within a few weeks or even a month, we would have gotten a hit because circular and rapists had spent time in prison for fleshing. his dna was collected as a part of his 2001 imprisonment. we could quickly apprehended him and those women would not have been raped. i think that other jurisdictions around the country are adopting these sorts of claims. thank you all for your attention to this. supervisor alioto-pier: thank you, commissioner. supervisor chiu: let's open it up to public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item? seeing no one, public comment is closed. final comments? supervisor alioto-pier: not as an official member of the committee, i cannot make a motion, but i do have an

amendment, if we could pass the amendment. i would just like to thank you for your time. one thing that i do want to say is that we obviously talking about crimes that disproportionately affect women. not 100%, but disproportionately. from the experience i have had within my own community, this is on the forefront of women's minds. showing the people that perpetuate sexual assault are caught, imprisoned, and obviously convicted. i ask and hope for your support today. supervisor chiu: can i ask for the articulation on the specific amendment? >> thank you very much. after conferring with supervisor alioto-pier i wanted to read the precise language.

page three, lines 4 through 6, subsection , it shall now read a "accompanying the mayor's budget submission and continuing, the police department shall report on its performance in meeting the goals established by this section. supervisor chiu: could we have a motion? without of it -- without objection, the amendment shall be made. i understand that that is non- substantive. with that, if this item could be moved to the full board with recommendation? something for us to consider tomorrow. without objection, it is the case. madam clerk, item number four. wax item number four, -- >> item #4. ordinance authorizing the san francisco police department, on behalf of the city and county of

san francisco, to retroactively accept and expend grant funds in the amount of $424,107 from the united states department of justice/national institute of justice "solving cold cases with dna" grant program; and amending ordinance no. 191-10 (annual salary ordinance, fy2010-2011) to reflect the addition of three (3) part-time positions (1.50 fte total) in job classification q4 police officer iii in the san francisco police department. supervisor chiu: thank you, madam clerk. this is an acceptable spend grant regarding grant money from doj and we have a representative from the police department to explain. >> this is very timely based on the topic of dna. i will give you a brief background to let you know what this project entails. the background is that there was a grant applied on march 11, 2010. by then the commander and national institute of justice award, the san francisco police

department has 1151 unsolved homicides over the last 25 years and 900 reported but unsold rates over the past 10 years. there is a 10 year statute of limitations for rape cases. meaning that we would look at cases from 2001 through the present. during the two years from 2007 to 2009, 70% of the department investigating homicides or sexual assaults and as a result the district attorney's office was able to charge 33% of sexual assaults in and 60% of the homicides. the police department is very interested in obtaining resources to focus on cold cases to go after perpetrators before they can offend again and not

without the funding to hire three part-time experienced investigators with testing lab services and training and travel and we currently have four investigators. this project will enhance our knowledge base through cold case training, assisting the department in developing strategies for resolution of violence, sexual assault cases. many of the cold cases will be examined and 100 selected for further review. evidence will be submitted for the laboratory and a possible bulk loaded into our combined dna index system. the police department crime lab does not have sufficient

resources to investigate the backlog and in some cases will be tread -- contracted out. as we have been doing this year to eliminate the backlog. the crime lab also has as it -- evidence wearing nine-marker dna profile was developed. we are going to look at our dna and retrieve evidence that 13 marker profiles to be developed from. criminal cases where no suspect has developed biological evidence can be retrieved through dna typing where criminals search for evidence against the database. the department will review investigative results to actively pursue leads, interview witnesses, working with staff to pursue resolution. this is not only good for the police department, but great for the city and county. we competed nationally for this

grant and it was awarded. as a result we will be able to work to solve many of the cases and increase public safety in the city. at this time i will take any questions. supervisor elsbernd: just a quick budget question. these are new positions, not money being used to replenish the general fund or anything like that? >> this is new money, $424,000. supervisor elsbernd: this money was not on the revenue side back in july? it was unexpected? >> i am getting the fiscal director saying no. we were not anticipating this at all. supervisor chiu: these folks will be on staff under this grant for how long? >> 18 months, if i am not mistaken. of course, low.

supervisor chiu: -- of course, we will. supervisor chiu: thank you, cmdr. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this item? >> supervisors, my name is san francisco [inaudible] whenever we get grants and they are applied directly to maintain standards, the consider and of san francisco is appreciated. what we would like to see in the southeast sector is empirical data on those that commit crimes linked to our children. and i know that this grant does not specifically address that,

but it does address cold cases. another thing that i am willing to state to the command group that is under growing -- undergoing and other changes, is that we need to have very high standards to make up for what has been going on at the crime lab. i do not know how you or the supervisors, the future mayor, think about the crime lab. i and my subjective opinion, we need to move. any laboratories that are at hunters point, that toxic cesspool over there, it needs to be moved away. if we want to have something built at mission bay, we need a

time line so that all of these future grants and standards can be resolved. supervisor chiu: any other members of the public? seeing no one, public comment is closed. can this be moved to the full board? without objection, that is the case. madam clerk, any more business before the committee? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor chiu: thank you, this meeting is adjourned at this time.

