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Police commission approves MOU with SFMTA, sets work-order funding at about $8.99 million
Summary
The San Francisco Police Commission approved a memorandum of understanding with the SFMTA that formalizes work orders for traffic-company and transit-related police services; commissioners pressed for clearer language about redeployment and documentation of concerns for the record.
The San Francisco Police Commission on June 10 approved a memorandum of understanding formalizing how the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will pay the police department for transit-related enforcement.
Ken Bukowski, the SFPD chief financial officer, told commissioners the final agreement reduced the department's earlier proposal for traffic-company work orders from about $13.7 million to "approximately $8,990,000 related to traffic company activities," which he described as roughly 57% of the traffic company's estimated $15.7 million cost.
The MOU also updates how the police department and SFMTA will communicate operational changes. Deputy Chief Perra read added language intended to require that an "officer in charge, through the chain of command, shall inform the SFMTA in advance if possible of any change in assignment lasting more than five business days." The language also appears in sections that require notifying SFMTA of arrests or other matters deemed "newsworthy" by the officer in charge.
Commissioners pressed staff on two related points: whether the MOU implicitly dedicates traffic-company personnel exclusively to SFMTA routes and how payments would be adjusted if personnel were redeployed to other citywide duties (for example, pedestrian-safety assignments). Deputy Chief Perra said the document allows redeployment for critical incidents and other departmental needs and that, if the department could not document providing $8,990,000 worth of MTA-related services, the recoverable amount could be reduced accordingly.
President Theresa Sparks asked that the commission's concerns be recorded and either incorporated in clarifying language proposed to SFMTA or included as an addendum in the record if SFMTA declines changes. Bukowski and the chief's office said they would prepare suggested language and a memo describing the commission's questions for the MTA.
A motion to approve the MOU was made, seconded and approved without objection.
What comes next: staff said they will propose minor clarifications to SFMTA and place the commission's concerns in the file as an addendum if the agency does not accept edits.
