new chief in that light. gascogne was paid $2 million in arizona, and was paid $3.25 million to come here. you would be better off calling somebody from the ranks that those police officers respect, not somebody from out of state, 49 states away, that some executive search firm from new york city pushed on your plate. you are citizens of this country as well. most of you live here in the city and county of san francisco. do your job to the best accounting. thank you for your time. president mazzucco: further public comment? >> i would just like to echo greg sur. i've never spoken to that man in

my life. but he said gret sur. you get a salute. everyone i have talked to in the tenderloin, bayview, think he could be the best sheep we ever had. from what i have heard, even from very good friends -- i worked on a campaign. she told me everything. she said he is a great officer. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. further comment? >> my name is barbara gross. i am a concerned citizen of this fine city. i do not see how anybody can run for chief of police who was responsible for breaking up the transit bureau. the transit bureau is always the

per se group on the scene for every calamity or write it taking place in the city. the always were there for everybody. -- they always were there for everybody. when they wanted the tazers, it was about putting police officers lives on . they will not have the chance. they sometimes don't work for some silly reason, since we are not supposed to have antennas around the city for silly health reasons. the equipment in the city has to be super top notch for communications for everybody's protection. thank you. president mazzucco: hearing no other public comment, please call line item 3. >> routine administrative business. commissioner announcements? >> scheduling of items considered for future commission meetings.

we sort of have that with line item 5. public comment regarding this? hearing none, colorado line item # five. -- called line item 5 -- call line item five. >> commissioners kingsley and chan put together our priorities from the retreat. commissioner kingsley: the retreat follow-up committee, which is composed of me, commissioners water, and commissioner marshall -- commissioner slaughter, and commissioner marshall concurred. commissioner slaughter regreted not being here for this conversation, but give us some input on that. should i just began on this, or

would you like to? vice president marshall: began on it. commissioner kingsley: there were three parts of our discussion. one is to follow up on a couple of motions regarding the adoption of the objectives and the criteria for setting priorities. the other motion would be to add these objectives and criteria to our website. we discussed this a little bit a couple of weeks ago, when this was on our agenda. the second part of our discussion this evening would be to look closely at the three- tiered listing of our priorities and see if there are other matters we would like to add. several items have come up since we put this list together. we could see if there are any items we want to take off the list. the third part of our discussion

will become a going forward, what we want to do to build into our scheduling and calendar to make sure we address our priorities as we planned throughout the next 12 months. to this discussion, we would like to encourage the public and the chief, as well as director hicks, to join in this conversation. these are the priorities on the department's side and occ side. of course, the public is the most important step colder in what the police commission addresses -- important stakeholder in what the police commission addresses. i will move to adopt the objections and criteria for setting priorities as stated in

the attached. is there a second? all in favor? is there public comment, or comment from the director or the chief before we vote? president mazzucco: we will go to each item, then do public comment and have a vote. commissioner kingsley: the second would be a motion to add the objectives and criteria for setting priorities to the commission website. commissioner hammer: second. commissioner kingsley: i think that at this point it would be best if we took other comments and input. what we are really doing next is moving into prioritizing matters. commissioner chan: thank you for putting this together. you all worked so hard on this. i do not have a lot of changes. i think because we met as a full

commission and discussed this all day, there is not a ton for me to say. i would caution against adding or changing our priorities. if we were to change this, we should have all of our commissioners here. we are missing several commissioners. i understand confirming with objective criteria, but i would be opposed to changing our priorities. president mazzucco: we have to make one party which is the election of a police chief. but i agree we should probably not change priorities until we have a full complement of commissioners. vice president marshall: at the time we had the retreat, these were our priorities. the yin and yang of this is we want to get some sort of structure in order to do some planning.

the other piece is things come up we have thought about. i think we will be able to work with them again. i do not think passing the motions we have looked so far in any way will preclude us from things that we deem necessary that, since this was composed. >> further comments from the commissioners? commissioner slaughter>> if i to talk about redoing our priorities, we spent a whole they doing this. >> any public comment regarding these matters? >> good evening again.

