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW
04:58:41 HOW WELL THE NINERS ARE GOING TO DO WE DON'T KNOW ALL OF THE
04:58:43 GIANTS ARE GOING TO DO THE WARRIORS SO THOSE ARE ALL
04:58:45 UNKNOWNS FIRST AMENDMENT THAT'S THAT'S A BIG EXPENDITURE FOR US
04:58:49 BUT YOU JUST DON'T KNOW BECAUSE WE IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE WHAT
04:58:53 LOCAL NATIONAL GLOBAL EVENTS LOOK LIKE.
04:58:57 SO THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WE CAN'T NECESSARILY PREDICT FOR.
04:59:00 >> RIGHT. THANK YOU SO AS WELL TOO I JUST
04:59:04 WANTED TO CORRECT CHIEF LOU, WE DO KNOW HOW THE NINERS ARE
04:59:08 GOING TO DO NEXT YEAR. SORRY SIR.
04:59:18 >> THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
04:59:22 I THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A CONTINUAL CONVERSATION
04:59:27 IN A SENSE WHERE LET'S GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION
04:59:29 ABOUT YOUR OVERTIME SPENDING AS WELL AS THE FULLY STAFFING
04:59:34 LEVEL TO ANSWER VICE-CHAIR DORSEY'S QUESTION KIND OF HELP
04:59:38 THIS BODY TO UNDERSTAND IN PROJECTION OF WHERE YOUR
04:59:42 BUDGET IS ACTUALLY GOING AND SO IF IT'S EVERY TWO YEARS OF THIS
04:59:49 STAFFING STUDY SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE 1ST MARCH 2027,
04:59:51 CORRECT? >> YES, IT'S EVERY EVERY TWO
04:59:55 YEARS ON THE AUDITOR. AND SO HERE'S MY MY MY PLEA TO
05:00:02 THIS BODY TO THIS BUDGET COMMITTEE AS WELL TO TO TO YOU.
05:00:06 >> AND I BELIEVE THAT WE DID PUT A CONTROL IN FOR YOU TO
05:00:10 HAVE A QUARTERLY REPORT OF YOUR OVERTIME AND I BELIEVE WE'RE
05:00:14 GOING TO CONTINUE WITH THAT QUARTERLY REPORT OF YOUR
05:00:18 OVERTIME SPENDING IN THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR.
05:00:22 AND I'M LOOKING AROUND MY COLLEAGUES AND TO MAKE SURE
05:00:25 EVERYBODY REMEMBER BECAUSE I WON'T LIKE I WILL NOT BE YOUR
05:00:29 CHAIR BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS COMMITTEE WILL CONTINUE TO
05:00:32 HAVE A QUARTERLY REPORT FROM YOU ON YOUR OVERTIME SPENDING
05:00:36 AND THAT I WANT TO URGE YOU THAT BEFORE YOUR COMPLETION OF
05:00:40 YOUR STAFFING REPORT IN MARCH I WANT TO URGE YOU TO COMMUNICATE
05:00:45 WITH THIS BODY WITH THE COMMITTEE MAYBE IT PERHAPS A
05:00:49 DRAFT STAFFING REPORT ALLOWING THIS BODY TO BE ABLE TO
05:00:53 COMMUNICATE TOGETHER AND FIGURING OUT WHAT YOUR
05:00:56 FUTURE STAFFING PLAN WOULD LOOK LIKE AND I ABSOLUTELY URGE YOU
05:01:01 TO INCORPORATE THAT TECHNOLOGY SHEET THAT YOU CURRENTLY HAVE.
05:01:05 I KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATION ABOUT ARCTIC
05:01:09 AND THE FUTURE OF ARCTIC AND UTILIZATION OF ARCTIC AND I
05:01:13 AGAIN WANTED TO TO URGE ALL OF YOU IN YOUR BUDGET THAT YOU
05:01:20 INCLUSIVE OF YOUR CAPITAL PLANNING ALONG WITH YOUR
05:01:24 STAFFING PLAN AND BE A BIT MORE THOUGHTFUL AND COMPREHENSIVE
05:01:27 ABOUT WHERE WHERE THE DEPARTMENT IS HEADING AND I
05:01:32 THINK THAT YOU'RE AT A CRITICAL JUNCTURE AND ABSOLUTELY LOOK TO
05:01:33 YOU, CHIEF TO FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP OF GUIDING GUIDING
05:01:36 THE DEPARTMENT THROUGHOUT THIS .
05:01:39 >> SO WITH THAT THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND THANK YOU
05:01:42 SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK. OKAY.
05:01:46 SO I THINK THAT WE WILL NOW GO TO PUBLIC.
05:01:51 >> I BELIEVE THIS IS THE LAST CITY DEPARTMENTS FOR
05:01:54 PRESENTATION TODAY AND WE WILL GO TO A PUBLIC COMMENT AND AS
05:01:58 REMINDER THAT WE HAVE INDICATED AT THE BEGINNING OF TODAY'S
05:02:03 MEETING THAT THIS IS LIMITED TO ONE MINUTE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
05:02:09 >> MR. CLERK YES, WE'RE NOW OPENING PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE
05:02:13 ITEMS ONE THROUGH THREE IN OUR CONSIDERATION FOR THE MAYOR'S
05:02:16 PROPOSED BUDGET WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE
05:02:20 DEPARTMENTS THAT PRESENTED TODAY WHICH WERE THE CITY
05:02:23 ATTORNEY SUPERIOR COURT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, JUVENILE
05:02:27 AND ADULT PROBATION PUBLIC DEFENDER, FIRE DEPARTMENT.
05:02:31 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. DEPARTMENT OF POLICE
05:02:35 ACCOUNTABILITY. OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF'S
05:02:36 INSPECTOR GENERAL. DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND POLICE
05:02:39 DEPARTMENT. AND AS DECLARED IN THE
05:02:42 BEGINNING OF THE MEETING WE ARE LIMITING PUBLIC COMMENT TO ONE
05:02:47 MINUTE TODAY AND WITH THAT FIRST SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:02:52 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS BOBBY STEIN.
05:02:55 >> YOU'RE LIMITING IT TO ONE MINUTE SO NOW I'M GOING TO TALK
05:02:58 REALLY FAST. >> I AM SAN FRANCISCO PRETRIAL
05:03:02 DIVERSION BOARD MEMBER BUT LONG BEFORE I WAS A BOARD MEMBER I
05:03:07 WAS A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY WHEN I FIRST STARTED OUT AS A
05:03:10 CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, I QUICKLY LEARNED WHO COULD BE
05:03:14 TRUSTED TO ASSIST MY CLIENTS IN A MEANINGFUL WAY.
05:03:17 >> PRETRIAL DIVERSION COULD BE COUNTED ON TO HELP SHEPHERD MY
05:03:19 CLIENTS THROUGH THE SYSTEM AND HELP THEM TO MEET THEIR
05:03:23 RESPONSIBILITIES. >> I LATER BECOME BECAME A LAW
05:03:29 PROFESSOR AND I RAN A CLINICAL PROGRAM AT A LAW SCHOOL WHERE
05:03:33 MY STUDENTS REPRESENTED CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS THAT WOULD
05:03:36 HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN REPRESENTED BY THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE
05:03:40 . MY STUDENTS TOO ENJOYED THE
05:03:41 SAME SUCCESS WITH PRETRIAL DIVERSION THAT I HAD
05:03:44 EXPERIENCED IN MY SOLO CAREER. I CAN TELL YOU THAT
05:03:48 TRANSFERRING PRETRIAL SERVICES TO ADULT PROBATION IS A BAD
05:03:52 IDEA FOR MANY REASONS NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH IS VALID
05:03:55 PERCEPTION THAT PROCEEDINGS EX PARTE.
05:03:59 BUT THANK YOU MUCH OF MY TIME FOR ADDRESSING THIS COMMITTEE.
05:04:00 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HELLO.
05:04:07 THANK YOU. MY NAME IS JANELLE MILLER.
05:04:10 I'M NOT ONLY A CLIENT OF PRETRIAL HOUSING BUT I'M ALSO A
05:04:15 SURVIVOR OF A VERY VIOLENT CRIME.
05:04:18 I HAVE HAD NO LUCK WITH HOUSING SINCE THIS VIOLENT CRIME.
05:04:25 OF ALL THE DIFFERENT AGENCIES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP
05:04:29 VICTIMS LIKE ME, NOBODY WAS ABLE TO PUT ME IN A PLACE NOT
05:04:33 ONE. AND THERE ALSO WASN'T A
05:04:34 CASEWORKER FOLLOW UP. IF I NEEDED SOMEBODY ON THE
05:04:37 WEEKEND, FORGET IT. I COULDN'T HAVE THEM.
05:04:40 >> THANKS TO PRETRIAL I JUST GOT HOUSED YESTERDAY AND SIGN
05:04:45 MY LEASE. >> PLEASE DO NOT SHUT THIS
05:04:46 PLACE DOWN. THEY'RE AMAZING.
