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Support Committee will now come to order can the clerk office please call the

roll councilmember Tordillos here Casey Mulcahy Kamei

chair Dwan here thank you thank you so much we're taking a look at the nothing

on the work plans we're going right to the consent calendars there are two

items on the consent calendar do we have any public comments there is no public

comment okay is any council member have comments or concerns on the two consent

items if not would like to hear a motion please there we go we got first and

second let's vote

now we're back on item D1 is the fire department inventory control over

control substance audit report and there is a presentation PowerPoint by the City

Auditor Joe Royce, Allison Pauli and Maria Val.

Good afternoon Joe Royce City Auditor I'm joining the box by Allison Pauli and

and Maria Valle from my office.

Also in the box is Chief Robert Sapien

and Deputy Chief Steve Bowie from the Fire Department.

We're here to present the audit of Fire Department's inventory controls over controlled substances.

This audit was added to our work plan following a request from the Fire Chief in April

after containers of controlled substances were found to be damaged

and suspected to have been tampered with at a fire station.

Following an investigation, the San Jose Police Department arrested a fire captain

related to these incidents. Our audit focused on inventory controls in place

starting April 2025. I'm going to turn over to Ali who's going to talk a little

bit about the background and the findings and then we'll leave some time

at the end for the the the fire department's response and then we're

open to questions. Hello Alison Pauly from the Office of the City Auditor.

Per the city's contract with the County of Santa Clara fire has supplies of two

substances that are controlled by the DEA. These are administered by paramedics to provide

advanced life support. The two substances are morphine, used for pain management, and

midazolam, used to treat seizures and for sedation. These medications are ordered by

the EMS division and stored at a central facility until EMS staff distributes them to fire apparatus.

Our audit had two findings that focused on the two parts of this process, the management

of the medications stored on fire apparatus and the central supply management.

So our first finding focused on the fire apparatus.

The finding was that policies require securing controlled substances on the fire apparatus

but should be clarified to reflect current practices.

The first thing to note is that we reviewed the controlled substances at 17 fire stations

over several different days in summer of 2025, and we found no evidence of theft or tampering.

A few key controls to highlight that FHIR has in place.

Medications are kept locked and bolted to the apparatus.

Paramedics are doing daily verifications where they inspect every vial on their apparatus.

A witness is required to be present, and the paramedics are instructed to report any discrepancies

immediately.

Both these controls were expanded and strengthened in April and May of 2025.

FIRE uses electronic records and records in their system an ID number so that each vial

can be tracked individually.

These controls are in line with what we saw in other jurisdictions.

There are a few aspects of FIRE's current inventory management practices that should

be formalized into policy.

These include clarifying the requirements for daily and periodic reviews of the controlled

substance boxes, storage of medications on reserve apparatus, and the protocols for remote

handoffs of medication.

One other note is that fire is in the process of acquiring biometric safes.

Once fire has those safes in place, they should revise the policy regarding access monitoring

and usage.

That first finding was all about the fire apparatus out in the stations and in the field.

The second finding focuses on the central supply.

The finding was that separating the duties for central supply management would strengthen

inventory controls.

Again, to start off, I want to say that our random audit of the main safe in the summer

of 2025 showed no evidence of theft or tampering.

A fire captain is the controlled substances program manager.

That position oversees the central supply, which involves receiving, labeling, securing,

distributing, and destroying medications.

What we found is that this is too many duties to be concentrated onto one position, and

FIRE should split up the responsibilities to ensure the security of the medications.

For example, the Controlled Substances Program Manager's responsibilities include system

administration for the department's inventory management software, entering and reconciling

information within the system, and handling medications, which includes receiving and

distributing them to stations and collecting and destroying expired medications.

So our recommendation is to separate these duties to improve the security of the central

supply.

should assign medication handling, system administration, and certain record keeping

duties to separate staff. We also noted a few additional security measures and policy

updates. Because the safe can be physically accessed by one person, having a camera or

a biometric safe would provide a record for who is accessing the medications. We also

recommended conducting periodic inventory counts and having management regularly review

inventory reports. Lastly, we recommended updating the policy in a few areas, including

to specify the process for what happens when a vial is suspected of tampering and when

the county should be notified. That concludes our presentation. Our report

had seven recommendations. We ask that you accept the report and cross-reference it to

the December 16th meeting of the City Council. With that, we will turn it over to Chief Sapien

for the administration's response, and then we're available to answer any questions.

