it does not cost the mta anything for this program. that is really exciting for us. so many things cost money. as an occasional driver, and one feature on this is that when parking is about to expire, there is a five-minute notice. we send a text message. i think people will really appreciate that. this is another step forward by the sf mta. we look forward to seeing the results very soon, starting here. there will be 30,000 in san francisco eventually. now the largest city to do this anywhere in the world. thank you. [applause] bu>> with leadership like a scene from the three gentlemen behind me, they have set a clear course and strong direction for us. there are a number of folks within the mta that will execute. i want to acknowledge a few of the folks at the mta that have

gotten us to this point were driving the program forward. jay is the project manager for sf park. he has been a great leader setting the model. steven lee, lisa foster. george reynolds and the neter -- meters shop putting it todd monology -- putting the technology on the street. i went to acknowledge all the great staff behind the effort. it is city staff partnering with the private sector. the mayor has been strong in pushing technology and partnership with the private sector. we have a great private-sector partner here who has done the work elsewhere in the country and the world. we're pleased to have them on board with us to put into place what will be the biggest planet

worldwide in san francisco. here is the man behind the technology to pay by phone. >> we're very excited to be working with san francisco in implementing this proven and popular technology. despite the convenience and reminder text messages that unproven popular, the joy of the system is that can be used on any phone and any network. we are breaking new ground. san francisco will be the first city in the u.s. to implement nfc-enabled parking. it will be the largest rollout anywhere in the world. that is very exciting.

the pay by phone tag is embedded with a tag. any enabled phone can be swiped to activate the parking session. there are not that many phones on the market at the moment with the chips, but san francisco will be ahead of the curve in terms of the significant rollout throughout 2012. we will be able to benefit from the technology and network effect of having these smart tags all over the city. while it is ground-breaking technology we are introducing, i would emphasize the service is available on any mobile phone. all you need to do is dial the toll-free number or download the app on to the smartphone. whatever method you use, the benefits are available.

you can get reminder texts. you have the convenience of not carrying coins to pay for parking. you can top off time remotely. you can get e-mail receipts for your parking. it is exciting technology. thank you very much. we are excited to be helping san francisco making parking as good as it can get. thank you. [applause] >> i am going to try to show you how it works in a second. i want to reemphasize the point that the mayor and supervisor wiener made. we regulate parking to make transportation work. we want compliance and not to catch people. we want people to obey the rules so we do not have to give them a ticket.

despite people's thoughts to the contrary, i do not want people to think of mta as the people that gave and the parking ticket. i want them to think of us as the people that help them to get where they need to go. that is where this technology epitomizes that philosophy of the mta to make transportation work in san francisco. in this case, it is a fun and high-tech way. now i am going to try to show you how it works. my first generation iphone is not as sophisticated as the new ones. you can do this with a regular cell phone. if you have a newer one, you just tap.

you will have to trust me because you cannot see this. it launched the app already downloaded by tapping. it tells me where i am part, what time of day it is. then it prompts me for a duration in minutes. i will put in 200 minutes because it is not my credit card. [laughter] i just put in five minutes. it will cost me 17 cents. this is to confirm and charge. i click the button and i am good to go. i will get a confirmation e-mail if i have set it up that way. it will go directly to my credit card that i have set up. it is completely secure for the credit card system, for those

concerned about security and safety. i will give a text message of the reminding me the meter is about to expire. if i want to extend it, i can do it just as easily. that is all there is to it. you can be processed by calling the 800 number. it is simple technology that helps people to be compliant and helps to make sentences the transportation work. i think we have an ipad with a close-up of the app. thank you for coming out today. there is a 45 cent fee. this does not go to the mta. is a transaction between whoever is using it and pay by phone. that is the cost for providing the service. initially, you get a couple of them free to try it out and see how it works. if you compare 45 cents to the

time it would take you to run and fish for coins, i think it is 45 cents well spent. it is 45 cents as opposed to the cost of a parking ticket. that is an even better cost calculation. >> [unintelligible] >> it is a per transaction fee. as we deploy more in the city, it is possible the fee will go down in time. compared to the cost of a parking ticket, it is a pretty good deal. >> [unintelligible] >> each time you transact, there is authorization against your credit card. there is a fee each time you transact.