05:04:49 >> WE NEED THIS KIND OF PLACE BECAUSE WITHOUT THIS THIS CITY
05:04:52 WILL BE OVERRUN WITH VIOLENCE. CRIME.
05:04:53 NOBODY EVER WANTS TO GO TO THEIR PROBATION OFFICERS.
05:04:58 SO WHY ARE THEY GOING TO GO TO THE PROBATION OFFICERS TO GET
05:05:01 HOUSING? MORE CRIME WILL CONTINUE.
05:05:04 >> PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T SHUT THEM DOWN.
05:05:08 >> AND I JUST I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ENOUGH THINGS TO MISS
05:05:09 THERESA, MY HOUSING NAVIGATOR. >> I AM A HOUSE PERSON BUT
05:05:15 THANK YOU MUCH ANY EMILY FOR ADDRESSING THIS COMMITTEE.
05:05:17 AND BEFORE I CALL THE NEXT SPEAKER WE DO ONLY HAVE ONE
05:05:20 MINUTE TO HEAR TESTIMONY GIVEN TO THIS COMMITTEE AND SO WE
05:05:24 SHOULD BE ABLE TO HEAR THAT WITHOUT APPLAUSE.
05:05:27 >> JUST SO WE CAN HEAR HOW THE MESSAGES THAT YOU'RE GIVING
05:05:29 THIS COMMITTEE THANK YOU MUCH. >> NEXT SPEAKER HI.
05:05:35 HI. HELLO.
05:05:35 MY NAME'S CHRIS BABINSKI. UM, I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE
05:05:40 COURTS AND THINK THIS PROGRAM RIGHT HERE THEY HELP ME
05:05:43 REDIRECT MY LIFE. I'VE CHANGED MY LIFE.
05:05:47 I ALSO GOT PLACED IN THE HOUSING DUE TO MISS THERESA
05:05:50 AND HER STAFF MEMBERS AND I JUST WANT TO SAY I COULDN'T
05:05:54 THINK THIS PROGRAM MORE. I'M THREE YEARS SOBER NOW
05:05:57 AND I'M DOING GREAT AND I JUST GRADUATED COLLABORATIVE COURT
05:06:01 AS WELL AND EXPUNGED MOST OF MY RECORD AND I JUST IT WAS ALL
05:06:08 BECAUSE OF THIS PROGRAM AND IF YOU GUYS SHUT THEM DOWN I FEEL
05:06:10 BAD AND PLEASE DON'T KNOW I MEAN THANK YOU SO MUCH
05:06:15 AND THANK YOU FOR DRESSINGS COMMITTEE CRISP LEVINSKY NEXT
05:06:17 SPEAKER GOOD AFTERNOON MY NAME IS BRANDY BOEING I'M WITH
05:06:29 COLEMAN ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH.
05:06:30 >> WE ARE DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROPOSAL TO DISMANTLE
05:06:33 AS OF PRETRIAL AND THE CONTINUED UNDERINVESTMENT
05:06:37 IN THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE .
05:06:40 TOGETHER THESE DECISIONS TIP THE SCALES AWAY FROM JUSTICE
05:06:44 PREVENTION AND TRUE PUBLIC SAFETY AND TOWARD A SYSTEM THAT
05:06:48 IS PRIORITIZING POLICING AND PROSECUTION AS SAFE
05:06:52 PRETRIAL IS A 50 YEAR OLD TRUSTED, TRIED AND TRUE MODEL
05:06:55 THAT CANNOT BE REPLICATED WITHIN AN ADULT PROBATION
05:06:59 SETTING. >> THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE
05:07:00 IS ALSO FACING A WORKLOAD CRISIS WHICH MEANS OUR RIGHT TO
05:07:04 MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATION IS AT RISK IF THERE IS MONEY TO
05:07:08 EXPAND GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY AND POLICE OVERTIME THERE
05:07:12 SHOULD BE MONEY TO ENSURE EVERY PERSON HAS MEANINGFUL
05:07:15 REPRESENTATION AND DIVERSION STRATEGIES THAT ARE COMMUNITY
05:07:18 BASED WELL THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:07:23 >> I WANT TO WELCOME SUPERVISOR FEUER WHO IS ALSO OUR FORMER
05:07:27 BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIR AND OFFER THE FLOOR PRIVILEGE
05:07:30 TO SUPERVISOR FEUER. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:07:34 BEFORE WE START MY TIME, MR. CLARK CARROLL I AM FIRMLY
05:07:38 REQUESTING THAT CHAIR CHAN ALLOW ME ONE MINUTE 30S I HAVE
05:07:42 A RETAINER IN MY MOUTH WHICH I AM NOT USED TO.
05:07:47 >> IT'S A NEW RETAINER AND SUPERVISOR YOU ARE OFFERED
05:07:50 THE FLOOR PRIVILEGE YOU HAVE NO TIME LIMIT.
05:07:53 >> OKAY A PERK SO GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
05:07:57 >> I AM SANDRA LEE FEUER AND I HAVE GREAT EMPATHY FOR ALL OF
05:08:02 YOU. >> IF I HAD AS I HAVE SAT
05:08:05 THROUGH MANY OF THESE HEARINGS WHEN I SERVE ON THE BUDGET
05:08:09 COMMITTEE AND ON THE BOARD, I AM HERE TODAY AS A MEMBER OF
05:08:11 THE BOARD OF SAN FRANCISCO PRETRIAL TO REQUEST TO YOU TO
05:08:16 UPHOLD THE CONTRACT OF SAN FRANCISCO PRETRIAL L I REJECT
05:08:21 THE PROPOSAL TO CREATE A PRETRIAL DEPARTMENT IN ADULT
05:08:25 PROBATION. IT IS FISCALLY IRRESPONSIBLE TO
05:08:29 INCREASE THE BUDGET OF ADULT PROBATION BY $12 MILLION TO
05:08:33 CREATE A NEW DEPARTMENT THAT DUPLICATES EXACTLY WHAT SAN
05:08:36 FRANCISCO PRETRIAL HAS BEEN DOING FOR 50 YEARS
05:08:40 AND CONTINUES TO DO AT A MUCH LOWER COST THAN EVER CITY
05:08:44 DEPARTMENTS WHICH ARE RUN IT 50 YEARS AGO SAN FRANCISCO CREATED
05:08:48 THIS UNIQUE AND POWERFUL COLLABORATION BETWEEN LAW
05:08:52 ENFORCEMENT AND THE COURTS. RECOGNIZE SAYING THAT WE CAN DO
05:08:56 IT DIFFERENTLY HERE AND WE CAN DO BETTER THAT PEOPLE ARE
05:08:59 INNOCENT UNTIL THEY ARE FOUND GUILTY AND THAT IN AN ARREST
05:09:04 DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD LOSE YOUR JOB, HOUSING AND YOUR
05:09:07 FAMILY WHILE YOU WAIT FOR YOUR TRIAL DATE.
05:09:11 ONLY 12% OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CURRENTLY INCARCERATED WILL
05:09:17 EVER BE SENTENCED TO JAIL. >> THEY ARE SIMPLY THERE
05:09:21 AWAITING A TRIAL DATE. >> SAN FRANCISCO PRETRIAL ON
05:09:26 THE COURT'S REFERRAL PROVIDES CASE MANAGEMENT TO ENSURE
05:09:29 CLIENTS DO NOT RE-OFFEND WHILE AWAITING TRIAL AND THAT THEY
05:09:32 SHOW UP FOR THEIR COURT DATE. SAN FRANCISCO PRETRIAL SERVES
05:09:36 2000 CLIENTS AND HAS OVER 100 EMPLOYEES AND THE CITY'S
05:09:40 CONTRACT IS FOR $7.5 MILLION ANNUALLY AND FROM PREVIOUS
05:09:47 TESTIMONY WE HAVE HEARD BUDGETS OF ALMOST $96 MILLION FOR
05:09:51 OVERTIME. >> WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SERVING
05:09:54 2000 SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENTS FOR $7.5 MILLION ANNUALLY.
05:09:58 THEY REQUEST FROM ADULT PROBATION IS $12 MILLION JUST
05:10:04 TO START THE NEW DEPARTMENT AND THERE ISN'T EVEN A
05:10:07 TRANSITION PLAN CREATED MUCH LESS ONE IN PLACE.
05:10:11 THIS IS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY ESPECIALLY WHEN CRUCIAL CITY
05:10:15 DEPARTMENTS HAVE SEEN THEIR BUDGETS CUT.
05:10:19 FOR EXAMPLE, THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WE CAN
05:10:22 STOP THIS NOW. YOU CAN STOP THIS NOW AND I
05:10:26 KNOW YOU CAN BECAUSE I HAVE SAT IN YOUR SEAT.
