panels and are they on track to do it and i think there has been a huge delay 18 months or more on city projects already? >> good evening commissioners. i am david goldman chief f officer. you know that we have a strong relationship with the puc and receive the water and power at 1/3 the cost everybody pace for in their house they fund our sustainability and sponsor a number of projects. they have some funding to come in and do solar installations at certain sites in our district that they deem to be appropriateness and it has a new roof. it's in a

part of town that sets a lot of sunshine and typically the size of a roof that works for a about a $500,000 installation. the advantage of these installations is that they install it for free. they maintain it for 25 years and we get the power in the school at exactly the same rate we would pay if it came across a wire from hetch hetchy, so it's sort of the universal win-win of going green. now, on the flip side we're also doing some of our own installations so we're trying both. we have just finished the first one that they did for us at el dorado and the puc subcontracted the work out to their solar provider commissioner. the project was done complete on time and on schedule with the group and in

fact the grand opening of the installation, and i think commissioner wynns was due to be one of the keynote speakers happened to fall on the day of the connecticut tragedy and it was canceled so that is still to happen so i can't speak to the particulars commissioner. can i get you the information. i can tell you that first one was done over the summer. it went smoothly. the school is delighted and we're hoping to move forward. we think thurgood marshall that has a great flat roof and downtown high school obviously in a place with a lot of sun and we scheduled ortega to be third and we need to do modernization and need a new roof and target certain places in the city and high profile.

so far so good and as with all things we need to stay on top of it. >> yes thank you. so i agree that it's a really good deal. it's great. we have a great partnership with the puc. i think my question is how are we addressing the confusion who will do the work and do we know in terms of the contract who is actually installing the solar panels? >> actual name -- our contract is with the san francisco puc so they have taken on the contract. they have taken on the liability and they have taken on the job of providing the contractor and getting their bond and insuring that work is done on time. we monitor that what we get works for us, can be intaughted on the building the way it should be and force them to go to the architect and get it approved. we can get you that information

but i personally don't have it at hand. >> thank you. >> roll call please. >> on 10, 11, 12. >> yes. >> yes. >> >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> aye. >> thank you and ms. norton. >> yes. >> seven aye's. >> thank you. okay. we will move on to item q, superintendent's proposals first reading. can i hear a motion and a second for guiding principles regarding practices for the san francisco unified school district. item listed here. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. this item will be referred to the rules committee for consideration, and i believe that is it for item q. item r

board member proproposals and there are none tonight. next item i will read the stapding committee and read them into the record so for the year business service will be chaird by commissioner wynns and commissioner haney and mendoza will be members. buildings grounds and service be chaired by commissioner mendoza and vice mayor fewer and president norton will be members of that committee. curriculum and program will be chaired by commissioner murase and vice mayor fewer and commissioner maufas will be members of the that committee. rules and policy and legislation chaired by commissioner haney and president norton will be members and ad hoc will be chaired by commissioner murase and

commissioner haney and wynns will be members. ad hoc committee on personnel matters i chaired by vice mayor fewer and commissioner mendoza will also be a member. the school select submit is comprised of norton, wynns and mendoza and the joint committee ad hoc the co-chair will be commissioner haney, commissioner race and myself will also be members. at this point could everybody tell me if you have determine the the dates for your committee and times? yes commissioner haney why don't we start with you. >> yes rules and policy and legislation meeting third wednesdays at 630. >> [inaudible]

