more donating paid for the project. a lot of it has to do with the groundwork that the community members gave up. and it is important to realize you have to work with us. it does not take one person, but a lot of it has to roll into one. commissioner kingsley: one final question. i may have missed this in the presentation, but you did address the community justice center, and you have this impressive number for a new program. it the ultimate impact on your job and on the job of your officers, how has that changed? >> i would like to see more. hopefully we will be a little bit under from last year, but we have the community neighborhood

courts that are trying to get more over there that work in conjunction. >>there is a difference. they are non-traffic. there is a little bit of an overlap, but not much. we're trying to funnel some there. what is important is officers see it. we have had the community advisory board. i help on the committee, along with commander mike deal, and we tried to see what they progress with the various providers for mental health or public health issues. they provide cover for roles. there is a bigger turn over for them. they did the suspect into the system, whether than have them flounder and disappear in a follow-up. >> good. thank you.

>> commissioner marshall, you make me feel like i am a quick date or something. >> i have to say, i am a new commissioner, and when you are a new commissioner, people want to tell you their opinions on a lot of things, and your name has come up quite a few times, all very positive. i want to tell you that your leadership at tenderloin is noted around the city from a lot of different places. so, i really want to thank you for your leadership and ago what commissioner chan said. i want to say your presentation, there were a lot of buzz words around policing and one of them is community policing. i really felt like watching that presentation, it is like that is

what it looks like. i have also heard from a number of officers that we have been doing them for a long time, and i think your career probably demonstrates that. the police bit in to try to create a thriving neighborhood and address problems as they come up but participate in the solutions as much as anything. >> thank you, but it in san francisco police department is a little bit different. wind always done community policing here yet your police station was your neighborhood. i think that is important. and try to get involved. that is the way it is. you get embalms. >> to that point, to the young people who spoke, i do not know your name, but i want to tell you that the number one fear everyone has over dying is

public speaking, so you please tell all your friends and young people that that was incredibly brave and courageous, that that was a good opportunity to take advantage of and tell us what you think. my request to you is that you go through, live your life, and find some how were you will have a microphone and be able to make decisions, because growing up in this neighborhood will allow you to understand things that a lot of people do not understand, which means you have an obligation to make a difference. to >> i know data points -- you talked about the mark twain reference. just to follow up on the commissioner kingsley reference, in six months there is seven rape calls, 3 arrests. aggravated assaults, 146 and 81. and with having the team here

and inspectors at the station and great collaboration, have you found having the inspectors and investigators your help to investigate and clear those cases? is there an improvement and the clearance numbers, and if not, what do we need to do more to help you with that? >> it is in flux on what you want to do at the station level. it is good to have the contact. they can follow up with the victim better. that is why our number of arrests are 41%. we can follow up with the victim more. my little brothers and inspectors -- he had to go down the hall. that is a daunting task for someone to leave the area and go down the hall. now we have the centralization where they can follow up with the station and go out right

away. they can get up to the victim quicker. i know when m.j. had her arm injured the first time. she sent me the e-mail when she was at the station. we did a follow-up right away. it gives you a little more quicker edge to a follow-up faster with that. can it be better? it can always be better it can always be better in the situation where you always have to have more to do that, but we do not have that luxury right now. a lot of people wear different hats. we have made them put the pedal to the metal. we have to wear different hats at the stations to make these things work. >> there is 294 incidents of

violent crimes reported in the six-month time. he said there are 10,000 residents -- 20,000. this could be a question for the cheap another time, but is there a sense of per capita crime happening to someone living in the tenderloin for someone in the sunset? -- vs. someone in the sunset? >> if you are talking about the corners it might be a difference for people walking by. but traffic for people in certain areas. -- foot traffic for people in certain areas. there are transit lines coming through. busy area. unfortunately we will have our problems for people that do not

live or work in the area that cause crimes. that is a big issue for us. we are near transit and the dancer area. -- and denser area. the community as for it when they started tenderloin task force, they needed a focal point. there was not really a downtown station. it provides more of a function. i cannot say if it makes a difference or more of a chance to be a victim here than anywhere else. depends on what your awareness is. i think a lot of it has to do with the people in the area. you cannot have a cop on every corner. i would like to, but you cannot. >> my last question is, there are not narcotics arrest members here. to m.j.'s point about crack