05:10:30 IT WILL TAKE COURAGE. YOU ARE THE BUDGET COMMITTEE ON
05:10:34 THE GROUNDS OF SOUND FISCAL MANAGEMENT REJECT THE PROPOSAL
05:10:38 TO INCREASE ADULT PROBATIONS BUDGET BY $12 MILLION
05:10:44 AND UPHOLD THE CONTRACT OF SAN FRANCISCO PRETRIAL SERVICES 50
05:10:48 YEARS AGO SAN FRANCISCO HAD THE FORESIGHT TO SAY WE CAN DO
05:10:53 BETTER FOR FOLKS WHO ARE JUST AS INVOLVED AND FOR OUR CITY
05:10:56 AND WE HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FOR 50 YEARS.
05:10:57 IF YOU CHOOSE TO DISMANTLE AND DESTROY THAT NOW YOU WILL
05:11:04 NEVER GET IT BACK AND IN DOING SO YOU DESTROY A LASTING
05:11:08 MESSAGE OF WHAT MAKES US SUCH A GREAT CITY.
05:11:12 THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THAT EXTRA TIME.
05:11:19 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS TO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:11:22 >> GOOD AFTERNOON BOE MEMBERS MY NAME IS RACHEL JONES AND I'M
05:11:26 THE YOUTH JUSTICE DIRECTOR AT COLEMAN ADVOCATES.
05:11:27 I'M ALSO A S.F. NATIVE AND SAN FRANCISCO TRULY RAISED ME.
05:11:30 I'M A SERVANT TO THE PEOPLE AND A STUDENT OF REVEREND
05:11:34 BROWN. JACK JACK WAS AND OF COURSE MY
05:11:37 OWN PEER MILA VALDEZ WHO HISTORICALLY CREATED THE
05:11:41 MAYOR CITIZENS ASSISTANT TEAM AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE
05:11:44 SHERIFF FOR BEING FAIR IN HIS REPORT ABOUT PRETRIAL AND THE
05:11:47 IMPORTANCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL HARM THAT WILL
05:11:49 HAPPEN IF WE MOVE TOO QUICKLY WITHOUT AN ACUTE DIGESTION OF
05:11:55 WHAT IMPACTS OUR CITY WILL HAVE TO HOLD COMMUNITY TRUST,
05:11:59 HUMANITY RIGHTS, COMMUNITY SAFETY, EDUCATION
05:12:00 AND INVESTMENT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR MARGINALIZED
05:12:05 WHICH EQUALS PUBLIC SAFETY. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE DEFICIT
05:12:09 WE DO NOT HAND OUT RAISES AND LIMITED OVERTIMES WHILE
05:12:12 CUTTING EDUCATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND NOW OUR LAST
05:12:16 RESORT OUR PUBLIC DEFENDERS OFFICE AND OUR PRETRIAL WHAT
05:12:20 MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID IF WE DON'T STOP TO HELP PEOPLE
05:12:24 BECAUSE TIME IS CONCLUDED, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE DON'T STOP IF
05:12:27 WE DO STOP? >> THANK YOU.
05:12:29 >> THANK YOU. LET'S HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER
05:12:31 PLACE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
05:12:34 MY NAME IS TEDDY NAPOLI AND I LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT
05:12:38 EIGHT I'M SPEAKING TODAY AS A LAW STUDENT DEEPLY CONCERNED
05:12:42 ABOUT THE UNDERFUNDING OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC DEFENDER'S
05:12:43 OFFICE AS A LAW STUDENT I UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF
05:12:46 HAVING GOOD REPRESENTATION AND THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC
05:12:49 DEFENDER'S OFFICE PROVIDES AMAZING REPRESENTATION.
05:12:53 BUT AS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS INCREASED ARRESTS AND THE
05:12:54 DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS INCREASED THEIR CASELOAD, IT'S
05:12:57 ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE TO
05:13:00 SUSTAIN THEIR CASELOAD AT THEIR CURRENT BUDGET AS MOST
05:13:03 ATTORNEYS AT THE OFFICE WORK BETWEEN 50 AND 75 HOURS A WEEK
05:13:07 ,THE OVERBURDENING OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE IS
05:13:09 SIGNIFICANT AS THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LINE OF DEFENSE FOR
05:13:11 OUR MOST VULNERABLE NEIGHBORS BLACK BROWN IMMIGRANT AND LOW
05:13:15 INCOME RESIDENTS WHO ARE OVERPOLICED AND OVERBURDENED
05:13:16 AND UNLIKE POLICE OR SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES, PUBLIC DEFENDER
05:13:20 ATTORNEYS CANNOT RECEIVE OVERTIME PAY.
05:13:23 I'M ASKING YOU TO MAKE A MORAL AND PRACTICAL INVESTMENT GIVE
05:13:24 THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE THE RESOURCES IT NEEDS TO
05:13:28 CONTINUE TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITIES.
05:13:29 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:13:31 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> MY NAME IS LELAND XIONG
05:13:35 AND I'M A LAW STUDENT IN SAN FRANCISCO AND A RESIDENT OF
05:13:38 DISTRICT THREE. I'M SPEAKING TODAY ABOUT WHAT
05:13:42 I'VE SEEN WITH MY OWN TWO EYES. >> FOR THE PAST TWO SUMMERS AS
05:13:46 A VOLUNTEER OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE I'VE BEEN
05:13:48 SPEAKING WITH CLIENTS, MEETING WITH THEM AND HELPING THEM MAKE
05:13:50 SURE THAT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED.
05:13:53 JUST THIS MORNING ALONE I WAS WITH MY SUPERVISING ATTORNEY
05:13:57 IN EIGHT DIFFERENT COURTROOMS MEETING WITH EIGHT DIFFERENT
05:14:00 CLIENTS AT THE HALL OF JUSTICE. ON AVERAGE WE COULD ONLY SPEND
05:14:04 FIVE MINUTES WITH EACH CLIENT AND THIS IS THE REALITY EVERY
05:14:08 DAY. >> AND WHAT I LEARNED TODAY IS
05:14:11 THAT THE POLICE OFFICER OVERTIME BUDGET IS MORE THAN
05:14:15 THE ENTIRE BUDGET OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE AND THE
05:14:19 PRETRIAL PROJECT COMBINED. THAT IS GROSSLY UNFAIR
05:14:20 AND UNSUSTAINABLE. INABLE I URGE YOU TO INCREASE
05:14:25 FUNDING FOR THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE AND THE
05:14:28 PRETRIAL PROJECT SO THAT WE CAN FULFILL OUR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY
05:14:31 TO REPRESENT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD AN ATTORNEY.
05:14:33 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:14:34 NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT.
05:14:42 HAPPY FRIDAY. I'M JESSICA PERSONAL MASON,
05:14:46 R.N. AND QUALIFIED CANDIDATE FOR DISTRICT TEN SUPERVISOR.
05:14:49 BUDGETS ARE A MORAL DOCUMENT. >> THEY SHOW OUR WHO OUR CITY
05:14:54 PROTECTS. >> WE DON'T DESTROY S.F.
05:14:58 PRETRIAL BY HANDLING IT TO ADULT PROBATION.
05:15:01 >> LOOK AT ALL THE SHIRTS IN THIS ROOM SUPPORTING IT.
05:15:06 >> MEANWHILE THE SHERIFF WANTS $14 MILLION AND MORE OVERTIME.
05:15:12 THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BLOWS THROUGH $7,000,073 MILLION
05:15:16 BUDGET EVERY YEAR IN OVERTIME WHILE ASKING FOR A $70 MILLION
05:15:23 RAISE AND $8 MILLION FOR THE SUPER BOWL EVENTS IN DALY CITY
05:15:26 AND SAN JOSE. AS A NURSE I KNOW CHRONIC
05:15:28 OVERTIME MEANS BURNOUT BURNOUT CAUSES ADVERSE EVENTS REQUIRING
05:15:35 REQUIRE QUARTERLY REPORTS FOR OVERTIME FIX HIRING INSTEAD ALL
05:15:42 OF THIS PREVENTION PROGRAM SITS ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK SPEAKERS
05:15:46 TIME HAS CONCLUDED. >> THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR
05:15:47 COMMENTS TO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:15:50 GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS AREVA SIMON AND I AM
05:15:55 A LAW STUDENT AND RESIDENT OF SAN FRANCISCO'S DISTRICT SIX.
05:15:58 I AM HERE TODAY IN SUPPORT OF SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC DEFENDER'S
05:16:02 OFFICE AND SERVE PRETRIAL AND OTHER COMMUNITY BASED
05:16:05 ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE THE VULNERABLE PEOPLE OF SAN
05:16:07 FRANCISCO. THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE IS
05:16:09 A FOUNDATIONAL LEGAL PRINCIPLE ON WHICH OUR COMMUNITY IS
05:16:13 FORMED. AND OFFICES LIKE THIS ARE
05:16:14 PUBLIC DEFENDERS AND PRETRIAL SERVICES ENSURES THAT EVERY
05:16:17 INDIVIDUAL NO MATTER THEIR SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IS GIVEN
05:16:21 THIS PROTECTION. WITHIN THE LAST THREE YEARS THE
05:16:22 POLICE HAVE INCREASED ARRESTS BY 25% AND THE D.A. HAS
05:16:25 INCREASED THE NUMBER OF CASES CHARGED BY 31.
