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1 -- the project will be done in two phases. the first phase is the destruction of the terminal to be used by the america's cup. 2013 to help host the main event at pier 27. once they terminate their occupation of the new building, our team will complete the structure, which will include adding facilities and maritime e equipment and the construction of the plaza, so one of the other key ingredients is the identification of key project staff, demonstration to meet new certification, and meeting local hiring goals. based on interviews, the staff have determined that turner
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construction co. is lowest bidder on the project. the public management team would move to roughly from the terminal two projects to our work. i think they just completed a $333 million project. i talked to the project manager, who was very happy with her work. they brought about in ahead of schedule, and we would like to see that in our product. i would like to introduce the project manager, and he will introduce cindy mcgill, who works under him. i will take any questions. >> good afternoon. miguel was really the project
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manager. she was scheduled to be on jury duty, so i have prepared now to give an update. i do not think she ended up serving on jury duty. she asked me to update what our steps are. turner construction -- their first task would be to provide reconstruction services. this is when they would be looking at the documents and engineers have prepared, and validate our cost estimates, put together a schedule, provided suggestions, to make sure the sequence of construction makes sense and that it can be doable in our one-year schedule. we will also be looking and materials and things like architects and engineers are specifying to make sure they can be procured in our time line, so they are reviewing the work of has been completed today to
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validate the schedule and our budget. they will begin to creep qualifier who trade contractors. it would be competitively and they didn't. the would-be pre-qualifying no less than three, and they would begin to make sure they have the experience, the financial capabilities, and they have the resources to do the work, and contracts are awarded to the lowest and bitter, and that begins the process of buyout. gooas presented in previous meetings, we have one year to deliver the project during your -- the project. these packages are some of the ones we will be moving first
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ahead of the rest of the buyout. after turner does they're hitting, we will begin to work weswith a workforce developmento establish and now a plan to meet the requirement. this is one of the first major requirements that requires 20% of the work force the local workers, so they will be working to make sure the trade contractors have a viable plan to meet the requirement. that ends reconstruction, and early next year, they moved to traditional construction work, where turner will be meeting different traits and developing the improvement goals but go with that.
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and if the outcome of the general manager of turner in san francisco. we do with the, the general manager of turner in san francisco. >> good afternoon, commissioners to radioed -- commissioners. i am very glad to be here. i will walk you through a presentation of who turner is so you have an idea of who you are about to take this journey with. not only will they complete the job on time and on budget, but they will make a good journey
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and memorable -- to make the journey is memorable. youwe have been in the bay area since 1967. san francisco has been a key client for us. we have done continuous work for several years, and i will walk you through the time line. most of our work in the 1970's and the 1980's and the 1990's was as a construction manager, and in the last 10 years, we have done the contract of the work, so what you see is the initial center, the expansions, escalators. this is one of our -- some of our original work we did in the
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1970's and the uruguayan the complex -- yerba buena complex. in the early 1990's, we were selected to manage the esc2 program, which included five buildings, but i think the money ran out, and they only ended up doing three buildings. these were some very challenging projects in the city. this is one of the recent achievements, retrofitted expansion, and if you have traveled, you must have traveled from this terminal. it is a project to be proud of.
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we open the terminal to days ahead of schedule, and this is another challenging project. we worked with contractors. and we are still during the remodeling right now. ghraib lastly, we are the construction managers, and working on the trans bay project, so we have done some really key projects for send francisco superior and -- san francisco. victor was the executive. seen as smith will be the project manager full time on site. she has worked on this as well as the terminal to project. also he worked on the opera
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house project, the city hall project, so a quick overview on who we are and the team that will deliver this for you. any questions bowman -- any questions? >> i have a few, and in interest of full disclosure, i was one of your attorneys. back in the day of construction management focus, as you went through some of your projects, how many did you serve on where turner was construction manager and general contractor, and can you give a little flavor as how you were able to differentiate those roles? in my former federation, it was easier to have separate companies. >> of all the projects i showed you, do -- terminal two had
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general contractors. all others were general contractors. for the last 15 or 20 years, we have seen that most public entities actually have moved towards the construction and manager so they can have a general contractor on the table to make sure the project is still plentiful and the assets are right and also to save money and -- is vulnerable i -- is buildable and the assets are right and also to save money. that is how it has evolved. >> it is cost-savings? >> absolutely. >> i love having this on the record. >> i have one comment to. as you know, this is on a tight
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timeline. you have to be on budget, and you have to be on time. my colleagues concur. >> is that of motion? >> the total project is for what we expected phase one is estimated at. >> i am getting an update. $59 million. hard costs for those -- for both phases. i am sorry about that. >> marginally down from our us in a spirited thank you all to return -- down from our estimates. thank you for the out. >> we will go into what local hiring needs. i apologize we were not able to go into that, but we will get
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into that in our next meeting. >> i will move its emotion. >> any other questions? >> is there any other public comment on this item and? if not, all in favor? >> aye. >> the item is approved. >> alleged -- item 11, new business. >> there is plenty. do you have any more? >> my sounding like a broken record? >> many new business? >> any public comments? >> is there any public comment? >> you warned her. she left early. >> at this time, i will move for an adjournment.
