Leaders of Law Enforcement organizations, including the Police Chiefs from around the nation. Good afternoon. So, this is the order today, if its ok with everybody. I will give an Opening Statement and i have got a short video. With a few minutes to add to it. Senators feinstein, booker harris, if you would like to make Opening Statements. Is that ok . And we have some people that will do introducing to the panels. We will get to that later. So thank you for coming. We are here for a reason. Without the death of mr. Floyd we would not be here. A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. My goal is trying to define the problem, offer solutions, and talk to each other, not past each other. And i have a short video that is tough to watch. I talked to senator booker about it, the first couple of minutes, but it ends up on a very positive note. We will see if it will go from really hard to watch to something thats a little more acceptable for the country. If you could roll the video. Is
indiscernible . indiscernible . You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways, email, park and rec commission. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be included as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent Via Postal Service to sfrecreation and Park Commission in San Francisco, california, 94117. Please note in meeting is recorded and will be available on sfgov tv. We are now on item 2, the president s report. Thank you, stacie. Im just going to be very brief and i want to call out two representatives of rec and park who i think deserves credit. One is stacie white for figuring out how to make all this work and get us all organized to have a public meeting. Thank you, stacie. I very much appreciate it. The person i would like to call out and express my gratitude is commissioner Eric Mcdonald for drafting a statement on behalf of the department and the commission, expressing the outrage at the murder of george floyd and the subsequent demonstrations arou
cub÷ qinutes, instead of the previous average, which was 60 minutes. Violent crime has dropped 42 in just seven years. All of this was done without a union. All this was done by freeing the department from a collectivebargaining agreement that had previously city and the City Police Department into an unholy alliance with officers who had violent and lawless tendencies. This brought a by what all observable metrics seem to circumstances, so mr. Logan, for your healing words. I appreciate your account of the progress made in camden. You mentioned the difficult balance that has to be struck in order to empower po do the difficult work and hold accountable those who disregard the justice they are entrusted to uphold. Did this restructuring that ha camden, tell me how it helps to recalibrate ter and authority you mentioned. Thank you, senator. I would say that they listen to the people, from town Hall Meetings to conversationsthey begin to hear from regular residents. I remember governor
Of a diplomat is a sell them to solve a problem. You occasionally get the opportunity to negotiate an arms agreement that solves a part of the program, but even all of the arms control agreements between the u. S. And the soviet union never ended the tensions between the two systems, the two peoples, the different senses of ambition. We manage to we manage situations so they do not get out of hand. It is hard to define complete and total success when you are looking mostly at keeping the status quo or a slightly improved status quo. And it is hard to give credit for things that happen because people say they whether not happen anyway. It seemsthe jcpoa to me to have been a pragmatic attempt by the Obama Administration to deal with one of the Serious Problems of the iranian threat a potential nuclear program. It did not deal with proxies, Ballistic Missiles, it did not touch on religious minorities, things that people may have wanted to see included in the deal because the Obama Adminis
Elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you commissioner chow next 2. Approval of the minutes of the Health Commission community and Public Health Committee Meeting of december 19, 2023, meeting. Any corrections or additions to the minutes hearing none, motion to approve. I move to approve. My Public Comment on the minutes. Anyone in the room. Ill check to see if any handles are up great no hands so i will roll call. Commissioner chow i didnt see. Commissioner giraudo, yes. Vice president guillermo, yes. Commissioner christian and president green. And statement before we begin to take general Public Comment. Im to remind folks starting on january 16th remote Public Comment can only be permission for given if folks contact we by on a the day before two folks have permission. And here is um, a little script on general public agenda. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will