Committee. My name is sean elsbernd, chair, we are joined by supervisor chai and today we have supervisor mark ferrell sitting in. Our clerk is alisa miller. Please read one and two. Alisa miller item 1 is a miewn operations performance, item 2 is urging muni to prioritize eligible funds for maintenance. Vice president elsbernd do supervisor wiener thank you, mr. Chairman. I along with supervisors farrell, and carmen chiu to hiement this for muni to maintain its vehicles and invest in the system. Muni service has been deteriorating and it has to stop and it needs to stop now. Muni is part of the life blood of san francisco. It carries approximately 600,000 people every day. For many people, particularly low income people, working class, people and seniors, muni is often the only way to get around. Given critical importance of muni to the daytoday life the voters in 99 voted to make sure sheuns top priority is to provide safe and convenient Transit Service to all neighborhoods. This isn
Week, we get the fourth of july week. And so, friday, june 20th. And it was the next one. Now, regarding the status of our officer involved shooting investigations. As you have seen, from the materials with you, and there are currently, 20 open officer involved shooting investigations in various stages. And three cases were closed last week and that does not include, the three cases that were completely closed and finished out all documentation completed since the last time that i presented and not counting those and they will not appear on the lists except to show as a closed case, three new cases did open and one, 14, 002, occurred on the 4th of february. And 14003 occurred on the 8th of march and 14004 occurred on the 21st of march and i will get into those more but you ve been briefed on some of these. 5 cases have active very active criminal or administrative components of the investigations at this point. And in one case we have received the charging decision letters from the das
An officer that possibly should be completely cleared of any wrong doing and has that hanging over their head for 18 months and that is not something that i think that this commission under states at all and maybe it is possible that i can take some of my and i have an idea after two years of giving you this speech, maybe i should bring them to the da and share them with my colleagues. That might be. Thank you. Two years to come up with that idea. Hopefully next time we have this back and forth i will have more information to my own yeses that should be posed to them. I agree with you, it is very difficult to the officers and their families and we do our best to sort of mitigate that by letting them know what the process and and how long it takes, with the lieutenant nevan, and i conduct an officer involved shooting class, and we cover one day of the class we cover actually investigative process with the idea of the officers understanding that this is not, a reflection or anything, thi
Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner turman . Actually, all of my questions were asked by commissioner dejesus on the exact same page. And i was really interested is there anything that we can do to help work with the das office to move this along faster. But you have answered that for me, sergeant thank you. Commissioner loftus . I bet that you can tell me what i am going to say, because i say the same thing. One, incredible job. Great work putting this altogether and two, 18 months is just too long. And i am saying it to say it to you because you are here, and i would apologize in advance. But what it is bad for a couple of reasons and just for the people who are watching, on one hand, if a crime was committed cases dont get better, the best Defense Attorneys know that the more time that goes, the case does not get better, memory fade and evidence you know goes by the way side and people are less interested, if something bad did happen and there is a crime we want to hold that officer
Sequestration. Over 650,000 furloughs begin today for civilian workers. This morning, we want to hear your reaction and your thoughts on sequestrations impact on the military. We have a special phone line open for Defense Department employees. Otherwise, the rest of the numbers arent your screen. Are on your screen. You can also catch up with us and all your favorite social media pages. Or you can email us. A very good monday morning to you. Congress is back in session this week but also today, 650,000 civilian defense workers are set to begin their furloughs. Want to hear from you. We have a line open for dod employees. We want to hear how sequestration is impacting you. Our other phone lines are open but lets start with this story from the Washington Post. We will be covering that story in our first 45 minutes. The phone lines are open to get your thoughts on the matter. Let me read you a bit of the letter that secretary hagel sent to the department of defense staffers at of these fu