05:16:29 BECAUSE OF THIS PUBLIC DEFENDERS NOW CARRY THE HIGHEST
05:16:33 CASELOAD OF ANY OFFICE IN THE ENTIRE BAY AREA.
05:16:34 THIS MEANS THAT AT TIMES OUR ATTORNEYS CANNOT GIVE CLIENTS
05:16:38 THE THE TIME AND RESOURCES THAT THEY HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL
05:16:41 RIGHT TO. I'M ALSO ASKING THAT YOU
05:16:44 MAINTAIN A PRETRIAL AS OUR CITY'S INDEPENDENT NEUTRAL
05:16:45 AND NON-LAW ENFORCEMENT PRETRIAL SERVICE PROVIDER.
05:16:48 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:16:50 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
05:16:54 MY NAME IS LUIS STIVERS AND I'M A LAW STUDENT AND RESIDENT
05:16:59 IN SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT SIX. AS WE JUST HEARD, THE POLICE
05:17:02 ARE PROPOSING TO SPEND $73 MILLION ON OVERTIME ALONE.
05:17:05 BUT I'M HERE TO URGE THE CITY TO FUND SERVICES THAT ACTUALLY
05:17:09 MAKE SAN FRANCISCO SAFER FROM YOUTH PROGRAMING, FOOD SECURITY
05:17:12 AND PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICES THAT LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES
05:17:16 RELY ON. THESE SERVICES MAKE OUR
05:17:17 COMMUNITIES SAFER BY PROTECTING THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONG US.
05:17:20 INSTEAD OF PUTTING MILLIONS MORE INTO CASTLE AGENCIES, WE
05:17:24 MUST INVEST IN WHAT REDUCES HARM AND PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM
05:17:27 FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS. >> IN ORDER TO MAKE OUR
05:17:29 COMMUNITY SAFER, WE MUST FUND PUBLIC DEFENSE.
05:17:32 I'VE SEEN FIRSTHAND HOW THE COMMUNITY IN SAN FRANCISCO IS
05:17:36 STRUGGLING ESPECIALLY WITH VICIOUS CYCLES OF GENERATIONAL
05:17:39 POVERTY AND ADDICTION. FUNDING PUBLIC DEFENDERS IS NOT
05:17:40 JUST PROVIDING LEGAL SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY BUT IT IS ALSO
05:17:44 A WAY TO BREAK CYCLES OF POVERTY, TRAUMA AND ADDICTION.
05:17:47 WE NEED TO MAY ALSO NEED TO MAINTAIN THE SERVICES PROVIDED
05:17:51 BY SERVE PRETRIAL. THIS IS ESSENTIAL TO KEEP
05:17:52 PEOPLE HOUSED, EMPLOYED AND STABLE.
05:17:56 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLACE.
05:18:01 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS COLE BECKER AND I
05:18:05 LIVE WORK AND GO TO LAW SCHOOL IN SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT SIX.
05:18:08 I HAD PREPARED A STATEMENT ON ALL THE REASONS TO KEEP FUNDING
05:18:10 THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE AND PRETRIAL DIVERSION BY
05:18:13 HEARING BROOKE JENKINS PRESENTATION ON THE DEA BUDGET
05:18:14 JUST NOW MADE ME FEEL THAT THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS TO TELL
05:18:18 YOU WHY THE DA'S OFFICE IS WASTING THE MONEY THAT YOU
05:18:21 APPROPRIATE TO THEM EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
05:18:22 THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE WINS OVER 50% OF CASES THE DA
05:18:25 BRINGS EACH YEAR BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT DEA POLICY OF REFUSING
05:18:29 TO DROP CHARGES OR OFFER REASONABLE PLEAS EVEN ON CLEAR
05:18:33 LOSER CASES. MOST OTHER PLACES THE PUBLIC
05:18:36 DEFENDER ONLY WINS 10 TO 20% OF THE TIME.
05:18:39 THE DESIRE TO APPEAR TOUGH ON CRIME RESULTS IN DA'S
05:18:43 AND PARTIES BATTLING ON CASES THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN
05:18:44 FILED. THE DA'S WASTING NOT JUST THEIR
05:18:47 OWN RESOURCES BUT THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S RESOURCES TOO.
05:18:50 HOW CAN YOU REWARD THIS WASTE WITH EVEN MORE APPROPRIATIONS
05:18:54 AS THEY ALREADY GET 64% MORE FUNDING THAN THE PUBLIC
05:18:56 DEFENDERS WHO HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DEFEND EVERYDAY PEOPLE
05:18:59 AGAINST THE DA'S FRIVOLOUS CHARGES?
05:19:02 >> THE PD NEEDS THE BUDGET TO FACE THE DA'S WASTE MORE THAN
05:19:03 THE DA'S NEEDS MORE MONEY TO WAIT FOR SHARING YOUR COMMENTS.
05:19:07 >> SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> YOUR $73 MILLION WE GET
05:19:14 IN TROUBLE FOR SPENDING $7 ON WATER FOR PARTICIPANTS
05:19:15 IN PROGRAMS. IT'S KIND OF RIDICULOUS.
05:19:18 MY NAME'S L.Z. AND ON THIS I'M THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR FOR CADETS
05:19:21 IN SECOND CHANCE YOUTH PROGRAM AND TATTOO REMOVAL CLINIC.
05:19:23 I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR ESA PRETRIAL.
05:19:25 THEY HAVE BEEN AMAZING ASSET WHO WE'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO
05:19:29 WORK WITH. THEIR SORT OF CASE MANAGERS
05:19:30 HAVE BEEN OPEN, CLEAR AND EXTREMELY COMMUNICATIVE.
05:19:33 THEY ARE SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE HERE TO HELP
05:19:37 REHABILITATE, GUIDE AND HELP KEEP PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE IN WAYS
05:19:41 THAT TRANSFORM PEOPLE'S LIVES. >> THIS IS COMMUNITY I WORK AS
05:19:45 A PRETRIAL ALONG WITH COMMUNITY NON-PROFITS IN SAN FRANCISCO
05:19:49 HAVE HELPED THIS S.F. ADMINISTRATION CLAIM THE
05:19:50 LOWERING CRIME RATES ALL IN ALL THESE YEARS AS A PRETRIAL HAS
05:19:57 THE EXPERIENCE IS COST EFFECTIVE AND DOES THIS JOB
05:19:58 EFFICIENTLY. HANDING OVER THE FUNDS TO ADULT
05:20:02 PROBATION WILL BE LESS EFFICIENT AND CREATE BIGGER
05:20:04 GOVERNMENT. OPPOSITE OF WHAT THIS CURRENT
05:20:05 ADMINISTRATION WISHES TO DO AND IT'S YOUR DECISION TO CUT
05:20:09 PRETRIAL AND NOT AND YOUR DECISION IF YOU BUCKLED TO
05:20:12 CONSERVATIVE JUDGES PRESSURING YOU TO CUT THIS PROGRAM.
05:20:15 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
05:20:19 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS CLARA JAMES.
05:20:23 >> I AM A PROGRAM MANAGER PRETRIAL DIVERSION.
05:20:27 I WORKED THERE FOR ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS.
05:20:28 I ALSO DID IN CUSTODY CASE MANAGEMENT BEFORE THAT.
05:20:30 >> ANYBODY YOU ASK A PRETRIAL ANYBODY THAT COMES INTO THE
05:20:36 DOOR WILL TELL YOU THAT PRETRIAL IS NOT JUST A PROGRAM,
05:20:39 IT'S A COMMUNITY. >> IT'S THAT GIVES PEOPLE THEIR
05:20:42 HUMANITY BACK WHEN THE SYSTEM HAS STRIPPED IT AWAY FROM THEM
05:20:43 TIME AND TIME AGAIN PEOPLE WHO ARE TREATED LIKE A CASE NUMBER,
05:20:47 A BURDEN TO BE DEALT WITH. WE LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES,
05:20:51 THEIR FEARS, THEIR NEEDS, THEIR GOALS.
05:20:52 WE SHOW THEM THAT WE SEE THEM AND THEIR SOUL HUMAN TO HUMAN.
05:20:55 WE SHOW UP IN WAYS PROBATION NEVER COULD OR WOULD IN COURT
05:20:59 WHEN THEY'RE SCARED ESCORTING THEM TO THE BENEFITS OFFICE
05:21:02 WHEN THEY NEED ADVOCACY. THIS IS PUBLIC SAFETY.
05:21:06 PREVENTION IS PUBLIC SAFETY AND IT'S NOT JUST REACTING.