after school at 3. . 30 i hop on the bus and go to work with kids. i didn't realize i was going to get up that early for the rest of my life. >> it's hard to get good jobs. you can get well paid working at

restaurants i was making good money that's not my 50 year goal working as a waitress. it would be better to have something to fall back on i wanted something where i would in 10 years accumulate properties. >> 3 months is a long time to be busy all day. i'm putting myself further in debt with the understanding it's worth the sacrifice. eating raman for 3 months. it's not fun but i think it will be worth it. >> we all want to graduate we are all tired of this class. been 11 weeks. one more week to go. >> i need to get these mraps out. >> my purpose is to get the

recruits prepared for the construction training. >> what you do is get a 2 by 6 sitting on the saw horses. we will cut 10 feet. everybody going to get one and you measure up 6 inches. you sure you got 8 feet. >> as a carpenter you have to let them know what's expected and they need to know the stuff to get going on the trades. >> the main thing they need to know is how to carry the stuff on the job and the hussle. >> you can't work with the gloves. >> my part is a small part. my part is the best part. the part that really teaches them how to go out and fish rather than go to the fish market. my job is how to teach them to fish when the fish market is

closed. >> this requires i thinking. when you go on the job site they will pay you 20-15, dollars an hour you have to think and figure stuff out and get the jobs done in a record time. >> one of the things we try to teach with the construction trades is your attitude going to work. how employers look on new workers and it's about profitability and productivity. it's not how much swings it takes to drive, you know, ita about do you have the right attitude? can you show up on time? can you make the company money? >> 12.5 times 15. >> i don't want you to use the calculator. >> the students go through

approximately 420 some hours of training. we operate at the campus of the community college a 12 week, full time program, 7-3:30. >> if you were going to figure out how much [inaudible] you need you rounding up. >> average age of individuals in the trades is in the 40's from what we are told. in the 50's quite frankly those folks are getting ready to retire. we see a void. >> the average is making 60-80 thousand dollar a year more with benefits much it's hard work i will not lie. >> if you like working with your hands and creative and you look at a building and say, i did that finish and that building is there for a hundred years. come to my program you will work for anyone in the country.

>> we send people to the dry waller the carpenters and the plummers. >> we are conscious who we give a job referral to. >> we look at the skills part as far as hayou do with a hammer and nail there are other components to be able to be a team player. be able to take directs and be precise and punctual things like this you need to help you keep your jobs. >> we will looking at the interviews today and doing the critiquing from the papers. >> i was thinking last week we

were talking ask that was so much thinking going on about the interview and how i was going to do it. >> i feel like, me, as an african-american woman and older woman with children i feel i have to set an example. a lot of people don't know how to deal with anger and conflicts. the kids here look up to me. if i do something and don't set an example then they are going to follow. since i've been a positive roll model, coming to school everyday. some of those kids pick up on that and i see the improvement in them. >> one thing that i knew but the class helped reinstate is that you have to check yourself. we are all grown adults. >> i try to be motivated in

everything i do in my life. if you don't encourage yourself to do something or do things for yourself you can't expect somebody else will do it for you. some people didn't make it to class because they have a bad attitude and decided it wasn't worth it. >> when you do something you have to understand why you are doing it and you can't say and come in and say, i will make good money. construction's not like that you have to want to do it because it's not aedz work. you have to want to get up and go to work and do physical labor for 8 hourses. >> i lived next to biotechnology companies and was a recruiter. i was getting tired and felt sluggish. >> i knew from the first day we were outside being outside having fun, climboth ladder and hammer and the physical labor i

knew it was something i would enjoy. to say i put 15 years into this and not retire a multimillionaire but retire healthy and feel good about the work i have done. >> the greatest accomplishment is you drive by a building or bridge and say, i helped build that bridge or helped build the building on market street. the most greatest reward for me is i taught that student to work on the bay bridge. taught the student operating the crane that student was in my class. >> our goal is to have a core

group of people, we are hoping it's over 50 percent of your grads complete and become journey people andup standing good roll models and citizens. the largest public works our city has season in many years going on now the private project that 1 rincon hill. huge project. we had 5 or 6 people work on that project thus far. the rebuilding of the academy of science in golden gate park. the rebuilding of our public hospital laguna honda this is on going work with the same contract ors that move successful apprentices from one project to another and keep them working for several years. the construction workers of the future to be the superintendents the construction owners.

that's the perfect thing there. that's success.