Thank you. Robert Sapien, Fire Chief, San Jose Fire Department.

I want to first begin by thanking City Auditor Joe Royce, Allison Pauly,

and the entire team for, one, agreeing to include this audit in the work plan for this year,

for expediting the audit, and for the focus and diligence in conducting it

and engagement with our department.

We fully understand the findings and fully agree

with the associated recommendations

and are working to expedite implementation,

the longest of which will be completing the procurement

of those biometric safes and the associated policies.

But we have most of them actually fully drafted in terms

of those recommendations.

So with that, I thank you, and I stand ready for questions.

Well, thank you for the presentation.

And I know that, Chief, you've been working hard to make sure

that we include the Biometric Safe Controlled Substance Program.

And I want to make sure that our department will comply

and go above and beyond the biometric.

Is the biometric program have an automatic login system

where every time it's being used,

it would have a centralized recorded system to who's logging

in and when are they logging out on it?

Thank you for the question.

The answer, the short answer is yes.

First and foremost, only credentialed employees will be able to access and have their biometric

data stored for that access.

And each access will identify who's been responsible for opening that safe at that time.

And then there will be policy requirements that will require documentation of why that

entry occurred.

Thank you.

And do you have a timeline when this, you know, procurement of the biometric and the

implementation of it?

The timeline is difficult to pin down.

We have completed really virtually all of the administrative steps necessary to move

the procurement forward, but that process does have steps that we, that aren't fully

in our control and do take time.

However, I do want to point out that in the interim, Chief Bowie, who leads our training

and EMS Bureau, did implement an interim solution, which is hardened safes that change the way

we store the controlled substances.

They are not biometric and don't have instant record of who made access, but they are far

more secure in terms of who can make access by way of key and certainly

hardened in terms of some of the concerns we had for previous containers

that could be breached physically more easily well thank you thank you for

keeping our community safe and thank you for doing a good job with our

department and now I'm going to go to councilmember Rosemary Kamei thank you

so much and I want to thank the auditor and his team for putting this on your

work plan and really work you know working very quickly and also I also

appreciate all of the time that you spent in terms of the one-on-ones and

the briefings that's very very helpful so I just want to say thank you I also

I also want to thank the Chief for your responses and looking at the timeline that you hope to

get this going is very quick and you've acted very quickly.

So I just want to appreciate your department and all the work you do to make sure that

you can get this done.

So with that, I would like to move acceptance of the report and refer and cross-reference

the audit to the full council.

I believe council okay he would like to address yeah that was a motion

I'll second it but I'll second it but I do have something to ask thanks for the report

there I am

so I I think you've accepted the seven recommendations and I was going to ask about

the timing but I I know it's as quickly as you can do it based on process on

the the issue of ongoing sort of internal auditing what are you thinking about

right rather than waiting for an incident to happen and then we do the

city auditors role what are you thinking about in terms of ongoing auditing of

you know this is a much more robust program that you're installing around

these controlled substances so what will you do moving forward thank you for the question

i think i would best describe it as we have implemented what i would describe as hyper

stringent auditing on a daily basis both daily and at any time there's an exchange of responsibility

for inventory or any time there's a use or access to vials, right?

So I think going forward, what we're going to be evaluating once the biometric safes

are in place is what is the frequency of auditing from there forward?

Because the daily and for-cause audits do take a lot of time, and they're really more

access points than maybe are necessary and prudent.

So the short answer to your question is we're doing daily audits today and then also for

costs.

So, I mean, we're responding to a very unfortunate circumstance, right?

And so it would seem like daily would be appropriate, but moving forward, you know, probably isn't

daily.

What are you thinking about long term?

Like, what's the legacy coming from this so that something like this never happens again?

If I could just jump in.

So one thing, improving internal controls never reduces risk to zero.

So that's, but you can put a lot of controls in place.

To answer the question, I think, about from an audit standpoint, what does auditing look like within the fire department so it's not my office?

A couple of the recommendations.

