more than 12. you'll probably need it 30, 40, 50. on a bus, there are five years later. there is various other murders. i know when gordon was the chief of police, set it was the highest murder rate in san francisco. maybe diversity was more important than brains. i do not know what the issue was, but i do know it, that murders went up during his regime, and a lot of people were very upset. i think there should be more due diligence in terms of solving some of these unsolved crimes, particularly murder and mayhem in the city. i can observe what goes on in the tenderloin at night in various parts of the city. when i am driving, i see a lot of crimes.

as for murders, we know they go reported, but i do not know it you can have this when wives are missing their husbands and husbands missing their wives and say that is all we can do, put edit create a reward out, it's because we do not have any leads korea into 10 years to get osama bin laden. -- we do not have any leads. it took 10 years to get osama bin laden. eyunni detective sitting on them year after year until these to pop up. rewards to pay off, and we get a resolution to this problem. the i thank you for your time on the issue.

president mazzucco: miss grove? >> good evening. my name is barbara growth. on the issue of murders, i think i have a chance to help solve the zodiac killings. at various odd hours when i am up, and there is an article from the wichita police department. they had murderer -- murders that spanned over 30 years. they finally got the guy. if you can figure out who is handling it with homicide, i did not get the beginning of it, but i have got my name and my information on it, and somebody from homicide can go through it. i was very pleasantly surprised that they had something like that.

whether or not there was another police department that had a span of murders. this what by information on the paper there, et and part of this was a police commission meeting. i did not have time, and that is what went on. the lieutenant from homicide, in whose name is on the paper. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. we have three items coming up, three, four, five. they have been listed as three separate items. the presentation done by one group from the san francisco police department. to have the presentation done, that is essentially public comment regarding all three of those, and then have three separate votes.

>> you're really going to have to offer public comment on these items. president mazzucco: great, thank you. commissioner slaughter: -- secretary lt. falvey: kazakhstan the money for the supplemental or security. program. president mazzucco: you can do items four and five. madam clerk -- secretary lt. falvey: a discussion and possible action to recommend that the board of supervisors adopt a resolution authorizing the chief of police to

retroactively accept or expend $458,000, and item no. 5, a discussion and possible action to recommend that the board of supervisors adopted a resolution authorizing the chief of police to retroactively accept and expend $1.86 million. >> myself and the captain from the homeland security unit, and i have someone from the marine unit, as well, as most of these items are slotted to go there. the 2007 appropriation, that money is going to be used for three items in particular, and entanglements system.

they are disabling them and allowing us to take enforcement action if necessary. it is a camera system and four new outboard motors that will be utilized. that is the 2007 appropriation. the 2008 appropriation is some visual equipment that is down about $65,000. and this has some protection, in a tactical insertion-type of spain. some shallow water or a confined area watercraft, also known as jet skis, we are trying to get some of those, and some radiological detection enhancement equipment for our current group. that is the 2008 appropriation.

lt. falvey read it. $1.8 million, we are getting a 22-foot response vessel, a catamaran that will allow us to operations, and the boat is capable of going in shallow waters that we are currently capable of going in -- in shallower waters than we are currently capable of going in, and i think it will really enhance our capabilities. there is a diet trucked to support our diving operations.

-- there is a dive truck. it will have a scuba air compressor and the necessary equipment to support the operations for dive. it comes through fema, the port security grant, a high risk assessment in the fema target assessment program, so they have awarded us this money. president mazzucco: great. thank you. commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: thank you, captain. applies for these various grant monies? >> grants are different. this particular one, sargeant matthews did most of the particular leg work and putting the proposal together. they go through, as you see the abbreviation for the grant system, the review all the packages that were sent, and they decide who the award will

go to, but the funding comes from fema. >> thank you. commissioner kingsley: is this an extraordinary amount? it seems like a pretty good when from where i am sitting in reading. how does it compare to our kind of your to your money's? outside sources? but -- >> i was recently transferred to this unit. they had supplemental funds after the already distributed. let me ask sergeant matt use if he has an opinion on how large they are. >> commissioners, this started 2007 with an initial round. every year, the program is allotted a different amount of funding, and the ports are to be