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>> hello. 9 judge terri l. jackson. the court is now recruiting prospective civil grand jurors. our goal is to develop a pool of candidates that is inclusive of all segments of our city's population. >> the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. >> i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. >> so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. >> for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at
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it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you. we'll be taking a roll call of commissioners. commission president thomas mazzucco? >> president. >> commission vice president dr. joe marshall. >> here. thank you. >> mr. petra dejesus is excused. commissioner angela chan. >> present. >> commissioner carol kingsley. >> present. >> and commissioner james slaughter is en route. you have a quorum of commissioners additionally on this evening we have ms. joyce hicks and chief of police. >> thank you very much, lieutenant falby. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, june 15, 2011 san francisco police commission hearing and tonight's agenda we'll have closed session
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matters to deal with discipline but the rest of the agenda seems light and we'll move to that. the commissioner is to the dayous. let's call number one. >> item 1 is general public comment. the public is welcomed to address the committee regarding items that don't appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. the speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or the department or o.c.c. personnel. under rules of order, under public comment neither police or personnel or commissioners are to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and o.c.c. personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. public comment is limited to three minutes. >> thank you, lieutenant. good evening, mr. delanus. >> hello, commission. you know i don't come here often so when i come here it's usually a matter of urgency. i was in front of the budget
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committee meeting today and it appears as though the draw program will not be extended. it appears as though they will vote to not extend the drop program. so one of the things, i know this is ultimately going to be dropped on your lap two or three years down the road when we're short about 500 or 600 cops, i wanted to give you some of the numbers i think are real numbers and don't think are even disputed by human resources. we believe that effective july 1, which will be a week and a half, we will have 330 officers in the drop program which means the clock will have started one to three years from that point on. according to human resources own statistics, we anticipate losing an additional 75 officers per year through general attrition. that brings the total of officers that we would need in the next three years to about 655. without any academy classes. when you add that to the fact we're already 150 officers below the charter mandated minimal staffing level of 1971,
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we would have to hire approximate 800 officers over the next three years to comply with charter section 4.127. due to the fact no academy classes are budgeted for fiscal year 2011, we would have to hire at least 20 academy classes over the two following years just to maintain the charter mandated number. obviously, that's not practical nor financially possible, physically possible. in addition, the mass exodus of police officers will coincide with san francisco's hosting of the america's cup. that could leave us 600 to 700 officers short just when we need him the most. in addition we'll be losing many of our most experienced supervisors and investigators when we need them and this will be a critical blow to the efficiency of our department. so while the board of supervisors prepared to end the drop program effective next week, it also is apparent they have no plan in place to deal with the mass ox oddous of this department -- mass exodus of
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this department the next three years and believe the finger will be pointed to the police commission for those to blame and the chief of police for not back filling the department. just a word to the wise that these numbers are real, that we are actually going to be looking at replacing probably 1/3 of our police department the next three years. i don't know how we're going to do it. i don't know where the money will come from but it is the reality of life. i just don't want this to come as a big surprise to you folks because i've been crunching the numbers here, talked to human resources, talked to the mayor's office. nobody disputes my numbers and nobody has a plan for what will happen. it's a dire situation. hopefully the commission can come up with a plan, but i know ultimately you're the ones that will probably be blamed when the ripper hits the road. so i'm just giving you a two-year advance warning when they come to you and start yelling at you why we're 400, 500 down. >> thank you. can you stand by, we don't normally do this but ms.