One thing that's already occurring are monthly inventory reviews out at the apparatus by the controlled substance program manager.

So we had a recommendation to kind of formalize that to make that more specific.

I mean, if I could look at the specific language about the frequency, scope, and required documentation of those reviews.

So that's one of the recommendations.

Out at the main safe, we also had a recommendation to implement regular inventories of that.

So it wasn't us going out and doing that inventory, but the CSPM and other staff within the fire department to do that kind of that inventory check,

which is a standard practice, and just put that into policy and formalize it so it's ongoing.

So those are a couple of things from an internal audit standpoint within the fire department that are kind of covered in some of the recommendations.

And as the chief said, they're intended to move forward.

Great. That's helpful. Thank you.

okay let's any other question or concerns or comments all right let's

vote

motion passes unanimously thank you

second item we have city council focus area status report increasing community

safety uh presentation will uh have jennifer jennifer shimbri chief sapien captain donahue

and andrea shelton and john ristel

Good afternoon, members of the committee.

Jennifer Shembury, deputy city manager, and I am the sponsor of the increasing community

safety focus area.

I'm going to be doing the presentation from up here.

We have a great team in the box who them and their teams are actually doing the work and

will be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

So our purpose today is to share what we are learning through doing the work while building

the infrastructure for our culture of learning.

Our agenda today, we're going to go through focus area 2.0.

We did this with you on September 30th with all of the focus areas, so we'll just do a

brief background on that.

We're going to do a portfolio review of the increasing community safety focus area, and

then we'll talk about some next steps, including how we're going to incorporate this into the

budget process.

So on the focus area 2.0, much of this work involves cultivating an organizational mindset

of learning with these values.

So some important key points of this is that numbers alone do not show progress

and require some context setting, which we'll be doing with the committee today.

Learning in public builds that trust and accountability.

We're also learning through retrospection and that contributes

to learning and understanding.

And then that progress requires humility, iteration and commitment,

and psychological safety for execution.

And what we mean by that is that it's important

that the team feel supported to test new approaches

and talk about those failures in public.

We will be talking about a couple of things

that we're still working on in today's presentation.

And so these are the different types of questions

we are asking within our focus area

when we do our retrospection.

And these are things that we are looking for the committee.

We invite you to ask similar questions such as these,

like what are we learning, what are we observing, what type of support do you need?

So at the September 30th Council meeting we shared the purpose of the logic models underpinning

the focus area and that is that they help us clarify how our work is intended to create

impact by clearly aligning strategies with problems and articulating testable assumptions

that we can learn from and adapt to.

And as I mentioned previously on the September 30th focus area, or on the September 30th

presentation we went through the entire logic model for increasing community

safety so we are going to be brief on that in this presentation so this is the

City Council approved evolution of focus area 2.0 to visualize and define these

are the components of that model which tie long-term and near-term efforts

making them measurable so we have a long-term goal we have problem areas

which then we have near-term goals and metrics assigned to those and we're

also looking at indicators in each of those long-term goals. These are what

we've been working on since September 30th so on September 30th you approved

that model 2.0 and since then we've been doing training retrospectives and

republishing public dashboards and this is critical in building that

infrastructure for long-term impact. So now I'll go into the portfolio review.

So as I mentioned, we have a lot of context that was already shared in the

September 30th meeting. So I'm just going to go over in the following slides

some new data, some brief status updates, and key lessons that we've learned in

the last couple of months. So looking at our indicators, some really good news

here. The long-term goal here is that San Jose residents live in a community

with responsive emergency services and safe streets and roads.

And while we still have some more work to do, as we've talked about,

that indicator of resident safety perception is up.

Year over year, 9% more residents feel the city is safe, 5% more feel their neighborhood is safe,

and 9% more feel that downtown is safe.

Looking at the first problem area of emergency response,

That police priority one response compliance is up 2% year over year with an 8% decrease

in call volume.

And fire priority response compliance is also up 2% year over year with a 10% decrease in

call volume.

And these are the goals that are assigned to that problem area of emergency response.

So here we have five goals for this year.

And four out of five of those are considered to be on track to meet the goal.

we have one that is yellow at risk,

which I'll talk about in the next slide.

So some lessons learned in emergency response.

