[please stand by] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President hirsch would like to take call . Yes, thank you. Phones off please. Vice president taylor is excused. [roll call] president hirsch, you have a quorum, also with us are chief scott and director henderson from the department of police accountability. Thank you. Good evening. Happy new year to everybody. I want illike to congratulate the mayor on starting her first day of her first full term. We have a full calendar, so there will be two minutes for Public Comment. With that, we are ready to go. All right. Administratively, line item 2c and closed session 9b has been removed from the calendar or for the agenda. Line item 1, to ask of minutes, action for the meetings of december 4 and 11, 2019. 2c, the Youth Commission requested that we put their comments over by a month because they were n
From the department of police accountability. Thank you. Good evening. Happy new year to everybody. I want illike to congratulate the mayor on starting her first day of her first full term. We have a full calendar, so there will be two minutes for Public Comment. With that, we are ready to go. All right. Administratively, line item 2c and closed session 9b has been removed from the calendar or for the agenda. Line item 1, to ask of minutes, action for the meetings of december 4 and 11, 2019. 2c, the Youth Commission requested that we put their comments over by a month because they were not prepared, is that right . Yes, they didnt meet due to the holidays. Okay. All right. One or two . 2c and closed session. And 9b. Thank you. Okay. First item again, please . Adoption of minutes for december 4 and 11 so moved. Second. Any Public Comment on our adoption of the minutes . Seeing none, it is closed. Can we have all in favor . Aye any opposition . All right. It passes unanimously. Line item
Decision. And i dont understand the less Lethal Weapon is not a policy but the Lethal Weapon itself is in policy. So for the commission, we had to be very limited on comments, because this case is also a d. P. A. Case that will probably land in front of this commission. So d. P. A. And director henderson and i have met and conferred on this case, so we have to be limited in our comments. I was going to say the same thing, because d. P. A. Is in those things too but if there are open investigations in some of these cases, which is the case. [off mic] bringing it to us as a decision made by the Police Department. They looked at their own shooting. Which over and over again, shouldnt be investigating their own shootings. But you are investigating your own shootings. Just policy violations for the same shooting [off mic] even disciplined [off mic] training or something with some kind of exception. Its just not do all these other things and thats out of policy, but its in policy. So to the
Thank you. Next line item. Line item 1e, commissioner announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration. Action. Our next meeting is january 8, is that right . Thats right. January 8, 2020 at city hall room 400. All right. Next line item. The public is invited to comment online item 1a through 1e. Good evening. My name is john jones. I would like to follow up on the chairs comment that Public Comment is going to be curtailed this evening because you are all so busy. It has been my impression over the years ive attending these meetings that this commission is uniquely unresponsive to the Public Comment. Ive rarely if ever seen a commissioner ask a question about someone commenting. If you care about what they say, you ask a question about it. The most important thing to this commission is the speakers add here to the twominute limit because god forbid we dont want to waste your time. With respect to the twominute limit, i think some people come up to this podium merit m
Communities. Thank you. Next line item. Line item 1e, commissioner announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration. Action. Our next meeting is january 8, is that right . Thats right. January 8, 2020 at city hall room 400. All right. Next line item. The public is invited to comment online item 1a through 1e. Good evening. My name is john jones. I would like to follow up on the chairs comment that Public Comment is going to be curtailed this evening because you are all so busy. It has been my impression over the years ive attending these meetings that this commission is uniquely unresponsive to the Public Comment. Ive rarely if ever seen a commissioner ask a question about someone commenting. If you care about what they say, you ask a question about it. The most important thing to this commission is the speakers add here to the twominute limit because god forbid we dont want to waste your time. With respect to the twominute limit, i think some people come up to this p