one poster. the police came back once again and as far as i was concerned, the investigation was over. i don't know if they ever found the guy. if murders go that way, they dropped like lead once it happens, it is over. we will never find them. [chime] president mazzucco: any further public comment? please call line-item 4. >> discussion and possible action to recommend that the board of supervisors adopt a resolution authorizing the chief of police to retroactively except and expanend 1.06 million of fiscal year 2011 port

security grant program from the fema. president mazzucco: can you tell us about this grant? >> this was the third application for port security grant program awards that we made to fema. receiving three of the projects for approval. this round at three projects on it, the first was forward- looking infrared camera mounted on one of our brand new boats that as soon to be constructed through another grant program. this will allow us to locate vessels, suspects, were victims in the maritime environment that need our assistance for resuce. -- rescue. we can find them and no or low light conditions through the thermal cameras, equipment we

would not otherwise be able to afford. the second project is addition to the nuclear detection system program. it will include gamma and neutron detection systems as well as backpack detection systems that we can take off of the boats. devices that will give us instant identification of the radiological substance, telling us if it is nefarious or harmless. also equipped our marine unit with personal radiation detectors that are being utilized in the street department. and antenna systems that will transmit back electronic data or video to land-based or other

water assets so we can transmit this nuclear detection survey or live video feeds with other systems. that move to the final project which will be a vessel-mounted camera systems with four fixed- position cameras mounted on vessels to take video feeds and record them or transmit back to the relay antenna to land-based or maritime-based units so we can get intel on incidents. what it looks like. we can identify an anomaly to see if it is something that is truly a threat or something we have not noticed in the past. it gives us that capability we currently don't have for real video. president mazzucco: any move that we recommend to the

board that they adopt theo the resolution authorizing the expension of those funds. any public comments regarding this? public comment is closed. all in favor? thank you, sarge. line item number five. >> discussion and possible action to adopt a revised department's general order 5.17 . policy prohibiting bias policing. >> i am doing very well, good evening, commissioners. i am the commanding officer of the risk-management division. i am here tonight to discuss briefly with you a revision to department general order 5.17. policy prohibiting bias policed policing.

the original general order was adopted in july of 2003, and earlier, last year of 2011, there were minor changes to the policy. the recommendations came out of hearings that took place at the human rights commission where there were hearings to enhance relations with arab, middle eastern, muslim, and south asian communities. after the hearings in september of 2010, there were recommendations in early february. a number of those recommendations were for changes and actions for the police department. one of them specifically was a change to the general order. i would like to personally thank sandra mirren from occ that helps me find information because it was originally presented to you in february. it was tabled and brought back with minor provisions.

-- revisions. one of the complaints from the human rights commission was that the general order 5.17 would be changed to include all categories listed in the federal, california state, city and county of san francisco non- discrimination laws. there were two small changes we're looking to make to the general order policy. those changes that would fall into current laws are to add actual and perceived wordings when it comes to race. biased policing, because of race or a perceived race is prohibited. we are adding the word religion. if there is question of biased policing based on religion, that is prohibited as well. you have before you the old and a general order as well as the

proposed new general order. with that, i am here to answer questions you might have. president mazzucco: we will hear from miss mirren then go to questions. >> good evening, commissioners and members of the public. our agency and combinations ac with thelu -- with the aclu northern california put together the 5.17 biased policing. these changes. president mazzucco: questions? commissioner slaughter: captain, i don't know to whom this is addressed. i understand the addition of the

word "religion." the addition of the word " perceived" is a bit of a puzzler. an officer may be discriminating based upon someone's perceiving them to be a certain race when they are not, is that now -- you mentioned it is part of federal or state law? maybe i'm wrong, it's sutcch an unlikely of and that an officer with later on say, i wasn't racially profiling because he was not the race i thought that he was. the addition is fine to me, but it seems a little bit of the head scratcher. that is federal law on the issue? >> [inaudible] commissioner slaughter: who is makign thang that -- he said wee

conforming to federal and state law? is this becoming standard in other departments? where is the actual "perceived" langaguage coming from. >> in the employment context, i can say that "actual or perceived? " is part of discrimination law. commissioner dejesus: i felt that the changes were great. i want to ask a question. when occupy oakland was protesting, people were covering their badge, put tape over it. i noticed in this graph on page 2.3 or section b, number five, his or her star number if

requested. this may not need to be here, but do we already -- if we should put it -- and not to cover the back in any way -- badge idge in any way? i assueume that's improper conduct. >> it is part of conduct to provide your name and star number. commissioner dejesus: officers? all right. ok. duplicative to put it in here, if the community was looking, they would look at policy. it might be good to reiterate that. >> you have to give tit. we're not covering anything up. our officers know not to cover names or star numbers.

