feedback mechanisms. the committee yesterday evening consisted of commissioner mendoza and myself because commissioner kim was not able to be there. but the two of us as the quorum of the committee recommended to the board that at the next meeting, that the board support the substitute motion that will take the place of the first reading, the first draft of this policy. the substitute motion will include those slightly amended elementary school attendance areas and the policy language that talks about the phasing in of the middle school feeder patterns not this year, but that we will use middle school assignment mechanisms for the coming year, which will just take out the feeder patterns, and we will have fewer steps

and tie-breakers. so essentially it will be more of a choice system for middle school next year, an open choice system for the whole district, more like what we are using now. we should remind people, as we did last night, that the middle school process has been the one that has had the highest positive results for students, parents and families in recent years. that is, percentage just under or over 90% of participants have gotten one of their choices in the middle school process, and more than 75% have gotten their first choice. we can have some confidence that -- since it won't be too different, that it won't be too different -- it won't give us a significantly different result that we can anticipate for next year. that was the recommendation on the first resolution. the second resolution, the

general education transportation policy i would commend to the board members who were not there, which i think was commissioner kim. most of the board members were there for at least part of the meeting and the details are available online to the public. the staff is recommending that we not have the second reading of the transportation policy until november 8. these changes and the work that is being done now have really taxed the work of the staff, which we at the committee, and most members of the public wanted to commend the staff for the extraordinary amount and quality of the work that has been done on this project by the staff. the second part is the transportation policy -- questions were posed to the board and the public, questions like not grandfathering in bus stops starting next year.

if we make changes in the transportation policy for general education, lots of bus stops and maybe bus routes will entirely go away. questions were posed to the board. for commissioner kim in particular, if you want to weigh in on those, you should do that. but i think that the staff's recommendation is based on the belief that adoption of the policy, the elementary attendance areas and the question of a phase-in of the middle school feeder pattern, that needs to be done first before the transportation policy. so the committee was in support of that delay until november 8th, and also i just want to end by repeating for the public that we can make such a delay without affecting the attendance process for next year. so this will be -- we will have a new transportation policy. those questions such as are we going to have transportation to

after-school programs? are we going to grandfather things? which routes might go away? which stops might go away. that will be known by the public well in advance of when they need to make their applications for school next year. i think that's the end of the report. we will continue to meet monthly. can i say the next meeting is october 13th, which is not a monday. that monday is a holiday, so we are changing it to the wednesday. >> all right. deputy superintendent lee? >> thank you, president kim. i just wanted to make one minor convection to commissioner wynns' report, which is that the november board meeting that we are looking at for the transportation policy to come back and be active on is november 9th. >> excuse me. the 8th is the committee meeting. >> right. thank you. >> thank you. item t is report of closed session action. >> president kim, i just want to announce that the next

meeting of the rules committee is monday, seven 20 at 5:30. >> thank you. close session actions of seven 9, 2010. the board of he vation by a video of 4-3 approved the chief, program administrator. in a claim against the district , by a vote of five eyes and two. ed board approved a setment and release agreement in the amount of $38,000. the board by a vote of five eyes and three and sent, approved a resolution of intent to -- to suspend the employee pending hearing. >> item u. other informational items. tonight we are adjourning our meeting in memory of listened apierce, a cousin of principal

james jerky, who passed away on august 23rd, 2010. linda was born in san francisco. they received her teaching credentials from essex state university. she enjide a 30-year career with the s.f.d. with a love for first grade classes. she loved her city pie the bay, voting, cooking, reading a than playing piano. the board of education and superintendent of schools express sincere sympathy to the family. meeting adjourned. thank you very much.

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captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> what everybody please stand for the pledge of allegiance? >> 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. >> ladies and gentlemen, please direct your attention to the commissioners. president marshall: present. vice-president mazzucco: present. commissioner dejesus: present. commissioner chan: present.

>> james hammer is excused this evening. all seceded is the assistant chief of police and also as someone from the office of citizen complaints. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. this is the meeting of the san francisco police commission for wednesday, september 22. we have a lot of items tonight in closed session. we will get to them as quickly as possible. we will move things around a little bit. he will call item one. >> item 1 is general public comment. this is where members of the public may addressed the commission. these are items that do not otherwise appear on the commission. >> you have three minutes.

>> members of the police commission, i am the director of san francisco open government. i happen to be a gentleman that took the police department to the sunshine ordinance task ordinance for failure to follow the sunshine ordinance. the police department does not like the sunshine ordinance. it does not like anybody delving into anything that is their business without their knowledge and approval. about three years ago, i tried to get a couple of other documents. i made about 20 different phone calls to my local precinct. i have a whole bunch of officers and staff members who had no understanding of sunshine. they ask me questions like, who are you? why do you want it? if they did not approve of what

i said, they hung up on me. one told me to go f myself. they require a listing of all of the documents that they keep as a matter of public record. public records do not belong to your department. they do not belong to any individual officers. they are the property of the citizens and county of san francisco. after 10 years from 1999-2009, when i found out that there was nothing on the index of records, i filed the complaints. after a long, drawn-out battle, i finally got determinations that you and the police department were in violation of the law. there is something in place on the web site. if you read the section of the ordinance, it in no shape, way,