receiving different funds. the san francisco marine exchange determines which projects will go forward to fema for awarding, but the allocation changes from year to year as well as the amount of funds that will be required to be paid by the department, such as annie managed funds. the department was not required to do that. commissioner kingsley: thank you very much for your hard work on this. >> we are talking about grants from fiscal years 2007, to govern it, in 2010. how does that work? i know the book 7 closed for a long time. >> the information i have received, commissioner, is they are not very timely with those things. after paying out all of their

obligations for 2007, to dow's eight, they came up with money back a supplemental. as soon as we became aware of them, we made a presentation, and it was accepted. >> fiscal year 2007 is the federal government's fiscal year 2007? pick money being applied to our fiscal year 2011 budget could do you know? it does not really matter. >> it is from the federal grant period. >> commissioner, for your information, most of these grants have a three-year performance period, which the federal government is then able to extend, so that is -- >> i would make the motion now to accept the grant and line items for three, a free war, and five.

president mazzucco: public comment for line items 3, at the war, and five. let's start with public comments on item number three. any public comment? four. hearing none? secretary lt. falvey: for item number three, we had a motion. for the other, you have a motion and a second. president mazzucco: line item number five, do we have a motion? thank you very much. let's move now to line item number 6 regarding closed session disciplinary. secretary lt. falvey: public

comment on a closed session. president mazzucco: do i have a motion? all in favor? ladies and gentlemen, we >> back in open session. the commissioners present our -- are slaughter, mazzucco, chan, and kingsley. you have a quorum. item nine is whether to disclose anything from a closed session.

president mazzucco: please call the next item. >> i contend is adjournment. president mazzucco: all in favor? thank you very much. >> thank you, commissioners.

>> good morning, everybody. thank you. welcome again to city hall and thank you very much for joining us in this very, very important occasion. i want to immediately thank all the people up here. today is a very special day. it is one of those moments where we get to see visibly a united

official family but, more than that, a united city come together and embrace a very important decision that i'm about to make. >> thank you. [applause] >> there are so many people up here and been part of this whole decision making and advice and community, but i want to of course acknowledge officials here. we have presiding judge feinstein joining us. we have the president of our board and members of our board of supervisors. i know david chiu is here, jane kim, carmen. ross mirkarimi. malia cohen, of course.

our city attorney. we have representatives from mrs. harris's office and city public safety officials. jose ses -- cesnaros our d.a. george gascon. jeff, the public defender, many conversationse conversationsen:the sheriff, juvenile probation chief. office of citizens complaints. joyce hicks. edit harringto harrington. edit harringto harrington interim chief, thank you for your wonderful service being interim chief.

a number of members of our police command staff. certainly the police commission. mr. mazuko i want to thank you for a very thorough job in presenting to me the best candidates the commission could produce. it has been an amazing time to work with you and the commission, so, thank you, joe, and others on the commission. thank you very much. [applause] >> our police officer officer association president. gary, it is time to get quiet and go to work. thank you. our police public employee groups. i want to acknowledge greg's son neglect is here along with a very good friend wendy. thank you for joining us as well

today. [applause] >> as i said earlier, good close advisors continue to work with me. former mayor willie brown thank you for always being there to talk with me about it. rose, dear friend, thank you for being there with me as well. former supervisor beveragen duff -- bevan duffy. i thank the school board and fire department.an duffy. i thank the school board and fire department. i also had a chat with john hayes' wife. she is out looking at colleges with the boys. thank you very much for being here, chief. did i miss anybody? i think i have gotten everyone. thank you very much for being

here. [applause] >> we set out at the beginning of this year with the goals that i announced and you know all of them. i have been saying them now for seven and about to do 10 of the town hall meetings on the budget. but when i was coming back from hong kong and realizing one thing i had to do immediately is finding a chief was one of those top priorities and today we get that job done. it had been suggested that perhaps i leave temporary alone and allow maybe the elected mayor to do this. but all of you have known that, while i'm an interim mayor, i do not make interim decisions. this is a decision for san francisco. [applaus

