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commissioner: i was getting ready for d. vice president marshall: it is good to hear commissioner chan. >> john's grill. the maltese falcon. >> we have all of these police chiefs and all these politicians and famous people on the wall, and now we have the chief on the wall. >> thank you. president mazzucco: any further comments? before moving on to lyell item 4 d? -- before moving on to line item 4d? secretary falvey: item 4d, the
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commission announcements and scheduling of items. president mazzucco: commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: this is to talk about what the police department might do in terms of raising the level of comfort in the community around the relationship in general between police officers, the police department, and members of that community and to focus in on that. what we were hearing the other night is not uncommon, with what we have heard throughout the country and what often happens when there are wars going on, when there are issues of ethnicity and religion that come up, and it was disturbing to hear that in our city and those comments, to the extent that the department can do something
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note -- something to help improve on those relationships. i think it is worth are discussing and exploring, you know, what that might be. that is the first thing. the second item is, and now that we do have a new police chief, and we know that he is a strong proponent of community policing, and i believe that involvement of the community in policing and the department work is important, as well. but it seems that this is a great opportunity to look at that issue as a commission, to listen to our new chief and what his ideas are and his approach koran to have that in front of the public and to have that voice and discussed so that it
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is out there and perhaps a formal structure. the for the third item that i have, a proposal we address is the closed session and i done that the city attorney was going to make a presentation to us regarding, i believe attempting litigation matters. this was a few weeks ago. we have the city attorney sally gibson sitting in until mid june. i don't know whether or not this item needs to wait for him whether, perhaps, we can discuss whether or not she would be prepared to address the commission early on. we do want to hear that since it
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is important. >> i don't know what the item is the glove -- and that's something we can say? >> it does need to be in closed session. i suggest that perhaps we can follow up and talk about what that might be and figure out if it makes sense for us to even get on the calendar for with the session discussion, you might be able to address the commission. >> i can follow up with a telephone conversation. >> we are hesitating on the third one. but where are the other commissioners in terms of the first two items? are they items that you would like to discuss? >> the follow up with the
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community that was present, i think they have already had one or two meetings in the community and they will continue to do so. with the special agent in charge of the fbi, there is going to be talked about of reach with the federal partners, a program that the department of justice actually reached out to be concerned community about the joint terrorism task force. there was discussion about meetings, but they were out ahead of this. it reached in meetings with the community, and there is the chief report. they will have of reach. that will see what he has done and what he plans on doing. >> it sounds good, mr.
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president. we all have community policing. he is pro with the model for that. and they should also have that as an item for the chief's report, maybe a week after about community policing. and now he has a lot on his plate. he has been really busy. -like that is really easy for him to talk about. will give him a weaker to about what his plans. what is are moving in a different direction and there really want everything to settle down. it should be two weeks, does that sound? >> which should wait until the return. >> we're talking about the third item.
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>> any other announcements about items to be scheduled for future meetings? hearing none, and will open to the general public comment regarding items for? -- commissioner marshall: where are we? >> i have an update. >> we have meetings set up so far. they are aware of this and i'll have the address for you, sen. -- soon. i thought i would let the captain had his second full day before asking him to confirm that. in june and august. >> we generally have a community
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meeting last wednesday of the month. we had numerous community meetings and we supplanted that along with the normal agenda. we had more meetings than usual. it is time for us to move back to the regularly scheduled wednesday meetings. for me and the commission, it is the most rewarding to hear what is going on in the great city. let's start up again. any public comment regarding these items? >> i am sorry to be a broken record, but it has been a year in 12 days. time for him to step aside and of the rule of law into established whatever words you want to use for the tough lock control specials.
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not since hildegarde's or what ever you want to call them, people that are helping clients and will do their bidding, whether it is legal or not. it has been years trying to put them under your authority and they refuse. he still allow them to persist. they continue to break the law. >> how you weren't going to talk about bringing on the next speaker of them wondering why that is not done next week's agenda. >> is a ban on last week as the agenda. it should of been there since 2010. thank you. >> welcome. russia is not the heat to complain, i have to come up and try to bring them back into the realm of reality. there is a lot several years
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ago the was very interesting theory the least some of from the police commission has to look at what they are doing. and you're getting more and more complaints from our members about how they're handling these issues. the party of this leak did not like receiving the moving citation to the file the complaint. the charge the officer with unwarranted action for issuing the citation. that is the wrong format. bell like getting a ticket. a total traffic court. that is not why we have a. that is thousands of actions made against the officers. very few if any are ever sustained. that is the group the need to look at and start auditing. the latest, i received a call for an inspector. and there was a police report in the computer.