smoking. >> we were higher than the average. we have dipped down below that. we are between 4 and 6% from last year. we're down a little bit because of staffing. it spikes if we do an operation. we are lucky enough to get a grant, capt. murphy. we are funneling that. i am a little frugal, so we tried to use that to get the most bang for the buck. we have some overtime we are using this weekend. i thought it would be more appropriate to upgrade the security baseline. we will use it with foot patrols. i asked officers if they thought it would be better to have foot patrols in certain areas for

uniform visibility. we have a luxury with some of the lieutenants that will come down. they will come and check with the station and check with me, officer cortes, and they will say what areas we want them to hit. we cannot have the same planes close guys because they get to recognizing them. -- plain clothes guys because they start to recognize them unfortunately they moved to different areas in the district. that is problematic for us. >> ok. commissioner marshall: this is a comment, and i do not know if this question can be answered, but i will throw it out there anyway.

since i have been on the commission, we have had several meetings here at tenderloin. it seems to me that the challenge of the tenderloin and self is drug-dealing and that the perception and i guess reality that it is a place where drugs are dealt, and i guess the question i am really asking is how much of that is true? let me give you a parallel example. for years the baby was looked upon as the gang area of the city. it really is not. that is how people looked at it. gang violence was down a lot. a lot of factors happen to make that happen. neighborhoods were changing.

people are slowly coming to realize this. even though there are other things that have happened here, and families are moving to the tenderloin and all of these things, how much of that -- how accurate is that? i can say to people it is not like that. i can show statistics even, but how much is that perception still a reality? again, i am not blaming the police department, because a lot of factors go into creating this, but i go to the tenderloin, that is where it is. how much of that is still you feel that is what is happening here? the reputation sometimes does not equal the facts in front of the stories so to speak. i think it is that outsiders who

do not live and work in the area that cause the problems. the tender line by its name or reputation, you mentioned bayview they figure tenderloin has the problems. turning over the buildings. the problem still continues to be the outsiders bring in drugs into the area. it has gone better. we can ask inspector monroe from his days down here. it is -- i understand what you're saying. 80% of the problems are narcotics-related down here. and it is tough to go through that. you cannot lock everybody up. the thing is, we try to get to the point. we're getting to the point with

labor courts for looking at different programs. we are getting to the point where some things you try to intervention them and prevention them to a certain point, but there are still crooks out there. >mcommissioner marshall: that seems to be the central issue with the tenderloin, that this is the place where it is going on. it is less of it, then say that. it just seems to be until we get the feeling that that is something that is corralled or going away or being lessened, that people feel that way. that seems to be the central bank facing this district. i could go anywhere and mention the tenderloin, and they will say -- it is a stubborn problem, and i just want to feel like we're getting a handle on it so that it becomes less identified with

the tenderloin. >> we have gone through this comstat model, and it is a good model. look at the model. traffic deployment and proper tactics. you have to look at this and have more officers that do more with less. we have probably gone from a d to maybe a c + but we are not on the dean's list yet. we're working on it. i think we have to do a better job of that. i think we of come along way in the community. i understand that. this has to be measurable and done fairly so people come down here. it is a problem for the outsiders to keep coming in here. it really impacts the communities, kids, and seniors that are in here.

>> report cards. c- is good. i know it is a long way to get there. that is good to hear. president mazzucco: thank youl . the next item will be adjournment. the san francisco police department had a big loss this week. we lost harold butler. there will be services for him this week. he died much before his time. in the email i forgot to say, the e-mail traffic between myself and former prosecutors who had worked with him was incredible. from assistant u.s. attorneys to assistant u.s. district attorneys. when we adjourned tonight, i would like to adjourn in honor of carol butlharold butler.

