educated -- >> in terms of the hiring again. this is part of the hiring for the end of the year. we want to get resources to the police department. we have the administrative leave, we have with the appropriate level of funding would be. we have one or two that will get carried out. >> i am the chief now, and when the old lists were made, this is

not as laid out as i had intended to be. we are not only testing, if they are away at school, there is constantly attesting process. the looks that were ending, if they have been extended, this was the class that we would want to have. as soon as i got in i worked with h.r. to get a test up. we are in the testing process. many of them are in the background process. it took almost all of the one- year anniversary to get this --

and we are ready to hire. we are budgeted for 30 -- we will hire 10 laterals in may. by the end, we will have that class in this fiscal year at a discount. we will have 50 hired. >> supervisor kim? >> i was confused by the statement. we made the decision to add academy classes, i believed you were the chief's son. it would be that, again, the determination would not be made until that same time period. what would it be like from the previous year? the police department had not tested 250,300 people.

i have -- 25300 people. i could get five academy classes in whatever amount you need me to hire them. >> how many individuals are in the academy class? >> we like to try for 50. >> we have mor on how we move along -- on how they deal with the positions and the recommendation for 251 positions, and we have more of the full-duty officers, and so when i look at the academy class of 50, i need to see a

commitment, this is the 50 positions. this is part of what the civilians -- i want to know where the department is on that process. >> i appreciate what you are saying. we have fewer uniformed police officers, more than i think we have ever had. i have vast everyone who was in the administrative function, if they were sworn or not sworn, if they have found a way to be on the 10 hour day and i put them on the eight-hour day. this increased staffing without having to hire anyone. this allowed me not to have to take 15% more from the patrol to continue that -- and the i am

asking the people in the specialized assignment, to be on the streets -- this would increase staffing by 7%. so i don't have to put officers anywhere else. i am trying to share the pain, and i am committed to, if allowed, to hire civilians to do what civilians do. when we went again through these hiring crunches, and had to hire the small civilian classes, they did not contribute to the complement. since we are trying to get the i.t. up, we have several

stations up. this has been better than 15 years. we will be there by the end of this fiscal year. this is maybe for another presentation. this is going as low as it goes. we have a whole generation, technologically. we have some kind of device that we are working with, we're trying to get -- >> the department had the civilianized several positions

and how many of the 251 recommended positions? >> we have 251 police officers. we have a number of those -- >> we do have a certain number of officers who are modified duty. >> i completely understand that many districts are going through -- we would like more officers. we have the patrol work we are able to do. >> i am glad you brought this up. we don't ever seem to get a concrete plan on how the police

department implements this. if you think we have fewer serving in civilian posts. we have a huge opportunity and if that is not the case, we need to note that. if we put academy classes in the budget, i want a real plan about civilianization. we need to look at opportunities to put people back on the street. i get that. at some time, there must be opportunities that i don't see reflected in these plans. >> i am happy to give those to you. we took a million dollars off the top of the police

department when i first came in and we made these other adjustments with regard to the schedule. we have 7% more fall -- more from 10 to 9. before we do the next presentation i will have the civilian nation numbers. >> i would like to ask the budget office to do this for us. we have the cost of the academy classes. and i understand the $5 million, the cost of running the class. it makes sense to me that i want to know, you are paying for a

lower salary level. i would ask the budget office tighten the number and share it with us. >> the next slide speaks to what i was talking about. we will go one more. this shows what the full staffing can do, and there are people who say that one does not necessarily stay with us but this was so dramatic that the closer that we have been two full staffing, the lower the homicides have been over the last six-eight years. the public-private

partnerships, we talk in the middle of the night, and you give me information and this goes out and all of this stuff works. if there was a case where if this is not broken we do not want to fix this. we have been over 1900, with record lows for homicides. supervisor avalos, we were at $6.2 million, and when the staffing went as close to full staffing, the overtime came down. it is at or around $10 million. it wil lbe at or around $10

million, and i don't think this is excessive. we had the homicide case that was solved in 48 hours, but cost $80,000 to make the case. it calmed a neighborhood, and a bad guy got put in jail. this is one instnace, nance, ane are at $1.3 million in occupy expense. this gets expensive, when those things go on. all of this added together requires us to move some money from the salary infringed overtime budget. >> supervisor avalos?

>supervisor avalos: is there cost recovery? we don't charge the fee for service in that. >> when our people travel they get the same benefit and we are not billed. supervisor avalos: we don't have kings and queens in san francisco. >> it depends on who you talk to. >> i should learn to say -- >> the next slide is on vehicle replacement. when we talk about staffing, we don't want these cars in the station. i want an electronic tablet that acts as a phone so the officers just leave the station and stay out, on a beat or in a

car. they are not in the station. to that end, just like civilians are cut out of the budget annually, so are vehicles. we have one patrol wagon that is a 1985. we have 30-40% officers are younger than the wagon. 79 or 27% of the sedan are at 100,000 miles. 50% of unmarked cars are near 100,000 miles. the police department changes them at 110,000, seattle at about 70,000. chp at 100,000. we would have to drive for 42 years and have them last 630,000

miles, unless we are on a standing vehicle replacement thing. it is as low as it has been. we had a total 18 cars. it is not a question that the accident was that bad, and it was the old it was not worth fixing. as the emergency vehicles, we have the clean transportation program. this was not very good for the air that these cars are driving around. it is time to get on the schedule to fix those cars. there was a desire to talk