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the computer automatically assigned that report to a unit that no longer exists. we all know. it does not exist. somehow, they've got to complain about the report that was written and adding allegation against the officer when an accurate police report. we're talking brady here. because the report was encoded right, how the inspector who received the report was also given an allegation the inspector never read the report. inspector never approve the report. he was assigned to the investigation. and what relation july have to a unit that doesn't exist? we have got to charge you, too. an audit is way overdue. when i spoke a couple of weeks
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ago. [unintelligible] the issue a certificate of release. how they file complaints against them. these are added allegations, but they are not complaints. many of them should be brought to the attention of the commanding officer of the station said they can deal with it appropriately. president mazzucco: any further public comment? i will announcing that how this will be taken off calendar because they had a death in the family. move to line item #6. >> public comment on all items pertaining to #8 below including public comment on whether to hold a closed session. >> we are going to move into closed session. these are disciplinary matters
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and confidential and privileged. it is the california supreme court decision and the bill of rights. we move into closed session to handle these matters. any public comment regarding the closed session? next item. >> a vote on whether to hold closed session. >> seconds. president mazzucco: we president mazzucco: ok, we are back. secretary falvey: we are about to open session, and we have the same forum members. president mazzucco: i no. 9. secretary falvey: a motion to disclose or not to disclose?
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commissioner: i move. vice president marshall: i second. president mazzucco: line item number 10. secretary falvey: item number 10 is an adjournment. president mazzucco: ok.
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>> good morning. it will be the afternoon very soon. i am here today on the hottest day so far this year at o 'connell high school in san francisco. it focuses on our children, our youth, our kids. not only do we want them to keep busy, but in doing that, clearly, i am very lucky because i get to work with wonderful in the smart people that are working collaborative lead to provide all of these programs and make sure that the kids in richmond's are kept at a high level. they will be very much enriched
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by the programs that we are putting our back behind and our money behind. i am here today with carlos garcia. thank you for being here. the relationship with the school continues. the work with me as the education adviser, it constantly on a weekly of got every other day basis. letting us know about the programs we are doing, what more we can do. it is a topic i always want to keep in front of me. watching out for the future of our kids, watching out for their safety as well as their continuing harassment in all the programs that we have. along with carlos, we have marie sue. they are in charge of a lot of
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the programs that we have centralized and try to match all of the needs of their, making sure we have the best programs possible. she had a lot of announcements to make today. you will see more of this elsewhere. we are not standing on the soggy ground. now that we're doing things smarter, the recreation and parks department is there for us. they are here to make announcements about the summer programs we have had our reflective they are in his attempt to do more in the summer camp program, where more for you to make this city again reached the heights that it always has been how to embrace all of our youth and make all these programs as open as possible. paul has continued to advise me along with members of the juvenile probation department
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and other public safety agencies, that a safe city is not only a city that is safe on the streets, but also save in the sense that we have social services and social network programs that offer tremendous opportunities to go all over this city. they are here today to embrace these programs and work with us as closely as all the agencies would. we have community-based agencies. i want to just a knowledge of the advocates. they are here today, they worked with the leaders because one of the programs is something that i personally got involved in. as you know, i tried to make myself available to all of the different groups in the city. as we started talking about our budget challenges, i invited a
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lot of the community-based agencies in to talk with me. i had meetings with scores of community agencies have talked about the needs of the city and the youth to pay attention. we have had a relationship with advocates for some time. they were part of the group's that she brought in to see me. we talked very seriously about a generation of kids that are confronted with these new challenges that carlos knows so well. hall of the cities across the state, you won't be able to graduate unless you pass these very basic courses. we were confronted with ninth graders, about 900 of them have already been documented. they have failed grades in science and math. they will not going to proceed with a new beginning in high- school.