In police recruitment,

the police department did see an increase

in enrollment of women in the October 2025 Police Academy,

despite some challenges in meeting

the 40 recruit class size goal.

There were 31 recruits hired, including eight women.

The lateral officer hiring increased, which is great news,

with five total hires during quarter one.

The police department is adjusting efforts

to focus on local recruitment based on lessons learned.

And then we have also completed

the police report transcription pilot.

And that was successful in that we completed the pilot

and that definitely showed that the tested tool

was not mature enough and is not what the department needs

to be successful.

But what was successful is that it helped us learn

what we do need and to evaluate an alternative,

which the department is currently looking at,

some additional promising projects.

So in problem area two, which is crisis response,

we have three goals here,

and all three of these are on track.

Some lessons learned in this area,

we have the 911-988 call transfer program in here.

We had a goal of transferring 75 calls over to Trust,

And if you remember on the September 30th presentation,

there was some concerns.

We may not meet that, but really happy to report

that the department and the county worked together

on some training investments

with our 911 communication staff.

And that was to increase staff knowledge and confidence

with transfer protocols.

And that resulted in a significant increase

in transfer volumes to 988 and to trust.

So in September and October of 2025,

staff transferred 193 and 178 calls respectively

to 988 and TRUS.

This is an over 10% increase compared

to prior transfer volumes and surpasses the goal

of 75 call transfers per month.

We did also learn the first responder fee program

that line personnel play a critical role

in public messaging and we've done some early training

and updated FAQs to make sure that we're successful

for that program launched in January of 2026.

on County coordination we did do an info memo recently on our co-response and

alternative response programs but we have learned that recent city and county

updates reinforce the need to align crisis response programs such as trust

in the PERT transition the third problem area of crime reduction we have seen

year over year a 12 percent decrease in crimes against persons an 8 percent decrease in crimes

against property and a 5 percent increase in crimes against society so overall some good news there as

well and in this problem area we've identified five goals four out of those five are considered

on track and i'll talk a little bit further about the one that is yellow and at risk in the next

Next slide.

So under organized retail theft detail, we submitted nearly 250 cases to the DA's office

in quarter one, and the investigations are resulting in successful filings, which is

great news.

On the Mission Street recovery station, we were negotiating with the county to send

additional things to Mission Street.

Those negotiations are taking longer than anticipated, but we've recently gotten that

back on track thanks to the good work of staff and we've identified a mutual

solution that should allow for increased referrals we're hopeful this gets

resolved in the next month or so and then I just wanted to highlight work of PRNS

in the SJ Youth Empowerment Alliance they successfully identified partnerships

with one priority school and two demonstration sites to support strategies

with a January 20 26 launch and then the fourth problem area of traffic safety we

We are happy to report that we are now reporting KSI data with a reporting lag for severe injuries.

KSI was down 10% year over year based on more recent data from Q2 of last fiscal year.

With more recent data, traffic fatalities were down 29% year over year based on Q1 of

this fiscal year.

In this problem area, we have two goals.

The first goal is green and the second has two parts to it.

The first we would say is on track and the second is at risk, yellow, to no fault of

our own and I'll explain that in the next slide.

So on the automated traffic enforcement, really good news on the early red light camera operations.

We've gotten that on.

It's on track and off and running.

It does show high violation volumes, especially in one certain intersection at South Third

and Keys.

And then the second part of that is the speed camera progress.

That is delayed, as you all know, due to federal administration and the recent shutdown.

But staff is proceeding and they're applying lessons from the red light program to minimize

any future delays.

So what is next?

We are going to be incorporating this into the fiscal year 26-27 budget process.

Here's a timeline that shows how that will work.

So the kind of major key components of that would be in January would be incorporated into

a priority setting and that will cultivate a discussion that supports the City Council

articulating its priorities in advance of the Mayor's March budget message.

That would get incorporated into the Mayor's March budget message which then we would incorporate

into our proposed budget.

