Could you please call the roll. Absolutely. [Roll Call] Commissioner Hamasaki will join us in 15 minutes. Im not sure about brookter. [Roll Call] you have a quorum. Great, thank you, very much. All right, ladies and gentlemen, lets begin our meeting with the pledge of allegiance, please, if you can stand and place your righthand over your Heart And Repeat after me. 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. All right, everyone, lets go ahead and get started. Sergeant, please call the first item. Clerk my apologies. Joining us tonight in chief william scotts absence, because he is attending a meeting, is d. C. E. And we also have from the Police Accountability Dr. Paul henderson. First item is public comment. So general public comment at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission. For up to two minutes that are within the subject Matter An
The need is there across the city. Reality now is and this is not just me. This is a consultant what they do for a living that assessed our staffing with 260 officers short in operations. That is why it is so hard to sustain these efforts. When we have ebbs and flows in employment. If we can free up officers and Supervisor Haney raised the point do other things more pressing for what we do. That will be fantastic. In the mine time we will make sure we do everything we can so this is successful. Now we are short. We try to make it happen. I am going to bring up a sideshow. Response is good to sideshows since we put together this. We are going to have a whole hearing on that, chief. The point is we have to borrow from the district stations to make that happen or you cant do it. Other spikes in crime we are doing the same thing. Even if you get reduction in 28,000 calls for service on Wellness Checks, it seems that would open up some staffing. That is the idea. Hopefully it will. That is
.. you want to introduce me first? this is david talbot and i am patrick marks, my little shop, you have probably been here, maybe not, we just celebrated seven years here. david has been a part of it. david was born in los angeles. in a log cabin. be fitting imagine, we don t know what year that was. his father was an amazing heartthrob and an actor and according to his sister margaret who wrote this book, the entertainer, quite a guy and quite a family and is brother steve is also a real interesting guy, fantastic documentary videomaker, very well known for doing the front line series and also to the baby boomers he was known as gilbert john leave it to beaver. we were a sitcom family. host: he worked in the heyday for crosser daddy. i remember. guest: the great rock and roll magazine. host: you probably know rolling stone and editor of mother jones. and interviewed david for this book the devil s chessboard and at the examiner, he was one of the first people
funding. was that your experience too and if so is that something that s on going or petered out by now? senator: shut off funding i don t know. i mean, he s a more prolific fund-raiser than i am, so he may have felt more of a difference than i did. you d have to ask him. i m not aware of any conspiracy to shut us out of anything and i m not aware of any one person or one group of people who has the ability to do that. senator paul has this legislation that lets states implement their own medical marijuana laws and make these states no longer breaking law. is that something you support on the judiciary committee? what is your stance on that? senator: is this the one that he s running with senator and had a long conversation with senator the other day. as i recall it would move marijuana from a schedule one to a schedule two; is that right? right. it has some medical benefit and allows states that legalize it to regulate it. senator: one of the reasons for doing that that
pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate ontinue beyond 1:50 p.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. gallego, for five minutes. mr. gallego. thank you, mr. speaker. today as we continue our journey through the 23rd district as i take viewers on a one-minute journey through the district, through its towns, cities, culture and its people, this morning i have the great privilege of highlighting fabin, texas. it is located in the mission valley of el paso. as of the 2010 census had a population of 8,257. it s about 30 miles southeast of el paso, located along the rio grande river and i-10. known as home