there and they enlightened the crowd about procedure, about the history of the events and as a police department and they made sure that people walked away from that meeting understanding that the police department has a great deal of respect for the lbgt community, especially those within the department as well as without and i want to commend the chief and command staff for their presence. thank you very much, chief. >> great. thank you. nothing further from the commission? ok. let's go to line item 2-d, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration in future commission meetings. commissioner chan? >> i want to see if you want to do the honors. we've been talking for a while about what we should pursue next as an important matter of priority for the commission hand has come back over and over to us again we need to address officer leave especially with regards to mental health and response to trauma and crisis and it is linked but different from our crisis intervention work and is

something in memphis they actually have a separate focus point on so when an officer has been involved in an incident it doesn't just have to be a shooting but any incident that could cause trauma or mental health concerns for the officer that that officer, they're debriefed and services are provided the officer. and officers in this department do get services but i think there is a lot of room for improvement and we as a commission, if we focus on that i think it will be quite a rewarding endeavor if all of us. >> commissioner chan and i talked about it and first came up when we had the folks from memphis here and they have a strong model and worked both sides of it and we discussed what our officers were going through and were going through some serious incidents involving many suicides and all the other issues we're starting to see when we dig deeper and say why did this officer suddenly start doing things like this. and generally there's a traumatic incident at the base of it so we want to make sure our officers are getting what they need because what they deal with on a daily basis, most people don't realize or

understand, you do, chief, because you've been in it for 30 years but we want to support the officers so commissioner chan and i had this conversation so we'd like to hear from the department what exactly we're doing and hear from others what are best practices, what can we do for our officers because we expect a lot out of them and want to give back to the officers. commissioner kingsley? commissioner kingsley: i think that sounds like a terrific topic we need to address, officers' need and we would be supportive in that in following up, though, along the same lines, i'd like the commission to address our priorities, once again, and see how we want to finish the year and go into the next year in terms of our evaluation last october at our retreat, and we did indicate that we were going to do this a few weeks ago but were going to postpone it until people were finished with vacations and able to focus and i'm wondering since most of us have probably given lieutenant falvey our

vacation schedules, lieutenant falvey, do you have a date that this item would be -- that it would be good to discuss the item of our priorities and actions going forward in terms of attendance? >> i believe august 10. i don't think anyone here is going to be out. are you? commissioner kingsley: i'll be here. >> the 24th and 31st of august, the city hall staff are going to be changing the sound system in the room so we're not going to be having our meetings here. we're scheduled for the 31st of august to have one in the community at the richmond district and the 24th in all likelihood will have to go dark. >> the 10th would be good dates for this? is that what we're down for? >> sounds about good. commissioner kingsley: two other items and these may be more appropriate for closed discussion, in fact closed session.

in fact i know one s. and that is an item that the city attorney was going to present to us maybe a month or two ago and couldn't for a number of reasons. and i think that that is an important item that we ought to again put on our calendars so that all the commissioners are aware of it and that we can make a collective discussion and decision around this item. and also for closed session, we have a personnel matter that we are discussing tonight, and it's a bit of an unusual case, and since we can't -- president mazzucco: probably should save that for closed session. commissioner kingsley: except the calendar to take action or discussion at a future meeting since we don't have that calendared in closed session, the discussion of calendarring it, i'm bringing it up at this point so that i think you get,

mr. president, i think you know where i'm going with this, so if we can just bring that up appropriately at this point and then say that we're going to calendar it for a closed session in the future. i think that will handle this matter. president mazzucco: ok. all right. commissioner kingsley: what would be a good date for that, lieutenant falvey? >> we schedule closed session items in closed sessions. commissioner kingsley: that's great. appreciate that. president mazzucco: what date do you think we should schedule this? commissioner chan, we were thinking maybe on the 24th -- excuse me. >> 24th of august? president mazzucco: no. >> what time are you talking about? commissioner chan: i think it's going to be -- >> commissioner turman: i'd

like to get a priority list done first. because, you know, the whole thing is to figure out what we're going to do and if we keep usurping, then it become as moot point. so i just -- you know, let's decide kind of what we're going to do before we schedule it. that would be my concern, trying to follow protocol. commissioner chan: i have a suggestion because i knew that would come up and makes sense to organize our priorities. and knowing the way c.i.t. worked and the way other things worked is that we should first get a presentation from the department, not a long one but a short one, where are we, how much staff do we have, what are the services, it can be a short presentation and after that we can discuss -- after our priorities we can discuss what we want to do knowing what the department status is. i think that's fine. we often ask about the status of various departments and procedures and that's not us taking action. it's just asking for a

presentation as a part of the chief's report. commissioner turman: indeed it probably will be a priority because if you're going to put it on august 24 it will come after our august 10 meeting and be there anyway. i'm fine with that. i want to make sure we put it on the list. president mazzucco: i was thinking july 28. commissioner chan: prior to the chief's report. president mazzucco: give us a little background. let's do july 28. how does the commission feel about july 27th. july 27th. nobody wants to come on the 28th. july 27. >> the 27th, commissioners? president mazzucco: the 27th. yes. ok. any public comment regarding line items 2, a, b, c or d? ms. grove. >> my concern is simple.