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kingsley would like to address you. >> thank you for your comments. do you have that in writing, the statistics went by rather quickly for me. i would like to have a hard copy of that if you could give me that. >> i will give you a copy. matter of fact i have it here and tim can make some copies for you, ok. commissioner slaughter: thank you, sir. >> mr. delanus, we've been discussing this issue the last three months if we're not mistaken, there is a concern about staffing and hiring and about the drop program and about the number of officers that are eligible to retire today. what is that number, 700? >> we have 562 that are eligible to go into the drop program which means that's 562 people with either more than 25 years over the age of 50. we have over 320 officers with more than 30 years. but with the drop program ending, they're all going into the drop effective in the next week. >> what do you recommend the solution for this problem be? what would be your recommendation on behalf of the
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police officers recommendation? >> it would be a task force made of the police commission, the p.o.a. and the department to discuss a plan for the future and somehow get the point across to the board. i think i got the point across to the board today that this is a real problem and scott weiner was talking about calling for an emergency session to discuss the shortage, the upcoming shortage in the department. but i think it is something that needs to be addressed sooner than later and think we could address it as a group, possibly a representative from the commission department and the p.o.a. and i would be involved in it myself. >> thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. mr. harrison before you once again on the issue of my brother being murdered january 2. . i'm coming forward to say we appreciate every effort that's
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been made to capture the person responsible for the death of my brother. however, we believe more can be done. i spoke with somebody before the meeting started today, and i was informed that a reward could be offered through the mayor's criminal justice program. we're going to look into that. i just wanted to say briefly, there are individuals on the board who knew my brother and know his track record in san francisco and although he was in an unfavorable situations in san francisco, what happened to him in january 2011, he didn't deserve that. so no matter what we may think or opinions we may form about individual and their record, he did not deserve to be murdered. so i just wanted to put that
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out there and, you know, we just appreciate everything, but we do hope that more can be done in resolving the case dealing with my brother charles harrison. thank you. >> thank you. president mazzucco: next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. i wish our new commission was here tonight. i called that two weeks ago. i know who it will be, it's going to be thurmond. the examiner will be the new commissioner per the paper. also, i'd like to thank greg's performance at park station in reference to the offshore shooting of a moving vehicle and also would like to make an apology. two weeks ago i mentioned an officer by name and accused him of possibly being guilty of a crime and read the paper that
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he wrote last week, "the bay view guardian." if he's exonerated would do a public apology. if that man is exonerated. i'm not using his name again, it's not polite. i will stand up here and apologize to that officer myself because i heard some heat on the street, officer clyde, you don't know what you're talking about, you shouldn't say things like that. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you, clyde. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners, my name is eric king, i'm here continuing on with the topic that brought me here going back to april 27. let's see, a bar girl chippy loses all of her money and i happen to witness her sign a complaint against the people who were trying to collect, and for some reason the powers that be deemed that my life is forfeit from that point
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forward. i disagree with that completely . when i filed my complaint with the o.c.c., i attached to my complaint some documents that i wanted them to read that would give them a background on the complaint that i was filing. the documents were predominantly freedom of information act requests i had made to the department of justice. the o.c.c. closed my complaint without interviewing me, and only interviewed me after i pressed them to do so. they ruled information only, which is a foggy finding and they still would not give me definition of what they meant by that. during the course of the investigation, i told them about the three detentions i suffered at the hands of the san francisco police department and they claim they can only find one.
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so they would not investigate where the others -- what happened to the other two, and i find that kind of as a signal of the quality of the investigation that was conducted. you know, finally tonight i want to say, if you knowingly and willingly engage in a malicious conspiracy against an individual and if that's a result of that conspiracy, the individual is stripped of a basic constitutional right, and if you know that, and if you do nothing to rectify the matter or to make amends to that individual, not only have you done a grave injustice to that individual himself, but you have also attacked and undermined the constitution itself. and in this country, that is addition, plain and simple. thank you for your time. president mazzucco: any further public comment? hearing none, call line item
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number 2. >> item number 2, reports and announcements, first up is 2-a, the chief's report, a report on crime statistics, a review of recent activities, a status report regarding special compliance and a report regarding police reserves program. >> good evening, chief, how are you? >> i'm good. >> good evening, commissioners. violent crime continues to be down in san francisco. it's down 8%. property crimes are up about 5% but that's down over the last 30 days from 6%. overall crime is up 2% but there's a margin of error so effectively is flat when matched against last year. i do want to say that i know that there was a mention in the paper when we had our most recent homicide that we were having an uptick in homicide but put that in perspective, we're at about 26 homicides year to date, which is higher than last year, but at this
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time year to date in 2008, we were 48. so we're still down dramatically. we're enjoying our third year, they say a third year is a trend, so we're definitely trending down from those four or five years where we were brushing near 100 annually. so i think, again, huge credit goes to the rank and file and the -- everybody assigned to the police department working very closely with the community to figure it out together. i think that that's actually been the recipe for this downturn in violence. as far as the other two reports go, i'm going to defer to lieutenant -- where did he go? to lieutenant paraon the reserves and patrol. >> thank you, chief, good evening, lieutenant parra. >> good evening, president, commissioners, chief, citizens, i'm henry parra, the liaiso
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