[applause] >> a public safety issue is always my priority. again, i want to express my deep thanks to acting chief for his wonderful service in carrying out all the things he has done to stabilize the place while he knew i was looking for the best chief. i want to again acknowledge the thorough job, the thorough vetting by the police commission, its work because it allowed me to look at all of the best candidates and choose from there and today i have chosen the best candidate. [applaus [applause] >> 30 years working for this ci city. all kinds of assignments, defend assignments. more than i had in my 22 years. varied in every respect but difficult tasks. whether it was captain of the mission station, doing

narcotics, patrol officer. being head and commander of defend aspects. then being called it duty also with our public utilities commission and creating and establishing from a homeland security effort the safety of our water system, not only for ourselves but all of the customers and the system itself. that is where i got to know greg the most is when he was literally out of his uniform and into a colleague setting. that is where you get to know somebody truly when you are working for the city and they are working for the city shoulder to shoulder. somebody who has not only demonstrated through the years of command and leadership but exhibited that leadership in every single assignment. i want to show you or express to you why he is the best chief. he's had that experience, not

only the assignments and varied assignments, but also each time that he has gotten a different assignment he has been called back to head up more difficult assignments. and i know that as i expressed from day one when i became mayor and he had already been assigned to the bayview police station and i was there for one of my first merchant walks with malia cohen and we talked about how the baby was doing and we understood how difficult that assignment has been and why he of all people was called to that assignment. he has done wonders in that community not eventualonly bein police officer but an expressed example of a leader in community policing. because you don't get the comments that you get when you are not doing a good job with the boys and girls club, with delancey street and bayview ymca, without going beyond the

coal of caught, being the captain but being a people's captain. that was undertaken. this will be reform from the inside out. it is something we have talked about for quite some time. there is a dedication here to not only reform but the continued improvement of our police department, inviting in of the different employee groups that met with, each of the different employee groups that had a chance to talk with me about what they wanted to see out of a new chief. they not only got that ear, they got the commitment from all of us in this appointment. [applause] >> we have talked about accountability, and you will see how accountability has been exhibited in chief suhr's

appointment. not only did he embrace comstat but he was a living example of how modern technology using statistics would improve his work force and people he has commanded. he will be a community policing officer and chief for this department. so, i say without hesitation the best chief here is being appointed today. this is a great day for san francisco. it is also a great day for san franciscans. thank you very much for accepting this appointment. [applause] >> without any hesitation and it is something that happened to me in january, got hit the ground running. there are a lot of things we have to tdo, so, please, captai

suhr, let's take the oath of office here. please repeat after me. say your name after "i." >> i. >> i greg suhr. >> do solemnly affirm. >> do solemnly affirm. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> the constitution of the state of california. >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic. that i will bear true faith and aallegiance generals -- to the constitution of the united states and constitution of the state of california. that i take this obligation freely. >> that i take this obligation freely. >> without any mental reservation. >> without any mental reservation. >> or purpose of evasion. >> and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties

upon which i'm about to enter. and during such time as i hold the office of chief of police for the city and county of san francisco. >> for the city and county of san francisco. >> congratulations. [applause] >> i present to you the chief of police of the city and county of san francisco, chief gregory suhr. [applause] >> wow! i can't begin to thank mayor lee enough for -- i'm speechless.

i owe him everything. this is the biggest honor -- it is unbelievable. thank you. [applause] >> i wrote down that i gratefully accept this appointment but i already did that. so, i would also like to thank the members of the police commission. i think several of them are here. an unbelievable group of people that put more time, effort and thoughtfulness into their approach to this process and for recommending me as someone with the qualities necessary to lead this great department. choked up. i look forward to working with those assembled and the city family and most importantly the communities that i have always loved working with over my 30