that is how we got posted on the internet. commissioner dejesus: i was just thinking if we should reiterate it here or not. i know we have it somewhere as policy. commissioner turman: commissioner slaughter raises a goddood point. i read as he did, actual or perceived is to apply to all categories, race and religion. in the presentation, he said actual or perceived race. is actual and pereiveceived applying to all categories? >> i have to defer to the city attorney on that to go back and look at it. >> it is consistent with the state law, it will apply to all

of the categories. commissioner turman: i knew that that was the intent to apply to all categories, but i wanted to make sure. thank you very much. >> i think that is certainly a reasonable reading of the syntax. thank you. i move we adopt the revised 5.17 -- >> second. president mazzucco: public comment? nohearing none, all in favor? thank you for your hard work and thank you for being present when we discussed these issues. the police department moves forward. please call the next item. >> item six, reprot anort and a discussion regarding the 2012-

2013 and 2013-2014 budget, possible action to approve or take other action. >> john goldberg from the office of administrative services. we are asking you to adopt the proposed budget for fiscal year 12-13. and this is the first time we will have a proposed two-year budget cycle 413-14. -- for 13-14. we have to submit budgets for two fiscal years. the news on the budget is not good despite the monumental effort to get the mayor's office to compromise. they asked us to hold to the 5% cuts for the coming fiscal year and for the development. those cuts are substantially taken away -- taking away

proposed academy classes. it has no academy classes for the coming fiscal years. this is the impact on staffing. with officers having been hired and completing a 30-year career, the 1971 charter mandate -- with anticipated attrition, this is what the staff looks like. in april, we have done 1700 -- if it follows through and there are no changes to the budget, it will be down about 400 officers below the charter mandate. this tells you what has happened in the past. it is part of the positive, we highere in waves.

there is a lower number like in 2006, there is a hiring phase, the budgets crash, we stop hiring. you see the impact and the downward cycle. that is where we are moving forward. that being said, the mayor's office has asked for staffing plans. the red line, agianain, is the 1971 full to the staffing plan. the chief continues to work tirelessly to get the mayor's office to add these classes back in. the purple line would be the most aggressive hiring plan that is being proposed, requiring five classes next year, then three classes, two classes moving out.

this is in order to maintain the 1971 staffing wellhoulevel. the blue line is a more moderate one, the green line will be the most conservative. it will take us the longest to get to the 1970 level. the five three two would be two classes carried out. the four, four, and two, or the three, three, and two. it tells you how long it will take us. attrition continues. no matter what we do, there will be a dip before it gets better. the chief continues to work with the mayor to try to get us the classes we need. as of this submission, all we

have done is meet the mayor is mandate for the two fiscal years by 5%, defunding 36 positions that will be lost by attrition. each fiscal year. the one place where we did not meet the -- it was on overtime. we did not meet the target for overtime level. the reason for that is that per fiscal year, we are overspending by $1.5 million, directly related to occupy. we've added an extra $1.5 million to address occupy and recognition of the presidential campaigns. candidates start to come through, both to campaign and

raise money. between labor day at the election, it will certainly hit. the cost of the candidates and elected officials become very expensive. we have added an extra $1.5 million, again, that is a proposal. beyond that, our budget request is limited to have some capital request for the vehicles, a few instruments. two mounted horses and two dogs. we are proposing that the mayor's office put a budget together of $13.5 million for the outfitting of police headquarters. we have a new building and you have the budget for it. the costs will start hitting us next year. the estimated cost, we are

working with dpw. the estimated cost is $13.5 million. depending on how they wish to fund it, a half this year or half next yeaand half next yearl cost. the building without furnitures and fixtures is pretty much useless. with that, i want to conclude and be able to respond to questions. i want to publicly acknowledge -- you introduced for the first time we had a budget transportation. she came right at a transition when the director landis was leaving to another agency. she has been a trooper moving this forward, and we would not be here having the information that we have today had it not been for her herculean efforts. i want to acknowledge her and

thank her for her work. >> thank you. these matters were on the calendar last week for wednesday, we were told that the department heads were meeting with the mayor the following day on thursday. we had seen reports that there was some unexpected additional revenue with the hotel tax and property transfers. what is different in this budget that has been presented to us before? >> we were hopeful that the mayor's office would -- at the mayor's office has asked for a hiring plan. we were hopeful that we would have a plan that they would sign off and give us a plan before we presented the budget to the commission. that has not happened. the chief continues to make those arguments of the mayor's office for the need for hiring and funding classes. the direction from the mayor's

office is that they were not going to find additional -- fund additional classes. the mayor's office will continue to look at overall city funding and hopefully add additional classes later. at this point, no classes are being funded by the mayor's office. >> we were told by the mayor's office that regardless of whatever additional revenues have been discovered, he asked remains the same, a 5% cut across the board with a 2% contingency. and additional 5% next year, the contingency remains the same, plus a 1% additional cut. that said, the mayor did ask for a five-year staffing plan.