There's going to be a budget study session in May where the administration will embed

focus area learnings into that study session and would also include recommended changes

to the following year's focus area work and then the direction from that would

be incorporated into a manager's budget addendum an MBA which would be approved

with the budget so with that I am happy to turn it over to our team in the box

to answer any questions you may have well thank you for the presentation do we

have any public comment there is no public comment all right well thank you

we're going to go to Councilmember Kamei. Thank you. I want to really thank and

recognize the team and I know it's not just those in the box but those out in

the field who are doing all the work and you know over the last few years we've

come a long way and I think that this this framework in terms of putting it

all together really has been, I really think it's wonderful. So I want to appreciate that because

I think that we've been sort of moving along trying to get it to a point where we can see it

all together as opposed to individual departments. And I think it's been, you know, a lot of success.

So, you know, I want to recognize that.

I also want to recognize, you know, even in the section where you have traffic safety, there were 850 warnings issued.

That's a lot of, you know, sort of people running the red light.

And I think that once we start actually sending those fees out to those who have run the red light,

it would be very interesting to see the reaction to some of that.

But I think that it's been good.

I think it's been something that has helped us along the way.

on retail theft. I know that PD has been working really, really closely with those who are being

affected, many of the retailers, and so that coordination with PD has been really great.

So I want to say thank you. I think that on crime reduction, the cameras have been

such a wonderful use. I know that there's some apprehension

of some members of the public, but I think overall it's just

been a great program. I want to say that

the San Jose Yer, working with

Lava Middle School and bringing these others, I think

set a good example of what maybe others can do.

I look forward to the outcomes of what happens

there because I think that if we can start with our youth, it's going to be critically

important for the future, especially those at risk.

In terms of emergency response, I want to thank the chief for really, really, you know,

trying to get out there and do the recruitment.

I know it's not easy, but I'm really delighted that the numbers are going up, and we want

to see them going up, and we will continue to take a look at that, and that's something

that I think is worth celebrating.

There's probably other things that I didn't include here,

but I just want to say thank you for the whole team

and those who are out in the field actually doing the work.

So I hope you can communicate that back to the staff

because it's a coordinated effort,

and I think that the way that you've set it up

with this logic model makes a lot of sense to me,

and I think that it's a benefit for the community.

So with that, I want to move to accept the status report.

Thank you, Councilmember Kameh.

We're going to go to Councilmember Torrios.

Thank you, Chair, and thank you, staff, for this report.

I'm particularly excited to see the early data

around the traffic enforcement with the red light cameras there.

And I think seeing, you know, over 400 violations just

in the first month at that single intersection.

A bit of a jarring number, but I think shows that we actually did our homework

in terms of finding an intersection with persistent issues.

So hopefully as we see the actual fines associated with these coming online this month,

we start to see that number go down over time.

I was curious if we had any insight into what a timeline for actually getting the grant funding

for the automated speed cameras would be, if we have any visibility there.

Thank you.

Councilmember John Rousseau, Director of Transportation. So the the grant is

totals 8.5 million and it has been held up as Deputy City Manager

Schember pointed out. We've actually been working with our attorney's office to

resubmit those grant applications based on a favorable court ruling that stayed

the the new language that was being required by new administration so I

don't have a date when that would get freed up we've submitted all our

paperwork back to them now it's been at least a month just waiting around for

that to occur I am NOT going to guarantee that that would actually get

freed up in time for us to move forward but we're gonna try to keep both paths

moving forward a federally paid for path and then a non-federal path so we're

negotiating with the vendor right now to proceed with a either one of those paths

to get these cameras in place next year no date though I can't give you a date

no I appreciate that and I understand that a lot of this is outside of our

control but I'm glad to see that the city is doing what we can to make sure

that we're ready when the funds do become available the only other question

I had was around the Mission Street Recovery Center there was mention of

trying to get additional referral types there and reference to having some sort of compromise

that we think we've reached with the county.

I was curious if we could hear a little bit more about what types of cases we'll think

will be added to the referral list there.

Eric, would you be able to answer that question?

Yeah, I could jump in on that one.

So the Mission Street Recovery Station, the police department has worked to implement

some really innovative programs to bring DUI, narcotics offenders, nonviolent instances

to that center for services.

Our interest is in expanding the types of referrals to include, I think, council direction

at the time was all nonviolent offenders would be eligible per officer discretion.

And so those are the things that we're exploring and working through what the exceptions are.