i want my protection and to have my protection, that means my officers have to be protected. if you want to give them a presentation on how nut cakes act, habitually when trying to accost an officer, try to kill an officer, wound or maim an officer when an officer isn't supposed to respond because the nut cakes in control, i think you better think again. the officer's life is much more important than any twit that wants to be pretending he wasn't taking his very education -- his medication so he can't be held responsible for any of his actions. that is the latest thing that is set forth here. there are so many false statements coming forth from the psychiatric profession, i consider them entirely fraud. the officers are to be protected, and i think the citizens are to be protected. they want to go around like last week with a broken bottle and knife and you get shot dead, well, too bad for him.

there was an officer being buried over across the bay with on the same day they tried to have a nut cake routine on the freeway, gee, that didn't work either. he got shot dead. that's the way it should be handled if they want to attack an officer. thank you. president mazzucco: any further comment? hearing none, next item. item 3. >> item 3 is public comment on all matters pertaining to item 5 below, closed session disciplinary cases including public comment on the vote whethero hold item 5 in closed session. president mazzucco: commissioner chan asked a question about a department bulletin. follow up? >> so the difference in the bulletin, if you look at the fourth paragraph, the district attorney -- we agreed with the district attorney's office that permission would be obtained in writing on the permission to search form prior to executing the search and that any oral

permission would be audio taped. so in the past, sometimes permission would be given and then if you didn't have the form or you didn't have the tape recorder, when you got back to the station, you would ask the person to sign the format the time, no problem, or you would ask them, hey, i'm going to put you on tape, we're going to have a conversation, remember, you gave me permission to search and you do it after the fact. so now we're requiring it to be in writing on the form or orally and on tape beforehand. if you forgot the form, go get the form. if you don't have the tape recorder, get the tape recorder and get it down before you go in. the final paragraph, the fifth paragraph is a reminder of the new requirement that came out in department bulletin 11077 where we've made so many great cases starting with the mrs. chin case at third and palu that the video we're requiring that the officers survey an area for any and all video even

if it might be hand-held by a witness via cell phone and if you cannot find any video to actually put a line in the police report so that the officers know that they have to at least do everything they can do to find it. if they locate video they have to take all measures they can to secure the video as best evidence. otherwise the rest of the bulletin is pretty much just a reminder boilerplate language of our obligations. president mazzucco: commissioner turman? commissioner turman: thank you. chief, i've read the bulletin. in fact, you borrowed mine. but i just want to point out and be clear on this, that i think that obtaining a record of the actual consent is a very -- it's a good idea, it's a good practice. also, it is tempered, however, by practice considerations of

circumstances, is it not because there may be circumstances we are not for one reason or another able to obtain the necessary writing or audio recording. i'm not saying we should excuse it in any way but we need to make sure that we understand that we're requiring this and that there might be circumstances in which this can't be practically accomplished. is that correct? >> yes, it is. but the district attorney wants us to understand that he is saying it's a requirement so we have to understand that if he decides not to proceed because we didn't comply with this bulletin that that's an expense we may incur, however we would still try to make the case as best we can at the time. commissioner turman: thank you. president mazzucco: any follow-up public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. we can move to line item 3 which was previously announced which is public comment regarding closed session matters. as we discussed earlier, these are disciplinary mattered protect bid copely versus

strength decision and the police officers bill of rights s. there public comment regarding the closed session matters? hearing none, public comment is closed. please call line item 5. >> item 4 is a vote whether to hold item 4 in closed session. >> so moved. >> second. president mazzucco: all in favor. aye. ladies and gentlemen, we're now moving to closed sessi >> we are back in open session. >> we have the same commissioners. we are going to item number six, a vote whether to disclose any or all discussions on item five held on closed session. "move not to disclose. >> second. >> excuse me, did we skip item 5

f on the agenda? >> that was a discussion that we pretty much already had earlier regarding the first matter. >> so those two things that i discussed will be in the close -- >> are we calendar in those now? >> let's calendar the closed session item. this is for the 27th. >> the 27 of -- >> july. >> that is to discuss the disciplinary matters that the city attorney was going to present a couple of months ago but got deferred. we have already handled the

second matter. >> without objection on the motion. >> we have a motion for nondisclosure regarding the closed session matter. >> second. >> all those in favor. >> public comment. >> item number7 is adjournment. >> do we have a motion? >> so moved.