i met with several members of the board and hope to meet with more. the budget and finance committee chair chiu, they are aware -- chu, they are aware of the situation that we are at 10% staffing since christmas of 2010. at some point in time, about now, the overtime as has been demonstrated, it starts to go up. we were able to keep overtime down by moving bodies around. we don't have that luxury anymore without compromising safety in neighborhoods to cover these different events. when we get hit with something like occupy. the last occupy the event was 16 hours in duration. there is no way we can cover that with on-duty resources.

the station company commanders are doing work trying to get this figure out. carolyna d and captain goldberg have been fantastic. we are confident that one of these staffing plans will be the case, but that is what we have right now. the greatest issue we have is the lag. there will be a dip before it goes up because the time the off as earticers spend in the acade, they are riding it for that amount of time. commissioner slaughter: thank you, president mazzucco, chief, captain goldberg. think you for your tremendous hard work on this issue. my understanding of the way this budget process works, per the charter, and correct me when i

get this wrong, the budget gets submitted to us and we have the obligation to review it and approve or not approve it. as a matter of actual practice, the budget is presented by -- the budget for the city is presented by the mayor to the board of supervisors. the board considers its and they adopt a budget for the whole city. in my view, it makes this process a tad bit irrelevant. what i am suggesting here is that -- it is a long way to say that if the mayor's office and /or the board is looking for this commission horn by a vote on whether this is a good budget, i will vote no. i can support a budget that has no academy classes. the budget remains the most

important issue facing this department and i am reasonably confident that the mayor's office will realize that. and the budget adopted by the city in the years out will take that into account. i can support a budget that does not take that into account. it is not anything about you, i know you are working on that. but the charter requires we act on a budget, and i'll say nay. not because of anything anybody here is working on. my small signal to the board and mayor that this is issue number one. president mazzucco: commissioner dejesus was next. i erased her. commissioner dejesus: i want to agree with commissioner slaughter. down a quarter of the force,

and it doesn't show the disabled staff. >> this is full-duty, there are actually more officers. there are a couple hundred officers that are -- the airports, we have taken them out. there are also those on permanent modified duty. temporary modified duty, somebody walkigng wounded. and those off on disability are not counted. commissioner dejesus: what about civilian jobs? >> the full-duty officers are counted. commissioner dejesus: officers doing civilian jobs that would not be in the district stations are available to the captain? >> we have less officers now doing civilian jobs that i can ever remember. -- than i can ever remember. we have already put x amount of officers on an eight-hour

day with no cost of such morale -- excpet to morale. ept to morale. as their schedule is the industry standard and will not change. commissioner dejesus: the chart is really helpful. the numbers are good, the chart is helpful. i was here in 2006, we had all these graduations and academy classes. in terms in terms of budget planning, i wonder how much we had to put in academy class is, and have those rookies for three years, rather than doing a steady -- rather than investing in the department and having one or two classes a year, keeping its steady and

bringing people in, versus doing a big drop. >> two class is a year would keep us where we are. if we do not have four at the onset so we can get to two class is a year, and then sustained two class is a year to keep up with the 90 to 100 officers will lose a year -- that is why we have this tremendous, expensive upswing and then a plummet. it is not a good way to do it, both fiscally and in the experience of the officers. because we lose -- we lose experience, and then we get a whole bunch of inexperience at 0 anytime. just when we get back up to speed again, it wanes. getting to where we need to be would be optimum, however long

that takes, with whatever the market will bear, and then staying there, at two class is a year as minimum staffing, would be a great idea. commissioner dejesus: if there is anything we can do to help you, i agree with commissioner slaughter. we need to have this at the forefront with the mayor and the board of supervisors, not just with how many people are leaving, but the fiscal impact if we continue to delay it. chief suhr: i do not think it can be understated. in other jurisdictions, where they are down even more than we are, and all they are able to do is answer calls for service -- all the front end things we do to reduce crime long term, working with schools and nonprofit, in gauging with community policing -- as evidenced by the report we put in last year, that spare time th