make about ptsd, it is not necessarily the critical incident that triggers all that. it is usually the accumulative stress and it is many years of doing this job in dealing with victims in and out. that is usually what tears the officer down and the alcohol comes into play. the stress is sometimes more serious than the one time incident. you get plugged into the commission -- clinician and you get all these resources. it is the stuff you do not always hear about. there could be a reaction to trauma and having to witness it over and over is what takes a toll and that is what i see as

the falling into the abuse of alcohol or whatever it may be, falling into depression. the more exposure you have to trauma or some of the things you have to witness, usually, there is a low level of depression and some anxiety, if not in most officers. it may not be recognizable. it starts very early in their career and it is -- if it is not done anything with, it will spin out of control. it is pretty normal to have some normal -- level of anxiety or depression. most do not recognize it trade can see them walking around in that mode. it is the cumulative stress i am concerned about. >> thank you for conducting that survey. commissioner chan: i look forward to hearing a summary about that. commissioner terman: i join my

fellow commissioners in thinking you for your hard work and i want to express my thanks to commissioner chan and mazzucco. the question, how do you view things from the officers' perspective. i would like to get a better sense of some of the resources to offer and discuss in the training. the actual resources. that is a longer discussion we could have offline and i would like to request a copy of the book. >> we could give you the book we give in our advanced officers training, it covers all the resources and we could have -- let you guys have a copy of it. president mazzucco: dr. marshall? vice president marshall: it si veris very good.

it is a really good buck -- it is really a good book. i wanted to say that. i would like to have one. >> we will get it for you. >> when we get these complaints, they were rude, raising their voices and the officer explains i have to do that because i am on guard. it is officer safety. we expect officers to be on guard in the build up this defense mechanism. that is why you talk to me, that is what you raised your voice. it gives the example that police

officers think differently. you show a scout leader, the officer thinks pedophile. we need to stay on top of this. they recommend better scheduling, more time with their family. less time with other officers. it is an easy read but it is good. we have a great police department. the conclusion is we have talked to the chief about these issues and i think he agrees. he is extremely supportive. commissioner terman: the health care an officer is, the better off the community. -- healthier an officer is, the better off the committee. you cannot extrapolate to everyone.

11 officers to be as healthy as possible. -- you want officers to be healthy as possible. there are all kinds of books out there. i wanted to recommend this. president mazzucco: anything you would like to add? >> we have known each other for years and they are unbelievable. we have talked about having you report to the chief's office again as you used to be. >> great. president mazzucco: as a commission, we would need to do this. mandate about checking in with -- about ptsd. what we like to mandate they have three mandatory visit stacks -- three mandatory visits? >> we will make it a direct

report and we will figure out how long this goes in including the other suggestions and we will give you a final report. >> we were talking about this offline. something you have to mandate, we can touch 1111 but these are great ideas. the chief said he would do what he can to mandate each and everyone. it is important for the officers and we appreciate that. >> is the idea to combat -- come back, what will look like? if we put these into action? >> we will look at the existing policies. if there is any and we will modify its to see what has been discussed tonight. >> the existing policies outside the department? >> right now there is an officer involved shooting policy that mandates one visit. we will amend that policy.

we have what we call all hands meetings, quarterly meetings for all the tenants. we have -- could have one of these dedicated so they get their annual training there. i do not think this is the forum to do it. we will sit down and figure it out. >> as long as we have a time like this, is this something that commission is prioritizing? what would be a good time to come back with a report on what action steps you would suggest? >> before we get further, steve johnson from the poa is here. is there anything you would like to add? >> thank you, commissioner. this is one of the most important items, helping the

members out. they do a tremendous amount of work and we try to work with them. any support you can give them would be greatly appreciated. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. is there any public comment regarding this presentation? >> >> we brought of the suicide rate and the unauthorized use by a policeman. correct me if i'm wrong. i always call them officers.

