Im looking forward. Its not too far away from virginia tech. Looking forward to having dr. Joins dr. Jones. Hes an expert in a civil war era history. Especially in Civil War Veterans with opiate addiction. Phd athe subject of a binghamton university, also published a recent article in the journal of the civil war era. Hes worked on a book on the topic. This is his topic. He knows it better than anyone. We are fortunate to be the subject of his talks. He will speak for about 35 minutes, so we will have plenty of time for discussion at the end. Inay you can engage discussions with dr. Jones is pretty q and a future. Onwont be able to turn cameras or microphones of the attendees. We will do everything through the chat box. Type in your question, and we will see it and hopefully be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap up around 8 15. You can ask a question at any time. If something occurs during the talk, we can you can type it in and we will respond to them as we are able. Th
Quorum. Which brings us to item 3. Clerk mayty make a brief announcement before we move on to item 3 . Yes, please do. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations, issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgov tv. For those of you watching the live stream, theres a brief delay. On behalf of the commission, id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and sfpuc for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 415 6550001. I. D. 146 500 3304 and then press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to please mute their microphones to minimize background noise, if they have not already done so. Mr. Chair, your first item is item number 3, commissioner vacancy and possible election of a new Vice President. Thank you. And le
Finalized theres a process and theres a lot of things already baked into provide checks and balances. Moving down, we also have from a more kind of Performance Management framework struck youre, we have our competency model which ive mh370 to and i believe even jenny rice has come to this commission to talk more about the competency model and its basically a Performance Management framework that shows to every employee what success in the job, in their job, looks like. Its also a way for them to understand, how can i progress in my career. Then you can see what kind of competencies may be required for jobs that you are interested in. And so, we are developing this framework and its currently underway and been underway since want to say 2014. Through out our organization and that is such an important thing to show people what success looks like so discipline isnt even an issue, right. And and lastly things we are going to do is a huge focus of our employee Labor Relations group in a hr
Maximizing Police Presence from the charter and add it to the posting. Can we hear from the next speaker . Hi, im a resident of district 5. Im calling in like everyone else to support the amendment to remove the minimum staffing requirements for the sfpd. I also support removal of any language requiring maxization of Police Presence in our community. I just wanted to say that im also extremely disturbed by the idea that sfpd management would come up with a proposal ive been calling into the Police Commission meeting for the last couple of weeks and im disgusted and ashamed of the amount of political posturing with no accountability or responsibility. Id like to remind all of my Community Members who are sfpd is one of the racist and Brutal Police forces in the nation and has been investigated by the department of justices at the federal and state level. They have just been netanyahu. Fire department hi, im calling to support inaudible on the stands that the language should be taken off
Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is alex and im a member of the dsa and resident of the district 10. However the 1,000 walking into the charter was at 94 Ballot Initiatives and the San Francisco Republican Party and the violence crimes is down to low levels nation wide, state wide and San Francisco where last year we had a 58 year low in homicides. The charter language is outdat outdated. And in the ballot guides, public defender jeff brown warned the staffing number will quote takeaway general fund money for Critical Services like health, Drug Prevention and youth facilities and that has come true. Thank you president yee for introducing this amendment eliminating that next speaker, please. Hello h. Is sean cochran from district one in San Francisco. Im calling in support of the Charter Amendment to eliminate language that sets us minimum staffing requirements for San Francisco Police Department. This is a minimum step towards defunding and dei