security plan that has no relation to the venue. what it maybe there is not a high security risk, but i think the security plan should somehow reference the actual venue it instead as being some boiler plate security plan. it does not reference the specific place at all. that is just a comment i want to make. >> a lot of these plans are boilerplate and then they tend to modify a little bit. the place a hold 49 people. he has one exit. the person would be there at the front to monitor. he did not want to look as if he

were guarding something. commissioner joseph: what does this mean? providing safeguards were necessary? what is that. i do not want to get on your case. i just want to tell you how i feel about the security plan. >> at that time in the morning, you have people that come in who may have had one or two too many. you do want to use discretion. it is not 9:00 to 5:00. president newlin: this was just a comment, that this was not a debate. for future modifications, it would be up to them to make those recommendations. please certainly what you to do very well down there.

-- we certainly want you to do very well down there. >> thank you. president newlin: public comment on this? welcome. >> good evening, commissioners. i represent community leadership alliance. i want to speak in support for this application of extended hours. we were unable to get you a letter of support because we had a presentation made yesterday at our community meeting. we deliberated today with our advisory panel. it is unfortunate that the commission did not receive a more specific safety plan because we did receive one from public relations. we discussed in detail before deciding to support. we are supporting this and hope you will do the same.

thank you. president newlin: all right. it looks like they gave them the plan, but not you. [laughter] all right, pat concludes public comment. -- that concludes public comment. >> i move to approve. >> i second. >> any conditions? >> pardon? >> are there any conditions? >> their agreement with the police department's stance. >> all right, good luck. president newlin: did i miss something?

all right, item number eight, commissioner comments and questions. yes? >> it is traditional for the entertainment commission to have an annual party to celebrate entertainment and to celebrate us. we are looking for a date. we usually have it sometime in july, but it is leading the way. we have our summit in august. it is going to be a little late this year. we easily do it on a monday? when do we do it? we do it today we have a meeting, that is right. we usually do not do the first meeting in september, is that right? it is usually labor day. we should come up with a date. guys, can we come up with a date

by the next meeting? president newlin: as president of this commission, i directed to come up with a date. >> did started as a birthday party because we were born on july 1 of 2003. each year, we would get a little older. it is not just for us. it is for the public. it is for our permittees. it is for anybody interested in coming to meet the commission. it is something that we will want some time to do some invitations and make sure we agenda is it. -- agendize it. we usually do not have permits, but we do have a little bit of

business. it is open to the public, just like a meeting would be. but it is not here in city hall. we will post it as such. >> i would like to suggest september 11. i take that back. oh, my god, no. i do not want to do september 11. that is our meeting date. all the way to september 25. >> are you looking at the first and third? our meeting dates have changed. >> the 18th, september 18. >> that is my 45th birthday. >> what is wrong with that? >> i like you very much, and that is also the night that the harvey milk club does its endorsements. that is not good for me in two ways. >> i will suggest that we may

be use some e-mail and do some circulating. staff will do that. do not do it amongst yourselves. we will find a date. president newlin: we do not have to hold it on a beggarly scheduled a meeting date. -- on a regularly scheduled meeting date. all right? excellent. ok. >> i have pictures of you. at our last one. president newlin: i think that should have been under item nine. >> i have a question. regarding the presentation, where do we go from there? president newlin: edification. correct me if i am wrong, it is good for us to know, but it is

under the authority of the department of public health. >> commissioner hyde had seen a similar presentation and have facilitated that presentation here mostly as point of information. clarity on this topic is useful, as it does get mixed up and people do have questions for the commission sometimes. relativity getting into certain businesses or facilitating meetings with businesses in that industry, if the commission wants to direct staff to assist him in that regard or not, that is up to you. president newlin: any public comment? the final item, new business request for future agenda items. is there any public comment o b?

that will terminate and finalize the tuesday, july 10, a meeting of the san francisco city and county of san francisco entertainment commission. thank you for coming.