is this information available to all policemen of all ranks which was clear that it was not. i saw that it was not clear whether the suicide rate was related to a police officer in combat or a police officer that had fired his weapon or not fired his weapon. this is an interesting topic. in afghanistan, they were running 30 suicides a month. it is not clear where we are on this. i think this is a great topic to be discussed and it should be available to every police

officer in the city and county of san francisco. i am aware that at the -- center, my father was in the u.s. military and intelligence. they had an anonymous hot line that you could call. i will leave it at that. >> any further public comment? hearing none -- >> it looks like at about october 12th or so, we will get a report back. >> thank you for being amenable to this. >> item number6 is all matters pertaining to item 8 below. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is asking for public comment it involving confidential matters.

is there any public comment? >> item number7, a vote on whether to hold item 8 in closed session. >> i move that we move into closed session. >> second, all in favor. >> >> we're back in open session. we have a quorum. >> thank you. do i have a motion on whether or not we should disclose matters held in closed session? all in favor? the next line. >> item 10, adjournment. president mazzucco: so moved. all in favor? thank you very much.

>> good morning. how are you? wifi working? you're not a way get. we are going to wake you up. i am pleased to open today with a special interview with the mayor of san francisco. please welcome mayor italy -- mayor ed lee.

[applause] >> good morning. thank you for making it out here. you are currently the mayor of san francisco. >> interim mayor. >> and you are running again in november. >> that is right, november 8. >> the mayor's microphone is not on. we have teams of people to fix this. perhaps one of your opponents is backstage even as we speak. >> good morning, everyone. [applause] all right. >> we will start over. you are currently the mayor of san francisco. >> yes, i am. >> and you're running for mayor as well. >> yes, and voting day is

november 8. >> you have to be a san francisco resident to vote for you. >> correct. >> it audience, raise your hand if you're a san francisco resident and a leader and that you are a registered voter. leave your hand if you're going to vote for the mayor. [laughter] that is everybody. amazing. it was unanimous. we also have people watching on tv, but they cannot raise their hand -- well, they could, but it would not be seen. this is my question. i cannot find any evidence that you have ever run for anything before. are you a politician? have you ever run for something? >> no, this is the first time i have run for public office. the last time i ran was in high school. >> personally, i find that to be a huge plus. let's talk about the high school election. i think it is relevant since it was your last. what did you run for? >> senior class president of franklin high school in seattle, washington, where i grew up.

>> did you win? >> yes. >> also, that is good. how did you win? during the campaign, did you go negative? how much did you raise for that campaign? >> [laughs] think my slogan was ed win, not lose. >> keep it simple. i think that is pretty awesome that you have never run for office. it gives you a perfect street. >> i have been working in san francisco government for 22 years. i worked for four different mayors and headed up five different departments of the city. >> some of the work you have done has been hugely positive, which is why we made a priority to invite you here. one of the things we have been focusing on at tech crunch is the problems with the payroll tax system in san francisco from a tech company perspective.

twitter and a lot of these companies are getting larger and threatening to leave the city because the 1.5% payroll tax in this weird stock option tax. talk about the things that you and the board has accomplished. >> certainly, when i came to office, there was already a notice on my desk that twitter had indicated that they were looking for space science out the san francisco because of our tax structure. so we worked quickly would supervisor kim and david chiu to study it the payroll tax structure was job-punishing. we realized that as companies started here, they wanted to grow. the numbers were speaking to us. twitter was sitting there were going to grow from about four hundred employees took maybe 3000 in the next two years. all of that was going to be taxed on them, and they wanted to maybe look at another location without that. >> so it twitter did not want to pay taxes. >> no, there were willing to pay

the taxes, but they did not want to be punished further growth was the distinction we wanted to make it a we work with supervisor kim to do two things. let's create an exemption and place it on one of the areas we want to revitalize, and that is midmarket. we went from 10th street, included parts of the tenderloin, and traded a six- year exemption in which it twitter said, that is attracted -- attractive enough, and they ended up signing a long-term lease. they and the shorenstein properties are getting their buildings ready to be retrofitted for seismic safety. >> this is on new employees with in a special area. >> that is right. >> and they have other employees outside of that area, and they will pay the normal payroll tax on those. >> that is right. if they are located in that area, than those net new