>> commissioner haney have you scheduled your first meeting? yes, i think it's february 20, whatever that third wednesday is, so yeah. >> you will have another shot to announce it. commissioner murase. >> the curriculum committee will remain on the first monday at 6:00 p.m. and planning to meet on february 4. the ad hoc committee on student assignment -- i requested the third wednesday at 6:00 p.m.. i'm not sure if there is a conflict but that's what i requested. >> okay. that is building and grounds. commissioner mendoza have you determined a date for buildings and groupeds? >> our plan was to keep it on the same monday but i believe we were having challenges with it this month because of the

holiday, so but it will be the -- we want to try and keep it scheduled for the third monday of the month. >> okay. so would that conflict with student assignments? >> yeah. >> okay. but you don't necessarily intend to have a meeting every month of student assignments or do you? >> i do but i will poll my committee members for another night. >> okay. okay. so we're -- so then buildings and grounds will remain as is. commissioner fewer. >> that's fine. personal labor will meet on a as needed basis . the chief of human resources requested that perhaps we have a meeting after march when he i think his staff is able to gather more information about his report on the diversity of our staff. thank you. >> okay. do you have all the information that you need?

okay. thank you very much. >> can i make -- >> yes, one orthoon the city school district i am meeting with supervisor kim tomorrow and she wants to just have one meeting a month and not the two. >> [inaudible] >> right. she just wants -- it's been twice a month but one gets canceled so she only wants to -- she is going to say i'm only doing one per month. >> [inaudible] >> yeah and they will stay on thursdays at 330 and i believe it's the third thursday. i actually think she wanted that but i will confirm that tomorrow with her. >> okay thank you everybody. commissioner wynns. >> i couldn't hear any of you it except it's about the select committee which i am a member of. >> we'll have ms. cast codistribute this to the board

but the information was supervisor kim, former commissioner kim will only have selected committee once a month and the plan is the third thursday at 3:00 p.m. >> thank you. >> okay. now, other board delegates to membership organizations. miss casco i was going to name commissioner haney to that. do i do that now? >> you can. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> i was waiting until you left the room but you didn't leave the room. any other reports by board members? >> can i ask on the council great city schools former president yee had appointed me as the delegate for the council. is that going to remain? >> i had assumed if had ain't

broke don't fix it. >> if i may -- >> feel free. >> thank you. >> yes. >> i have some brief announcements. i just want to really acknowledge common sense media and merv lapis for their great collaboration on january 18 for our district wide internet safety instruction day. it's been a really wonderful partnership and they have brought over $100,000 in resources to the district to make sure that our kids understand media literacy, internet safety. i want to congratulate the five keys charter high school winter class of 2013 who graduated today. [inaudible] celebration and celebrate chinese new years on the second and the commissioners are invited to the celebration

of rosa parks birtd day at rosa parks. chinese new years celebration is also that day at 1030 and wanted to congratulate the winners of the richmond district spelling bee that included elementary schools in the richmond district. thank you. >> i would like to wish everybody because the next meeting is february 12 i happy chinese new year. >> okay. yes commissioner mendoza. >> really quickly i want just to share with everyone the wonderful experience during the mlk celebration. they do an annual event at the theater which is always sold out and always amazing and filled with youth who express yourself in ways that you can't imagine unless you experience it so i encourage you all to support

youth speaks and the great work they're doing. i want to congratulate ucsf mission bay campus for their 10 year anniversary which was exciting to have and then lastly i think we already acknowledged this but i wanted to thank mayor lee for the proposal he's putting forward to not pull the trigger for this and the first time since the city has been allowed to pull the trigger it's not being pulled by the mayor and that is exciting so thank you mayor lee. >> thank you. thank you for the applause. okay. item t, report of closed session action. there are nothing to report. the next one is posted in the agenda. next item is adjournment.

meeting adjourned. we were going to recess to closed session. >> okay. i would like to introduce lt. dwight retired from the san bernardino police department, graffiti-fighter extraordinaire. he will be our next speaker, so please listen to mr. dwight waldo. [ applause ] >> thank you, drew. i'm very pleased to be here and

i'm pleased to see so many people attending. my program basically is on training and expertise, being able to go out and understand the graffiti culture and take it to court for successful prosecution. just a little background. i won't read it all. i was a lt. the last three months and if you google me under "sergeant" you will find nothing. i stick with sergeant, because there is google on there. i was with the city of san bernardino, california, 80 miles outside of los angeles. i'm recognized as an expert in graffiti and i have done everything from being an officer to being a supervisor of the unit, to be a supervisor

of multi-agency units dealing with it, to being the executive director for the entire state california state association of graffiti inspectors. so i have a fair amount of background. i was first involved in 1991 in the gang unit to deal with the guys called taggers. i continued with that until i retired last june. so it was a long two weeks. it's kind of typical, because a lot of times jurisdictions don't understand how deep the issue is when it comes to graffiti. i am a certified instructor and teach officers on this area. i have had my card handed out. this is my phone number. i have absolutely no problem with people calling me any time to discuss graffiti issues, graffiti cases. any of that stuff, i'm always

available. that is why i put my card out there. so first off, before we get into the graffiti program we have to talk about the person who is going to be dealing with graffiti when he gos to court. i understand from my experience that personnel and training are the two keys to success in any detail. we're going to talk specifically about graffiti. but in any assignment, as a police officer. when we hire on a police officer, we look for three major things besides integrity. we look for the ability to do the job, the desire to do the job, and having the interest. if you are missing any one of those three things eventually that officer is not going to be successful. and when i was in personnel training we are were only hiring academy one out of every 100 people who applied to our city. so you can see it's a very stringent requirement to get people that you are looking for to do the job you want to have done. so this is really

important when we were first initially deciding who is going to be a police officer, because we want to get them into the academy and get them through probation and make them successful officers , but it's just as important as a member of a specialty unit. there are probably people sitting in this room who said i got graffiti because nobody else wanted and it that is hard. there are officers like me and officers hired into my unit that love of job and see the value in it, see the value to the community. so you have got to have that interest or else, again, you are going to have not a successful officer. okay, so now you have found the officer and got him figured out and i talk a lot about officers, but the same applies to civilians and anybody in this audience, because my concept is anybody can be a graffiti expert. and a lot of that comes down to

training. you know, where do you find this training? well, for us as police officers, we get a lot of it through approved current training classes and things certified by the state, post-classes and that is fairly consistent within a lot of states that have a group that authorizes what kind of training an officer gets. articles and books is fairly self-explanator y and the internet. if you are curious about anything having to do with graffiti google graffiti stuff. you get on youtube and put down tag crews fighting and you get a whole bunch of videos of tag groups fighting and that is not just battling with paint, but physical altercations. the thing about the internet, sometimes people will ignore some of the major graffiti site because we're here to fight graffiti and why go to a graffiti site? a lot of guys

with dedicated sites, you can read all kinds of articles and get all kinds of information written by taggers for taggers trying to train other taggers to be vandals. so don't ignore the fact there is stuff out there designed for the graffiti vandal, because that can be of huge use for you for gaining expertise. you know, meetings. i have had some discussion with people already today. we hold a monthly task force meeting and our task force meeting pretty much encompasses everything from santa barbara down to san diego as part of our main group that we have a task force meetings with. it's been evolved over the years to be a little more formal and each time we have a meeting we do training and technology that is useful. i will talk about that technology in my class this afternoon. and it's really good because we have documented it as a member of this organization. you mind up having a documented, so when you go to

court, you can show current training on a monthly basis. and in conferences. just like we're sitting here right now, i can't tell you how excited i am that these things are happening. only within the last two, three years have major conferences really come about. probably the oldest conferences were up in canda a great group of conferences and other people have starred to pick up on this. when i started to become an officer in 1991, there were no conferences and there was virtually no interest. as dr. spicer mentioned every time it got good, i found myself out a part. then it came back together. more and more cites are realizing graffiti is a consistent crime and as dr. spicer pointed out it's a gateway crime to other

activities. so having these meetings you can preclude a lot of this by dealing with just the part that they are doing graffiti damage, because they escalate to more violent and serious crimes. this training is great because we have got people from all over the country, canada and the united kingdom and there are things that you will pick up and say i couldn't do abecause the political climate, the laws in my jurisdiction whatever, we are not allowed to do those type of things. there will be other things you go gosh, i never thought about that. i think that will work really g. i will take that back to my jurisdiction. probably over the past few years i have gotten maybe 500 people who have become graffiti experts and set up programs and

almost every program is different. a lost a -- a lot of the basicks are the same. some are in mark units and it all depends how it's going to go. you take the information and there is so much good training today and tomorrow. take the information that you want and take it back and integrate it into how you work your program. when it comes down to it, it's not important what you know. it's what you can prove in court. probably every officer sitting in this room said i had an investigation or aware of an investigation where we did the investigation and i know the guy was dirty, i know he did the crime and you send it to the d.a. and the d.a. says you just do not have enough to prove it in course. and sometimes it's that way. and in my career, i know numerous people that i believe did homicides, that we just could not take to court because we did not have enough provable

evidence. i think that a lot of lay people kind of underestimate the abilities of law enforcement professionals. and basically as i have been a cop 28 years, but i think cops are some of the most adaptable, trainable guys i have ever been around. the quality of people in the police ranks is just undeniably good. it's good that a lot of people underestimate us, because a lot of criminals underestimate us. and quite often you will finish a long-term investigation, where the crime happened six months ago, and when you are interviewing the guy, he says i never thought you would catch me and they don't think you are going to catch them, but officers are able to spend that time and do it. again, that comes from their training and working with it. you know as a law enforcement officer you are required to come up with expertise in different disciplines. of the first call you might have is a

traffic accident. you have to look at the physical scene. maybe next to you go to a narcotic scenes or a wild childe abuse or any number of things, stabbings, murders. those are independent crimes, and the officer has to have enough knowledge in all disciplines to say i can put together the initial case, so we can get prosecution on this crime. when you think about it's a staggering amount of information that the officer has too know and he will be grilled in court. you look at a specialty assignment. say for example an officer going to traffic and has a real interest in traffic and he is going to do traffic reconstruction and everything up to fatal accidents. he has to go to a scene and look at evidence and be a map-maker to create a diagram

of what occurred. so look at the weight of the vehicle and apply the laws of physics and come up with a reasonable explanation of what occurred in that accident. the same thing a narcotics officers goes in and if he comes in cold, he has to learn things like chemistry, because he may walk into a methamphetamine lab and make the decisions of how that lab will be shut down and his decisions can affect the lives of everyone walking into that scene. that is quite a bit of jump going from civilian and determining how you protection people from going into a scene like that. when we get to graffiti, there is nothing to graffiti compared to those things. when i started in the early '90s, there was little information and it was difficult to come up with consistent information. and i have dedicated a huge amount of my career to creating

consistent information that we can take into court. so this is kind of a good example, because i have an hour to speak up here and anybody who knows me, nose an - knows an hour is not a whole lot of time for me. when you go into cout and take them to trial your time is limited. you have to present simple, understandable concepts as to the foundation of your case and you have to do that to educate the jury and to educate the judge. a lot of these people have not dealt with graffiti cases. you have somebody professing to be an expert and ask the questions thateled his expertise and this guy does not know. it puts a big hole in his

expertise right off. so we wanted to have something consistent. now if you probably present this information, it will essentially establish the officer as a credible expert. at that point you can start rendering expert decisions. in trainings that you go to should be set up in such a way that every jurisdiction has an expert. sometimes you have to piggy back on somebody else's expertise. that will come in handy when he can talking to city hall people about allocation of resources, to his department about al case of resources, how he is going to set up the program and how he is going to make the investigations and how he is going to successfully take them to court? and there are experts in here, i know and i know they know if you have kind of knowledge and confront those guys a large number will

confess because they are so blown away by the amount of knowledge you have. again they underestimate us. in the limited time i have, if i only have limited time i like to put this out. this allows civilians, it allows officers to understand there are differences in the community culture and you have to understand these differences and be able to articulate them in court, if you are going to have prosecution. and by having these trainings that are consistent, it also helps clear up misinformation that is widely reported to the media, which really hurts you in court. for example, this article came out november, 20 12 a homicide in a church in the los angeles area. big story, because two church members contacted a