about the i.t. we have a great i.t. director in susan who came from the private sector. we are moving like we have never moved before on this web-based platform. it is our hope that the entire department will be on this system. by the end of the fiscal year. we would like to take the show on the road and get the neighboring counties, so we know who is coming to san francisco, as well as the criminal element, and for the youngsters that may be doing stuff in one county, it would be great if we knew what everyone was up to so that we could have an early warning system before they could get into serious trouble, we may work with the other probation departments to have a new normal. impacting violent crime, long-

term, and we can only do this best if we are sharing information. i keep talking about the electronica tablet. years ago we used to have silver clipboards, with all of the forms in them. in this generation, some kind of android or ipad tablet that could be a phone, could take license plates or activation, mug shots, it just makes us better. and i know that we speak to this, 1971. if you look at the report -- that number is low. when they came out with that number we had nine police stations, and there was no station in the tenderloin. we did not have responsibility for treasure island, with 24

officers doing that seven days a week. we're going to take over hunter's point. there was no domestic violence unit. and on and on. no at & t park. all of that was after the 1971 number. i am happy to be capitalized on the civilian complemented to the back-end work as we do the other. we could get by with 1971 but we will need that have the most safe city possible. >> can i asked with regard to the technology, i am not as familiar with this. what was it that we funded within the department? this is the web-based system that the chief was talking about. >> we have $2 million from the

uwaji grant, the oracle warehouse, which is now the server, if you will, the platform that we use. the nice thing about this is that because this is not a plan server, we have our own engineers that of did this, and to the software. san francisco city is helping us create an application that would be mobile-based, to keep the officers out in the field. we have the help desk and the officers have the email. >> madam chair and members of the community, in this current fiscal year, the department received about $570,000 of

general-fund money for the enhancements to these projects, and the data warehouses -- they are really the core application that will feed into everything that goes beyond that. the email was a very important thing, and this was another important aspect of it, with the $2 million from the grant fund, and in the coming fiscal year there are a lot of requests that will be evaluated by the court subcommittee. we will be looking at all of those and prioritizing them to see how much money can be made available to continue the process that the public -- progress the police department has made. the police department has made a lot of progress. susan is aggressive and she is

smart, and bringing the offices along in the area of technology. >> supervisor weiner? supervisor wiener: i want to congratulate the department. this is so important in increasing the efficiency of the department and the increased staffing that i hope that we see, and i hope that we go with an aggressive academy calendar. with respect to the technology and the improvements, i think one thing that we have seen, it is that the technology program is unbelievably dysfunctional. we have spoken about this with hearings, they have taken on

this thankless task of moving this, to be just better. and we see this, with how poor the technology is, with the e- mail system. so many aspects of the technology for the government. i do not ask you to agree with anything i have said -- it is about if the police department is experiencing other obstacles in moving forward because this is the functionality and if you have moved forward smoothly. we approve the technology for the police department, but then we have the applications, and we waste money as we have in the past. >> the answer to that is yes and no. when you say the email system is

bad, we didn't have it. now every san francisco police officer has this. something is better than nothing. there has been disagreement, but healthy disagreement . i don't think susan is a pushover. she knows what works and insists upon this, and we all want this to fit and we want to get this right the first time and as quickly as possible. there has been a lot of graciousness, indulging me since i was new and i really do have an idea of how i would like for us to be. and we do feed the rest of the system. there was some time that is given. she thought she could do this within a certain amount of time. as we make the milestones, we

gain more credibility. if we could have the police department's there -- the officers are the beta group. there is a comment section at the top, and the officers are working with this as we pile up around the district sections. this will grow to the other six stations. the officers are very enthusiastic about this. the improvements are made and hopefully we will be up and running and feeding the justice system as this was designed. >> thank you. i wonder if you could talk about the crime lab? >> we are trying to find an

existing place, and i know this is part of the vision of the mayor, to get as much law enforcement as possible. in and around buildings that we already have. we are working with the chief administrative officers, to look at a few buildings -- with the seismic retrofit. we have to be out of 606, from 2016, so we are trying to identify the building that would take the crime lab. >> if there are no other questions, we should at -- open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to speak?

>> i am here to just fill the commission in on a couple of things -- with a crisis that we have found ourselves in, tweaking things -- we have a happy to deal with this -- and we are happy that we were able to do this. i reiterate everything that he has said today. we are facing a personal crisis we will lose 250 police

officers, and they must leave their national -- natural attrition. the numbers we saw there, if we do nothing in two years' time this number will be around 1400. no one is interested in seeing this happen. i had a discussion with the mayor's office and one thing we are considering, we will report back in a month -- after lowering the entry-level pay. and this will save some money. they will be able to move forward and ha300addadd 300 per year.

and hopefully we will see ourselves coming out of this and in the meantime we just need to see ourselves going forward. >> we have a couple of questions? i think supervisor avalos has a question. supervisor avalos: thank you for your public comments. if we have the officers come in, would we be open to do this? >> we would have to open this contract. i think the members want more police officers, and that the officers would probably vote to do this. this would involve opening up the contract. >> i want to thank you for the lower pay. i want to thank the tasks --

task force for doing this. >> with the further new officers -- would that be a further pay scale as they move up? >> for the first two years, what we talked about with the mayor's office is that in prior times it was not easy to get police applicants. they are lining up around the block now to the san francisco police officers. we don't want to lose good candidates but we've done want to lower the starting pay and the second-year pay by 5 or 6%. with the benefits, hiring 100 pe officers. >>