expend a grant in the amount of e department of public library to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $80,000 from the california state library as part of the federal library services and technology act for the out- of-school-time online homework help program. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is toni bernardi. this program is serviced under my direction. i wanted to say a couple of important things about the program. the assistance is provided in two different ways. worksheets are provided, with tutorials and study guides with said proxy components. more important and more heavily used, the program connects

students to a tutor that will provide them with one of one help. students enter their subject and grade level and the tudor provides expertise at that level and within that subject. in tabling these students to access homework assistance outside of school hours. and to receive assistance from trained tutors i ever. grade level subject expertise, enabling the expansion of fun assistance that a parent might provide, which might be limited to education, language, subject matter, expertise, or the need for that parent to be at work in the hours that the student needs help. it also enables the students to seek assistance at any location that has internet access to connect to the library website.

20,951 students used this program at the library. that was in 2009. students may enter an evaluation of the program that are consistently positive and grateful for the help, the only complaint being that the tudor will not do the homework for them. it is my earnest hope that you will approve this resolution and that these funds will assist us in continuing to provide the service that we need. supervisor chu: you mentioned locations where services were provided. were there any locations where there was public access for computers? how many of them have that connection? >> all of our branch libraries allow this. offsite is allowed, fine with

us. online libraries also allow for access. supervisor chu: services are also online? >> correct. supervisor avalos: do you have any data as to how often the students back to the program? are there ongoing users of the system? >> we do not have hard data. it is important that we do not provide anything for specific students and their privacy. i can tell that a substantial number of them repeat. they talk about using it again. as far as hard data, we do not have that particular information. supervisor avalos: in terms of

outreach to specific populations in san francisco? >> we provide fliers to the students, posters, and for the last few years we have hosted a meeting of the school principal at the library, and that both of those we have highlighted this program that teachers can access and use. supervisor avalos: this is something that trickles down for teacher knowledge as well? >> we have provided training. some of them have allowed us to go in to their schools to demonstrate the program. almost all the schools in the city are visited at least once per year. they talk about the online program and what it can do for the students and how they can use it. supervisor avalos: every school

has a library as well, hookups for computer technology. it seems like the librarians and the schools could find a good place for those as well? >> yes. supervisor avalos: great. supervisor chu: are there any members of the public that wish to speak on item number one? >> good morning. my name is douglas shepard and i have lived in san francisco for 15 years. i would like to speak in support of this. i think it is something that is noteworthy and i would like to make a suggestion that four students who are kind of close to dropping out of school, i think that this sort of program should be offered in writing to the parents of students and that

the school should get a written reply as to whether that student is going to accept the help or reject it. something like this, rather than simply being suggested, should be done in writing in order to basically make the student and parents aware that they need to use the process. i would also like to pose two questions to the department public library. the first is if they have ever investigated allegations made by a public comment her that comes up to make presentations on video regarding friends of the library. i have always wondered if these allegations are true or false and i think that they should be publicly taking care of. i would also like to pose a question to the public library about whether they have adequate safeguards against child pornography. since there has been so much

publicity about the front -- planning department passing pornography, i would like to make sure that the public library has adequate protection for children against child pornography, especially as there was a police department investigation into alleged child for being viewed at the san francisco general hospital. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public? seeing no one, public comment disclosed. we can move this item forward with recommendations. >> item #one will be recommended to the board of supervisors on august 23. supervisor chu: item number two, please. >> item #2 ordinance authorizing the department of the environment to expend a grant in the amount of $74,500 from the california department of toxic substances control to coordinate the green business tracking and

measurement tool and amending ordinance no. 183-09 to reflect the addition of one (1) grant funded position at the department of the environment. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. mark west, department of the environment. the city operates a mottled green business program with the department of toxic substance control. shared with other cities that have business programs. supervisor chu: thank you. i know that there are a couple of amendments to the legislation. can you explain it briefly? >> we are asking that 2009- 2010, 2011, and on page three, line 11, we are asking that the grant fund reflect 0.50.

going into the new fiscal year. the position is a grant funded position. the balance of the funding will be coming from an epa grant. supervisor chu: to clarify, the position is for one year's work for the upcoming fiscal year, half of an fte >> correct. supervisor chu: let's go to public comment. any members of the public debt would wish to speak on item number two. seeing no one, public comment is closed. colleagues, the changes are on the first page, on the title, we want to change the fiscal year to read 2010-2011. on page three, line one, the

fiscal year 2009-2010 should also read 2010 through 2011. page three, line 11, it should reflect 0.5. correct? >> correct. >> will be ordinance no. change also? supervisor chu: i do not believe so. the file number? >> yes. i am not sure if there is a new ordinance no. 42010-2011? supervisor chu: i do not believe i have received changes to that number. supervisor avalos: it should

work from one year to the next. supervisor chu: there is a motion to make those amendments without objection. i believe that these changes are not substantive, so the city attorney could move forward today? >> correct. supervisor chu: we have a motion to move forward on the amended version. are there any other items today? >> item #two will be recommended to the april 13, 2010 meeting. supervisor chu: thank you. we are adjourned.

