The Government Audit and Oversight Committee, chaired by Supervisor Fielder with Vice Chair Sauter and Supervisor Sherrill, convened on September 18, 2025, to hold hearings on three 2024-2025 civil grand jury reports. The reports covered traffic safety under Vision Zero, nonprofit capacity for social services delivery, and the city's adoption of artificial intelligence. The committee received presentations from grand jury members, responses from city departments including the Mayor's Office, SFPD, SFMTA, Controller's Office, and Department of Technology, and took public comment. Resolutions responding to each report were amended and forwarded to the full Board of Supervisors.
Good morning. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the September 18th, 2025 regular meeting of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I'm Supervisor Fielder, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Janie Sauter and Supervisor Steven Sherrill. The committee clerk is Monique Creighton, and our thanks to Eugene Labania of SFGov TV for staffing this meeting. Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements? Yes. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. When your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. Email them to the government audit and oversight committee clerk at M O N I Q U E. C-R-A-Y-T-O-N at S F, G-O-V.org. If you can submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. You may also send your written comments via U.S. Postal Service to our offices City Hall, Number one, Dr. Carlton B. Goodlit Place, Room 244, San Francisco, California 94102. If you have documents you would like to be included as part of the file, please submit them to me before the end of the meeting. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent any interruptions to day's proceedings. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors' agenda of September 30th, 2025, unless otherwise stated. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And today we have a big day as we'll be hearing presentations from the civil grand jury on three reports that they spent the last year authoring. The civil grand jury is made up of 19 members who serve for one year and investigate the operations of the various officers, departments, and agencies of the government of San Francisco. Suffice it to say they serve a very important function to improve how San Francisco government functions, and their work serves to build trust between the residents of San Francisco and their city government. I want to thank the members of the jury for all of your hard work over the past year, putting these reports together and for engaging in our civil process to make sure our city functions a little bit better. I also want to thank the staff of our city departments for the work responding to the findings and the recommendations by the civil grand jury, and also, of course, to all the city staffers here today, including Director Sophia Kittler for putting together the presentations and responses on behalf of the city. Madam Clerk, please call items one and two. Yes, item number one is a hearing on the 2024-2025 civil grand jury report entitled Failed Vision, Revamping the Road Map to Safer Streets. And item number two is a resolution responding to the presiding judge of the Superior Court on the findings and recommendations contained the 2024-2025 civil grand jury report entitled Failed Vision, Revamping the Road Map to Safer Streets, and urging the mayor to cause the implementation of accepted findings and recommendations through his department heads and through the development of the annual budget. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And Miss Kate Bloomberg will be presenting the report on behalf of the civil grand jury. Sophia Kittler, budget director for the mayor will be presenting on behalf of the mayor's office and city departments. I also want to thank Nick Minard from the budget and legislative analysts office, who will be available for questions for all three hearings today. And before I hand this off to Vice Chair Sauter, I would like to invite four-person Michael Carboy to introduce the grand jury and to give some opening remarks about the process. Four-person Carboy, please go ahead. Thank you, Chair Fielder. Supervisor Sauter, Supervisor Sherrill, thank you very much for convening the government audit and oversight committee hearings for the 24-25 San Francisco Civil Grand Jury reports. My name is Michael Carboy. It was my honor to serve the jury as a four-person. Today, my colleagues on the jury will be presenting three reports. The first, Ms. Kate Bloomberg will present failed vision, addressing the city's failed vision zero program because of inadequate police enforcement of traffic regulation, piecemeal traffic engineering efforts and insufficient public education. Second, Mr. Nick Weininger will present capacity to serve, addressing the city's failure to adequately to ensure adequate management skill sets are in place within nonprofits. The city depends upon for the delivery of essential city services. And third, Mr. Cameron Parker will present techs in the city. Addressing the city's challenges in embracing and effectively using new technologies, especially artificial intelligence or AI, as I may refer to it. Our jury completed these three reports and our other work items with a full complement of 19 jurors in service, 10 women and nine men with broad and rich points of view. Our efforts focused on the entirety of San Francisco, but our jurors hailed from 10 of the 11 supervisorial districts.