and d d d d d >> the san francisco cons tri of flowers in golden gate park

is now showing a new exhibit that changes the way we see the plants around us. amy stewart's best-selling book, "wicked plants" is the inspiration behind the new exhibit that takes us to the dark side of the plant world. >> i am amy stewart. i am the arthur of "wicked plants," the weeds that killed lincoln's mother and other botanical atrocities. with the screens fly trap, that is kind of where everybody went initially, you mean like that? i kind of thought, well, all it does is eat up bugs. that is not very wicked. so what? by wicked, what i mean is that they are poisonous, dangerous, deadly or immoral or maybe illegal or offensive or awful in some way. i am in the profession of going around and interviewing botanists, horticulturalists

and plant scientists. they all seem to have some little plant tucked away in the corner of a greenhouse that maybe they weren't supposed to have. i got interested in this idea that maybe there was a dark side to plants. >> the white snake root. people who consumed milk or meat from a cow that fed on white snake root faced severe pain. milk sickness, as it was culled, resulted in vomiting, tremors, delirium and death. one of the most famous victims of milk sickness was nancy hangs lincoln. she died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9-year-old abraham lincoln. he helped build his mother's casket by carving the woodallen petition douche the wooden

petition himself. >> we transformed the gallery to and eerie victorian garden. my name is lowe hodges, and i am the director of operations and exhibitions at the conls tore of -- cons tore of flowers. we decided it needed context. so we needed a house or a building. the story behind the couple in the window, you can see his wife has just served him a glass of wine, and he is slumped over the table as the poison takes affect. a neat little factold dominion about that house is actually built out of three panels from old james bond movie. we wanted people to feel like i am not supposed to be in this room. this is the one that is

supposed to be barred off and locked up. >> the ole andersonner -- oleander. this popular shrub is popular in warm climates. it has been implicated in a surprising number of murders and accidental deaths. children are at risk because it takes only a few leaves to kill them. a southern california woman tried to collect on her husband's life insurance by putting the leaves in his food. she is now one of 15 women on california's death rowan the only one who attempted to murder with a plant. >> people who may haven't been to their cons tore or been to -- do serve tore or their botanical garden, it gives them a reason to come back. you think let's go and look at the pretty flowers.

these are pretty flowers, but they are flowers with weird and fascinating stories behind them. that is really fun and really not what people normally think of when they come to a horticultural institution. >> "wicked plants" is now showing at the san francisco conserve tore of flowers. unless next time, get out and play.

>> hello, i'm meg, welcome to "culture wire." for this episode, the director of cultural affairs, luis, will take you on a journey through presidio has been tet. -- presidio habitat.

>> welcome to "culture wire." today i'm at the presidio trust, a treasure within san francisco, because the presidio trust is really a national park in the center of an urban setting. it dates to the very founding of the city. national park. toting me today to talk about this amazing exhibition at presidio habitat is cheryl hanes. can you tell me a little bit about the idea of the presidio habitat? >> succinctly, i have been long

involved in the presidio. i was here when it was still a military base in the 1980's. i remember driving down walmart to the golden gate bridge and seeing the military guard at the gate and being utterly fascinated. >> so presidio habitat is an exhibition where you have invited, how many artists to think about the habitat? >> we put together a list of possible participants, local, national, or international, of people who are concerned with environmental concerns, made some sort of contribution to the landscape and conversation we're having here. we said that broke -- proposal requests and we received 25 back.

from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the landscape. >> including this building, which is an amazing example of recycling. >> we are proud of this space. it was designed by a local architecture team. we said, we need something that is a temporary structure, something that can be brought onto the presidio in pieces, act as an exhibition space for one year. we came up with the notion of shipping containers. it was important for us that we made this project for the place, of the place. what i mean by that is participants would also used repurchased materials. >> we will be speaking to one of

the artists that you selected. what excited you about his idea? >> have many things. first of all, i am a fan of his architecture. because of that creativity, i knew that he could come up with something unique. i love the fact that he was specifically addressing the landscape around here, and it was also about the human interaction with this place. >> what are your expectations with the people coming to presidio habitat? >> we really hope people will come with their family, dogs, and come back a number of times the works will change over the year. the feedback we are getting is you cannot do all of them on one visit. it is really better to come

back and have different experiences. >> thank you. i am with mark jensen of jensen architect. he was one of the architects to be chosen to do the presidio habitat. when you heard about this project, what inspired you about that call? >> our inspiration is a great blue heron. it was the site itself that attracted us. this is an incredibly beautiful outdoor room. we did a bit of reverse engineering once we knew we wanted to work here. which animals live here? the great blue heron jumped out at us. we walked around, and quickly, you get into another pace. you slow down, leave the city behind you.

you can feel the wind and the breeze. in our increasingly frenetic, fast-paced, connected life, the chance to be of here and slow down a bit was part of the agenda. as part of the installation, it was suggested that this would be deliberately not mowed because it would allow the sustaining of insects, plants, that would graduate -- that would gravitate to the area. >> that is right. i think you quickly notice that. >> thank you for being here. presidio habitat is an exhibition at the presidio trust. it will be in san francisco through may 2011. we hope you will come out to experience this amazing exhibition and great natural treasure. >> to learn more about the other

habitats installations in the presidio, visit