Certainly if there's a higher degree of public safety component, then that wouldn't be considered

and so I'm we're really working on exploring like what are the types of

instances where services rendered by the recovery station would be would lead to

successful outcomes thank you and that concludes my questions thank you

councilmember todia's first of all I didn't say thank you for the

presentation thank you for keeping our community safe including reducing or

unsheltered residents and keeping our neighborhood clean and growing our

economy and building more housing and all in this model 2.0 regarding a police

department you guys did a fantastic job in arresting the 13 individual at the

Kim Hung jewelry store.

And I hope we will continue to arrest

the last remaining, including the organized group

that had plagued the whole Bay Area

with this smash and grab.

I do have a question for the police department

regarding recruitment.

with the amount of academy and recruitment

will the department able to offset all the attrition rate

and including people who are separation from the police department

Steve Donahue for captain for the police department thank you for your question council member

as you know from the presentation in October to this committee

recruitment is difficult for the police department. The social political climate

in the country is really tough to recruit police officers right now and

our recruiting units are an exceptional job trying to find new and innovative

ways to do that. I think some of those ways are going to be very very fruitful

for our agency. For example the working with the military and going into the

opportunity to before somebody discharges from the military they have

six months to prepare for a job and we can get into that that niche and then try to help them

you know acclimate into a job upon release from the military things like that. So I can't say for

certain that we will be able to overcome the attrition but I do know that we have bright

outset with the military recruitment that we're doing, the local recruitment that we're doing

and we are seeing an increase in our numbers.

We're seeing more females participate in our academies

and we're seeing our numbers pick up.

So hopefully we're going to be able to get to that tipping point very soon.

Thank you.

With our recent redistricting in your department,

did that help increase the response to our citizen call?

Thank you for your question.

That's actually my project.

Yes, redistricting theoretically is going to decrease our response times.

So we're running two pilots right now in our Western Division, one for district-wide dispatching and one for two-person cars.

Upon the redistricting of the department, our expectation is that we will be district-wide dispatching,

which means that the closest unit will go to that call for service as opposed to a unit particularly

assigned to that area who may not be as close as someone else is at that time. So that would,

of course, theoretically speed that up. The other thing is that it's a redistribution of personnel

based on call volume and workload. So what you'll find is that those districts that have higher call

volumes and higher workloads are going to become smaller in geographic size and

that will allow for the officers to respond quicker and be more readily

available to those calls in that area so yes theoretically we will be able to

reduce our call response times upon redistricting thank you and I just want

to say captain Tran in my district had been extremely responsive to the citizen

needs and I just wanted him to be recognized for that thank you chief

Sapien I know that station 33 32 I'm sorry 32 is on track to to open in in

June of 2026 where we're still aligned with that particular goal yes council

member we are looking springtime ribbon cutting for station 32 I'll look forward

to that including Station 8 here coming up pretty soon.

Has the reopening of the MED-30, have you found it helpful

with many of the aspect that MED-30 can support our department?

Thank you for that question.

As you're aware, the redeployment of MED-30 was to occur early December.

That is in process, so too early to make an evaluation of outcomes.

But we do anticipate, based on a reevaluation of MED-30 duties and the support needs for

our EMS division, that it will, of course, have some benefit.

Thank you.

last question for you is we we talked about the first responder fee program

where are we on that and we I know that we're looking to launch it in in January

of 2026 and I would imagine the line personnel is it's clear of their

response responsibility and and how they communicate that to our resident out

there yeah thank you for the question yes we are on track for a start in January

2026 right now we're in the process of engaging the community in a variety of

ways we provided a an issue specific web page we have availed ourselves to

community meetings in fact I have one tonight in district 8 and then we have

printed materials that will be available for distribution that will look just like this

as we go out there.

And our responders have received a round of training through, I think, a process you're

familiar with, which is called seldom-use skills, which happens once or twice a year,

where they received some training on how the process will work.

They will also have the handout material available for each call that they go on.

They can leave information behind.

I think as as we had described early with City Council what we are able to

have our responders tell the community is that we are looking for insurance

information and that our residents will not be billed directly otherwise that's

all we're looking for fantastic thank you thank you again I I want to emphasize

how grateful we are before the work of the fire department and the leadership

I do have a question for John Risto.

Now, I know we've been, the Olive Program has been implemented.