i assume the document you are talking about is this one here. my question is -- is this a combination of all the representatives of the commission that put this together? did the son of somewhere that this was produced by the commission itself? or is it just a piece of paper in a folder that no one pays attention to? what happens here? commissioner kingsley: the commission met back in october 2010 at a retreat. during the retreat, we reviewed the mission of the police commission and established these to a great deal of discussion and brainstorming. we agreed to setting priorities after a great deal of discussion. we also generative the prioritization of -- generated

the prioritization of matters you are holding. we have many items were addressed during the retreat. tonight we are revisiting this to formally adopted, allow public comment, and, of others before adopting it, as well as to propose that we included on our website. -- include it on our website. it was a collective effort by all seven members of the police commission. >> does it have an effective date, so we know it is an official document for using it? is that going to take place? what is going to happen? commissioner kingsley: correct me if this is wrong but -- president mazzucco: we are not allowed to respond to questions during this period commissioner

kingsley is being kind to respond. we are going to vote on this this evening. we will vote again when we have a full complement of commissioners. there is an ever-changin -- doc. but we are not allowed to answer questions. that will have to cease and desist. >> if this has" signers, are directly going to use it -- if this has cosigners, are you actually going to use it? that is my only point with this document. secondly, i would like to address the fact that the commissioner brought up the public at large. i think the police commission gets a low turnout of the public at large because of the way the website is set up, and the lack of notification for your various meetings. you have more meetings than the essence of the mta, but you have almost no one showing up. on the website, is difficult to

find out. there should be a better or more effective way to announce the monthly meetings for the police commission so we do get some sort of a turnout from the population at large, instead of what we have now. i will say this. you hear me speak here and turn off the microphone when i am done. but when i am up in the public, people come to me and shake my hand and say, "you are the only one asking questions. it is always you." i don't like that. there are other people who think just like me. i think they ought to address this commission as well. are you promoting the commission or the meetings with a better agenda or a more effective means? that could go a long way in 2011. thank you for your time.

president mazzucco: is there any public comment on these issues? commissioner hammer, before we vote. commissioner hammer: i do think we should vote on the motions commissioner kingsley made and not directly respond to public comment. but i do think this is important, because we are held accountable. úy/that is what it is a good ida to put it on the website. on that note, one of our top priorities -- although we have a busy february, this was months ago. we had informal work group discussions about meetings. i would suggest that commissioners perhaps the 16 -- perhaps for every 16 could have a brief agenda item and have a

follow-up after that. president mazzucco: i agree. commissioner hammer: i think february 16 would give sufficient notice. these of the things that have to be addressed, based on the report. we could have a follow-up. we should get the word out. vice president marshall: let us clarify this a little further. let us add a summary of priorities. our top priority, which is not listed here -- we have already scheduled one meeting a month devoted to disciplinary hearings. i do not want anyone thinking

that just because it is not on the list it is not a priority. in that sense, that is the first thing. these are also agenda items as they come up. but this is our number one. commissioner kingsley: actually, my comment can come after we complete our vote on these two motions. >> you make a very good point that it is a top priority. to schedule here and decide the maximum efficiency. it made it into the home number one objective. president mazzucco: there was a first and a second for setting priorities. all in favor? it's unanimous.

you wanted to make a comment? commissioner kingsley: after both of the motions. very importantly, and without adding or subtracting from the list of priorities, can we discuss briefly tonight, how we are going to proceed in terms of taking these priorities and getting them into our schedule over the next three, six, 12 months? one proposal that the committee discussed and would like to offer to the rest of the commission is that we 3 look at the matters and individually check-in with people that are on

the commission. and tried to put together a calendaring for these items based on the next six or 12 months. not that they have to be in stone, but we have them there so they are not overlooked. of course, it would be coordinated with you, mr. president. president mazzucco: any discussion? >> i have no objection. i think it is important that we do this as a group. and perhaps we calendar at the end of february. for the next seven weeks, i will

have to quit my day job. we will talk about what we will do. that is my suggestion. >> there is no objection to that. we can postpone that conversation if we would like. president mazzucco: item number six, please. >> public comment on all matters pertaining to close the session. including public comment on whether to go into closed session. president mazzucco: these are police officer personnel matters that are confidential and protected by the california supreme court. that is why we go into closed

session. any public comment? call line item #7. >> the vote on whether to hold a closed session. president mazzucco: all in favor? we are now moving to closed president mazzucco: we are back in closed session. >> item 10, adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor? thank you.

>> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district.

>> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring some but traffic, but central market is more of a thoroughfare than a destination after the sun goes down. on december 9, the artery project's launch brought a party atmosphere to market street, led by mayor gavin newsom, city officials flipped the switch on three new art installations that light up the st.'s architecture. a looping a video at 1119 market street was the first words to be some -- the first work to be seen that evening. before the unveiling, the director of cultural affairs spoke to artist jim campbell about the concepts behind bourbon reflection and how he created the work.

