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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10.16.23 - Equity and Public Safety Commission Meeting MinutesCity of South San Francisco Minutes of the Commission on Equity and Public Safety Monday, October 16, 2023 City Hall Conference Room 6:00 pm Commitee Members: Present: Krystle Cansino, Salvador Delgadillo, PaulaClaudine Hobson-Coard, Alan Perez, Arnel Junio (arrived at 6:09 p.m.), Steven Yee (arrived at 6:21 p.m.) Absent: Carol Sanders Staff Members: Present: Devin Stenhouse, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Adam Plank, Captain CALL TO ORDER The Mee�ng was called to order at 6:04pm. AGENDA REVIEW There are no changes to the agenda. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The Minutes from the August 21, 2023 mee�ng were approved. ITEMS FROM STAFF MEMBERS DEI Officer Stenhouse made announcements: 1. Esri, geographic data facilitator. Racial and jus�ce component. Do presenta�on for this commission. Stenhouse will meet with them next week. 2. Orange Memorial Park Sports Field opening. Wednesday at 5 p.m. 3. Saturday is Filipino American History Month celebra�on at City Hall. Starts at 10 a.m. There will be choirs. Mayor will be speaking. 4. Saturday is also Halloween Extravaganza at Orange Memorial Park. Starts at 12 p.m. a. Trunk or Treat event is an op�on for Commission to par�cipate in. 5. LPR grand opening October 28 at 11 a.m. Art show. Tabling op�on. a. Table cloth b. Logo c. Jackets 6. Holiday Bou�que at Library | Parks and Recrea�on Center on November 4 at 10 a.m. 7. 50th anniversary Thanksgiving Fun Run on November 18. PUBLIC COMMENT No public comments were made. MATTERS OF CONSIDERATIONS 1. Approval of Minutes from September 18, 2023. Commissioner Perez mo�oned and Commissioner Hobson-Coard seconded. The Commission voted to approve the minutes 6-0. 2. Review and approve slide deck presenta�on regarding the Commission’s support for the City’s Community Wellness and Crisis Response Team. Subcommitee put a presenta�on together. Commissioner Yee submited comments and sugges�ons. Slide 1: Intro Revise �tle to more accurately name the presenta�on. Remove the word “Team.” Chair Cansino: Do we have to have Star Vista’s logo? Or put the City’s logo first? Officer Stenhouse: Do we want to add Stanford? Commissioners: Yes. Slide 2: History Commissioner Yee reads the list of goals and notes. Chair Cansino: We should focus on the big goals of the General Plan. Commissioner Perez: With the notes, we may have to cut some things to keep the presenta�on 5 minutes long. Chair Cansino: Show the 7 goals and highlight #2, 3, and 6 for this presenta�on. Add the General Plan. Slide 3: Trend Chair Cansino: Show ci�es close to here. Compare similar models. Officer Stenhouse: The point of the presenta�on is to say we support the program, not provide sugges�ons. Chair Cansino explains what CAHOOTS is and believes it is important to include. Chair Cansino: Show map with pins. Commissioner Perez creates a map image. Commission agrees to use this to replace logos in the background image. Commission decides to list ci�es in alphabe�cal order and to add CAHOOTS. Slide 4: Community Benefits Commissioner Yee: Is this the right order priority of points? Commissioner Perez: Is this pulled from the Gardener report? Officer Stenhouse: This is from different ar�cles. Commissioner Perez: I think it can be worded differently. Chair Cansino: The word “shoo�ng” can be worded differently. Captain Plank suggests, “outcomes with use of force.” Chair Cansino points out that clinicians are licensed, not cer�fied. Captain Plank suggests, “reduce law enforcement involvement.” Chair Cansino: I’d hate to lead people to a thought that isn’t true. Commissioner Perez: There is evidence from the report. Do we want to say what is an�cipated effect or just state the data? Captain Plank: “Benefits/An�cipated” results for the community. That would capture what we know and what we’re expec�ng. Chair Cansino: I don’t like the word “likelihood.” Can we use “risk?” Instead of “Decreases likelihood” use “Reduces frequency.” Slide 5: Police Benefits Chair Cansino: I think South San Francisco is the only city where all officers are CIT trained. We should men�on that. Captain Plank: Almost all officers are, with the excep�on of the few newer officers who recently finished academy. Commissioner Yee: Police Officers or Police Department? Commissioner Delgado: What about moving this slide up above Community Benefits? Vice Chair Junio: I see what he’s saying. Instead of going big to small (Community to Police Officers), go small to big. Officer Stenhouse elaborates on Financial Savings bullet point. Captain Plank: Less �me wri�ng police reports. Less �me transpor�ng individuals to hospitals/courts. Officer injuries have a high fiscal impact on the City. Captain Plank suggests replacing “tragedy” with “cri�cal incident.” Officer Stenhouse: This bullet point is specific to police officers. Officer Stenhouse: There are notes we can add. Chair Cansino: I wanted to be prepared in case anyone asks ques�ons. Captain Plank: Officers meet with them and offer resources. We don’t meet with the same individual �me a�er �me. Chair Cansino: Do we have iden�fied people? Captain Plank: We don’t have that, but we recognize if we get repeated calls to the same address. Commissioner Yee: Is there a reason why that informa�on isn’t captured? Captain Plank: I don’t know if there’s anything that prevents this from happening, but the dispatcher can see if teams have been sent to the same address mul�ple �mes. Captain Plank explains that the previous mental health clinician, Chanel, had family obliga�ons that led her to leave the state. Officer Stenhouse: The clinician before had been promoted. Group: “Cri�cal incident” instead of “tragedy.” Commissioner Delgadillo: The background image blends with the text. Captain Plank: San Mateo County has training. (CIT) Slide 6: Conclusion Commissioner Yee: Is “huge” the right tone? Group: We’re prety happy with this slide. Add more “wins.” Commissioner Yee: We can increase the font size and so�en the image. Officer Stenhouse: I’ll make the image more transparent. Slide 7: Thank You Commissioner Yee: A different image. A more representa�ve visual. Add Commission photo? Stenhouse will be at the Council mee�ng, but will not be speaking. 3. Discussion on poten�al goals and ini�a�ves for the Commission for the 2024 calendar year. Officer Stenhouse: Not an item that needs to be voted on, but this is a great �me to think about goals for 2024. Retreat? Community forum? Collec�ng/gaining community concerns. Commissioner Yee: Another conference? Officer Stenhouse: Can be a conference. A panel discussion. Focus on a specific topic at each mee�ng and invite specific groups. What is the goal? What informa�on are we trying to collect? Are there subcommitees the Commission wants to form? Commissioners can atend other commission mee�ngs; all have an equity aspect to them. An opportunity to be exposed to other commissions in the City. Commissioner Yee: I think we need to ini�ally set the goal before making opera�onal decisions. Chair Cansino: We’ve spent a lot of �me on the mental health clinician. It’s good to start picking up on something else. Officer Stenhouse: Back to tabling events. We can look at upcoming City events and pick some to table at. Everyone confirms that they haven’t seen the third Gardner report. Officer Stenhouse: Send list of goals to me to agendize. 4. Discussion and poten�al ac�on on holding a November and December commission mee�ng in lieu of the holidays. Officer Stenhouse: Our November mee�ng is the same week as Thanksgiving. December mee�ng is the week before Christmas. Vice Chair Arnio: That is the one we canceled. Chair Cansino: We combined them. A sugges�on is December 4. Officer Stenhouse: There is another Commission mee�ng on the 4th, but we can make it a retreat and meet elsewhere. Is everyone available? We are vo�ng to cancel two mee�ngs and making a special mee�ng as a retreat. Vice Chair Arnio: I mo�on both November and December regular mee�ngs, in lieu of a special retreat to occur on December 4. Commissioner Yee: Second. 6 ayes, no nays. Mo�on passes. Officer Stenhouse: I’ll look at poten�al loca�ons. Each commissioner should send 3 goals to consider. Think about individual goals as well as goals for the Commission as a whole. Think about par�cular events and think about ini�a�ves. Commissioner Yee: It may be helpful to have a subcommitee to plan the retreat. Officer Stenhouse: If we have goals submited earlier, then it gives subcommitee �me. Chair Cansino: Our chairs end in December? Do we need to elect new chairs? Officer Stenhouse: I’ll look at when you started. You can nominate yourself or someone else. ITEMS FROM BOARD MEMBERS, COMMISSIONERS, COMMITTEE MEMBERS Commissioner Hobson-Coard: I have a show coming up at St. James Gate. Friday night 8 to midnight. Dancing. Good food. My band is called Love Struck. Commissioner Yee: Mental health training. I atended last Friday. It would be good if everybody went through this. Officer Stenhouse: I’ll send poten�al upcoming trainings. Chair Cansino: May is mental health awareness month. We can do something with that. Officer Stenhouse: Looking at the calendar is a good way to come up with goals. I’ll send a form for you to submit your goals. I’ll generate a report from that. ADJOURNMENT Vice Chair Junio adjourned the mee�ng at 8:45pm.