05:21:09 IT'S HEALING HOUSING, HEALTH CARE FEELING LIKE YOUR
05:21:14 COMMUNITY ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT YOU AND NOT JUST SHOWING
05:21:18 COMPLIANCE ON A PIECE OF PAPER. COMPLIANCE AND COURT APPEARANCE
05:21:19 COME NATURALLY WHEN PEOPLE FEEL SAFE AND WHEN THEY CALL WHEN
05:21:22 THEY NEED TO BE HEARD. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:21:26 NEXT WEEK A POLICE. >> HEY GOOD AFTERNOON.
05:21:29 MY NAME IS FRANZIA AND I'LL BE SPEAKING FOR A CLIENT WHO
05:21:33 WASN'T ABLE TO BE HERE TODAY. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
05:21:36 THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SHARE A FEW WORDS AFTER
05:21:39 RETURNING HOME LAST YEAR FOLLOWING 27 YEARS IN STATE
05:21:41 PRISON, I CAME TO A PRETRIAL. I MET WITH HOUSING AND ECM FROM
05:21:45 DAY ONE THEIR SUPPORT OF MY REENTRY PROCESS WAS ABOVE
05:21:48 AND BEYOND MY HOUSING CASE MANAGER TOOK THE TIME TO
05:21:51 UNDERSTAND MY INTERESTS REGARDING EMPLOYMENT
05:21:52 AND HOUSING AND SHE WAS INCREDIBLY PATIENT AND HELPING
05:21:55 ME NAVIGATE TECHNOLOGY AND USE MY PHONE.
05:21:58 AFTER SIX MONTHS OF PLANNING AND LED TO MY PLACEMENT IN AN
05:21:59 SRO. THROUGH THEIR GUIDANCE AND A
05:22:03 LOT OF HARD WORK I HAVE STABILIZED MY LIFE HERE IN THE
05:22:06 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO WITHOUT THE SPECIFIC
05:22:07 SUPPORT OF PRETRIAL OF NOT BE HERE WHERE I AM TODAY.
05:22:11 I NOW WORK FULL TIME, MAINTAIN MY OWN BANK ACCOUNT, HAVE A CAR
05:22:15 I LIVE IN MY OWN AS A TAXPAYING CITIZEN.
05:22:16 I'M ALSO PROUD TO GIVE BACK TO MY COMMUNITY.
05:22:19 I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR THE COMMITMENT OF THESE TWO STRONG
05:22:21 WOMEN WHO HAVE GIVEN SO MUCH OF THEMSELVES TO THEIR WORK.
05:22:23 THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THE CANDLE LIT FOR THOSE IN NEED OF
05:22:26 HOPE. GOD BLESS ANTHONY TOLENTINO
05:22:29 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
05:22:30 TO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
05:22:33 MY NAME IS CARLY STREET. >> I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY A
05:22:38 COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WAS SAID BY PROBATION OFFICERS A BURDEN
05:22:41 I LOVE THE JOB I DO. I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE ALL HERE
05:22:44 BECAUSE WE LOVE THE JOB WE DO. WE WOULD NEVER USE WORDS LIKE
05:22:46 BURDEN TO PERTAIN TO ANYTHING THAT WE ARE DOING HOWEVER LONG
05:22:52 WE WORK. >> THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE
05:22:53 WOULD NEVER SAY AS PRETRIAL DIVERSION.
05:22:54 I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING.
05:22:59 THIS IS OUT OF CONTROL LITERALLY LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR
05:23:04 PRETRIAL DIVERSION HALF OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WE SERVE WILL
05:23:07 BE BACK IN JAIL LIKE LITERALLY FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES
05:23:10 BECAUSE ALL WE SEE THEM AS IS SOMETHING AS A NUMBER AND THEY
05:23:12 HAVE NAMES. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:23:15 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HI, MY NAME IS MARTINA BUI
05:23:22 AND I'M THE CEO AT S.F. PRETRIAL.
05:23:25 >> YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY OF THE EMPEROR WITH NO CLOTHES.
05:23:29 THE COURTS PLAN TO TRANSFER PRETRIAL SERVICES TO ADULT
05:23:32 PROBATION IS THAT EMPEROR AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS?
05:23:36 YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE CAUGHT PRETENDING OTHERWISE.
05:23:40 THERE IS NO VIABLE PLAN. THEY HAVE NOT ACCOUNTED FOR A
05:23:43 BASIC OPERATIONAL REALITY. S.F. PRETRIAL CANNOT SIMPLY
05:23:47 LIMP ALONG WHILE THE COURT AND ADULT PROBATION TRY TO GET
05:23:51 THEIR ACT TOGETHER. STAFF WILL LEAVE, THE AGENCY
05:23:55 WILL FALTER AND CLIENTS WILL FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS.
05:23:59 JUSTICE WILL BE COMPROMISED. THAT IS NOT REFORM.
05:24:03 >> THAT IS ABANDONMENT. EVERY CHILD HAS SERVED THE CITY
05:24:05 FOR 50 YEARS AND DESPITE BEING CHRONICALLY UNDERFUNDED WE HAVE
05:24:10 GROWN OUR IMPACT BECAUSE WE KNOW THIS WORK AND WE KNOW WE
05:24:14 CAN DO IT WELL. >> THIS SESSION, THIS DECISION
05:24:17 WAS MADE WITHOUT US, WITHOUT OUR CLIENT AND WITHOUT THE
05:24:19 COMMUNITY AT THE TABLE. >> ASK YOURSELF WHY WON'T THE
05:24:22 COURT INVITE US TO THAT TABLE? THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:24:26 >> TO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HI, MY NAME IS LIAM MCKEEVER
05:24:31 AND I SECOND ALL OF THE COMMENTS IN SUPPORT OF PRETRIAL
05:24:36 . JUST THE OTHER DAY IN THE NEWS
05:24:37 I READ THAT NINE WOMEN HELD IN S.F. COUNTY JAIL FILED A
05:24:39 CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
05:24:42 AND CITY OFFICIALS PROVIDING HEALTH SERVICES IN THE JAIL FOR
05:24:44 HORRIBLE CONDITIONS ONE OF WHICH WAS CONSISTENT.
05:24:47 THEY WERE DEMANDING CONSISTENT ACCESS TO SUNLIGHT.
05:24:51 >> AND THEN IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY,
05:24:54 THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS ASKING FOR OVER TIME ALLOWANCES
05:24:57 TO APPROPRIATE CERTAIN FUNDS FOR THEIR OVERTIME.
05:25:02 >> AGAIN, IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY, ONE OF THOSE
05:25:06 TWO APPROPRIATED FUNDS IS APPROXIMATELY $420,000 THAT'S
05:25:09 MEANT TO GO TO RECREATION TO UNFILTERED SUNLIGHT.
05:25:12 >> SO THESE OVERTIME REQUESTS AREN'T HARMLESS EITHER.
05:25:16 >> THIS WHOLE SYSTEM OF JAILING AND HOW YOU DO IT AND HOW YOU
05:25:20 PAY FOR IT ETC. AND THE CONDITIONS IS WRONG AND CORRUPT
05:25:24 AND DO NOT WORSEN ALL OF THIS INJUSTICE AND ANGUISH BY
05:25:28 CANCELING AS A PRETRIAL CONTINUE AS A PRETRIAL.
05:25:32 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:25:35 >> HELLO. >> SORRY I'M A BIT NERVOUS.
05:25:39 I'VE ACTUALLY NEVER GIVEN PUBLIC COMMENT.
05:25:40 I'M VERY PLEASED TO BE HERE. I'M ARIEL RICHTER.
05:25:43 I'M A DISTRICT THREE RESIDENT. I DO URGE ALL OF YOU TO DENY
05:25:50 ADULT PROBATIONERS $12.7 MILLION REQUEST TO TAKE OVER
05:25:53 PRETRIAL SERVICES AND TO PRESERVE AS A PRETRIAL.
05:25:57 I GREW UP IN TEXAS SO I'VE SEEN FIRSTHAND THE PUNITIVE LAW
05:26:01 ENFORCEMENT LED MODELS DO NOT REDUCE CRIME.
05:26:04 THEY MAY FEEL GOOD IN THE MOMENT BUT ULTIMATELY THEY DO
05:26:09 NOT MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES SAFER AND PUTTING LEGALLY INNOCENT
05:26:12 PEOPLE UNDER ARMED SURVEILLANCE CREATES BOTH EXPENSIVE
05:26:15 AND DYSFUNCTIONAL LOOP AS A PRETRIAL HAS SERVED THE CITY
05:26:22 FOR 50 YEARS. THEY HAVE A 96% COURT
05:26:23 APPEARANCE RATE AND 1800 PEOPLE KEPT OUT OF JAIL DAILY FOR $8
05:26:29 MILLION A YEAR SPENDING 12.7 MILLION TO REPLACE IT WITH A
05:26:32 WORSE SYSTEM MAKES NO SENSE. PLEASE DENY THE REQUEST
05:26:36 AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE TO SAN FRANCISCO.