>> i'm really excited to have your installation on public view starting today here on market street. you created a site-specific work. can you talk about that? >> yes, i looked at two or three different locations, and this one seemed the best. i work with customer electronics, so indoors seemed the best for the work. i also like how close it was 2 market street itself. it is only about 10 feet away, so i chose this location. >> what is the duration? if someone were to stand in front of your installation today. >> at the moment, it is 12 minutes, but i've been thinking about adding footage over the time because it is going to go through a couple of seasons. >> could you describe a little bit in terms of what your creative process is? >> it is a curtain, and image made up of a curtain, so it is very valuable, and the idea was to use this technology that i've been using for the last 10

years, low resolution imagery, to reflect market street back to the pedestrians walking by. the reason that it kind of works in this environment is that you see people walking by. you see cars going by. you see buses going by, but you cannot help we the people are because it is low resolution. you cannot see their faces. you can see the way they walk. you might be able to tell the kind of car going by. >> what do you think passersby will experience? >> i was thinking it was going to be a test of the success of the work if people stop and look. i have noticed in the last few nights that people do stop and look. a certain percentage. one of the things i was playing with was the ambiguity of whether it is alive or not, so people walk by, and they might even move like this back and forth, thinking that they are in the image, and they realize that it is a daytime shot, and

that kind of thing. >> thanks for being part of life on market street. >> my pleasure. >> after the lighting of urban reflection, mayor newsom led the party to the corner of seventh street. lighting the way down the street were members of the filipino cultural center's youth program, carrying traditional core role lanterns. on the side of the resort hotel is a projection titled "storylines." working with students from the art commission writer's corps program, paul organized a series of images with text captions. they will change every evening until a different -- and tell a different story. one block away, theodore watson has created an interactive installation that crosses over six street. spaces' begins with a photo

capture station on the north side of the street that projects your face on to a building on the south side of the street. on opening night, the installation was an immediate hit with the crowd. we talked with the or what said about his remarkable installation. >> what inspired you to create this interactive piece? >> the work i typically do is kind of interactive installations or both indoor and also outdoor and public space. for me, what i'm most interested in is how we can use technology to make the city, which is typically quite a static environment architecturally speaking -- how can we make it come alive? >> what i love about your work is there is such sophisticated software and electronics and complex connections that all have to work together to make it successful, but yet, all of that is invisible to the people

interact with the work. >> they do not realize there is all these cables and projectors and computers and all this technology behind the scenes, and if you can keep it hidden, it feels like a really magical moment. to me, that is what is inspiring, and that is what makes the public, their eyes light up. >> you feel a little bit like the wizard of oz? >> totally, yes. >> having been on market street for a while and seeing how the public is reacting to your piece, what is your impression of what it is going to be like here? >> i'm already loving it. just the fact that i can look up and see someone seeing how crazy it is, and i have been bumping into people in the street who are recognized only from their portrait. i'm hoping that people will provide a slightly more friendly way to look at each other in this neighborhood. >> it is helping to reinforce

and create a sense of neighborhood. so we want to thank you for being part of this project and thank you for bringing "faces" to san francisco. >> the artery project will have installations on market street until june 2011. this revitalization initiative is funded by the national endowment for the arts in an effort to transform market street into a nationally celebrated cultural district. additional projects and events will be launched throughout the year, including art and storefronts and coordinated nighttime events hosted by the gray area foundation for the arts and the luggage store gallery. to learn more about the artery project, visit sf >> welcome.

i am the executive director of the tenderloin development membered corporation. we provide social services and affordable housing in the tenderloin and run the city and county of san francisco. we now own 30 buildings with 2500 units affordable to san francisco's most vulnerable residents. we are standing amid a massive, an adaptive reuse of a building that was originally erected in 1910. when it is finished, 172 chronically homeless individuals will live here, and we will also be developing a wellness center, a community clinic, 11,000 square feet, where some-4000 homeless people will be received medical services. if not for the stimulus act,

none of this would be happening. the affordable housing capital that we typically access could have and would have financed the project, but for the financial crash of two and half years ago, and only because those funds were replaced by sen missestimulus funding are able o undertake this project. this represents a vision of not only this area but the city's office of mayor housing and public trough. i would like to call to the podium the mayor of san francisco edwin lee. >> thank you. isn't this a wonderful place? we are in the middle of our tenderloin community watching exactly how 174 supported housing units are about to happen. we have