To be a good budget time in comparison to the past because revenues clearly are going up. I want to make sure that i understand what this means in terms of opening the door to these reserves and what how that is used, i personally dont really understand all lot about it necessarily. And what it means in terms and if we open it up to use it, are we opening it up to use it all or some of it . But also, i want us to be responsible with how we allocate resources. I think that there have been savings from some of the changes that we made but also would like to try and stay within the context of the existing budget if there is more wiggle room without necessarily going into our savings but more importantly i would like to see us put more into savings and also make sure that we are balancing the needs of each and every district i appropriately especially with a lot of the challenges we face. Want to make sure that were doing everything we can to strike a balance to be able to continue to be r
Helpful relief during this period but our analysis at that time indicated that we needed more to avoid really Significant Service cuts streaming down the economy. We can never predict when that downturn will occur which is part of the challenge frankly a budget revenue projections but we do know that when it does occur, having adequate reserves help us carry us through to the extent possible. Although we have improved at this level indiscernible from a highlevel perspective the concern that creates for us and the mayor and the board in adopting this policy was the you have less money available at the exact moment in time when the demand for Public Services tends to be the highest . When unemployment is higher . When the economy sucking down . I think that is what this reserve was intended to get to. We specifically commented on two different reserves, the litigation reserve and the benefits reserve and we continue to stay to the board of supervisors that there is the potential of reall
Possible. Although we have improved at this level indiscernible from a highlevel perspective the concern that creates for us and the mayor and the board in adopting this policy was the you have less money available at the exact moment in time when the demand for Public Services tends to be the highest . When unemployment is higher . When the economy sucking down . I think that is what this reserve was intended to get to. We specifically commented on two different reserves, the litigation reserve and the benefits reserve and we continue to stay to the board of supervisors that there is the potential of reallocation of 310 minute dollars in those two reserves based on prior experiences and projections to the best that we know them today. Thank you. Supervisor breed . Supervisor breed just two quick questions for clarification. I know that there are a lot of different funds and in this particular case is this where reserves are kept for potential litigation . To the controller. Supervisor
Captain. Okay, so now we talked about weapons, and we talked about our gun laws and now, i am going to have captain joseph mcfaden is going to address you and show you number one how we track gun violence in our city and also how we respond to an act of violence involving a act of a weapon or a gun in our city. Thank you. President mazzucco, commissioners, director hicks good to see you. I have been in front of these commissions just over the past several years for different reasons, mostly, that was a ois director that sergeant crudo now has. The first picture that i am showing you here is of our shooting victims list, dating back to 2008. And upwards to 2012. And we have this steady decrease from 2008 of shooting victims. As you can see in the top chart there, out of the 147 victims, of 2012 that were shot in San Francisco, we had 46 that died with the total of 193, however, there has been a slight decrease over the years since 2008 of shootings, that can be associated to whether som
Home and it may penetrate through several walls and cause more damage than a hallow point, i dont know if that is really the answer to, i dont think that it really makes a difference and the bullet is dangerous. The mayor was talking about black talon. That is the one that i was talking about that has a jagged edge and it is mainly to destroy more human tissue and to stop the threat of whatever, you know. I didnt realize that the black talon was the same as the hallow. It is hallow and it has several different designs and that is just one particular design that they have. Again, a bullet is inherently dangerous and a hallow point may not be more dangerous than a regular, full metal jacket in my opinion. Thank you. Thank you, officer. Thank you for your time. Well as you can see he is truly an expert and he loves what he does and i thank him for that explanation, that was like an 8hour class that we got in 20 minutes. And moving on will be the captain and he will give an overview of the