05:26:39 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:26:43 >> THANK YOU REGINA. S LIFE D ONE VOLUNTEER WITH THE
05:26:47 ACLU NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER ARE HERE SUPPORTING
05:26:50 FUNDING THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE FOR ALL THE REASONS THAT
05:26:55 HAVE BEEN GIVEN. HOWEVER, LET'S REMEMBER THAT
05:26:58 THERE IS A RIGHT TO DEFENSE. IT'S NOT A WISH LIST.
05:27:05 IT'S NOT A NICE TO HAVE. THIS IS A RIGHT.
05:27:08 AND THE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE IS A CRITICAL PILLAR
05:27:12 THAT UPHOLDS THIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.
05:27:13 >> SO I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE HAVING A DISCUSSION
05:27:17 OR THINKING THERE'S A CHOICE ABOUT ADEQUATE FUNDING.
05:27:20 THERE'S ONLY ONE RIGHT THING TO DO FUND THEM AND DON'T DIMINISH
05:27:23 THE RIGHTS OF THE CITIZENRY. AS FOR PRETRIAL SERVICES.
05:27:29 >> SIMILARLY, THE ADULT PROBATION DEPARTMENT DOES NOT
05:27:35 SHARE THE SAME MANDATE. IT DOESN'T HAVE THE LEVEL OF
05:27:39 EFFICACY AND CLEAR EVIDENTIARY HISTORY OF SUCCESS THAT
05:27:46 PRETRIAL SERVICES BECAUSE TIME IS CONCLUDED.
05:27:47 >> THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS. >> SO THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:27:53 >> MY NAME IS CASSIE DIBBLE AND I'M MAKING MY COMMENT ON
05:27:57 BEHALF OF THE ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
05:27:58 WE URGE YOU TO DENY PROBATION TAKE OF PRETRIAL SUPERVISION.
05:28:02 >> WE'RE CONCERNED THAT THIS PLAN COALESCED BEHIND CLOSED
05:28:05 DOORS AND THAT NEITHER THE BOARD NOR THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN
05:28:06 GIVEN SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO JUSTIFY IT.
05:28:09 >> THE VAGUE REASONING PROVIDED BY THE COURT IN RECENT DAYS
05:28:13 SEEMS POST HOC AND SUGGEST THE POSSIBILITY OF PRETEXT.
05:28:16 FURTHER, WE'VE BEEN GIVEN NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT
05:28:17 SUPERVISION UNDER PROBATION WILL PROVIDE BETTER OR EVEN
05:28:20 COMPARABLE OUTCOMES. ALL SIGNS SUGGEST THAT
05:28:24 PROBATION WILL HAVE FEWER COUNSELORS AND THUS HIGHER CASE
05:28:25 LOADS MEANING LESS ASSISTANCE FOR RELEASES.
05:28:28 >> MANY OF US WERE HERE TWO WEEKS AGO AND HEARD THE SHERIFF
05:28:32 HIMSELF EXPRESSED CONCERN TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE ABOUT THIS
05:28:34 TRANSITION. SUPERVISOR SOUDER INQUIRED HOW
05:28:35 THE WORK WOULD LOOK DIFFERENT UNDER PROBATION AND HOW METRICS
05:28:39 MAY CHANGE BUT NOT EVEN OUR SHERIFF HAS BEEN PROVIDED THAT
05:28:42 INFORMATION. >> APPARENTLY WE WERE EXPECTED
05:28:43 TO TAKE ON BLIND FAITH THAT THIS ALLOCATION OF MILLIONS OF
05:28:47 TAXPAYER DOLLARS IS JUSTIFIED. >> THIS IS A MATTER OF GREAT
05:28:50 PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE THAT CAN'T BE UNDONE AND SHOULD NOT BE
05:28:53 RUSHED. >> THE BOARD NEEDS TO BE
05:28:54 DILIGENT AND GET THIS RIGHT. PLEASE TO TAKE PROBATIONS
05:28:57 REQUEST. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
05:28:58 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. GOOD AFTERNOON.
05:29:01 MY NAME IS MATTHEW SASTRE AND I'M A LAW STUDENT AND A
05:29:05 RESIDENT OF SAN FRANCISCO'S DISTRICT EIGHT.
05:29:08 I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND WHAT IT ACTUALLY
05:29:12 REQUIRES. PUBLIC SAFETY IS NOT JUST
05:29:13 POLICING, IT'S ACCESS TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION.
05:29:17 MENTAL HEALTH CARE, HOUSING AND STABILITY.
05:29:21 RIGHT NOW PUBLIC DEFENDERS ARE OVERLOADED AS MISDEMEANOR
05:29:25 AND FELONY CASES RISE. >> THAT MEANS LESS TIME TO
05:29:29 PROTECT PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
05:29:32 >> AT THE SAME TIME, THE DA'S OFFICE STILL HAS NEARLY $40
05:29:36 MILLION MORE IN FUNDING THAN THE PUBLIC DEFENDER.
05:29:40 WE ARE ALSO FACING MAJOR CUTS TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WITH
05:29:44 AN ESTIMATED THOUSAND LAYOFFS. THESE GROUPS PROVIDE TREATMENT,
05:29:47 HOUSING, REENTRY SUPPORT AND DIVERSION PROGRAMS THAT
05:29:52 BELONG IN THE COMMUNITY, NOT IN SYSTEMS.
05:29:53 PEOPLE ALREADY EXPERIENCE AS A PUNITIVE AND TRAUMATIC.
05:29:56 I URGE YOU TO INCREASE INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC DEFENSE
05:30:00 AND PROTECT THESE SERVICES. >> THANK YOU FOR COMMENTS.
05:30:03 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HELLO, MY NAME IS LAURA
05:30:08 COHEN AND I LIVE IN THE TENDERLOIN AND I'M NOT GOING TO
05:30:12 SAY ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN ANYBODY WHO'S COME TO PUBLIC
05:30:15 COMMENT SO FAR. BUT I KNOW IF I GIVE YOU
05:30:19 STATISTICS OR APPEAL TO YOUR LOGIC IT'S NOT NEARLY AS
05:30:22 POWERFUL AS SAYING HOW I FEEL. AND AS SOMEONE WHO LIVES IN THE
05:30:27 TENDERLOIN I DON'T FEEL SAFER KNOWING THERE'S MORE POLICE.
05:30:30 I DON'T FEEL SAFER WHEN I HEAR THAT MY NEIGHBORS ARE NOT GOING
05:30:35 TO ACTUALLY RECEIVE JUSTICE WHEN THEY DO GET HARASSED BY
05:30:39 THE POLICE OR KNOWING THAT THEY'RE GETTING DISAPPEARED
05:30:41 INTO A SYSTEM THAT WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE THE POWER TO
05:30:45 CREATE FAIRNESS IN. >> DESPITE THE INCREDIBLE
05:30:49 AMOUNT OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM AND INJUSTICE THAT WE
05:30:51 HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY, THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN DO AND WE ARE A
05:30:54 LEADER IN THIS COUNTRY AND OTHER STATES LOOK AT WHAT
05:30:58 WE'RE DOING AND LOOK AT OUR PROGRAMS AND SEE WHERE OUR
05:31:02 SUCCESSES AND OUR FAILURES COME FROM.
05:31:03 >> AND THE LEAST I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT IT FEELS REALLY RIGHT
05:31:09 NOW BUT I KNOW THAT YOU CAN CHANGE THAT IF YOUR COMMENTS.
05:31:13 SO THANK YOU. PLEASE DO NOT DISMANTLE THE
05:31:14 PUBLIC DOESN'T GIVE THE. >> YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
05:31:16 SHUT UP. >> HELLO MY NAME IS XAVIER
05:31:23 ROSENBERG AND I'M WITH THE JUDICIAL SERVICES TEAM WITH AS
05:31:24 OF PRETRIAL. VICE-CHAIR DORSEY YOU MENTIONED
05:31:27 THAT THE COURT'S CONCERNS YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT THE
05:31:31 COURT'S CONCERNS IN THE PREVIOUS MEETING SUCH AS THE
05:31:33 PROGRESS OF WHAT ACCURACY? SO THE VERY NEXT DAY I WENT TO
05:31:35 THE HALL OF JUSTICE CHARTER WITH VARIOUS COURT STAFF TO
05:31:38 HEAR SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS FOR FIRST AND I ASSURED THE COURT
05:31:41 STAFF THAT WE'RE MAKING IMPROVEMENTS ON THE PROGRESS
05:31:44 REPORT TEMPLATES AND ACCURACY AND THAT I WOULD MAINTAIN THE
05:31:46 OPEN DIALOG REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ENSURE AND MAINTAIN THE
05:31:49 TRUST THAT OUR MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP IS BASED ON.