we're looking at ways to reduce that in the future. starting out, that fee will be there. in the 45 cent fee, it goes to paying the credit card processing fee. the balance is covering our costs. that is where our revenue comes from. >> [unintelligible] >> it depends on what credit card you are using. it varies depending on corporate credit cards and charges. the fee can range from 25 cents to 35 cents. you will not see it on the meter. you do not need to worry about the fact the meeting does not get updated. when they come around with the hand-held, they can tell it has been paid for. >> will it make it more confusing for them? if they're looking at expired

meters? >> on the application when they do a look up, they can enter 1 location number. it will bring up all of the locations on the street. they can just walk down the street and see the locations with the information. >> [unintelligible] >> the parking control officers will be using a hand-held device to determine if the meter is current or not. even if they start to process a citation for an expired meter, it will bounce back an electronic check to make sure it has not been paid electronically. it will not allow them to issue a ticket if it has been paid for electronically. there is the electronic check to

ensure that you will not get a ticket. it is a real-time transaction. that is the beauty of the technology. [gavel]

>> ladies and gentlemen, we will call the roll to order. before we begin, can you please put any telephones or pagers away. if you would now please join the commission in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you very much. please direct your attention now to the roll call of commissioners. commission president tom mazzucco, vice president dr. joe marshall. en route. commissioner dejesus, commissioner kingsley,

commissioner slaughter, and commissioner julius turman is excuse this evening. mr. president, you have a quorum. president mazzucco: thank you, lt. reilly. he is here to help train, so it is not a flashback. with us tonight is the director of the occ, ms. joyce hicks, and chief of police, chief suhr. please call line item number one. secretary reilly: the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's

agenda. president mazzucco: if you do have a case pending, be careful because it can be used against you if you have a case. >> obviously, news travels fast at city hall. we all call in city hall. as a matter of fact, let me make my first announcement that i will be producing a reality show here at city hall that will star real soon. current stuff will be showing, but since you have been aware, and i am sure the chief is aware, and if it is not, you will tell him, i, the only black media and here in this city, do my regular routine, interviewing the mayor, as i have been doing for years, and number of mayors, but yesterday, i was assaulted. i was -- they violate my rights, my constitutional rights as a

man, a black man, but on top of that, as a media person. my rights were violated. anything i say is recorded most of the time, and i see that since i am the only black media person, i have got to wear a camera with me all of the time because i face adversity from the police department, from the sheriff's department, and others who call themselves authority here at city hall. my question to the date of the cheap as that i would like an investigation. they took away my rights. -- my question today of the chief is that i would like an investigation. gestapo.

throw him against the wall. "are cheap want us to do this, hold you back, restrain you -- our chief wants us." two officers did that again. i have got it all on video. i am sick and tired of being sick and tired of is police department treating us african- americans like they do, now i have authority. i'm going to ask the chief and the new one in town sit down and talk to us about a relationship in line with the african- american back. gee, i know we will sit down and talk about this later, and perhaps others will join us, but that has to happen immediately to determine the relationships between the african americans and the department.

when it happens to me, i take it personal, so i want you all to know that aids is on the case, and i will be here until you take me away -- ace is on the case. president mazzucco: thank you, ace. anymore public comment? seeing none, please call line item number two. secretary reilly: i am 2 a, -- item 2a, the cief's report. b, the occ director's report, c, the commission reports, and d, announcements.

a is the chief's report. chief surh: we were already at four homicides this time last year, so i think the people are where they should be. updating cases than have been in the news, they would be a prowler that got off at telegraph hill, we did canvas that building, other than we do have a breaking in. we do not necessarily have a taking of anything away, so i think all things considered, nobody was hurt, including the suspects, officers, and firefighters, so although we would at some point in time love to speak with the gentleman to find out what that is all about, that matter is closed.

there was a very significant case made last friday, where the serial rapist that had been working the 24th street corridor, it was identified as a series on december 8. over the next 30 days, the community, the violence response team, the new special victims unit coordinating, the officers of mission station, help of the fbi on profiling, a -- all regular meetings, five in all, netted a suspect that was then positively identified via dna and has since confessed to all five assaults, so a judge -- just a fabulous case of community policing where everyone came together been response and got a real dangerous person off of the

street. on monday and tuesday, which participated in a symposium with another chief, a former chief. there were probably upwards of 100 law enforcement executives there. spoke on all sorts of different issues. one of which caught the media's attention, when it was mentioned that the social media that the officers were texting during the occupy a protest, demille accessing some of the social media pages, they may have tipped some as to when there would have been movements. it was not as involved or sexy as all of that. the officers were texting when their officers were changed. the pretexting family and friends, "i have my schedule change. something may be happening." but this is something we ended

up doing throughout all thank just to keep the officers flexible because we did not know when something might happen. commissioner kingsley had i asked about training. -- had asked about training. we issued a policy. i can get one to you, but this is for public consumption. this institutionalizes those to be in the unit, supervisory responsibilities, and on and on and on, so, again, just in a further effort to continue to institutionalize all of this changes -- all of the changes we have made, holding them to even higher standard memory to the uniformed officers, obviously because the uniform of -- uniformed officers being in uniform are in plain sight.

there is the lunar new year and the dates of chinatown. i believe in is a 12:30 korea anybody from the commission would be welcomed. i believe the year of the dragon, the most powerful figure in the chinese zodiac, so it is going to be a good new year. it would be good if we could impose upon the dragon something on saturday afternoon when we take on the new orleans saints. [laughter] the plans are up-to-date. we are working closely with the sheriff's department, the 49ers' security, and there is some on security we have outside the stadium, inside the stadium, pre-game and post-game plans. we went over those plans this morning with the 49 years. we think it is a good plan, and hopefully everyone will go out

there and have a time and have a victory and watch what we have next week. that concludes my report. captain goldberg is here to give a presentation about the commission with regard to an overview of the budget. president mazzucco: just before we move onto captain goldberg, with the social media, obviously it is a new generation, and they are using twitter. they are using facebook. we had a conversation about this taking place in new york city, where police officers were expressing their opinions on facebook and twitter, and you advise me that the police department is getting together something for the commission to see regarding regulating that, and i even suggested that the union should be involved because they have first amendment rights, but giving up information that could cause safety concerns -- we want the

commission to know that this is a work in progress and something that is changing with the times. >> yes, we have put out a department bulletin, and we are working on a drafted general order that we would present for you to adopt going forward on social media. >> i am glad to see you have this work. for those of you who do not knows, these are assigned to the station. the chief has made great efforts to make sure that the level of professionalism is increased, that there is more oversight, and that we can avoid some of the situations we are starting to see. this did not happen on your watch, but this will help it from becoming a bigger issue. captain goldberg? captain: i am filling in as the

cfo for a period of time. another has moved on to the department of supervisors, and before i start the presentation, let me just think her for her work with the department the last couple of years. helping me and trying to organize the officer we can move on during this very critical time. one of the great things she did was to hire a new budget manager, carolene is here. she comes to us from san mateo county. she worked with the sheriff's office there on finance and then moved on to a county administrative office. she has been tremendously helpful to me in providing this and getting this done, and her to a value, will certainly

blossom in the next several months as we move forward through this very challenging budget time. we only got our target numbers today. and look back on where we are today and the current year's budget and then moving forward to some of the challenges that we are going to face in the coming fiscal year, so the budget, this presentation is more or less just a bit the cobwebs off. it is an offense -- an offer. as looking at the commission's input this is eaten up by

salary. about 88%. so there is not a lot of other money that goes around. maine and service agreements, software licenses. and then the professional services. to even go after this, it would include uniforms and vests, crime lab supplies, pens, papers, tore the paper, whenever we would need. about 7%. human-resources for workers' comp payments. technology for the i.t., for the

infrastructure. the vehicle maintenance costs are going up. transitioning to newer vehicles, the first year, the repairs are less, less often, less frequent, and not as major. the other big work order is the public works. building maintenance and repairs. the building engineers and things like that. the other, which is a fraction, this would include our lease financing. it is important to start during the coming fiscal year, we have

our first meeting with the mayor's office on monday just to do our initial stance. five challenges, five big challenges that we need to address. staffing is obviously the big one. i know that dpw made a presentation. we will need to start budgeting for that. we will take these each individually. july 2009, and this is a full duty thing. light duty, modified duty, on leave, so this is the full staffing number required. we are currently at 1771. we lose through attrition approximately one letter officers the year from