employees will be exempted. >> do you believe twitter would have left the city had you not come up with a compromise like this? >> yes, it was serious on their part. we met at their offices were there at today. in net -- in addition to meeting the cfo's and ceo's, i asked if i can meet with the employee is separately. they allowed me to do that, i asked what they liked about the city. one of the things they said to me was they enjoy the diversity that the city has, all of its culture and arts, but i really like is dedicated bike lanes. they really want not to have to drive to work. we have been working very hard on that. >> they ask for anything else? >> they asked that our city keep its innovative spirit. i think a lot of the young workers here -- >> anything specific? like, i would like you to promise me the giants will win the world series every year that your mayor.

can you promise that? >> i could do it with a few miracles for the next 15 games. i would love to promise that. we will have to depend upon some miracles to happen, kind of like last year. >> so you cannot promise that. >> i cannot, but i would love to join in on the miracle trip. >> do you have a chief logger position? because i am currently out of work. [laughter] i do not even need to be paid that much. i could be your blogger person. would that be a problem? >> that could be a different position we can create. aid is new media. >> i do not know what you said. i think you said no. i do want to get back to the tax issues, because it is a very serious. i am amazed that with the disliked for business that i

see what some supervisor's in this city, i am amazed you're able to work out a compromise at all, even for six years. was it difficult? >> i do not think it was that difficult. we had to get past the direct blast the rhetoric. people have seen companies to grow big and not contribute. >> and there was a lot of rhetoric. >> yes, and we just appears to through that. the number-one thing we have to do is create jobs. we have to see how we can attract business, make investment to get the appropriately turn so that more jobs are created. i want to make sure that companies start here, stay here, and grow. the way to do that is you sit down and talk with the technology ceo's and cfo's and the workers themselves to find out what it is that makes them want to stay here. you work on those things. whether it is bike lanes or

exemptions, taxes, even learning about the stock options and how that was going to hurt. >> the stock option part of this is a little different. for example, zynga is not in the exclusion area, correct? >> that is right. there on thompson street. >> said it will continue to pay payroll taxes. >> yes. they just moved in, and they could not offer a different move to midmarket, but they're going to grow and are about to turn public. they were explaining to us, this is how we start in growth, and if you're eager to punish us on taxing our stock options as they make us profitable, not only will the investors away, but i think the company will disappear. we had to pay attention to that. that is a story that came out of tech crunch. we realized stock options was part of the compensation we were

taxing. we had to pay attention to how the companies are growing here and make a distinction. we were able to do that was supervisor mirkarimi and supervisor farrell's leadership at the board, to pay attention to that specific idea. the board of supervisors and the mayor's office got together to offer that six-year exemption there and not tax stock options for six years. >> he had the tax exclusion area, which cuts out payroll, the payroll tax for new employees -- is that permit? >> six years. >> and you also have a six-year exemption on this 1.5% stock option tax. >> and that this city-wide. >> and that keeps zynga here. >> them and others that are about to go public. >> you have done everything. there's no more to do. >> no, no, there's plenty more to do. in fact, what we have started as an ongoing competition with technology companies.

that has been exciting to me, because the more i learn about the technology companies, companies that started up here, people who want to disrupt the way we do media and increase the value of their companies, we need to learn about that. the city government is still -- i mean, i have got the privilege of working with our young supervisors who are energetic and want to understand how we grow our companies here and how we make sure we make the decisions at city hall to allow the to stay here and grow. that is the number-one thing here. it is not just ending. in fact, the payroll tax exemption for six years on midmarket was just the beginning of that discussion. what we have promised to deliver is within the next year, to revamp our whole payroll tax and possibly to get rid of the payroll tax. >> i mean, really? the board of supervisors -- i am not going to say their communist, but they're certainly socialist. and they dislike everyone. [laughter] so they talk about twitter.

