exposure complaints, i see no problem with the current procedures. i would say no to finding number one, but it can be interpreted in many different ways. supervisor campos: i can live with that with the understanding that there is a larger issue here that needs to be addressed, we are talking about an independent investigation, but there may be additional levels of independence that you have, or just more resources. i think that we need to revisit this issue and i would be interested in legislation -- i know if it is the charter amendment that makes it so that at least the possibility that someone outside the department that is the focus of the investigation is conducting the

investigation. supervisor farrell: no on finding numbe rone. -- number one. i'm clear on no on recommendation number one. i don't think there is the ability to do investigations -- to do all of the investigations internally. supervisor campos: finding number six. i agree that the lack of public reporting of the whistle-blower investigation fails to provide transparency, and i think that we need to -- or we can do a better job of providing more information. it seems that in some respects, it will happen anyway. more information will be provided, and i don't know if

under recommendation 5 that the recommendations that are made will fall within what we were talking about earlier. is that too much? >> there is a specific suggestion that is not legal under the state of california, the name of the respondents. our recommended follow up from the report, you will see this in several weeks with an updated in your report, we are planning to have summaries of each substantiated complaint that we have investigated and closed included with what has previously been the accountability report. >> it has to be somewhat general from our perspective so that they can determine the initial complaint and was. >> yes to the finding, but no to

the specific recommendation? supervisor campos: finding seven. the current whistle-blower protections are inadequate. and independent administrative law judge dealing with retaliation issues. that responsibility should be removed from the ethics commission. i agree with the finding, and i do believe that we need to change the system as it currently is. i don't know if the administrative law judge necessarily is the best solution. my experience is that there are benefits and limitations in terms of what they are able to do and the authority that they have. to the extent that you want the

strongest possible tool for investigation and implementation, i don't know if it is the way to go. i would say yes to the finding but not necessarily to the recommendation. supervisor farrell: i will be happy to support that. i would concur with finding number eight. pretty patently stated by the director, saying the to recommendation no. 7, specifically laying out the remedy here is too specific to get into right now for the board at this point in time. i say yes to a to and no to 7. >> i understand the intent, but i would say that in many respects, not only do not want

to specify the committee, but in some respects, it doesn't go far out of. when someone makes a whistle- blower complaint, from the moment in that complaint happens, we in the city should be monitoring whether not any kind of action is taken in terms of the employee. i think from the moment the complaint is filed, you have to be watching that. findin nine, the independent oversight of the whistleblower program, president chiu, any thoughts? president chiu: i am happy to

take the controller's recommendation on that. >> that would be no on finding nine. supervisor campos: recommendation eight. i actually like the recommendation. >> i apologize to interrupt your deliberation. the chair of the business thought a review board with a year earlier and had to leave to go back to work, but on this recommendation, they have forwarded to the civil grand jury and to use the concurrence with the ongoing this -- ongoing the >> finding no. 11, this is,

i think, it seems to me that i am happy to say yes to this, it just seems to be the nature of the beast and nothing to do with how they -- i think it's how they handle certain cases and taking them inside. i would say no to recommendation number 10. supervisor campos: president chiu, any thoughts on 13? whistle-blower investigation, and establishing the appeals process?

president chiu: they seem fairly straightforward. >> the understanding that we will look at whether it is the appropriate mechanism going forward, i don't want to decide that here today. i think there is a process needed to have some type of appeal here. and the findings of 14 and 13, i would be in favor of saying no to both of those. i think it gives a lot of perverse incentives here. i don't think is something that we want to incentivize in our government. supervisor campos: i don't know if the staff and budget legislative analyst was able to follow that.

>> i think i have a summary if you want me to go back through. finding one, disagree. recommendation one, disagree. finding six, agree. recommendation five, disagree spearhead. finding seveneight, agree. recommendation seven, disagree. finding nine, disagree. recommendation eight, agree. finding e11, agree.

recommend 10 xinhua,, disagree. finding 13, disagree. >> no. that's agree. >> that was the one i was not clear on. the finding 14 was disagree. supervisor farrell: recommendation 12 was disagree. supervisor campos: ok, so -- >> there is one more. recommendation 13 is disagree. supervisor campos: we have a motion from supervisor farrell. thank you, colleagues, for your thoughts on that. before we move on this, i want to acknowledge the work of the budget and legislative analyst. their office has spent a great deal of time working with us

going through the civil grand jury report. there are very meticulous and thorough, i want to thank them for their work on this. we have of motion. if we can take that without objection. again, something as important as the whistleblower program, if we don't agree with everything that was said, the kind of discussion that we just had shows the great deal of benefit that can come from this kind of report. i think a lot of good things can happen because of this. i want to thank the controller for his work and to the members of the civil grand jury and members of the public that have been waiting to speak on this matter. is there any other business before the committee? meeting adjourned.

>> the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of

time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. >> other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants.

anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san

francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time

of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and say, this is what i want. >> they are finding the same things happening on the phone where people call in and ask, how do i find this information? we say, go to this website and they go and get the information easily. >> a picture tells a thousand stories. some say a map supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the public safety committee of the board of supervisors. i am ross mirkarimi, chair of the public safety committee.

joining us is supervisor cohen. supervisor campos will be joining us shortly. thank you to sfgtv for their ongoing excellence. madam clerk, please read the first item. >> item 1, ordinance amending the san francisco police code section 1,215.2 to modify their requirements for the chief of police to refer applications for commercial parking permits to the municipal transportation agency for review of traffic impacts. supervisor mirkarimi: i see we have a representative from mta. please come forward. you might want to go to that microphone. >> good morning, supervisors. i am the city traffic engineer. this is a technical amendment to the police code in regards to

parking lot and parking garage permits. as part of the legislation passed by the board of supervisors last year, these were transferred over to the police department. our agency started receiving these permits earlier this year. in january, we received a large volume of permits, and we have agreed to this amendment that would make the transfer of permits for mta review optional based on chief of police or police department recommendations. i think this is a way of making the process more streamlined for the applicant and also for city staff. it is one we have also worked with the city attorney's office on, making this ordinance. supervisor mirkarimi: ok, all right. is there any other revision on the cost to make it more streamlined, or did that remained unchanged? >> that would be unchanged. our agency was not part of the

permit fee process, so we were not charging a fee or receiving part of the fee. we were reviewing it as part of our mta cost, so there should be no cost either in the fee or to the police apartment. there will be reduced costs. right now cut -- or to the police department. there will be reduced cost. >> -- supervisor mirkarimi: do you know what the population is of the permits that are being applied or have been given out right now? >> i do not have that information. in terms of the number of permits? supervisor mirkarimi: yes. >> from what is -- from what i have seen in my office, it is bent over 500 so far. some of that may be because the police department is processing renewals and new requests, but it is a large volume of paperwork, and we were not able to review all these permits and

did not feel that it was necessary for us to review them. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. further discussion? ok, thank you very much. public comment on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. i will take a motion for moving this forward with recommendations. very good. so moved. madam clerk, item two, please. >> item two, resolution approving a memorandum of understanding with the cities of oakland and san jose and the counties of alameda, contra costa, marin, monterey, san mateo, santa clara, and sonoma that provides government structures and procedures for application, allocation, and distribution of federal urban areas security initiative grant funds as well as other federal. grant funds to the bay area urban area as permitted under the mou and continues san francisco as the primary grantee

and agent for the uasi grant funds for the bay area urban area as well as for other grant funds to the bay area urban area as permitted under the mou. >> good morning, supervisors. i am with the department of emergency management. the item before you today is the 2011 memorandum of understanding. this is a regional organization that distributes homeland security grant funding throughout the bay area. it is chaired by san francisco, specifically by my boss, the director of the department of emergency management. it was formed in 2006, and the board of supervisors approved the original mou to the organization in 2006 and one after that in 2007. this is the third mou for 2011 we're seeking your approval for today. there are a few changes that are

significant compared to the previous mou. the main one is that we determined as a body that it is time to expand our membership because this is such a strong regional organization and we rely so much on many of our other regional partners in the bay area, so we are expanding the membership of the approval authority. we are adding five new members to the approval authority. this mou has a couple of other changes, extending the term of the uasi for a couple more years and directs them to create by loss for the first time. we have never had those before, and it is time. we have written them, and they are ready to go. they are codify that we have those in this mou. the mou also provides more detail on how our partner cities

and counties are supposed to meet their regulations. it lays out details for the first time about how you hire and fire a general manager and staff at work for them. there was a staff of employees from san francisco, oakland, santa clara, and some other cities that manages grant funding. it also establishes procedures for managing the uasi and turning the organization, which we do not anticipate happening, but there should be a procedure, and we put it in place. it took about nine months of san francisco working with our partners in the other counties around the bay area, and we finally approved this. i think in my memo, has said september. it was actually august that this was finally approved. we look forward to the board of supervisors approving this today. it takes effect december 1, and we hope to get this through committee and through the full board with your approval before it takes effect, and i am happy to answer any questions. supervisor mirkarimi: just an

example of what the approval is for, the kind of decisions other than the interpersonal with regard to hiring a manager, what kind of decisions as the regional body would be considering. >> that is a good question. the main task that the approval authority is given by the federal government to give final approval to how their federal grant money is allocated in the bay area. every year, the federal government for a variety of grants gives a chunk of money to the bay area -- we will say the urban area, security initiative grant. they give us roughly around $40 million every year, and it is up to the approval authority to give final sign off on how the money is allocated. some of it goes for projects to benefit the whole region. some of it goes for individual projects for the police department or sheriff's department. the jurisdictions that are members worked together over weeks and months to put together a project proposals, and the staff as a final cut and

says which ones need federal by laws and which ones do not, and it falls to the approval authority to make the final decision on how the money will be allocated. that is their main task. supervisor mirkarimi: it had two votes in the main consoles. is that proportion also reflected in the executive organization? >> it actually is, although it is more because we are the fiscal agent that we tend to have more employees in the executive organization. the general manager is a san francisco employee. we hired him in august. for a long time, he was a senior employee at the assessors office, and he has great expertise in executive management, financial management, and personal management. we insisted on that because we are the fiscal agent. we want one of our city employees to be the fiscal

manager since our city manager is legally responsible for these funds. we think that has been for the good of san francisco. i would say at least half of the employees on staff over there are from san francisco. there are others from other cities as well. supervisor mirkarimi: what can we look forward to? a lot of this is about preparation, being ready, being alert. what i emergency preparedness for man-made or natural disasters, what have you, can we look forward to in the next year? i know there's always drills. there's always these kind of simulations that occur that try to unite the different agencies in different emergency scenarios. what changes now as we -- i am sure we are looking for new scenarios or new kinds of challenges to test ourselves by. >> absolutely. i will put a caveat in that the ways we spend the money are directed by the federal government, so we have to spend it in ways they tell us are

okay, but you are right -- we are always looking for emerging threats and new challenges to be prepared for, and one of the best ways to do that is to bring law enforcement agencies together and be sure they are practicing communicating and talking so no matter what comes up, they have relationships with each other and know how to talk to each other. i will put two things out there -- we recently finished our annual law enforcement exercise that happens every october. police and sheriff's departments from around the bay area and even internationally -- we had a team from israel come. they are here for three days, and the practice different scenarios so they know how to respond and work well together for whatever challenges arise in the future. another major focus is interoperable communications. i know we have talked to you extensively about that. we are trying to build a radio system so that police, fire, and share can talk to each other and not just share voice but share data. we talk on our smartphones and

blackberrys. we want law-enforcement to have this capabilities so they can look at the video of a crime scene or a fire in progress or a look at a mug shot, and that will allow them to better handle whatever disasters arise. supervisor mirkarimi: great. any further discussion? seeing none, public comment? no public comment. why don't we take this with a recommendation, advanced to the full board? so moved. thank you very much. appreciate it. is there any further business before us? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor mirkarimi: all right. one of the shortest meetings in our history. this meeting is now adjourned. have a good day.

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