Order. Could you all rise for the pledge of allegiance . Madam president , may i call roll . You may, please. President loftus . Here. Vice president turman . En route. Commissioner marshal, excused. Commissioner mazzucco . Present. Commissioner dejesus excused. Commissioner wong . Present. Commissioner melara. Present. Madam president you have a quorum. Welcome to the september, 24th, community meeting, in the Central Station in a very special place, we are as we all know, at gordon lou Elementary School and i see a lot of faces in the audience that i suspect are students. Is that right . Yes, so this is a beautiful audience that we have with incredible food and lots of energy. Welcome to what is the greatest joy for myself and my fellow commissioners which is a chance to come out to the community, talk about the issues, that are effecting the Police Department, the issues that are effecting the neighborhood and this is what we love to do. So thank you for hosting us here. And i would
Resolution to insert the proposed recommendations into the record. So moved without objection, this item moves forward excuse me, these recommendations are inserted into the record and amended in the current resolution that has been provided. [ gavel ] and so is there a motion to move this item wholly as a Committee Report to the full board as recommended. Yes, there is. That you, with, that the motion passes and this item goes to the full board for positive recommendation. Thank you. [ gavel ] okay, madame clerk, can you please call the final item. Item no. 5 is a hearing on the recently published 201314 civil grand jury report entitled survey of San Francisco Commission Websites. Okay. So from the civil grand jury we have mike, you are coming up again for this item . Good afternoon. Chairperson breed, and supervisor tang. I appreciate your time in hearing about this report. Again, im a member of the 20132014 civil grand jury and as part of our inquiries we conducted a survey of Commi
Madam president , may i call roll . You may, please. President loftus . Here. Vice president turman . En route. Commissioner marshal, excused. Commissioner mazzucco . Present. Commissioner dejesus excused. Commissioner wong . Present. Commissioner melara. Present. Madam president you have a quorum. Welcome to the september, 24th, community meeting, in the Central Station in a very special place, we are as we all know, at gordon lou Elementary School and i see a lot of faces in the audience that i suspect are students. Is that right . Yes, so this is a beautiful audience that we have with incredible food and lots of energy. Welcome to what is the greatest joy for myself and my fellow commissioners which is a chance to come out to the community, talk about the issues, that are effecting the Police Department, the issues that are effecting the neighborhood and this is what we love to do. So thank you for hosting us here. And i would like to start off with thanking a very special principal
On longterm disability and their positions are being held, preventing the hire of new deputies. This results in serious overtime costs and additional responsibilities and workload for staff. The city has a policy of limiting the time an employee receives temporary payments that leads to eventual permanent disability status and financial closure. Thereby opening up positions for newhires. And the recommended response i have is that we agree. But to note in the response text that the board of supervisors notes that the Sheriffs Department deputies disputes the figure of 50 deputies noting that some of the employees included in the figures are actually out on smla, military or medical leave and the civil grand jury is right to recognize this process as a financial drain on the department that impedes its ability to fill positions. As the department of Human Resources notes, most of the operative laws are beyond San Franciscos authority, but practical improvements can be made by bringing e
Environment as it can be. And one of the things that occurs is these incendiary comments that are coming from the Union Leaders that actually worsen the situations instead of improving it. And what happens is some of the comments from Union Leaders achieve the opposite of what the Union Leaders want to achieve. They actually make Police Officers lives more put them at more risk. So i think itll be great for unions to understand that our job is to protect our members. But, you know, our job is to also serve the public and their voice matter and certain things they feel, if they feel like certain things are occurring, a way that its not supposed to we should take heed to that and listen to them. Thank you, sir. Sorry, thank you. Thank you very much. I want to thank the panel for your testimony and for being here today. Now, i turn it over to Task Force Members for any questions they may have for any of the panelists and well start with the chief. I want to thank you all for taking the ti