twitter should give us all of their revenue because we give them the privilege of existing, etc. it is almost that rhetoric. i do not know how you, as a normal human being, what into a meeting in say let's cut through the rhetoric and have a discussion about the economic impact of twitter leaving the city. those people did not seem to understand that. >> and i think we are having much more civil discussions about how businesses start and grow and what our obstacles are to get rid of to allow the growth to happen. the other part of it is that those jobs are coming right to san francisco residence as we speak. twitter, 35% of the jobs they have currently are san francisco resident. and more to come. as we talk about their building and as we work with shorenstein and we realize that they want to go gold platinum on that building for this indication, they're doing the best they can to retrofit the building. the jobs that will be offered in

the building from building maintenance, janitorial work, architecture work, a lot of jobs will be part of that. >> and it is pretty clear. even though they're not paying payroll tax for these supplies, the economic benefits of them -- >> are huge. today, this year alone, we leased out 4.6 million square feet of office space in the city. 1.6 million of that was technology companies using that space. >> can you put that into context? how much office space to tech companies currently have? >> there's 1503 technology companies in the city today, and they employ just south of 28,000 employees. that is a huge, huge market. >> sounds great. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> i do not live here. if i did, i would definitely vote for you. but i do not. is there any last thing you want

to say to the san francisco residence to convince them that you're not going to, you know, somehow turn on them? >> i have not been a politician. what i like about the city is i like the excitement of the success. i think the technology companies here are part of a huge group of companies that will make its cities successful. no, we are an innovative city, a city of of entrepreneurs. started today, with the startup battlefield that is going on this afternoon, with the hack-a- thon occurred earlier this week in, all part of the ability for technology companies to take advantage of the innovation we have here. what i will keep doing as the mayor, working closely with the board of supervisors is to pay attention and have -- and have constant engaged in dialogue with the companies. because you'll be joining the very stable companies like salsforce, treader , , zynga, as

they want companies to engage with them. as you see all of the company's living into mission bay, you also engage with the biotech, the life sciences, the green at technology companies coming into the city. they also want to be engaged, and all of the new innovations and new entrepreneurs and the spirit of our city. our cities the success will be depended upon our constant engagement with the technology companies, the companies that you represent, small ones. and if you can start here, then you'll grow here, and we want to make sure you stay here. >> that is awesome. >> thank you. [applause] >> i do not know if ever one hurt, but he said our cities successful based on our constant engagement with the technology companies, something along those lines. you speak plainly for politicians, and it warms my heart to hear that. thank you very much.

>> keep reminding us what we have to do. >> i will. i do not have a block, but i am going to tweet at you. how many people now are convinced that either you're going to vote for the mayor or you would if you were a resident of san francisco, raise your hand? lead to more than a unanimous. that is excellent. >> the neat thing, too, is we're not just a city on the west coast. we are an international city. so companies like zynga that are established, they know that they have an opportunity to establish a worldwide headquarters in san francisco. we are an international city. we understand -- just like this week, we're hosting the third senior officials' meetings in preparation for the asian- pacific economic cooperative council meetings that are happening right here in san francisco, because they know we are a gateway to the whole eastern hemisphere. so you're companies that start

here have a great opportunity to become international headquarters. that is what i want to see. i wanted to the global market happen right here in san francisco. >> you sound a little bit like -- i do not want to see the dirty work, republic, but you do not sound like a liberal democrat. and you cannot be mere without being a liberal democrat here. >> every mayor across the country as the pigeon to economics. that is the number-one thing. if we do not have our cities economically sound, we're a bad investment. i cannot afford the city to be a bad investment. >> i am moving back to san francisco just to vote for you. it is going to be amazing. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> i was just kidding about registering to vote 10 times.