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they would not graduate at all. the only way you can give those grades past is if you fail in the normal course of business. however recognize many reasons for students not being able to succeed in the normal course of things. the only way you do it is with a makeup course. some thing that we call summer glasses. the summer classes are not when the part of the economic agenda this summer. they have been wiped out with somebody challenges to our school district before that summer glasses or not -- they exist. we took personal testimony of others to heart during one of the critical meetings a month ago. henderson, carlos, from city college, all of this working together and we talked about where we could work with maria
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to find the money that would be the underpinning for saving 900 kids and offering them class's to remediation those grades. we did come up with $250,000. we scraped under every rock. it was a personal challenge for me because it was something that i felt given not only the testimony that was given to us, the very sincerity that people wanted to see these kids and give them the opportunity, it resonated with me. i could see 900 kids not having the next generation without the opportunity to get into the jobs that we are creating with some of the other exciting companies, if you are not good at math and science, you don't graduate with that degree, you're not going to get the jobs that we're working so hard to
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unleash upon the city. with that vision in mind, it was natural for all of us to work together to scrape up that money had to make a commitment that this summer, was 900 kids will not be lost. we will have the summer class's. we will have them in cooperation with our school district in community college. with all of the agency's behind us working together to say that we will not allow this opportunity to abandon our selves. we found the money. we will have these summer classes and will allow these kids to get that opportunity to read to those grades with the hope that they will have passing grades. it will proceed to the high school of our city can't get the grades that they need to continue on. that was our commitments. how to emphasize. it begins with having an open door and the very able agencies that we have telling us these
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stories. it begins with our collaborating to make this happen. how to thank all of the departments here in the school district to make this happen. had to give a thought to these kids. and the people that i want to get good jobs in the city. to live here, survive, and be successful. i looked a safe city and a solid city. these kids will be the generation that take over the success of a great city like san francisco. there are other programs to be announced that will be part of a whole summer. recreation and park has stepped up to another challenge. as the shootings occurred earlier this year and as we were picking up toward some of the higher homicide numbers that have come down a bit, i took it personally to walk the mission
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and what they view with supervisors. we listened to them and our community response networks. had we listened carefully to what the recommendations were. one of the ideas that came out of that was that we ought to have a place for kids to really come and get away from some of the pressures of their urban hard street neighborhood and to a place where kids enjoy the wonder of just playing, being themselves, interacting with the other kids that maybe they looked across the street and don't see the full value of friendship and living in the same communities. to have an opportunity to do that, we look to scrape up as much as we could, and the
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wonders of that leadership park. the duty of phil's leadership is he will find the time and we will create a special program aimed at at risk youth, and what they call in-risk, youth who have already been visiting our juvenile probation program who do not have to be there if they can turn their lives around. we are focusing on 16 special slots in the month of august, the details of which we will go on in here yet -- we will go on in. we will be working with a program of exposure to our camps, to the outdoors, and to
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emphasize that, rather than lead activities that will be negative to our communities, rather suggests leadership opportunities for our environment, four outdoor leadership, for interacting with other kids. but that placement will occur in august, with the help of all the agencies i talked about providing perhaps a brief moment in which they can participate. before that happens, phil will identify additional slots all through the summer that he has worked hard to increase those slots for camp programs throughout the city. he will go into detail about that. i want to thank phil's leadership, and the old department of rec and park.
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again, increasing the number of slots more than they have this year. we are on course to exceed that with more than 8800 slots identified and more to come we are making strides in that effort. and then, working with all of the agency is a around these programs, the summer programs, increasing the amount of funding that we have to keep kids active buying in an indirect way. even our representative of the library here today, to talk about some of the free programs they are going to offer aimed at kids, passes to our museums and all the other special tassels that will be available to our youth. i think this summer is going to mark another enriched summer of programs, activities that we
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have. again, it is reflective of the city coming together, not thinking this is someone else's problem. this is our challenge. we are responding to the town -- to the challenge not by a grudging attitude, by embracing things that work, things that work together with us, and it will be a positive enrichment for the rest of the summer. i am looking forward to a fantastic summer. i am not going anywhere. i am still working on me budget -- i am still working on the budget and pension reform. i love these kids as much as any of my kids i have raised the summer, and i am looking forward to working with all of you to make sure this summer is a lack of violence and more about eliminating that violence, more in doubt for -- more about embracing all of the challenges
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in the city. so, let's get more detail about these programs. >> thank you some much. it has been such a delight to have someone on board who is equally passionate about our children and making sure the partnership continues. we did not have a partnership if we did not have leadership, and so i want to introduce our superintendent of schools, carlos garcia, and our board member who has helped identify the needs of students as well. carlos? >> thank you. good morning. but the move this a little bit. there we go. this is an exciting day. sometimes people come up to me and say that summers will seems like an oxymoron. you already have school, right? in this day and age, if we're going to compete, in a flat our students are going to be successful.