any further questions for director hicks? ok. let's move on to line item 3-c. commission reports. >> item 2-c is the commissioner reports. the first is the commission president's report followed by the individual commission reports. >> i have nothing to report this evening. commissioner? >> just that i'm going on a ride-along soon in the tenderloin and will be happy to report how it goes for the crisis intervention training and want to know what's happening so we can build on it. >> great. i encourage all the commissioners, i know commissioner kingsley has done it but it's a good thing to do to put things in perspective. the ride-alongs are very interesting. let's move to line item 2-d. yes. >> before you move on, the line item to the next line item, i do want to report that on monday night i was privileged to attend the alice b. toklus club where chief and members of the command staff addressed the

membership of the club and they started off with a discussion about the perspective between the police department and the lbgt community and discussed various aspects of how the relationship has changed and some of the current events that happened during the calendar year which police presence is required for some of the events and how the cooperation and relationship had grown and changed over the year. it was an informative evening. i have to tell you that it was much appreciated to see how the relationship between the police and the lbgt community has flourished in a very positive way and i want to commend the chief and members of the command staff that were present 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. >> is housed in a spectacular building described by the world renowned architect. it is the san francisco destination for provocative expositions and programs that explore culture, history, art, and ideas. the director of cultural affairs told us more about the mission and to give us a tour of the latest exposition.

♪ >> today we find ourselves of the contemporary jewish museum. with me is the director of the museum. >> i am so happy you are here today. >> we're getting close to a milestone for the museum. it is your third anniversary coming up. >> it is. you were here to help cut the ribbon. it has been an extraordinary journey ever since. we welcome hundreds of thousands of people into the building. we welcome school groups, interests -- tourists. >> the addition of the museum to the cultural pantheons of san francisco has been phenomenon.

you have fabulous exhibits. there is one i want to talk about, "seeing gertrude stein." >> gertrude stein is a local woman. she was raised in oakland. she was an extraordinary individual who helped create -- many people call for the mother of modernism. years ago, i was introduced to someone doing research on her. i thought it would be an extraordinary exposition to take her and understand her at all for complexity. that is what we have on view during the summer of 2011. >> it is full of wonderful drawings, paintings, and sculpture. >> there is incredible art on view. we have photographs. we have sculpture. we have a lot of different

things. we have a little something made for her by picasso. there are five different ways of looking at her life. it is not in chronological installation. it is looking at how she is portrayed in help artists, painters, and photographers presented her and how she thought about her own style and presentation. many people think she always had short hair. it was not until she was 52 that she cut off all of her hair. the second element is called "domestic stein." alice b. toklas was her lifelong partner. they had several different homes. we know about their home in paris, the famous salon. you get a taste of what their

domestic life was like. >> one thing recreated is the fabulous wallpaper. the black-and-white photos do not convey the color. >> in doing a lot of research, you discover a little tidbits. with an exhibition, at the find ways to make it come together. we found beautiful photographs of the interior of their home. then we found a tiny scrap of the wallpaper. we saw how blue and vibrant it was. we had a designer recreate the image of the wallpaper. we had it made into wallpaper so we could all experience what it would have been like to be in their home. it is dynamic and fantastic. they seem very monochromatic because you only know them through black-and-white photographs, but they had such a vibrant life. that is what the exhibition is

also trying to show. the third one is the art of friendship. picasso and matisse were part of their second family. there were people she admired and worked with. we introduced the visitors to her second family in a sense. the fourth story is called celebrity stein. what a lot of people do not know is when she left united states in the early 1900's, she only came back once in 1934. we also have a section of every single first edition book she ever published. >> it is incredible to see all the first edition books. >> it is really impressive to realize not only was she a grand dame of paris, but she had an incredible writing practice.

she was a prolific writer. the fifth level really looks at her legacy and how artists continue to be inspired by her image, work, and concept. >> this is a compelling reason for people to visit the jewish museum. you also have life and theater. >> we are a non-collecting museum. any time you walk in the building, you will always be treated to a range of very different and wonderful exhibitions. in our first floor exhibition space, we have an exhibition on the work of charlotte sullivan. she was a young artist in berlin. the nazis came into power. her parents sent her to the south of france to live with her grandparents. she put herself in a room for about 18 months and created 1200

small paintings telling her life story through a kind of reflection. it is another example of the way we try to bring a wide range of art and experiences to our public. we want them to find something meaningful to them. >> your institution has been in this neighborhood for three years. how do you like the neighborhood? >> this is the best neighborhood. we are the luckiest city in the world to have this kind of cultural district, to have so many museums and cultural institutions. the center of our tourist life is here because this is where the convention center is. people from near and far can be introduced to the richness of the bay area. it is so wonderful and unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision.

>> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire." >> to learn more about the exhibition and other upcoming events, visit the website. thank you for watching "culture