05:31:52 IT'S JUST WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE OPERATE TO REFUTE BRENDAN
05:31:56 REILLY'S CLAIM ABOUT US NOT BEING A COURT, IT'S SIMPLY NOT
05:31:57 TRUE. YOU COULD ASK ANY OF THE
05:31:59 COURTROOM CLERKS, JUDGES AND BAILIFFS ABOUT A PRESENCE
05:32:02 AND WE'RE CONSTANTLY MOVING TO THE COURTHOUSE TO MAKE SURE
05:32:04 EVERYONE'S NEEDS ARE ADDRESSED OR YOUR CONSTANT PRESENCE AT
05:32:07 COURT ENSURES THAT THERE ARE ACCESSIBLE PRETRIAL
05:32:08 REPRESENTATIVES IN THE MAIN COURTROOM HUB REMOTE OR ONE
05:32:12 IN CASE WE'RE NEEDED. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ACCESSIBLE.
05:32:15 CONTRARY TO WHAT RILEY IMPLIED PREVIOUSLY, I'M NOT SURE WHERE
05:32:18 HIS INFO WAS COMING FROM BUT IF HE HAS ANY QUESTIONS GO TO ONE
05:32:21 ON ONE TO FIND US. >> THANK YOU.
05:32:22 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:32:28 GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS. BIANCA PALOMINO PRESIDENT I 50
05:32:31 LOCAL 21 DISTRICT ONE RESIDENT I SPEAK TODAY IN SUPPORT OF AN
05:32:35 EQUITABLY FUNDED PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE.
05:32:38 LOCAL 21 MEMBERS PROVIDE CRITICAL LEGAL SUPPORT SERVICES
05:32:42 AT THE PUBLIC DEFENDER WE WORK SIDE BY SIDE WITH SEIU 10 TO 1
05:32:46 AND TEAMSTERS 856 MEMBERS TO ENSURE A MORE JUST SAN
05:32:49 FRANCISCO. >> WE STAND TODAY WITH OUR
05:32:50 SIBLING UNIONS IN ADVOCATING FOR MORE RESOURCES FOR THE
05:32:54 PUBLIC DEFENDER BECAUSE WE SEE HOW THESE HIGH CASELOADS IMPACT
05:32:58 NOT ONLY THE WORKERS IN THE OFFICE BUT THE CLIENTS, THEIR
05:33:01 FAMILIES AND ALL OF SAN FRANCISCO.
05:33:04 THIS BOARD NOW HAS THE POWER AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE
05:33:08 THE RIGHT CHOICE ON PUBLIC SAFETY.
05:33:09 TRUE PUBLIC SAFETY REQUIRES A FULLY STAFFED, EQUITABLY FUNDED
05:33:13 PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE. THANK YOU.
05:33:16 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:33:20 GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DANIEL AND IN CASTRO
05:33:21 HERNANDEZ AND I WORK WITH SAN FRANCISCO PRETRIAL AS A COURT
05:33:25 LIAISON. I'VE HEARD THE CONCERNS RAISED
05:33:28 ABOUT PRETRIAL. IF THE COURT BELIEVES THERE ARE
05:33:29 ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED, THE SOLUTION SHOULD
05:33:32 BE TO RESOLVE THEM INTERNALLY. BUT TO SPEND MILLIONS OF
05:33:36 DOLLARS CREATING A NEW PROGRAM THAT LARGELY REPLICATES THE
05:33:37 SERVICES THAT ARE ALREADY EXIST IS PREPOSTEROUS.
05:33:40 AT A TIME WHEN THE CITY IS FACING DIFFICULT BUDGET
05:33:44 DECISIONS, I BELIEVE THE FOCUS SHOULD BE ON IMPROVING
05:33:45 AND STRENGTHENING WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE RATHER THAN
05:33:48 BUILDING A SECOND SYSTEM FROM THE GROUND UP.
05:33:51 AS PROBATION TRIES TO COME UP WITH A PLAN FOR A TRANSITION,
05:33:53 PRO-CHOICE ACTIVELY DOING THE WORK THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO
05:33:56 DUPLICATE BEFORE MOVING FORWARD.
05:33:59 I HOPE THE CITY ASKS SIMPLE QUESTION WHAT SPECIFIC SERVICES
05:34:00 ARE MISSING TODAY THAT JUSTIFY THE COSTS OF CREATING AN
05:34:04 ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAM? >> THANK YOU.
05:34:06 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
05:34:10 >> OH. TIERRA SIMS DIRECTOR OF RELEASE
05:34:12 PROGRAMS AT S.F. PRETRIAL. >> THANK YOU SUPERVISORS.
05:34:15 I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY. WE'RE WINDING DOWN TO THE END.
05:34:18 >> I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH BASE ON ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT WAS
05:34:22 MADE BY PROBATION EARLIER OF JUST STATING THAT WE'RE HOPEFUL
05:34:26 THAT THIS PROGRAM WILL BE EFFICIENT.
05:34:27 THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE IN MY EYES BEING HOPEFUL FOR SOMETHING
05:34:30 WHEN WE'RE ABOUT TO CHANGE A WHOLE SYSTEM AND IMPACT LIVES.
05:34:34 >> ANOTHER THING I WANT TO TOUCH ON WE'VE BEEN TOUCHING ON
05:34:36 THE COMMUNITY, THE CLIENTS AND HOW THIS IS IMPACTING
05:34:39 CLIENTS. >> I WANT TO TOUCH ON HOW THIS
05:34:40 IS IMPACTING ME AND MY STAFF DIRECTLY.
05:34:42 >> THE LAST FEW WEEKS WHEN ALL THIS HAS BEEN OCCURRING PEOPLE
05:34:47 ARE STILL SHOWING UP TIRED, SCARED, WORRIED.
05:34:50 THE MENTAL HEALTH IN THE STRESS THAT IS CAUSED ON US PHYSICALLY
05:34:54 WE'RE STILL SHOWING UP. WE'RE STILL IN THE COURTROOMS
05:34:58 AND WE'RE STILL ANSWERING QUESTIONS TO OUR CLIENTS OF
05:35:01 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO IF WE GO TO PROBATION?
05:35:02 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR US FOR THE CLIENTS AND STAFF?
05:35:05 >> WE DON'T HAVE THOSE ANSWERS BUT WE STILL GOING TO BE HERE
05:35:08 TO HOLD YOU GUYS HANDS THROUGHOUT THE END AND THAT'S
05:35:10 THE SAME THING FOR OUR STAFF. THEY'RE STILL SHOWING UP, STILL
05:35:13 GOING TO HOLD THEIR HANDS THROUGHOUT THE THE AND PLEASE
05:35:15 DO NOT GIVE THESE FUNDS TO PROBATION.
05:35:17 >> LET'S GET THE NEXT PICTURE RELEASED.
05:35:18 THANK YOU. >> MY NAME IS JOANNA HERNANDEZ.
05:35:20 I'M A NATIVE OF SAN FRANCISCO AND AS SOMEONE WHO HAS SPENT MY
05:35:25 LIFE WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IMPACTED BY THIS
05:35:28 SYSTEM AS I SIT HERE TODAY, I CAN'T HELP TO FEEL LIKE WE'RE
05:35:32 GOING BACKWARDS IS GOING BACK TO 1990S ALL OVER AGAIN
05:35:35 OVERCROWDING JAILS PEOPLE DOUBLE BUNKED IN THE GYMS.
05:35:38 THE PROBLEMS OF INCARCERATION INSTEAD OF SUPPORTING
05:35:41 AND PREVENTING THIS FROM HAPPENING GENERATIONAL
05:35:43 INCARCERATION IS REAL AND I HAVE I HAVE SEEN CHILDREN VISIT
05:35:47 THEIR PARENTS IN JAIL GROW UP CARING THE TRAUMA AND LATER
05:35:50 IN LIFE SEE THEMSELVES IN THAT SAME SYSTEM.
05:35:54 >> YOU GUYS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THIS.
05:35:55 WE'RE GOING THIS ADMINISTRATION GO SAN FRANCISCO NEEDS TO STOP
05:35:58 THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN UNDER THE PAST ADMINISTRATIONS IN THE
05:36:01 PAST. >> MAYORS PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT
05:36:04 WHAT'S HAPPENING. LOOK AT THE LIVES THAT ARE
05:36:06 BEING AFFECTED BY THIS. WE ARE PART OF YOUR COMMUNITY
05:36:09 TOO. IF YOU WERE TO GET IN TROUBLE
05:36:11 FOR JAYWALKING OR WHATEVER IT IS, YOU'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH
05:36:13 METAL DETECTORS AT THE CAST CENTER TO CHECK IN THAT PLACE
05:36:16 IS JUST LIKE A JAIL IN ITSELF. >> THANK YOU.
05:36:21 PLEASE SUPPORT PRETRIAL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS TO
05:36:22 THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE COULD. GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS.
05:36:28 MY NAME IS CAMILLA AND I'VE WORKED THAT AS A PRETRIAL FOR
05:36:31 FOUR AND A HALF YEARS. I'M ASKING THE BOARD TO RETAIN
05:36:32 AS A PRETRIAL SERVICES FOR OVER 50 YEARS AS A PRETRIAL HOSPITAL
05:36:39 . DEEP EXPERIENCE AND STRONG
05:36:40 RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PEOPLE IT SERVES.