they interfere with the sound system in the room. please refrain from flash photography. if you would, please stand in joint commission in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the net is states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. if you would, please direct your attention to the roll call of commissioners. president joe marshall? president marshall: present.

vice-president mazzucco. vice president mazzucco: present. thank you, commissioners. also see it with the commissioners is the chief of police and the director of office complaints. mr. president, you have a quorum. president marshall: thank you, lieutenant. this is the regular meeting of the san francisco police commission, july 21, 2010, and please call item no. 1. >> item one, mr. president, his approval of the minutes for the meetings march 31, april 7, and it 14, 2010. -- and april 14, 2010. president marshall: we have the meeting minutes for march 31, april 7, and april 14. if there are no corrections? >> so moved. >> second?

president marshall: alright, second. item number 2, please? >> this is public comment, were members of the public may address the commission for a time determined by the chair on items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission but do not appear on the agenda. president marshall: general public comment, anyone? none. item number three, please? >> item three is reports to the commission, under which we have item 3-a, the chief's report, the occ director's report, and the commission report. we start with the chief's report. president marshall: midevening, chief. and mr. president, how are you today? president marshall: tired. go right ahead. >> mr. president, commission, members, i like to go over quickly the status updates

concerning basic policy and the dna backlog. starting with the crime numbers for this four-week cycle, updated this week. we are down 15% total, 17% down on property crimes, 6% violent crimes year-to-date. we're down a total of 10% compared with last year to date. we are talking about roughly 2300 crimes less, 4% down in property crime, 4% down violent crime. as far as any noteworthy events, we are continuing to develop our regional crime center. we are getting better at collecting crime information

very quickly and putting it out to our troops. we had a series of robberies that occurred in the city in the last few days. we had the director who was able to very quickly identify the pattern. we have one suspect was arrested. we're not sure if the suspect was involved in the other crimes. but the point i wanted to make is this is what we talked about, creating a real time crime center, doing better identification. it is already taking place and is getting better, obviously, as we have improvements in equipment and record managements. but it is rewarding to see the evolution of this. we're now combining bric with other units and we will be able to having more and that -- more robust crime analysis section. we will be able to provide better tools for the men and women on the street. i thought that was a good point

that things are working out for us. what i would like to do, concerning the crime, we asked the lapd internal affairs unit and the inspector general from the lapd to come in and help us provide training both for director hicks and their personnel and our people considering federal investigations, general investigations, evaluating evidence, and adjudicating evidence. i think it will be useful. we had the inspector general who is someone who has a great deal of expertise in training as well as one of the captains. we will have investigators and supervisors from occ for the entire day, and as far as the investigator, and command staff

supervisory staff for the entire date, the investigators will get the investigative piece, how to evaluate evidence, ask the right questions, conduct interviews, and the supervisor and command staff will get in touch with the evaluation of the evidence, adjudication. i think this will be the first that for us. i believe it will also help the occ and the department of internal affairs unit to work more collaboratively. i think it is win-win, and at the end of the day, the community gets better work product and i think the officers get a more expeditious and more fair cross. i think it is a good improvement for us. unless there are any questions about this, i will move on to the next area, which is the update on the brady policy. ok, if we could start? >> good evening, president

marshall, commissioners, chief. the department continues to proactively approach this issue. we have been meeting and communicating with the representative groups this week. as recently as this afternoon, we were communicating with the city attorney's office. i have also kept the district attorney's office in the loop. we have a two further meat and defers that represents civilian groups that may be impacted by the brady procedure. at the same time, we continue to respond in a very timely fashion inquiries from various offices that we received several times a day, if not dozens per day. finally, if you want to get an estimation of time, it is my optimistic belief we are talking a matter of weeks, not days, not months, for implementation.

with the final approval of the chief at his direction. >> go ahead. >> thank you. the chief mentioned, i think all of us mentioned the idea that at some point meet and confer cannot go on forever at some point you say here is the brady policy. what is the current thinking? what is the drop dead date? how close are we? >> the one area that we need to resolve is quite frankly -- this popped out and we never gave it full consideration with the civilian piece of it, so we are meeting with the civilian union. obviously, their impact will be minimal, but nevertheless it is important. i have had conversations addressing the executive board, today as a matter of fact. i believe we will get this done very quickly.

with aclu, i do not anticipate the world be a large amount of difficulty given the local work has been done already. one way or the other, we will quickly, but i agree with the director. we're talking weeks. we're not talking a month. president marshall: okay, thank you. thank you very much. >> next, we have the capt. to provide us with an update on both the crime lab and the dna backlog. >> good evening, commissioners. i will defer to the captain i was at the crime lab for a couple of hours today. she will provide the update.