>> it was an exciting event for those who wanted some long needed improvements. >> they saw it and they took care of it. >> the project is expected to open in spring, 2013. for more on the playground, includ

>> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited people are for this playground. it is very special. >> on opening day in the brand- new helen diller playground at north park, children can be

seen swinging, gliding, swinging, exploring, digging, hanging, jumping, and even making drumming sounds. this major renovation was possible with the generous donation of more than $1.5 million from the mercer fund in honor of san francisco bay area philanthropist helen diller. together with the clean and safe neighborhood parks fund and the city's general fund. >> 4. 3. 2. 1. [applause] >> the playground is broken into three general areas. one for the preschool set, another for older children, and a sand area designed for kids of all ages. unlike the old playground, the new one is accessible to people with disabilities. this brand-new playground has several unique and exciting features. two slides, including one 45- foot super slide with an elevation change of nearly 30 feet.

climbing ropes and walls, including one made of granite. 88 suspension bridge. recycling, traditional swing, plus a therapeutics win for children with disabilities, and even a sand garden with chines and drums. >> it is a visionary $3.5 million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. >> good morning. thank you for being here this morning at the san francisco police academy. i want to introduce some of the folks behind me. obviously our mayor, ed leigh. the president of the san francisco police commission. ron conway, caroline, the

director of global human engagement for hewlett packard. our chief information technology person here at the san francisco police department, leo solomon, director of project i.t. management. adam, founder of arc touch. zach, product lead, arc touch, and the newest classes of the strans police academy, lateral and spri level. the entry level officers are starting today. without delay i am going to introduce mayor leigh to explain why you are here. it is a very exciting day for me as chief of police as we step into the next stage of progressive technology for the san francisco police department. mayor ed leigh. a [applause] >> thank you, chief. thank you very much. i am glad to be here this morning and certainly the very first thing i want to do is

challenge the chief and thank all of the men and women of the new class, who will also share in the responsibility of taking care of our citizens. i want to thank you for your sacrifice and the work that you will be doing with us. our police department of course is essential to a safe city. when the chief and i first did our interviews when he was coming in to see me, we talked about the technology, and i had said in my previous role that we were part of the effort to help sue and her efforts to modernize our police department. of course within months sue was coming in to the city administrator's office telling us what the department did not have set up. with commission president mizuko and the chief, as they have come together during this administration, we wanted to take care of that in the most

passionate way. a couple of weeks ago we were up here already announcing our city's support and efforts to create multiple classes for the future to make sure that as we see so many other of our officers retire, that we fill those ranks. i think that our new recruits are completely reflective of that effort, and we will see more and more of our recruits in the months to come as they help take care of the future ranks in our city. today we are announcing a very special endeavor, one that reflects so many of our administration's effort to modernize our police force. as you know, i have been very much focused on our openness in inviting technology to help us solve problems, social problems, communication problems, challenges that each of our departments have.

and i'm thrilled because the formation that ron conway led with the creation of sf-city and the promise that not only would it be a voice for technology and innovative companies to tell us what we could do to help the industry succeed in our city, but there was also a promise that we mutually made together, which was how could we help our technology companies help us become a better city to help us serve our residents, smarter and more efficiently. we identified quite a number of projects in our city. some of them are being baked, if you will. this is one we wanted to put out front and center. six months into this new administration, we are ready to announce today that in partnership with sf-city and one of the key members, arc-touch, and h.p., hewlett

packard, we have formed a two-phase project that will address something that we have identified for many years that has hampered our police department's efficient use of time. one of the things that the street officers do on a daly basis is they have to write instant reports and get the data to do their job. most of that is done by the officers leaving the streets and returning to their stations or to the downtown office to access the ready computers that are there so they can get the data there. we don't have the mobility, if you will, to have the officers access that information while they are in their cars or on the streets. so in a two-phase process what we are doing today is

announcing a partnership with h.p., who is donating some 60 of the initial first-class laptops to be used by this particular class to train them, and sf-city is donating $100,000 in that effort with the whole training program. combined they are working with arc-touch to develop application soss that once these officers -- applications so that once he these officers are trained, arc-touch will be then in phase two developing applications so that various mobile devices in addition to the laptops, and eventually it will be tablets and then mobile applications that might be on their phones, to be able to access crime data, be able to utilize new technology in order