05:36:43 THAT CONTINUITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT MAKES THIS
05:36:44 PROGRAM WORK AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT COULD BE REBUILT
05:36:47 OR REPLICATED IN FOUR AND A HALF YEARS.
05:36:51 I'VE WATCHED THIS ORGANIZATION BUILD SYSTEMS AND RELATIONSHIPS
05:36:54 THAT DON'T SHOW UP IN A BUDGET LINE ITEM BUT THEY'RE THE
05:36:58 REASON THIS PROGRAM WORKS AS WELL AS IT DOES WE HAVE
05:37:02 SOMETHING HERE THAT'S EFFECTIVE, PROVEN AND WORTH
05:37:03 PROTECTING. ANY TRANSITION ON ANY TIMELINE
05:37:06 PUTS THAT CONTINUITY AT RISK DURING A PERIOD WHEN THOUSANDS
05:37:10 OF PEOPLE ARE ACTIVELY RELYING ON THIS PROGRAM RETAINING AS A
05:37:17 FREE TRIAL MEANS KEEPING WHAT'S ALREADY WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE
05:37:21 IN THIS PROGRAM AND FOR THIS CITY.
05:37:22 PLEASE RETAIN S.F. PRETRIAL SERVICES AND DON'T DISMANTLE
05:37:25 OUR SERVICES. >> THANK YOU AND THANK YOU
05:37:29 CAMILLA. >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE I
05:37:32 AND THANK YOU. MY NAME IS RICHARD MILLER.
05:37:33 I AM A CITIZEN OF SAN FRANCISCO.
05:37:36 I CAME TODAY TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF MOVING PRETRIAL
05:37:43 INTO ADULT PROBATION. AND TWO THINGS STRUCK ME THIS
05:37:47 MORNING. THE FIRST WAS THE IDEA THAT AN
05:37:51 ADULT PROBATION WOULD HIRE 35 NEW PEOPLE.
05:37:55 THEIR PRINCIPAL TASK EARLY ON WOULD BE TO FIND DATA TO
05:38:02 SUPPORT THEIR OWN HIRING. >> THAT STRIKES ME AS QUITE
05:38:06 INAPPROPRIATE AND INEFFICIENT. THE SECOND CLAIM IS THAT ADULT
05:38:13 PROBATION WAS TASKED WITH DEVELOPING A FREESTANDING MODEL
05:38:20 NOT ONE THAT COMPARES ITSELF TO THE CURRENT PRETRIAL PLAN.
05:38:24 WHEN PRESSED, ADULT PROBATION PIVOTED TO MAKING COMPARATIVE
05:38:31 CLAIMS SPECULATING THAT THEIR ROI I WOULD BE BETTER PRE
05:38:37 TRIALS. >> NOW SPEAKER SAM HAS
05:38:37 EXPRESSED AN ARGUMENT BUT THANK YOU MUCH RICHARD MILLER FOR
05:38:42 ADDRESSING THIS COMMITTEE. >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE LET
05:38:45 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD THANK YOU. >> HAPPY AFTERNOON.
05:38:49 I JUST WANT TO REFLECT ON THE TESTIMONY EARLIER FROM THE
05:38:53 COURT AND PROBATION AND WHAT DEMONSTRATED A COMPLETE LACK OF
05:38:57 UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHAT OUR PRETRIAL SYSTEM DOES.
05:39:01 WE WEREN'T ABLE TO ANSWER BASIC QUESTIONS.
05:39:02 THERE IS MISINFORMATION. THERE IS NO THE EXPERTISE IS
05:39:05 IN THIS ROOM IS WITH THESE PEOPLE.
05:39:08 IT'S BEEN HERE FOR 50 YEARS. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE THE
05:39:13 DECISION. THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAS TOLD US
05:39:14 THE DECISIONS IN YOUR HANDS. I THINK IT'S OBVIOUS I HOPE
05:39:17 IT'S OBVIOUS. YOU CAN ASK US.
05:39:20 WE CAN ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS BUT JUST DEMONSTRATED
05:39:23 BY THE TESTIMONY TODAY. I THINK YOU KNOW THE RIGHT
05:39:27 DECISION. WE'RE HERE TO WORK WITH YOU.
05:39:28 WE'RE HERE TO WORK WITH THE COURTS, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE,
05:39:31 PROBATION. ALL WE WANT IS WHAT'S BEST FOR
05:39:32 SAN FRANCISCO. AND THANK YOU MUCH FOR
05:39:35 ADDRESSING THIS COMMITTEE. NEXT SPEAKER.
05:39:39 >> HI, I'M ANYA WORLEY ZIGMUND WITH THE PEOPLE'S BUDGET
05:39:43 COALITION AND I'M GOING TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A
05:39:46 PERSONAL MESSAGE TODAY WHICH IS THAT DURING THIS WEEK AS I'VE
05:39:50 BEEN IN AND OUT OF MEETINGS FIGHTING TO SAVE AS OF PRETRIAL
05:39:53 ,MY FAMILY GOT OUR OUR SENTENCE FOR MY BROTHER WHO
05:39:58 WILL NOW BE IN PRISON FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
05:40:01 >> AND WORDS I GOT TO CALL HIM FROM THE SANTA CLARA JAIL THAT
05:40:06 HE'S IN AT THIS EXACT SECOND AND I GOT TO ASK HIM, HEY, LIKE
05:40:10 THIS IS KIND OF SILLY BUT WHEN YOU GOT ARRESTED LIKE WHAT DID
05:40:13 YOU TALK TO? >> DID YOU DID YOU INTERACT
05:40:16 WITH US PRETRIAL? >> AND HE SAID YES, ACTUALLY I
05:40:20 DID. >> I REMEMBER ALL OF THOSE
05:40:21 YEARS AGO NOW WHEN HE FIRST GOT ARRESTED THEY WERE THE FIRST
05:40:26 PEOPLE TO MEET HIM AND WHAT WAS AN INCREDIBLE MOMENT OF SHAME
05:40:30 AND EMBARRASSMENT AND THE HARDEST MOMENT OF HIS LIFE
05:40:34 AND HE NEVER FORGOT IT. >> THIS IS WHY WE NEED THESE
05:40:39 PROGRAMS. HOPEFULLY YOU WILL NEVER HAVE
05:40:41 TO EXPERIENCE THIS KIND OF FEELING.
05:40:42 >> THANK YOU AND THANK YOU ON YOUR EARLY SEGMENT AND MADAM
05:40:48 CHAIR, WITH NO MORE SPEAKERS ON THE LINE THAT COMPLETES OUR
05:40:50 QUEUE SEE NO MORE PUBLIC COMMONS PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW
05:40:53 CLOSE. >> THANK YOU.
05:40:56 AND WITH THAT SIR CLERK SORRY MY APOLOGIES I BELIEVE I AM
05:41:03 CONTINUES ON THIS THE THREE THREE ITEMS SO SECOND MY
05:41:17 APOLOGIES I'M OPEN THE MOTION IS TO CONTINUE WITH ITEM ONE
05:41:21 THROUGH THREE A TO OUR NEXT BUDGET AND AN APPROPRIATION
05:41:25 COMMITTEE MEETING AND SECOND BY VICE CHAIR DORSEY A ROLL CALL
05:41:29 PLEASE. >> ACTUALLY TO CLARIFY, MADAM
05:41:30 CHAIR, THE NEXT TIME WE'RE GOING TO BE CONTINUING WITH THE
05:41:33 CONVERSATION ABOUT THE BUDGET IS ON THE THURSDAY JUNE 18TH
05:41:37 MEETING HAS JUNE 17TH. WE'RE DEALING WITH TRAILING
05:41:41 LEGISLATION. >> YES THANK YOU.
05:41:45 JUNE 7TH THEY START 10TH JUNE 1718 SORRY JUNE 18TH.
05:41:48 THURSDAY. THANK YOU.
05:41:51 AND SECOND UP SECOND BY VICE CHAIR DORSEY AND A ROLL CALL
05:41:55 PLEASE. >> AND ON THAT MOTION BY CHAIR
05:41:56 CHANG AND SECONDED BY VICE CHAIR DORSEY THAT WE CONTINUE
05:41:59 ALL THREE ITEMS TO THE JUNE 18TH MEETING OF THIS COMMITTEE
05:42:02 VICE CHAIR DORSEY AND DORSEY I REMEMBER SENATOR SOUDER I
05:42:06 REMEMBER WALTON WALTON I REMEMBER CHEN CHEN I CHURCH MAN
05:42:10 I CAN I HAVE FIVE EYES THE MOTION PASSES AND MR. CLERK DO
05:42:17 WE HAVE ANY OTHER BUSINESS BEFORE US TODAY?
05:42:18 MADAM CHAIR THAT CONCLUDES OUR BUSINESS.
05:42:19 THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED