DPT Code of Conduct and EEO Guidelines Resolution

In January 2006, a group of San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic dispatchers, parking officers and supervisors joined together in an effort to "change the culture" at the Department's General Enforcement Division.  In a meeting with Service Employees International Union Local 790 (now merged into SEIU Local 1021) representatives, it was agreed that the Local would support the group's effort if they were able to get approved by the DPT chapter the resolution that follows.

The resolution was passed on a near unanimous vote.  Despite the earlier agreement, the Local 790 staffers then withdrew their promise of support.

Although the San Francisco Police Commander listed in the resolution was soon relieved of her duty at DPT, Assistant Directors Debbie Borthne and Marie Holland remained in place.  If SEIU Local 790's officers had kept their word, the General Enforcement Division's assistant directors may have been removed and a more professional atmosphere instituted.  Instead, DPT, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and San Francisco government have remained corrupted.   Rogue parking supervisor Elias Georgopolous enjoys the support of the City Attorney's office and SEIU Local 1021. Whistleblowing supervisor Vidalina "Bebe" Pubill, a highly popular and professional officer, has been fired.  The rest of DPT's 300-plus employees at the General Enforcement Division remain hostage.

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Whereas, all City and County of San Francisco employees who work as officers for the Department of Parking and Traffic are bound to perform their duties in accordance with the General Enforcement Division Policy and Procedures Section 2-1  Conduct, and by city and county, state, and federal equal employment opportunity guidelines, and

Whereas, in the past two years, the General Enforcement Division Commander and Assistant Directors have failed to act upon and have denied valid departmental misconduct and EEO violation complaints brought by numerous DPT personnel against Department Assistant Directors, Supervisors, and other personnel, and

Whereas, the Manager and Assistant Manager for the Metropolitan Transportation Agency Equal Employment Opportunity office, who are responsible for the enforcement and oversight of EEO guidelines at both the Department of Parking and Traffic and at . . . Muni, have failed to act upon and have denied valid departmental misconduct and EEO violation complaints forwarded to them by the Department of Parking and Traffic, and

Whereas, since mid-2005, the Office of the Mayor of the City of San Francisco, and certain members of the County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors, have been advised of the breakdown of DPT’s enforcement of departmental conduct and EEO guidelines, and

Whereas, the administrative corruption of DPT’s code of conduct and adherence to EEO guidelines has been made known to every appropriate CCSF agency in the past ten years, and

Whereas, on November 2, 2005, the current Departmental corruption of the MTA EEO’s investigation into complaints arising from DPT was confirmed.  In a meeting on that date with DPT personnel, the EEO investigator in charge of numerous complaints against DPT Assistant Directors and Supervisors thrice denied advising the Commander and the Department to ensure the rotation of a Supervisor with multiple pending departmental misconduct and EEO charges against her to a non-505 7^th Street-based facility effective with the October 22, 2005, Supervisor Detail posting, and

Whereas, the same Supervisor was appointed in November or December 2005 by the Commander and the Department to perform assistant director duties from a desk in the Assistant Director’s Office in the DPT facility from which she was ordered removed.

Therefore, be it resolved, that the CCSF DPT membership of SEIU Local 790 call upon the SEIU San Francisco Regional Conference (to) support their chapter’s effort to establish a faithful enforcement of the employee Code of Conduct and EEO guidelines to the administration of their Department. 

Therefore, be it further resolved, that the DPT membership also call upon Local 790 to appeal to the government of the City and County of San Francisco on their behalf to ask CCSF to effect all necessary changes.  The chapter asks that such changes include the assignment of a member of San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission, who is acceptable to the membership, to investigate the multiple departmental misconduct and EEO complaints filed against DPT personnel, and to take all appropriate action from the time of the Commission’s appointment.

Approved by the DPT Enforcement Division Chapter of SEIU Local 790 on February 8, 2006.