As you well know, we're lack of what you call a safe parking site,

and I've been working with Eric Sullivan to find a few spots there in District 7.

As we play whack-a-mole, in a sense.

So recently we did abatement on District 7 on 7th Street.

Now I've seen a plague of RVs, if you will, right there on Lucretia at this point.

As of last night, I counted about seven, including some commercial trucks that, you know,

it's illegal to park out there on a public street.

what can we do about that John so currently we are doing another citywide inventory of

oversized lived-in vehicles we should wrap that up in about a week so we'll make sure that Lucretia

is has been reviewed and make sure it's in that potential list that inventory that we're doing

right now is to inform us for next the next six months of program for all of

so if Lucretia is meeting that sort of criteria we'll make sure to count that

in that inventory in terms of I think you also mentioned cell 7th and that's

one of our problem areas right in your district and we've been there multiple

times and so the the next steps on those sites are we're bringing we will be

bringing to council right after the first of the year the locations we're

going to recommend permanent towway signage and that was included in the

first MBA they created the olive program it asked us to look at ten potential

locations we're looking at up to 15 so the seventh streets is one of those

continual problem areas and that is definitely on our list to look at and

then we will be reviewing all those sites with each council office that's

going to have one of those over the next month or so so there's a plan to to

effectively sought permanently sign these places that are problem locations

and then we've got another inventory for a whole nother round of olive program

starting in January so should be some more coverage through the city for that

just to mention again there's another program we're going to start up that's

been funded by council that's going to be a supplemental to olive program olive goes after

the large sites we've got one that's going to start up that's going to be just a smaller scale

effort going after uh ones or two locations of of some of the lived-in vehicles that'll start

out to the first year as well so i think we're going to try to cover a number of things within

the existing programs and then that new one yeah i just want to clarify for the residents that

prior to abatement uh dot and code enforcement out going out there with our non-profit organization

making sure that we offer uh location we offer help for our unsheltered resident prior to the

abatement is that correct

yes when there is actually shelter to be made available and that's our housing department will

do that so they do that outreach and if there is whether you know there's a spot at one of the safe

parking locations for a vehicle to move into or if there is available short-term shelter our housing

department intervenes and all that bait and then does that outreach prior to the abatements all

right well thank you very much and for andrea i just want to say thank you for uh to prns

i know that is heavy burden too with beautifies sj and many other um activity throughout the city

um and and you guys have been doing a fantastic job i just want to say thank you so other than

Other than that, any other questions or comments?

Nope, I don't see any.

Let's vote.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right, well thank you so much.

We're now going to open forum.

Do we have any public comments?

Yes, Blair, please make your way down to the podium.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman.

I'm very worried that Bayouasi, the federal agency in charge

of emergency preparedness and planning for local Bay Area communities,

may be going through some considerable changes in what may be the future direction of Bayouasi.

And yet from this, Bayouasi Approval Authority may not be seeking much needed,

simple additional good help, ideas, and choices, and advice from other local Bay Area governments

and communities at this time.

It seems concerning as local Bay Area governments and communities,

please continue to ask questions and for clarifications about what exactly can be the future

of choices of Bayouasi emergency preparedness and possible upcoming Bayouasi changes

that will be much affecting the future of local Bay Area communities.

Thank you.

I wanted to comment that I'm understanding that you're currently being,

the city of San Jose is being sued in a way by the, taken to court by Electronic Frontier Foundation

over your use of surveillance technology.

And your police department has had too much of an easy access

to surveillance technology is the argument.

And they're accessing it in ways that are questionable.

In being from San Diego this time, we're making,

trying to make a really strong fight.

It's still in the beginning stages that a warrant has

to be served or has to be prepared after a 24-hour period

of initial data collection that you have to have a warrant

in order to see the data.

It's a good case.

I think it asks important questions at this time.

And perhaps most importantly at all, for me, these questions are offering that I think San Jose put in way too much surveillance technology.

And you guys are now trying to deal with that.

We can really do the same amount of good public safety work with a lot less tech, really.

And I hope you guys work on that and that we're not building our future at this plateau of good police.

Back to the committee.

Well, meeting adjourned.

and wish everyone a happy holidays.

Thank you.