>> good evening, mr. president and commissioners. we have gotten our documentation that we need to outsource some of the cases to help out with the crime load, and we have our technical specifications document done that our criminalist that is the technical leader at the dna unit has drawn up in conjunction with comptroller's office that is ready to go. and we have an audit. she has to have one more meeting with the people at one of the labs, and we will be ready to outsource. it just this afternoon, she identified six sexual assault cases that have recently, in that have not -- have recently, and that have not been assigned to any analyst and will be outsourced. we are in the processin of outsourcing some of these. their cases were there just comparison cases.

14 of them were just outsources. the lieutenant and officers are assigned to the lab are in the process of contacting various labs to try to ascertain best practices, how we can do better trying to identify how not to have backlogs and to try to find out what are the best ratio of catalyst to caseload ratio to avoid backlogs and what ideal personnel ratios should be. so, questions? >> i have a few. we spent two hours at the lab. i thank you for your work. i think we have made a lot of progress today in terms of identifying exactly how big the problem is and some quick solutions to it. just for the sake of my fellow commissioners, we had heard the

number 100 sexual assault cases pending. the good news is it may be somewhat less than that. i think rather than putting out new numbers, we want to make sure what those numbers are. we have identified from that subset of strangers sexual assaults, the most important with the greatest rate of recidivism and new victims being victimized. plus, the chances of getting hit with codis, that once samples are obtained in dna profiles are provided that we catch the perpetrator. i think based on our discussions today, things are moving quickly now to get this outside lab ready to take some of this backlog. the reality is the lab has been overworked and underfunded for a long time. i want to say publicly as i said to the director of the section, it is not her fault. there have been working hard. we have good employees there. they have been cast under the shadow of deborah madden and they're feeling the sting of that.

it is important to acknowledge the hard work they're doing today as we speak. the simple fact is they have not been able to keep up with the work load they have been given. so the plan we were talking about putting together today was identifying cases that we can send out quickly to an outside lab, to take away some of the excess burden on the current analysts so they can keep up with their current work load. i am somewhat optimistic that we can come back in two weeks with a definite plan of how to lay this out. maybe in a number of months we can get rid of the entire backlog. that is my hope, and i think the chief and a captain with their leadership and work of the crime lab we can do that. i would suggest we bring it back into weeks. i think we will have a full plan at that point. i think that would be the best approach. >> there was also good news from my subsequent visit later on to the crime lab.

the 3100 machine, the connectivity is part of the legacy day-to-day migration. the estimated time on that project was about eight months. that is the one that will run 16 samples at a time. >> so that people who are listening, commissioners, everyone here, there is equipment which are lab acquired years ago which i could tell you from my work is d a doing homicide cases would go from testing one sample at a time to 16 samples at a time. you could imagine this time savings. some of this equipment was acquired by grants five and six years ago and has never been plugged in. we never had the i.t. resources in place to hook up this machine that would dramatically decrease the workload. i don't know the whole history of what requests have been made to get i.t. funding, but we have expensive equipment sitting at

the crime lab that is unplugged, never used. >> i learned today that it is part of that project, that is working now, that data migration. when that product is completed, estimated time eight months, that will be functional and we will have the ability to run the 16 samples at once. >> the other good piece of news that the department is finalizing the process of hiring two additional analysts, which will bring the number from 6 to 8, so we could keep up with the caseload. there is good equipment, acquired six years ago, unplugged, not connected. i am sure it is disheartening for the analysts, but also us. people are getting their hands around it now, because it was a shocker to see that today. >> and personnel is currently recruiting for dna specialized criminalists. >> again, i just want to commend

the work of the analysts there who feel under siege about the bad press around the crime lab. they're doing good work, working hard, and underfunded circumstances from the past. they're very proud of their work. they want to keep doing their work. i think we can help them with the resources to do that. thank you again. i would like to calendar two weeks out to look at a comprehensive solution to this problem. thank you, captain. >> thank you. president marshall: thank you very much. >> ok, that concludes my report. ipresident marshall: is that all your items? >> yes, the dna backlog, the investigation of the crime lab. we are waiting for the prosecutorial decision. once we get that, we can move forward and basic,