manner, or form does what the law requires. you are law officers. you are supposed to ensure that the law is adhered to. whether you like the sunshine ordinance or not, it was passed by the citizens of san francisco. getting access to documents at the police department should not be the struggle that it is. you have one telephone number with which you can get information. everything else is kept secret. i would be willing to bet that 90% of what you have would have no problem with members of the public previewing or seeing those. there is no way for members of the public to access those documents without going through a lot of hassle and sometimes having their rights denied to have it. you are under oath to uphold the a constitution of the united

states. you violate not only their civil, but their constitutional rights. >> next speaker please. >> hello. i have always come here to talk about mind control weapons. the threat has greatly escalated. as i informed you guys through visits, some police officers, look at how serious this is, police officers have been attacked. i have told reilly, james, jim,

investigations, i have spoken to a lot of other people. sergeants and police officers alike. nothing has happened regarding this matter. nothing at all. the main person who was working on this, officer kelly dunn is not here. she has missed appointments. i want you to understand that one person is not doing find due to their thoughts and actions being affected by the weapon. it is not working out at all. i do not know what you are doing. these are horribly tortured people. they are really tortured people. there are some cases of

homicide from various accounts and everything like this. this is not right at all. we have had this for the last three or five years. there is no help whatsoever. now they are attacking. even before, they are attacking police, fbi, and military personnel. the threat is greatly escalated. i want you all to realize that you have to do something about this now. the main person in charge of this, it is not showing up. she basically cannot do her job. she will not be able to think. i want you to know how you are going to combat this threat. i have a death threat regarding this case. this is something that is insanely serious. nothing is happening. please do something about it

quickly. i cannot stress this any further. your officers are not fine at all. >> further public comment? seeing none, thank you. lt.. call item two, please. >> reports to the commission. discussion item. >> good evening. hello, president marshall. how are you? president marshall: good. how are you? >> as of today to what we have 36 homicides. violent crime is down 5%. this is as of september 18. property crimes down about 10%.

this year, we have had 22,272. we are down 9% on part one crimes. do we want to have the capt. do his presentation now? >> yes. >> good evening, commissioners. i apologize. i could not give notice. we will try to do better. i am here to briefly address the crime situation in the area of the mission district.

the dwelling and the surrounding area is located. as you can see, the dwelling is in this sector of the district. this is the southeast portion of the district. there has been a slight increase in crime in the four-car sector. that has not been a real significant. districtwide, robberies were down 14% this month as opposed to the previous month. that is down by 25%. there were eight robberies last month in the sector. four of them, arrests were made.

we are working hard to eliminate robberies altogether. of those robberies, only two were robbery's with which a gun was displayed. assaults, five incidents this month as opposed to the previous month. in the district, it increased from two incidents to six incidents. one thing i would like to attribute this to is the fact that we have saturated the area with a lot of high-visibility patrol cars and. we are getting to some of these fights quicker. in the past, we did not get there quick enough.

combatants when both directions and there was no aggravated assault. the common threat is that the victims are very uncooperative. burglaries, we only had one burglary in the sector this month, as opposed to three the previous month. the major tool that has been very effective at reducing the gang violence in this area has been the civil gang induction. most dramatically, you could corroborate that by pointing out that in 2008, there were 16 homicides in the mission district. last year, there were four homicides in the mission district. we attribute a great deal of

responsibility to that dramatic drop to the civil gang in debt -- civil gang in junction. the tactics that are utilizing right now to make the area safe for is to have less drug operations, robbery abatement operations where we use the call is. one such operation is going on as we speak. putting a decollate out there to see -- a decoy out there to see, giving a those that would rob an opportunity to do so. we have permanent assigned beat officers in the area so that the citizenry can meet the beat

officers and develop a relationship with them. our secret and most important weapon in dealing with this is my plainclothed sergeant, who i am going to ask to come up and talked about the situation regarding some still will that is their right now. he could best explained that. mario is the foremost latino gang expert in the area. >> good evening, commissioners. to give you a little background on the violence that is going on, we have a group of nortenos gang members.

they are having a feud with some of the residents and people who frequent them. there is a group of mixed races. african-americans, latinos, and some owens. -- samoans. we had a homicide where a latino victim was killed. the person who committed the homicide was somebody who frequented this. we are conducting a lot of surveillance. we have recovered two guns from the gangs in the last three weeks or so. we have are arrested people that frequent the group that were

involved in this feud. we have a rest of a few of them on the robbery on september 12. this has come down a little bit. we are still proactive. we are doing decoy operations as we speak. we have a sergeant posing as a victim. that is what is going on. it is a small fraction of the norteno gang fighting a small group. >> she has been here the last couple of weeks. she is the director, it is right around the corner, right across from the park. i met with her on monday.

she is a concern citizen and being vocal about it. i do not know if you are able to give her some assistance. more so as a community person to try to work with some of the younger people. she is very concerned. >> i stayed away from that area because i buy drugs. not anymore. i recently got reassigned to the mission district. i had been an officer for about eight years. i had spoken to other people from the area. they are actively involved in the community there.

i have spoken to her about what is going on. >> she focused on this one officer. she feels like she is out there alone. if you could keep in on her, i am going to look from my end to help her out. >> miss harris i met with a couple of weeks ago. >> get to the microphone, please. >> i had one of my plainclothes officers check in with her daily. some that she has worked with in the past and has a good relationship with. she has good