to transfer speech and video into written reports that will make the officers very versatile in the field. that is important to stress. one of the problems we have always faced in both limited budget times and even robust times, is whenever you have to have an officer remove him or herself off the street, out of the the presence of the community, in to a station to write reports for several hours, that presence is missing. in order for the officialses to be had, we have to develop innovatively technology that offers access in a mobile way. that is what this relationship will do for us. it begins with this donation, but the essential part that will take place in these walls is the actual training to

utilize the accessed abilities from the h.p. lap tomas into the crime data warehouse and have the applications developed over time. it's a wonderful program. it is one i think that reflects exactly the relationship that ron conway and i discussed months ago when we started this, how we can be a more efficient city, how can we save time, and how can we still have the officers perform the essential service of being physically there in the neighborhoods on our streets, protecting our citizens and visitors. so this is a wonderful announcement. i am fully endorsing this. i want to thank the chief and the president of the commission and the whole commission. i want to give a strong shutout-out to sf-city and the members, who have stepped up so quickly to identify this area that will have endless, i think, solutions to giving us

the ability to be even more efficient. the time-saving aspect of this is so critical because the more police presence that we have as we invite and have events in the city, we have to have the officers out there even more. so over a short period of time, you will see the absorption of this technology into our officers presence out there. i think in a very short time the ability to have mobile applications will be a very, very good answer of efficiencies for our officers. again, i want to thank h.p. their team is here today. arc-touch, and their leaders are here. of course sf-city. this is just one. we have so many other departments that are asking for modern technology. as we go through other things, we will come out of our baking

oven and on to modernizing our whole city government. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i can't tell you how exciting this is for the san francisco police department. much has been made in the media that we are currently down between hundred and some-odd officers, and we will be down 300-plus officers by this time next year before we catch the bounce from these new officers hitting the streets. by being able to have these officers remain in the field through mobile technology, it will increase their time on the street 3-4 hours a day, 30% to 40% a day. multiply that times the well over 1,000 officers we have in the field, and you can imagine the efficiency that promotes for the police department and contribute toward public safety. i have to tell you though, mayor leigh is all about

efficiency, technology, public safety, and public-private partnership, and we are lucky to have as our mayor. with what a friend of mine saw in 2003, and we are naming this the michael j. homer initiative. his mom's sister and niese just walked into the room over here. so i am going to ask them to come forward. mike was a tech giant, one of the starters of net escape, and bill campbell, ron conway, and todd bradley of h.p. we would often talk about having to make san francisco and the police department the most technologically progressive police department in the country. and if we could ever be in a position to make that happen, we would do that. then we were blessed with a mayor who wanted to see that happen and an i.t. director

that could make it happen. so going forward, this initiative, however it can help the san francisco police department be connected and then hopefully eventually grow it regionally, to make it simple, this is in fact the bat computer. we can punch a single piece of information into a google search system to tell us what we need to know, whether it is a car, a person, a description like that. we can find it out like that. you would think we would have been able to do this already, but that has not been the case. we just got e-mail department-wide last year. so we have moved tremendously just in the last 13 months, and we have left the note post-it days, and we are now into a google searchable web base data warehouse and now have a partnership with sf-stit, h.p.,

arch-touch and a mayor pushing the whole thing forward with his full sort. and these officers behind me will never know a desk top computer. they will only know mobile technology, and that includes the three classes a year for the next six year and two classes a year after that. so eventually we will be the most tech no logical progressive police department to make this -- not only san francisco, but the entire bay area as safe a community as there is in the country. so i think you, and again i want to recognize mike's mom, irene homer, sue homer, and sue's gorgeous daughter. [applause] for giving us mike for as long as we had him. there wasn't a smarter guy on

the planet. we will try to carry on in his memory. our next speaker will be president thomas mizuko of the police commission. [applause] >> thank you. i will be brief. you noticed some emotion with the chief. he was good friend with mike homer. he was very successful in the computer industry. yet he never lost his friend who were working and serving the city as police officers. i know they were very dedicated to him. so i want to thank his family. when i first joined the police commission four years ago, we were having a meeting regarding crime mapping, and it was important to us to have the community able to go online and see what is going on in their area. then i asked the chief, "well, when the officers get to work, are they able to go on line in their station and see what has been happening in their car sector