>> can we also adjourn in honor of the young people that spoke here? president mazzucco: i think he would appreciate that. so moved. all in favor? thank you very much, everybody. >> thank you for being here. i want to thank the young people for being here, because you are the future.

there are going to be things in this building and you are going to see that are not normal in those buildings yet. they are cutting edge, but by the time it you are my age, everybody is going to have this stuff, and you will be some of the first to see it. it is great to have you here. really quickly, this is a building we are proud of, because this is really who epitomizes the value in san francisco. it uses a third less power than a normal office building. it saves money. i want to kick it off by introducing the mayor over his career he has have so many different figures on this

building from being the administrator to being the mayor, so this is a welcome thing. phyfe good morning, everybody -- >> good morning, everybody. i have got the same eyes as you today. this is the first time i have stepped into this building as well. everything you see is going to be the same as for me. i am going to last questions, -- to ask questions, and i am going to try to figure out where this water comes from. i am going to have the same questions as you have because i am excited about this building, and i am thankful to the public utilities commission, to the wonderful staff, and the others on the team. i am thankful to the commission as well that they have been guiding this process.

some years ago when i was an attorney, i was working on this side. this used to be the site of the workers' comp hearing room, and i had to go to court to represent workers who were injured, and over the years the state abandoned it. it became an abandoned site. and we were a little embarrassed because we did not know how to deal with it for years, and the idea came from others. after so much effort, why don't we stop paying rent for all the offices? why don't we consolidate but of the same time use our devolved intelligence about building the greenest building weekend, -- we

can? we are one of the green is buildings in the country. this is the only building that is going to reuse its waste water. it is creating energy by wind and by solar on the roof in very large amounts that will have the design and now working with the contractors. good i want to thank n d for his wonderful construction capabilities, and because they house accepted a design and all the challenges that go with it to build if the right way. they use special concrete. they were to make sure air flow can reduce the amount of air conditioning we see in many of buildings, and it is terrain high use of energy for the system to work, but the air flow

so that 20 or 30 years down the road when we are redoing these floors, we will be able to do it in a much more efficient manner. in fact, this building saves the puc and the city's $500 million over the next 100 years. that is great because the puc exists because of ratepayers. they want to see the smartest technology. gerd they want to see a building that not only houses 900,000 employees but also those that are smart handling a strong interest in making sure we continue maintaining a water system. not only is it a great building. this is for you.

this is a building that educates you and your families for generations to come. how we take care of our water system and how we maintain the system not just for san francisco insert but for the people who depend upon a national water system and maintain it and spent a lot of money making sure it is earthquake safe. this building is also going to be the safest building to be in in case there ever is an earthquake event, and we are doing that with our libraries, our civic buildings, and we will build new buildings, and we want to make sure it will withstand. if you are in buildings, it is

going to rock a little bit, but it will be saved. i was here over a year-and-a- half ago, and we were across the street and putting on the last dream, and we were already excited to see how this would come out, and every floor has special things, and it is using all of our artwork, so you can see the ninth art work. they are displayed to make it a good working environment. the other part and we are so proud of is working with all the subcontractors, 40% of all the work force until this building and designed its are san francisco residents commo, so we honoring our critical goal for

the jobs we want. we have honored the union and labour to make sure it happened the right way, so this represents so much of the good things we have always wanted out of our public buildings and construction company, and i want to congratulate dpw, our public utilities commission and staff, contractors, community of arts programs, other agencies working in with this, and our vendors, whether they are contractors or the other businesses that help with the video and electronics and this building to make it not only modern but technologically updated so four years you're going to be able to see the whole hetch hetchy water system displayed for our kids and future families but also to use

it in every day technology for communications. this is more than just a building. it is a demonstration of what we can do when we work together to put the goals of the greenest and most modern and technology in blessing with what the public utilities commission does for a city, and that is to take care of our own water and infrastructure and waste water. congratulations for a wonderful effort, but congratulations for a building i know you were involved in every part of this, and it is a great way to really have a wonderful legacy you have high. congratulations to you. [applause] >> thank you, merely. when you said you had not been inside this building, you could give the tour. one thing i would like to point

out is david is back there. they are the designers of this building, so much of the credit also goes to david. there are two other people. we will mention a lot of names, but we have the project managers. [applause] to start the tour, you know where our water comes from? the answer is hetch hetchy. everybody who comes into our building will not be as smart, so we have done a teaching also about when children and parents come into this tobin they can learn about the system through this teaching wall. i am asking you to turn on the walnul that shows

you can see that it comes down to the central valley and produces energy on the way. it has a variety of customers in the southern part of the area. you'll notice it is interactive. you can learn as you walk around the ramp, the kind of things. it goes from blue kite to purple plaid and that represents the waste water.

we call this from snowfall to out all. do you know what happens when you flush a toilet? where does the water go? the water goes to the treatment plant. that will not be the case in this building. it would be a different experience because they would be reusing the water on site here.